Canada

A legal battle over the sanity of convicted terrorist Chiheb Esseghaier is set to stretch into the appeal phase after an Ontario judge appointed two lawyers to act in his case Wednesday. Esseghaier, who was last year found guilty of plotting to plow up a VIA rail train in the Province is set to appeal his terror related conviction. Read More »

Thousands of Syrian refugees expected in Canada in the coming days could spend up to two weeks in temporary accommodations — including military bases — before being able to settle into more permanent homes. According to the federal government, as part of the #WelcomeRefugees initiative, the milestone brings the country closer to its goal of welcoming 25,000 refugees to Canada ... Read More »

A Toronto man has been freed more than five years after he was kidnapped in Afghanistan, where he said he had gone as a tourist. In a press release issued Monday afternoon, Global Affairs Minister Stéphane Dion said Colin Rutherford has been released from captivity and that consular officials are working to bring him home to Canada as soon as ... Read More »

A bridge providing the only highway link between Eastern and Western Canada split in two Sunday afternoon, and is closed indefinitely as engineers examine the damage. “We’re not sure exactly what the damage to the bridge is at this point,” Nipigon Mayor Richard Harvey said in an interview with The Canadian Press. Read More »

A traffic camera in Quebec captured striking images of a snowy owl in flight on Jan. 3. A series of frames were taken of the bird over Montreal’s Highway 40 and shared on Facebook by Robert Poëti, a Canadian politician, on Thursday. The transportation minister of Quebec posted the photos Thursday on Twitter and Facebook. Barbara Frei, director of the ... Read More »

An incident on an United Airlines flight from Anchorage to Denver forced it to be diverted to Vancouver. Flight 1104 was diverted to the Vancouver International Airport after “security concerns” early Saturday morning. Read More »

A man is in critical condition and a suspect in is custody after a stabbing inside the Air Canada operations centre on Wednesday. Authorities were called to the scene on Ironbridge Road, northwest of Mississauga Road and Highway 407 at around 10.p.m. The building was placed in under a hold and secure order for a time as police searched for ... Read More »

The woman facing charges in connection with a weekend accident in Saskatoon that took the lives of a Saskatoon couple and their two children made a brief court appearance Monday morning. RCMP confirmed a Saskatoon family of four in a Hyundai Elantra was traveling westbound on Highway 11 when they were hit by a Jeep Wrangler SUV that was trying ... Read More »

A 29-year-old woman from Halifax is dead after the snowmobile she was driving smashed into a tree. The woman was driving on a groomed trail at about 3 p.m. when she crashed into a tree, said RCMP spokesman Cst. Mark Skinner. She was pronounced dead at the scene. Kings District RCMP, Springfield-East Dalhousie Volunteer Fire Department, and EHS responded to ... Read More »

Police likely saved the lives of a Fort St. John couple being attacked by a pair of dogs in their home on Christmas. RCMP in Fort St. John received a 9-1-1 call from a frantic woman on Christmas Day just before 8:00 p.m. The woman told police that two dogs had killed her cat and dogs and were now attacking ... Read More »

A Manitoba indigenous woman who advocated for victims of asbestos-linked cancers has died. Fifty-year-old Raven Thundersky was found dead in her home on Christmas Eve. She had been sick with lung cancer for over 10 years. “It was hard. It was, definitely. You know it’s coming, but it sucks when it comes,” said Thundersky’s daughter Raven-Domique Gobeil. Read More »