Canada

Ottawa shooting: One person killed and three others injured. One person was killed and three others injured, including a teenage boy, in what police called a targeted shooting Wednesday morning at a home in the Canadian capital of Ottawa. The incident happened at around 7:30 a.m. on Gilmour Street, near Parliament Hill, where the Canadian Parliament is located, according to …

Quebec City police said 44 people were arrested near the site of rival protests by right-wing and anti-fascist groups, according to police spokesman André Turcotte. These included a first group of 21 individuals who were arrested early in the afternoon for “plotting to counter the protest” that had been organized by right wing groups, he said. “Weapons were found: telescopic …

The Coroner’s Office is investigating after a man died Friday evening when a trench outside a Glanbrook home collapsed around him. Firefighters were called to the scene on Periwinkle Dr. around 5:40 p.m. Friday. The man, reportedly a contractor, was working inside the hole behind a Glanbrook home when tragedy struck. “The individual was working at the rear of the …

In a real life version of a “meanwhile in Canada…” meme, there’s a moose on the loose near Buttonville airport and Hwy 404. Members of animal services, the Ontario Provincial Police and the Ministry of Natural Resources have all been on the hunt for the skittish animal ever since. By about 10:30 a.m., the moose had made its way to …

Justin Trudeau offered a broad and emotional apology Friday to indigenous people in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, where for much of the 20th century indigenous children were compelled to attend boarding schools that separated them from their families and cultures and, in many cases, subjected them to abuse. Trudeau offered the apology for beatings, sexual abuse, neglect and …

A torso discovered at the Oshawa lakefront Sept. 11 has been identified as 18-year-old Rori Hache from Oshawa who went missing in August. Police are treating her death as a murder. Through DNA tests, investigators linked the body to Rori Hache, who had been reported missing by her family. Police said she was last seen on Aug. 29 and made …

A 33-year-old man has died in a boating accident in Nova Scotia’s Antigonish County. Antigonish District RCMP say they have found the body of a Cape George man after he had been reported missing. Emergency crews were called out to Ballantynes Cove Wharf Road just before midnight Tuesday after being told the 33-year-old man had gone out fishing, had docked …

Human remains being investigated by police at a Salmon Arm-area farm belong to missing teenager Traci Genereaux, her grieving family confirmed Wednesday. No charges have been laid in connection with Genereaux’s death and an autopsy has been completed, but the results are not being released.

Police fatally shot a man inside the emergency room of Northumberland Hills Hospital on Friday night after an elderly woman was found with a fatal gunshot wound to her head inside that same room, the Special Investigations Unit confirms. Cobourg police were initially called to the emergency room of the hospital around 11 p.m. Friday night after gunshots were fired. …

A mother and daughter had a nightmare of a flight when they were bitten by stowaway bedbugs on their trip. Heather Szilagyi said she spotted the insects on the seat in front of her on a flight from Vancouver to London and informed the flight attendant who said she could not move them, “She was like, ‘Oh ok, sorry about …

The three victims of the deadly ammonia leak at Fernie Memorial Arena Tuesday have been identified. The coroners service has identified the victims as: 59-year-old Wayne Hornquist of Fernie. 52-year-old Lloyd Smith of Fernie. 46-year-old Jason Podloski of Turner Valley, Alberta. Smith, an off-duty part-time paramedic, was working “at his other job with the City of Fernie when he died,” …