A Canadian millionaire and former mayoral candidate for the Great White North’s capital of Ottowa is in serious trouble for being extremely un-Canadian to his ex-wife during their divorce. More specifically, 55-year-old businessman Bruce McConville got tossed in whatever Canada’s version of jail is (a decent but not great Holiday...
A man accused of murdering a Calgary woman and her toddler appeared in person in a Calgary courtroom Monday morning for a preliminary hearing. Robert Leeming, 34, is charged with second-degree murder in the 2019 deaths of 25-year-old Calgary mother Jasmine Lovett and her 22-month-old daughter, Aliyah Sanderson. The preliminary hearing...
Three people have been killed and two others were injured after a late night shooting at an Airbnb in a Toronto. Local police say they responded to reports of multiple shots fired in the downtown area around 10:30 p.m. Friday. Police say the shooting occurred at a social gathering at a...
B.C.’s River Forecast Centre has issued a flood watch for some parts of the South Coast, as flooding in several communities caused road closures, power outages and prompted a local state of emergency on Vancouver Island. As of Saturday morning, the North Shore and Metro Vancouver remained under the alert...
Ontario public health officials are investigating a confirmed case of coronavirus in London, less than a week after the potentially deadly virus was first detected in the province. The unidentified woman, a Western University student in her 20s, tested positive for the coronavirus strain originating from Wuhan, China, where an...
Two people from Nanaimo and two from Victoria are facing human trafficking and prostitution-related charges in Saskatchewan. On January 28th, RCMP in Swift Current stopped three vehicles on the Trans Canada Highway after an off-duty officer witnessed them speeding while driving together in a group. The RCMP says the vehicles were...
A half-dozen people were taken to hospital Wednesday after emergency crews responded to the scene of a crash involving around 20 vehicles on Highway 2 north of Grande Prairie near Emerson Trail Wednesday. RCMP, emergency medical services and fire services responded to the collision that blocked traffic on Highway 2...
The victims of a horrific hit-and-run crash that left two people dead and two others injured were international students with Thompson Rivers University (TRU), the school says. In a statement published Monday, TRU president Brett Fairbairn said the victims were current and alumni students with the international program. “Our deepest thoughts...
Under a light afternoon snowfall, hundreds of paramedics, firefighters and police officers lined the entry road to Regina’s Living Hope Alliance Church. Dressed in their finest uniforms, they raised their arms in salute as symbols of Leigh Schroeder — a Canadian flag, picture, Bible and stethoscope — were carried by...
Hundreds of thousands of Canadians are consuming tap water laced with high levels of lead leaching from aging and deteriorating infrastructure. A year-long investigation by more than 120 journalists from nine universities and 10 media organizations, including the Toronto Star and the Institute for Investigative Journalism, collected test results that...