Winnipeg police have linked two recent homicides in the city’s core and charged three suspects with first-degree murder in each of the killings. Police would not comment Monday on a possible motive in the slayings of Carl George Wescoupe and Lee James Boulette. A charge of first-degree murder is laid in...
Penticton RCMP says missing elderly resident Doreen Abbott has been found dead. Abbott, 89, failed to arrive at a friend's house as expected on Jan. 27 Her car, a 1993 Subaru Legacy, was located on Greyback Mountain Road, stuck in the snow. Abbott was not in the car, nor was she...
UPDATE Feb. 4 On Feb. 4, 2023, the second male suspect surrendered to police. The 16-year-old male of the City of St. Catharines was arrested and is now facing first-degree murder. He is currently held in custody pending a bail hearing that is scheduled for Feb. 5, 2023, via video link to...
An Estevan man has been charged after the Saskatchewan RCMP’s Moose Jaw Crime Reduction Team (CRT) executed two search warrants at residences in Estevan as part of an ongoing investigation. The RCMP says they located and seized seven restricted handguns, three semi-automatic firearms and three long-barrelled firearms. One handgun and...
The Waterloo Regional Police Robbery Unit are investigating an armed robbery in Waterloo. On February 2, 2023, at approximately 4 p.m., police responded to several reports of an armed robbery at a jewellery store in Conestoga Mall. Initial reports indicated that shots had been fire inside the mall during the...
A Quebec woman said she was very surprised to find her stolen Audi had been used in what’s being described as an “absolutely insane” Ontario mall robbery. Taylor-Anna Kobinger, a resident of Laval, Que., listed her 2011 Black Audi A4 on Facebook Marketplace in January as a means to raise...
More parents in Alberta will be able to access subsidized, private childcare spaces after the federal and provincial governments inked the next stage of their funding agreement. Business owners in the sector have been lobbying for the expansion for months, saying the $3.8-billion federal deal first announced in late 2021...
Police in West Kelowna are again appealing to the public for assistance in locating a man reported missing more than three months ago. Brett Moore, 34, was initially reported missing Oct. 23, 2022. His family is extremely concerned as they have not heard from him since that time. He is described...
Police have identified the victim of a fatal daylight stabbing at a downtown Toronto apartment complex on Sunday. Nelson Niyonbago, 26, of Toronto, died at the scene, according to Toronto Police. Officers were called to an apartment building at 251 Sherbourne St., just north of Dundas St. E., around 3:40 p.m....
Homicide detectives are investigating a man’s death at a Main Street hotel in Winnipeg Sunday. Police were called to the Manwin Hotel at 655 Main St. around 5:30 p.m. They say officers first spoke to a man in his 30s, who had been injured in an assault, who said another man...