Canada

A Canadian man who was caught trying to smuggle 38 turtles into the country in 2014 has been banned from owning them for 10 years. Dong Yan of Windsor caught smuggling turtles in his pants has been fined $3500 and given two years probation. Dong was convicted earlier this month of illegally importing reptiles into Canada that were transported in …

Stefanie Trudeau, aka Officer 728, has been found guilty of assault in connection with a rough arrest in October of 2012 in the Plateau Mont-Royal district. Stéfanie Trudeau was caught on cellphone video arresting Serge Lavoie in a stairwell on Papineau Avenue in Montreal.

A woman whose Facebook friend stole her personal identification number (PIN) to redeem a $100 Tim Card in the Tim Horton’s Roll Up the Rim contest says the chain has agreed to honour her prize. Margaret Coward of Conception Bay South, Newfoundland says she didn’t know the Roll-Up-the-Rim gift card award could be claimed online. She also can’t believe one …

A new self-published book claims to tell the story of convicted serial killer Robert Pickton. The 144-page book, entitled “Pickton: In his Own Words” and that is available for sale online, gives a glimpse into the mind of Canada’s most notorious serial killer. Pickton was able to get the book published by passing a handwritten manuscript to a former cellmate. …

The provincial government said it planned to have hunters shoot as many as 184 wolves from helicopters last year, but wound up killing just half that amount. The Resource Operations Ministry said in a statement Friday that the cull in the South Selkirk region ended recently, but it will not provide current wolf-kill figures until both hunts are complete.

Central Hastings OPP are releasing more details about a sexual assault investigation involving a French teacher with the Hastings and Prince Edward District School Board. 36 year old Jaclyn Mclaren of Stirling — also known as Jaclyn Jones– is a teacher with the Hastings and Prince Edward School Board.

In his first press conference since being named Prime-Minister-for-a-Week on Tuesday, PJ (Prabjote) Lakhanpal said that the economy will be the top priority for his mandate. As part of his five-day visit to the nation’s capital, Lakhanpal is residing in the famed Chateau Laurier, which donated a week’s stay in the Prime Minister’s Suite. He also spent part of Wednesday …

The number of missing or murdered indigenous women in Canada since 1980 may be as high as 4,000 – far more than previous estimates of 1,200, the federal government has said. Patricia Hajdu, the minister of the status of women, cited research from the Native Women’s Association of Canada pointing to a far higher total than previously thought. The new …

At least 70 animals were seized during a massive B.C. SPCA raid Tuesday evening in Surrey. Chief enforcement officer at the SPCA, Marcie Moriarty, says 69 cats and kittens as well as 15 dogs were seized from a breeding and boarding business in Surrey.

A Supreme Court order did little on Sunday to get wheelchair-bound Robert Dal Passo back into his downtown Vancouver room in a transitional housing complex run by Community Builders Foundation. Robert Dal Passo has a court order saying his landlord – Community Builders – can no longer lock him out.

A man is missing after a group of snowmobiles went through the ice in Black River Lake in Kings County, according to the RCMP. A 26-year-old New Ross man was not found when rescuers helped two other snowmobilers. At about 9:55 p.m. Saturday, RCMP received a 911 call and learned a group of snowmobilers had fallen through the ice while …