Shelley Jordan

ISTANBUL – Canada's consulate in Istanbul was closed Friday after an employee opened a package filled with yellow powder.

BURNABY, B.C. – The B.C. Muslim Association says it is troubled to learn that the man who killed a soldier at the National War Memorial once attended one of its mosques.

OTTAWA – Most Wednesdays, Centre Block looks a bit like a high school after the lunch bell has rang, as members of Parliament from all parties dutifully stream out of their weekly caucus meetings.

OTTAWA – The man who killed a soldier at the National War Memorial was angry about failing to get a passport and struggled with drug addiction, say those who knew him at the downtown Ottawa men's shelter where he spent the last two weeks.

MONTREAL – Canadians should expect sweeping security and surveillance measures following attacks against the military in Quebec and Ottawa, says the man who helped expose wide-ranging government monitoring of citizens in the United States.

OTTAWA – The mother of the man accused of killing a soldier at the National War Memorial before opening fire in Parliament said she is crying for the victims of the shooting, not her son.

OTTAWA – Downtown Ottawa is a place where hundreds show up to do yoga on Wednesdays on the Parliament Hill lawn, where the sidewalks empty at dusk and the few remaining panhandlers cheerily bid late commuters a good night.

ATTACK BY 'TERRORIST' ON PARLIAMENT HILL WON'T WEAKEN CANADA'S RESOLVE: HARPER

TORONTO - The Toronto stock market tumbled more than 200 points Wednesday as markets gave back a chunk of gains collected over the previous four days of solid, triple-digit advances. The S&P/TSX composite index dropped 235.64 points to 14,312.07, led by falling resource stocks as prices for oil hit a two-year low. Losses picked up...

A gunman shot and killed a soldier at the National War Memorial in Ottawa on Wednesday before being shot dead in Parliament Hill's Center Block. Some immediate fallout:

OTTAWA - The gunman slain this morning during a shooting on Parliament Hill in Ottawa has been identified by CBS news as 32-year-old Canadian-born Michael Zehaf-Bibeau. CBS cited 'intelligence sources' as the origin of the information. The soldier who was killed during the shootout was 24-year-old Cpl. Nathan Cirillo, according to CBC. He was a...

HALIFAX - Canadian Forces bases across the country have been ordered to consider increasing security levels after shootings on Parliament Hill and at the National War Memorial in Ottawa. Maj.-Gen. Christopher Coates says bases have been asked to take "precautions appropriate to their environments" to ensure the safety and security of personnel, equipment and buildings....

OTTAWA - To those who know Kevin Vickers, there was little surprise that the sergeant-at-arms of the House of Commons and former RCMP officer would be the one to intervene in Wednesday's attack on Parliament Hill and reportedly shoot an assailant. Friends and family of the former long-serving RCMP officer said it is in his...

VICTORIA – The clerk of British Columbia's legislature says some provincial politicians were warned this week about heightened security concerns from officials in Ottawa.

OTTAWA – A Canadian honour guard who witnesses said was shot twice "point blank" by a gunman at the National War Memorial has died, while police continue combing a locked-down national capital for other potential threats.

WINNIPEG – Police have charged a woman who was renting a storage locker where the remains of six babies were found, but they say it could be months before they know who the infants were or how they died.