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Halton Regional Police are investigating after a woman fell off a cliff at Rattlesnake Point in Milton Sunday night. Emergency crews were called to Rattlesnake Point just off Appleby Line shortly after 9 p.m. Police say the woman was out with friends when she fell roughly 21 metres (70 feet) from the trail.

The SPCA is investigating after an injured dog was found buried alive in the Monteregie Tuesday. The Montérégie SPCA said in a Facebook post that the dog, a Boxer mix, was extremely dehydrated when it was first brought in for care on Tuesday and couldn’t even lift its head. The SPCA said that the dog appeared to be in stable …

A 49-year-old woman from Lethbridge has been charged with uttering threats for social media posts she made regarding the federal government and the prime minister’s wife. RCMP in Calgary received information about the online threats on May 11 and officers were able to identify the social media account where the posts originated. The next day, police tracked down the account …

A man quickly rescued a little girl after a sea lion grabbed the back of the child’s dress and yanked her off a dock in a Vancouver, British Columbia suburb. In the viral video, posted to YouTube by Richmond resident Michael Fujiwara, the California sea lion swims up to Steveston Fisherman’s Wharf in Richmond, a Vancouver suburb, then approaches a …

OPP say a female pedestrian was struck and killed by a commercial vehicle in Hamilton Tuesday afternoon. All eastbound and westbound lanes of Highway 403 in Hamilton were shut down after a woman was hit and killed by a transport truck in the eastbound lanes near Aberdeen avenue just after 4 pm.

Four people are dead after the car they were travelling in burst into flames early Thursday following a multi-vehicle crash on Highway 401 near Joyceville in the Kingston area. At approximately 1:25 a.m. emergency services were called to the westbound lanes just west of Joyceville Road, says an Ontario Provincial Police news release. The crash involved seven vehicles including four …

A man has been taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries after being shot in Scarborough on Wednesday. Shortly after 5 p.m., officers received reports of people shooting at each other from two vehicles near Warden and Sherwood avenues, south of Lawrence. When officers arrived they found an abandoned vehicle as well as some blood inside.

A toronto has been accused of killing a Mexican woman who was slain in a hotel room at a Cancun resort last month. Gabriela Janeth Jaramillo, 24, of Saltillo, Coahuila, was beaten to death in a room at the Gran Caribe in Cancun on April 22, according to local news reports. Local media are also reporting that the suspect in …

An Atlanta man and his Toronto girlfriend who had been missing for days in Belize, have been found dead. Drew DeVoursney, 36, and girlfriend Francesca Matus, 52, were expected to return Friday. According to Breaking Belize News, the bodies were found Monday evening in Corozal District, near the border with Mexico. “They were both found … they are dead,” says …

A three-year-old boy has died after a house fire broke out in a row of semidetached homes in Hamilton on Monday morning. Firefighters were called to a semi-detached house at 240 Golden Orchard Dr. shortly after 10 a.m. Crews arrived to find flames shooting from the basement window and were told a young child was still inside the house. Hamilton …

The Canadian Armed Forces confirms one soldier has died in “a vehicle accident” during a training exercise in Wainwright. Three other soldiers were injured, and were taken to hospital for treatment. The extent of their injuries is unknown at this time. The federal department says Sergeant Robert Dynerowicz, a member of the Royal Canadian Dragoons, died in a vehicular accident …