Canada

A teenage girl in Barrie spent a night in jail after she was arrested Friday night for allegedly skipping a large number of high school classes. Barrie police say a warrant was issued March 8 for the 16-year-old girl under the Education Act because she was consistently absent from school without cause and then failed to attend her originally scheduled …

A woman is dead after the windstorm knocked over a tree and it fell onto her Port Moody home. Jill Calder died when a tree was blown against  her home during this morning’s strong winds, killing her while she slept. Port Moody’s mayor Mike Clay says Jill’s family can expect support from the neighbourhood.

Dani Jacobsen, a B.C. mother-of-two, is celebrating a “mini miracle.” She’s been reunited with a couple of her most precious belongings. They were flushed down the toilet of her Salmon Arm-area home more than two years ago by her then two-and-a-half-year-old. The jewellery, which also included Jacobsen’s wedding band and a pair of diamond earrings, had been flushed while the …

A pair of young Saskatchewan homeless men given a one way bus ticket to Vancouver by social service workers has arrived in the city. Greeted by outreach workers from the Union Gospel Mission upon arrival at Pacific Central Station, 23 year old Charles Neil Curly says he’s been homeless for around five months but was denied funding to stay at …

The search for a man wanted in a child pornography investigation has come to an end. Toronto police have confirmed Darren Padilla, 47, who worked with the TTC, was found dead in the Haliburton County area, earlier this week.

Edson RCMP have charged a 21-year old man with first degree murder after the body of a teen was found in an apartment on Friday morning. Edson RCMP responded at 10:20 a.m. to an apartment in the town after receiving reports of a deceased youth, RCMP said in a news release.

Ontario Provincial Police cancelled an amber alert after an Orilla boy was found safe and sound on Sunday night. Just before 11 p.m., police said the child had been located and was safe. No further details were immediately released.

A climbing instructor at Funtopia in Surrey has been fired after she was filmed failing to come to the aid of a crying four-year-old girl – because she was too busy on her cellphone. Happy Lani posted the video to her Facebook page Wednesday, which shows her child crying while being ignored by a staff member for roughly 50 seconds. …

A Trinity Western University graduate’s complaint against the wilderness tourism company that refused to hire her is justified, the BC Human Rights Tribunal ruled March 2, 2016. In September of 2014, Bethany Paquette applied for an assistant guide position with Amaruk Wilderness Corporation, a Norwegian company which has a Vancouver office.

Known Montreal Mafia member Lorenzo Giordano, 52, had been in prison for two years, serving a 15-year sentence, when he was transferred to a different prison in 2011 to ensure his own protection. Multiple sources say Giordano was hit with several bullets at around 8:45 a.m. near the Carrefour Multisports in the Chomedey district, across the street from the Carrefour …

The Mounties aren’t commenting about the 910-hundred-thousand dollar overtime bill that officers and others racked up during an undercover terrorism operation. Documents obtained by The Canadian Press show the operation netted former drug addicts John Nuttall and Amanda Korody, who were found guilty of plotting to blow up the B-C legislature on Canada Day, 2013.