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The head of the Royal Canadian Navy has taken the rare step of ordering one of its ships to return from an international exercise because of misconduct by its sailors. Vice Admiral Mark Norman issued the message Monday, citing three incidents involving the crew of HMCS Whitehorse that took place during Exercise RIMPAC 2014.

A provincewide heat wave in British Columbia is expected to hit record highs in the coming days, heightening concerns about wildfires. Navi Saini (SANI) of the B.C. Wildfire Management Branch says there are 45 wildfires across the province, with three fires expected to take days to put out.

A drive-thru worker in an Owen Sound restaurant is being praised by police for stopping a drunk driver last night. The employee was afraid the customer had been drinking and alerted his manager after noticing there was an open beer in his lap. Police arrived on scene just as the driver was trying to get back on the road.

Texting and driving might be the new epidemic in our society. The 2013 Student Drug Use and Health Survey found that one-third of licensed Ontario students in grades 10 to 12 reported having texted while driving at least once in the past year. When looking at Grade 12s alone, the percentage rises to 46% of licensed students.

A small plane has crashed in the backyard of a home in the Saint-Hubert neighbourhood of Longueuil. The plane appears to have crashed outside a home at 1220 Jean-Baptiste-Charron St., a small, dead-end street near Raoul Ave., very near Route 116 to the airport. The plane crashed immediately after taking off from the Saint-Hubert airport.

The Alberta government has decided that it is time for new licence plates. Residents are encouraged to vote for which licence plate they like the best on the Government of Alberta website. Voting will continue until August 19, when the design with the most votes will be chosen to represent our province.

A mother will be fined $60 plus fees for leaving her small child locked in a car in a hot Montreal shopping mall parking lot Thursday afternoon. A crown prosecutor has yet to decide whether charges will be laid.

The NDP is fighting back in Federal Court against the June decision by a House of Commons oversight body to force 23 New Democratic MPs to pay back the cost of letters and envelopes deemed overly partisan. The application, filed July 4, asks the court to “set aside and annul or declare void the decision in its entirety.” The case …

A 76-year-old man is dead following a fishing accident east of Halifax. RCMP say the man fell off the Sober Island Bridge in Sheet Harbour around 5:30 p.m.

Fourteen years in the courts, interviews, affidavits, applications, and an intense shame over decades ended Monday after a Supreme Court justice finalized a $29 million settlement in the Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children case. Justice Arthur LeBlanc formally approved the settlement between the province and former residents of the home, saying the deal represented an “important step” in the …

Companies are always looking for new ways to market their products but this project didn’t end very well. Coors Light Canada is apologizing after their latest promotion tied-up traffic during rush hour at Dundas Street and Spadina on Monday afternoon. A silver briefcase was attached to a railing at the TTC streetcar stop there. It looked suspicious, forcing the police …