Federal political parties appear to be locked in a game of chicken over a debate that has stalled almost all business in the House of Commons.

Federal lawyers are expected to argue in Federal Court this week that the government has no legal duty to provide First Nations with clean water, even if Liberal ministers suggest otherwise at news conferences, in response to a national class-action lawsuit launched by a northern Manitoba First Nation.

Alberta’s minister of public safety and emergency services, Mike Ellis, told a federal committee Monday that the provincial government had reduced decision-making power during the immediate aftermath of the Jasper wildfire, but still must foot the recovery bill.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s case accusing Amazon of stifling competition in online retail will move forward, though some of the states that sued alongside the agency had their claims dismissed, court documents showed.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government was warned more than two years ago that it had to take action to counter threats from state actors like China, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Iran, according to a summary of a secret cabinet document made public by the foreign interference inquiry Monday.

Billionaire businessman Frank Stronach, who faces multiple sex assault charges, has had his case put over to next month as lawyers work to have the matter moved to a court in Toronto.

Milton rapidly strengthened into a Category 5 hurricane, the strongest level, in the Gulf of Mexico on Monday on a path toward Florida, threatening a dangerous storm surge in Tampa Bay and setting the stage for potential mass evacuations.

Rwandan health authorities will begin a vaccine study against the Marburg hemorrhagic fever as the East African country tries to stop the spread of an outbreak that has killed 12 people.

While a Pakistani man living in the Toronto area was allegedly planning a mass murder of Jews in New York, he was also seeking refugee status in Canada, according to an immigration consultant. The U.S. is now aiming to extradite Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, 20, after he was arrested last month in Quebec.

A 70-year-old South Korean woman sued her government, an adoption agency and an orphanage Monday over the adoption of her four-year-old daughter, who was sent to the U.S. in 1976 after being kidnapped. It’s the first known lawsuit of its kind in South Korea.

India stepped up its development assistance to the Maldives after the two leaders held talks in New Delhi on Monday in a bid to repair strained ties that saw the president of the Indian Ocean archipelago forging closer relations with China.

A couple from northwestern Ontario say they’re breathing a little easier after becoming the first people from their First Nations to reach base camp on the world’s highest mountain. Here’s why Marietta Duncan and her husband, Travis Duncan, carried the flags of Muskrat Dam and Bearskin Lake up Mount Everest earlier this week.