Canada

The Sûreté du Québec is investigating the police shooting of a 17-year-old boy in St-Constant Sunday. It happened at around 1 o’clock Sunday morning in a home on l’Amaryllis Street. The Surete du Quebec was called in to handle the investigation.

When Claudia Huber of Whitehorse, Yukon, was being mauled by a grizzly bear last year, her husband fired his rifle to save her. Unfortunately, it was one of his bullets that killer her, a coroner has reported. Matthias Liniger fired several rounds at the bear, as it dragged Claudia Huber several meters into the woods near their home in Johnson’s …

Border services officers in the port of Montréal seized over 1,300 kg of suspected hashish on December 10, 2015. The container also had wooden handcrafted furniture in it.

Quebec can proceed with its dying with dignity law because the Criminal Code provisions banning assisted suicide are invalid, the province’s top court ruled Tuesday. The Quebec Court of Appeal overturned a lower court decision aimed at suspending implementation of the province’s assisted-dying legislation.

Jose Figueroa is going to have a lot to celebrate next week: his birthday, Christmas and his liberation. The Langley man has been living in the Walnut Grove Lutheran Church for the past two years, after he took sanctuary when the Canadian government moved to deport him for his political activities in El Salvador nearly two decades ago.

At least two people are dead following a 6 vehicle collision on the QEW in Oakville Tuesday night. According to a Halton Region Paramedic Services spokesperson, emergency crews were called to the eastbound lanes of the QEW between Trafalgar Road and Royal Windsor Drive around 9:10 p.m.

The winners of the Dec. 12 Lotto 6/49 draw — Monique, 44, and Christian Etienne, 45 — were at the Alberta Gaming and Liquor Commission head office in St. Albert on Tuesday to claim the $14.5-million prize. — a win they attribute to their two golden Labrador retrievers. The two pups got into brownie and scone mix, leaving a giant …

The Neville-Lake family will be spending Christmas without their three children for the first time this year but will nonetheless have a lasting memory with Santa Claus. The Neville-Lake children’s uncle had a photograph taken of Santa Claus holding a portrait of the Neville-Lake children and their grandfather. Jennifer Neville-Lake’s card has been shared more than 2,200 times on Facebook …

A Manitoba man operating a Zamboni during a hockey game is facing impaired driving charges. Police in Ste. Anne were called to the Sainte-Anne Arena Saturday night because fans at the game noticed “erratic behaviour” by the Zamboni driver. Marc Robichaud, chief of the town’s police department, says the machine was striking the rink’s boards and moving erratically around the …

Toronto police believe the deaths of two people who fell from a highrise on Sunday was a case of murder-suicide. Police investigators say Robert Giblin, 43, murdered his wife, Precious Charbonneau, 33, and took his own life. The couple was found on the ground in the parking lot outside their apartment building at 111 Raglan Ave., in the St. Clair …

It was a nasty surprise one Surrey woman won’t soon forget. Police say she woke up in her own bed early Sunday morning to discover a strange man asleep beside her. Police say they received a report of a man who entered a home in the area of 64 Avenue and 121 Street and fell asleep sometime between the hours …