Canada

Canada’s air and ground mission battling Islamic State extremists in Iraq has cost $122 million so far, new figures show.

Three people are dead and one person was airlifted to hospital after a single vehicle accident south of Edmonton on the QEII Highway. At about 10:40 RCMP got a 911 call about a crash in the southbound lanes of Highway 2 south of Edmonton.

A 65-year-old female pedestrian has been pronounced dead on scene after being struck by a vehicle in Scarborough, paramedics say. The incident occurred at Kennedy Road and McNicoll Avenue around 6:45 a.m. on Monday.

Luka Magnotta’s $376K repatriation supported by top government officials The low-budget porn actor and stripper fled to Europe after the brutal Montreal killing and dismemberment of 33-year-old university student Jun Lin.

In what authorities are describing as the largest Ponzi scheme in Canadian history, a Calgary jury has found two men guilty of taking funds from new investors and using them to pay old ones.

Homicide investigators are probing the suspicious death of a three-year-old girl in Surrey. IHIT spokeswoman Sgt. Stephanie Ashton said Surrey RCMP were first called Wednesday when the toddler was rushed to hospital from a home in the 5800 block 182nd Street.

Police in Canada foil Valentine’s Day mall shooting plot, According to the authorities, at least two of the detainees, including a teenager, had planned “to go to a public venue… with a goal of opening fire to kill citizens, and then themselves.” A fourth suspect was also found dead in a suburb of Halifax, according to the police sources.

A Hamilton man is facing charges of unlawfully wearing a military uniform after appearances at local citizenship swearing-in ceremonies.

Calgary police have confirmed the case of a woman being found in a backyard in Whitehorn Thursday is the city’s fifth murder of the year. They have identified the victim as 31-year-old Dawn Echoes Baptiste of Calgary, but she had no fixed address.

Surete du Quebec investigators are on the scene in Vaudreuil-Dorion where a seven year old girl was found dead last evening. According to Sgt. Ronald McInnis, the mother was the one who attacked the little girl, possibly with a knife, and then hurt herself.

Toronto police are investigating a shooting in the city’s east end where a man was shot in the face. It happened at Gower Street and Dawes Road in the area of St Clair and Victoria Park avenues at around 8:50 a.m.