Canada

The Ministry of Environment in collaboration with the Northern Health Authority has issued a Smoke Advisory for the Omineca Region and North East of BC because of wildfire fire smoke that is affecting this area.

Andrei Anghel was always asking probing questions while studying at the University of Waterloo. “He just had this drive. He wanted to know the answers,” said biology Prof. Brian Dixon. Anghel, a 24-year-old native of Romania, was among 298 people killed when a Malaysia Airlines plane was downed over Ukraine on Thursday. Anghel, whose family live in Ajax east of …

A 50-year-old Toronto woman and former federal government employee is facing 97 charges in connection with a passport fraud investigation. RCMP officers, with the help of Citizenship and Immigration Canada, arrested a former passport processing officer who used to work for CIC on Thursday.

He was conquered, he saw, he came back. And all hailed Tim Hudak upon his return to the legislature. The former Progressive Conservative leader on Thursday ‎made his first appearance in the legislature since his party was defeated in the June 12 election.

The former Guantanamo Bay detainee has agreed to a stay of a decision by Alberta’s top court that ruled he should be serving his sentence as a youth and be transferred to a provincial jail. His lawyers say he’s willing to remain at the federal Bowden Institution in central Alberta because he’s doing well there.

The beheading that took place on a Greyhound bus near Portage la Prairie in 2008 has claimed another victim. Ken Barker, a retired RCMP corporal who was a dog handler for the force, took his own life last weekend after struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder for years. He was one of the first police officers on the scene of the …

The man convicted of murdering Mimi Khonsari in Barrie 10 years ago has been sentenced. And the Khonsari family was in the Toronto courtroom where it happened this morning, there to hear the outcome of a long and difficult legal proceeding. Today marked the second time Claire Spiers has been sentenced for Khonari’s murder, but unlike the first time there …

The RCMP is expected to announce criminal charges against suspended senator Mike Duffy at a news conference Thursday morning. The Globe and Mail reported Duffy’s lawyer, Donald Bayne, said his client maintains his innocence and looks forward to a fair hearing in court – adding Duffy has never had a fair hearing in Senate, or the media.

The B.C. government is prepared to allow striking teachers to disrupt the start of a new school year in September rather than force a contract upon them with legislation, according to the province’s finance minister.

Environment Canada has issued a high health risk warning for Yellowknife and surrounding area because of heavy smoke in the region due to forest fires.

Calgary police officially identified a man charged in connection with the disappearance of a boy and his grandparents back on June 29th. The news came on Tuesday morning after police confirmed that a person had been taken into custody in connection with the case.