Canada

A 20-year old man was given a ticket and had his vehicle taken away after he was clocked driving almost 200 km/h on Valley Road Tuesday evening.

Candlelight vigils will be held tonight for a 45-year-old teacher from Burlington who’s sitting in an Indonesian jail.

A 15-year-old girl has died after becoming trapped under the crossbar of a soccer net north of Toronto Wednesday afternoon. South Simcoe police said the girl was seriously injured after she somehow became trapped under the crossbar of the net while playing soccer at a sports field in Bradford, northwest of Newmarket.

An armed standoff in Winnipeg that lasted nearly 17 hours has ended, after a man fired gunshots at officers while barricading himself inside a house, police say. The Winnipeg Police said they received a call at 10:45 a.m. about a man uttering threats to police. They said the man could be harmful to himself and others.

First Nation salaries for chiefs and council are now online for everyone to see. The Canadian Taxpayer Federation touted the public disclosure as its own victory in an announcement today that included the website link.

Brian Young was thanking his lucky stars Monday that the family cat, Berkeley, wanted breakfast early. He says the hungry feline helped him, his wife Nancy and their son Nick get out before fire completely engulfed their house on Meech Avenue in North Sydney.

Around 100 Montreal police officers called in sick Saturday in what has been deemed an illegal strike tactic. Early Saturday morning, the city of Montreal received word that the officers would be calling in sick and asked Quebec’s labour relations board to intervene, said Mayor Denis Coderre.

A woman who claims to be the one caught on camera apparently plucking and eating a bird on the Montreal metro is not apologizing or embarrassed by her actions.

It will be a week before the couple charged in the killing of Saint Mary’s University student Loretta Saunders find out if they will stand trial on charges of first-degree murder. Blake Leggette, 26, and Victoria Henneberry, 28, were charged with Saunders’ killing on Feb. 27, two weeks after the 26-year-old Inuk woman disappeared from her Halifax apartment.

Police have identified a man found dead in a northeast Calgary pond earlier this week and declared his death the city’s latest homicide. Colton James Crowshoe, 18, was found floating in a small pond near 16 Ave. and Stoney Tr. N.E. on Thursday.

A community group in Brandon, Man. is scrambling to find a cat that is roaming around the city with its head stuck inside a bird feeder. The cat can only see with one eye and cannot eat or drink with its head wedged in the feeder, according to the group Brandon and Area Lost Animals.