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A man is facing charges for having false licence plates on his car after being pulled over by police in St. John’s Saturday afternoon.

Violence in Iraq prompted hundreds of Sunni and Shia Muslims in Calgary to stand together in protest of ISIS on Saturday. About 200 people gathered outside Calgary City Hall Saturday, many carrying signs opposing the Taliban, Al-Qaeda and ISIS. Over the past few weeks ISIS militants have taken control of multiple northern Iraqi cities and also launched an attack on …

One road crew worker is dead after being hit by a pickup truck in Alliston. The 41 year old man and a woman were struck while painting lines on Victoria Street around 4 a.m. OPP say the female worker suffered serious injuries but will survive.

Police in eastern Ontario say a 58-year old Montreal man face 20 charges following cases of sexual assault involving children. Officials add they happened at a camp site in Hawkesbury between 1995 and ’98. He allegedly assaulted four victims, girls and boys aged between five and 12-years old.

Maria Digel won $6,986,491.90 on Lotto 6/49’s June 4 draw, playing the same numbers she’s played for 30 years.

A woman who stopped to help a group of ducklings on the side of the road has been found guilty of causing the deaths of a motorcyclist and his passenger daughter who slammed into her parked car. Emma Czornobaj was convicted Friday on two counts of criminal negligence causing death and two counts of dangerous driving causing death.

The RCMP says a four-month long child pornography investigation lead to the rescue of five children under the age of 10. Officers announced Thursday that the national campaign zeroed in on alleged sex offenders and wound up leading to 343 charges being laid. The news was delivered in Halifax with investigators saying the case reached clear across the country, involving …

The young woman accused of abducting a newborn from a Trois-Rivières hospital burst into tears in court Wednesday morning. Valérie Poulin Collins appeared in court to hear the date of her bail hearing, which was set for July 7 and 8.

Three people arrested this morning are being accused of ambushing a security guard by gunfire overnight, targeting his armoured truck for the second time in a month. The 37-year-old security guard is fighting for his life in hospital after being shot multiple times during an attempted robbery while he was in the area of Avenue Road and Brookdale Avenue, just …

An armoured car guard was shot during an attempted robbery Thursday morning in the Avenue Rd. and Lawrence Avenue area.

Five emergency responders injured Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. in a training accident in Kanata are expected to make a full recovery. Two police officers and one paramedic suffered minor injuries and two paramedics were listed in serious but stable condition in intensive care at the General Campus of the Ottawa Hospital. They suffered burns from a blast and flames