National News

HALIFAX - Almost a year after a cyberbullying task force issued a report with 85 recommendations for the Nova Scotia government, the author of the study says the province has lost its enthusiasm for combatting an insidious problem.

The first question period of the last legislative session before the spring election in B.C. amounted to a debate over which party was the more profligate spender in the race for voters' attention.

TORONTO - A Toronto high school has requested help from the city's police force to get to the bottom of a racially motivated prank that's provoked outrage in the country's online community.

OTTAWA - Controversy over Mike Duffy's Senate housing allowance has mushroomed into a bigger question — whether he's entitled to sit in the Senate at all — that now threatens to ensnare colleague Pamela Wallin.

OTTAWA - Lawyers who fought a clawback of military pensions all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada are in line for a $66-million payout when a judge later this week considers a settlement agreement for thousands of disabled veterans.

HALIFAX - A $350,000 forgivable loan for a struggling Yarmouth hotel is another example of how Nova Scotia's NDP cherry-picks recipients of government handouts when it should be supporting entire industries, the opposition parties said Tuesday.

TORONTO - Newly minted Training, Colleges and Universities Minister Brad Duguid is giving an "F" to a Progressive Conservative proposal to scrap a 30 per cent break on post-secondary tuition.

OTTAWA - Canada's spy chief says federal security agencies have tightened procedures following a headline-grabbing espionage scandal. But Canadian Security Intelligence Service director Dick Fadden says he can't guarantee that Sub-Lt.

TORONTO - About 70 per cent of Canadians think Kathleen Wynne's victory as Ontario's first female premier is a significant breakthrough for women in politics, a new poll suggests.

OTTAWA - Guidelines that have protected the independence of military police since the Somalia affair will be curtailed by new legislation working its way through Parliament, a civilian watchdog warns.