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Police are warning the public about a cougar that attacked a small dog in Port Moody this week. The small dog needed surgery, but police say in a news release that it’s expected to make a full recovery. The neighbourhood borders on a heavily wooded area.

Police are searching for a male suspect after three people were wounded in a shooting outside a Woodbridge, Ont., lounge late Monday night. Officers were called to the venue on Highway 7, east of Pine Valley Drive at around 11:30 p.m., York Regional Police said. Three people were taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, police said. The shooting is believed …

Canadian man Joe Howlett was killed while trying to disentangle an endangered whale trapped in commercial fishing gear Monday, according to Fisheries and Oceans Canada. “We have lost an irreplaceable member of the whale rescue community. His expertise and dedication will be greatly missed,” Canadian Minister Dominic LeBlanc said in a statement. 59-year-old Joe Howlett was trying to cut free …

A 52-year-old Ayr man is dead after his motorcycle crashed on Highway 407 on Sunday. The single-vehicle crash happened around 2:30 p.m. along Highway 407 near the Lake Ridge Road overpass. The rider was without vital signs when emergency crews arrived on scene, Ontario Provincial Police spokesperson Sgt. Kerry Schmidt says.

Special prosecutor has approved charges against Pavla Janeckova of Kelowna. Charges of uttering threats to cause death or bodily harm have been approved against a woman who is said to have threated Premier Christy Clark and current Speaker of the House Steve Thomson. The B.C. Prosecution Service (BCPS) announced Tuesday that two charges of uttering threats had been approved against …

Three people, an adult and two children, are dead following a two-car collision late Sunday night in Mississauga, police say. It happened just before 11 p.m. Sunday on Winston Churchill Blvd. between North Service Rd. and the QEW. Two boys, aged four and 12, traveling in a vehicle with three other passengers were transported to hospital but later died. An …

A teenage boy is dead after he was stabbed outside a mall in the city’s west end on Friday. The teen collapsed in a parking lot behind a mall located on the southwest corner of Dufferin and Dupont streets at around 12:30 a.m. Friday before being found by two women, police said. Toronto Police say emergency crews performed CPR on …

Three people are dead following an overnight house fire in Hamilton. Fire Safety Officer Claudio Mostacci said that the Hamilton Fire Department received a call about the fire at 36 Laird Drive at 12:22 p.m. and found “heavy smoke conditions” when they arrived minutes later. Mostacci said the three people were pulled from the house and subsequently pronounced dead. He …

New maps are available on cordemergency that show areas at risk for flooding with no protective measures in place should the lake rise to the new flood planning number of 343.50 metres above sea level. Map colours indicate areas within the Central Okanagan that are at risk for flooding – from both surface and ground water. Pink shows the potential …

A tornado was caught on video as it touched down near Three Hills, Alberta, northeast of Calgary on Friday. According to Environment Canada, the tornado was classified as an EF0, the weakest rating on the Enhanced Fujita Scale which categorizes tornadoes based primarily on the damage they do.

Former nurse Elizabeth Wettlaufer plead guilty Thursday to all 14 charges against her including eight counts of first degree murder. The murders occurred between 2007 and 2014 and make Wettlaufer, who will turn 50 on June 10, the worst health care serial killer in Canadian history. In a 57-page agreed statement of facts, the court heard Wettlaufer injected each victim …