Canada

Homicide investigators have announced an arrest connected to the December 2013 slaying of a 53-year-old hockey mom, a crime that shocked Surrey, B.C., and led many to question the city’s safety.

Marge Karabelski wants her son’s misadventure to be a warning for others. Last Saturday evening, Tommy Karabelski was hit by a subway train at Islington station. Out for a night with his friends, he went beyond the subway platform’s yellow do-not-pass line to urinate and was hit by an oncoming train.

A woman who filmed a violent attack on a Langley bus says she felt freaked out and shocked as she watched it happen. Hannah Koekman was on the bus on Tuesday when the confrontation between two women heated up. Koekman pulled out her cell phone and watched as punches were thrown.

A senior military commander from Ontario was killed Wednesday morning during a training exercise on a northern Alberta military base. Lt.-Col. Dan Bobbitt, commanding officer of the 2nd Regiment, Royal Canadian Horse Artillery based in Garrison Petawawa, Ont., died when a light armoured vehicle rolled over during a training mission for Exercise Maple Resolve 2014 at Canadian Forces Base Wainwright. …

Peel Regional Police are investigating a double stabbing in Mississauga that sent two men to hospital early Tuesday morning. Police say the incident (near Hurontario Street and The Queensway) was a possible home invasion.

A young man is dead following a weekend of off roading. Taber RCMP say they received a call Saturday following a collision between two off highway vehicles at a park northeast of Grassy Lake, a hamlet east of Lethbridge along the Crowsnest high way. In all three people were injured. Two were taken by ground ambulance to hospitals in the …

A shocking twist to the case about the dogs in Langley that were reported missing last week, they are dead. Corporal Holly Marks with Langley RCMP has confirmed the dogs’ bodies have been found in Abbotsford. Marks says it appears they died of heat exhaustion in the back of the dog walker’s vehicle.

After a 15-hour operation, the Montreal police bomb squad has removed and neutralized 19 IEDs found Saturday in a residential district of Ahuntsic -Cartierville.

A 22-year-old man was treated for lacerations to his head after he managed to escape a bear attack in northern Alberta. The victim’s father says the incident happened on Friday night near Calling Lake — located about 200 kilometres north of Edmonton — after his son’s all-terrain vehicle became stuck.

A RCMP report says aboriginal women have been much more prone to violent death than non-natives, but police have solved cases involving both groups at virtually the same rate.

A 63-year-old married grandmother in North York, part of Toronto, has become Canada’s latest multimillionaire. Sophie Rizavas discovered Saturday she had a winning ticket in the May 9th $50-million Lotto Max draw.