Canada

A motorcyclist is in hospital after a noon-hour crash in the southwest. EMS officials say the motorcycle collided with black Mercedes at about twelve o’clock at the intersection of Bow Trail and 45th Street.

At least one man appears to have been arrested in an early morning raid on a home in east Hamilton.

Erwin Thomas Speckert was charged with possession of proceeds of crime, trafficking of proceeds of crime and money laundering after he was stopped at the Winnipeg bus terminal with $1.3 million in cash in a backpack.

A 12-year-old boy has died after a stabbing downtown. Police said the boy was stabbed in the neck at the Cambridge Suites Hotel, located on Richmond Street East near Victoria Street, shortly before 6 a.m. on Wednesday.

Former Quebec premier and well-known sovereigntist Jacques Parizeau has died at the age of 84. Jacques Parizeau led Quebec in the year leading up to the 1995 sovereignty referendum that was defeated by the narrowest of margins, 50.58% to 49.42%.

An 11-year-old Winnipeg girl who is in desperate need of a liver transplant is in Toronto awaiting surgery, her family says.

A black bear that was cornered in a Newmarket residential neighbourhood has been shot and killed, York regional police said.

Police say three people are dead after a driver they believe was impaired struck a group of cyclists on a highway 50 kilometres northeast of Whistler.

Police say they have found the body of a man who went missing in Brampton’s Professors Lake after he entered the water to help his daughter.

No one in Ottawa is $1 million richer this morning. Fifty MaxMillions prizes of a million dollars each were available in last night’s draw, and winning tickets were sold for 21 of them.

A 70-year-old woman has died following a head on collision south of Wroxeter in Huron County. Huron County OPP, along with members of the Brussels Fire Department and Huron County EMS, responded to the scene of a two vehicle crash on Brussels Line (County Road #12) between C Line Road and Gough Road shortly after 4:30p.m. Thursday afternoon.