Canada

The RCMP has charged a man and a male youth with causing distress to an animal after allegedly burning a kitten at the Craven Country Jamboree. According to a Facebook post from the clinic treating the kitten injured at Craven, the kitten was brought onto the grounds, drenched in alcohol, and then lit on fire. At last word, the kitten, …

Homicide investigators have been called in after a suspicious death in Coquitlam. In a statement, Sergeant Jennifer Pound says investigators were called in after Coquitlam RCMP received reports of a 22-year-old woman in medical distress just after 5pm, on Eagleridge Drive near Guildford Way. The woman was later pronounced dead, and police suspected foul play.

Calgary police have issued an amber alert for a five-year-old girl they believe has been abducted, after her mother was found dead in their home. Police were called to the home in the 1000 block of Panamount Boulevard northwest about 830 Monday night when the family of a woman who lived there reported being unable to reach her. The body …

Louizandre Dauphin says he was just looking for a quiet place to spend a few hours reading when he parked his car near a wharf in northeastern New Brunswick. Dauphin was pulled over on the weekend by RCMP on his way home from Stonehaven wharf in Bathurst, N.B. Police told him they’d received several calls about a “suspicious” black man …

It appears a bear involved in an attack on a Maple Ridge woman has been caught. It happened around 8 p.m. Wednesday on 287th Street near Andersen Pacific Forest Products. Carol Boutin with the Provincial Health Services Authority says the 69-year-old suffered cuts to her face. “BC Ambulance dispatched two ambulances, one advanced life support and one basic because they …

Royal Canadian Mounted Police are investigating an incident at the Pacific Highway Crossing of the U.S.-Canadian border. Canadian border patrol agents would only confirm that an individual “failed to report at the Pacific Highway port of entry northbound.”

A man who was convicted of murdering his wife has died in a Saskatchewan psychiatric facility. The Regional Psychiatric Centre in Saskatoon issued a statement Saturday saying Traigo Andretti was found unresponsive in his cell and could not be revived.

Two people died after a plane crash near Deacon’s Corner and Highway 15 on Friday morning. The Transportation Safety Board says the crash happened at about 10 a.m. today but won’t say how many people were on board the plane. Springfield fire Chief Jeff Hudson says the Piper PA 28 came down in a rural area near Deacon’s Corner and …

Police said Friday that the body of a man found Thursday in the debris field of a house explosion is that of 55-year-old Robert Nadler. Nadler, 55, was one of the homeowners linked to the house where the explosion occurred. The article reports that he was convicted of murder in the 1980s. The other homeowner was Nadler’s wife, Dianne Page, …

A massive explosion has leveled a home in Mississauga, Ontario leaving one person dead and several others injured. Peel police confirmed one person was fatally injured, and nine others are injured. No information about the victim has been given, including where he or she was located at the time of death. The home that exploded was levelled, and caused damage …

A Dutch court ruled on Tuesday that 38-year-old Aydin Coban can be extradited to Canada to face charges of using a computer to harass and blackmail B.C. teen Amanda Todd, who later committed suicide. But, the court said, Aydin Coban must first stand trial in the Netherlands, where he faces 72 charges not related to Todd, including blackmail and the …