Canada

A retirement party like no other was held at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic on Sunday for one beloved, furry employee and crewmember. Erik the Red, a little orange cat and fixture of the Halifax waterfront, has been an RCO, or Rodent Control Officer, on the C.S.S. Acadia at the museum since wandering onto the ship in 1999.

A woman has died after being hit by a dump truck tire in Mississauga. On Friday Morning at around 8am Officers say a dump truck lost two tires while travelling along Meadowvale Boulevard in Mississauga.

Pamela Anderson says Conservative Leader Stephen Harper doesn’t have a good record on the issue of climate change. The Canadian actress and model was in Vancouver Friday, promoting her new book of poetry and photographs called “Raw.” The former Baywatch star and model from Ladysmith, B.C., can’t vote in Canada because she’s lived outside the country for more than five …

Suspects are believed to be at large after five people were injured in two stabbing incidents in the early morning hours, police said Saturday. Toronto paramedics were called to a plaza just north of Markham and Ellesmere Rds. at 2:01 a.m. after reports of a stabbing. Paramedics rushed one man, believed to be in his 30s, to a trauma centre …

The highly charged issue of face coverings worn by would-be Canadians at citizenship ceremonies was thrust into the election campaign when the Conservatives challenged a recent court decision quashing the so-called niqab ban. On Wednesday the government announced its plans to appeal yet another court decision that tosses out the ban on face veils from citizenship oath ceremonies. Earlier in …

A South Porcupine OPP officer was arrested Sept. 17 after an investigation by the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Professional Standards Bureau (PSB) into misappropriation of funds. The charges resulted from an investigation by the OPP Professional Standards Bureau into misappropriation of fund, but OPP are not saying who made the complaint, whether the charges are related to the officer’s job …

A male motorcyclist has died in hospital following a collision with a TTC streetcar in Toronto’s east-end Friday morning. Toronto Paramedics said they were called to the scene, at Queen Street East and Hiltz Avenue at 6:10 a.m., for a report of a collision involving a motorcycle. Firefighters performed CPR on the man before he was taken to hospital, paramedics …

A 21-year-old woman has been reported missing to Kings County RCMP. According to the Nova Scotia RCMP, Samantha Frost was reported missing Sept. 15, but was last heard from Aug. 3 when a Facebook post said she was at a music festival in Toronto. Frost was reported missing on Sept. 15 and RCMP have been looking for her since.

The body of Truro, N.S., police Const. Catherine Campbell, who had been missing since Sept. 10, has been found, and Halifax Regional Police are treating the death as a homicide. Constable Catherine Campbell with the Truro Police Service was found dead in a wooded area east of Barrington Street at North Street in Halifax.

The most wanted bank robber in Canada has been placed under arrest in Geneva. The French-American citizen, nicknamed “The Vaulter”‘ but not identified by name, had been sought under an international arrest warrant issued by Canada in connection with 22 bank robberies over the last five years.

The pilot diverted a Tel Aviv-Toronto flight after a heater in the cargo hold malfunctioned and the dog was at risk for freezing. Simba, a 7-year-old French bulldog, was traveling in the cargo hold on a recent Air Canada flight from Tel Aviv to Toronto when a problem occurred threatening him and him alone. The normally climate-controlled compartment in which …