Canada

The Abbotsford-Huntingdon border crossing was closed Thursday afternoon, after a routine search found what appeared to be an explosive device in a vehicle. The agency said at about 6:30 p.m. that Abbotsford police were called and three people are in agency custody. The investigation is continuing, with police on site, but no other information was released. The agency said that …

Shock and anger from parents of a Montreal school after learning their children are reportedly attending the same school as Karla Homolka’s children. Homolka served a twelve-year sentence in a Quebec prison for manslaughter in the sex slayings of two Ontario schoolgirls. Homolka, who now goes by the name Leanne Bordelais, has children of her own who attend school and …

A structural collapse at a Toronto construction site sent at least seven people to hospital and injured several others Monday afternoon at a major intersection north of the downtown core. Police flocked to a construction site in the city’s Forest Hill neighbourhood around 2:30 p.m. after the accident at a building currently being turned into a new public transit stop. …

Toronto Zoo officials are investigating after a Youtube user posted a video showing a woman jump over a tiger enclosure fence. In the footage, the woman is seen climbing down the fence and grabbing her hat while the tiger, which is separated by another fence, lunges towards her. Once she retrieves the hat, the woman hops back over the fence.

Three people are dead after being shot inside a home on a quiet suburban street in Stoney Creek. A fourth person was taken to hospital in unknown condition. Police say they were called to a home on Valrose Drive just before 7 o’clock Saturday evening. Three people were found shot dead in the home.

Three people are dead after a motorcycle collided with an SUV on Dundas Street near Eaglesfield Drive. Two of the dead were on the motorcycle. The third was the driver of the SUV. Halton police says that Dundas St. will be closed between Brant St. and Blackwood Dr. for the next several hours. Halton’s collision reconstruction unit is investigating. Police …

When a journalist implied that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau couldn’t explain quantum computing, the P.M. smiled and called his bluff. The question was meant as a joke, but it became anything but as Trudeau launched into a seemingly cogent disquisition about the field and why it was important.

British Columbia’s Independent Investigation Office (IIO) has announced it will look into this month’s crash that killed RCMP Const. Sarah Beckett, after learning police had tried to stop the truck that ended up striking her cruiser. The criminal investigation continues to be led by the RCMP Island District, while the Saanich Police Department are overseeing the collision scene investigation..

For the third straight day, David Stephan made his way to the witness box in Lethbridge Provincial Court to be cross-examined by Crown prosecutor Clayton Giles. David Stephan and his wife Collet are on trial on connection with the death of their 18-month-old young son, Ezekiel, who died of meningitis in 2012. The toddler was sick for about two and …

Toronto Paramedics confirm three people are dead and two more are injured following a horrific vehicle crash at Jane at Shepard this morning. According to Const. Clint Stibbe an Acura collided with a Mercedes Benz at Jane and Steeles and continued southbound on Jane Street to Sheppard Avenue. The Acura lost control, struck another vehicle and hit a light standard …

Veteran Quebec politician Sam Hamad gave up his cabinet post and privileges Thursday, but his gesture did nothing to calm opposition parties, who continued to ask that he be banished from the Liberal caucus for an alleged ethical breach. Hamad’s integrity was called into question last week by a Radio-Canada report which suggested his name turned up in a series …