Canada

A Montreal businessman famous for selling vintage eyewear to celebrities around the world says he’s tired of being taken for a criminal by Montreal police because he’s driving a new gold plated car.

The Crown is seeking a sentence of 10 to 12 years in prison for a woman who admitting to administering illegal buttock injections that left some victims disfigured.

Six former students of Montreal’s College de Maisonneuve CEGEP have left Canada and are believed to be in Syria fighting with ISIS. The four men and two women from Laval and Montreal departed from Canada for Turkey in mid-January and are believed to have continued on to Syria.

A Muslim woman was told flat-out by a Quebec court judge that her case wouldn’t be heard if she insisted on wearing her hijab in court. Rania El-Alloul had gone to court to get her car back after it had been seized after her son was recently caught driving it with a suspended licence.

The father of one of the young men who pleaded guilty in the Rehtaeh Parsons case was arrested and questioned regarding online comments allegedly made about the case. Military police questioned the Canadian Armed Forces member in Halifax in relation to the unauthorized use of a government computer. Maj. Yves Desbiens, a department spokesman, said no charges have been laid, …

A Vancouver Island man involved in a solo car crash last month managed to take a “selfie” video of himself during the rescue, which involved the use of the Jaws of Life to extricate him from the wreckage.

Toronto police are investigating the death of a man near Eglinton Avenue and Laird Drive that they’re calling “suspicious.”

Four children lost their lives after a blaze ripped through a home near Kane, Manitoba on Wednesday.

The Mounties are seeking a peace bond for a 22-year-old former kickboxing champion from Montreal, citing a section of the law designed to combat terrorism.

An explosion in northwest Regina sent three to hospital with serious injuries Tuesday night. Fire marshal Randy Ryba says all three were inside the home when the blast occurred, blowing out the west wall and littering the yard with glass and wood.

The Queen Elizabeth Way was opened after being shut down on Wednesday morning. At around 4 a.m., a transformer fire hit a hydro pole, causing wires to hang low, said Staff Sergeant Stephanie Jamieson of Halton Regional Police.