Canada

The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team has arrested the mother of a young child found dead inside a vehicle in Surrey Wednesday.

A 200-metre stretch of Locarno Beach, between Jericho Beach and Spanish Banks, near Sasamat Street in the Vancouver Westside has been sandbagged to protect low-lying homes near the water from flooding.

An Ohio man has been sentenced to 22 years in jail after he was caught by a Toronto dad posing as a preteen girl. Cliff Ford helped U.S. authorities bust an online child exploitation ring after his 12-year-old daughter received an email from a stranger.

Bernard Valcourt, Minister of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development, issued the following statement today on the First Nations Financial Transparency Act: “First Nations, like all Canadians, deserve transparency and accountability from their elected leaders. That is why we passed the First Nations Financial Transparency Act (FNFTA) which empowers First Nation members to ensure band revenues areused for the benefit of …

A 38-year-old Calgary man has been charged with second degree murder in connection with the death of his common-law wife who was reported missing in 2012. In a release on Saturday, Calgary police said they had taken Allan Shyback into custody after human remains were found inside a southeast Calgary home.

A chilling propaganda video has emerged containing a dire warning to Canadians from an Ottawa man who claims to be fighting alongside ISIS militants. Dressed in the garb of the mujahideen, John Maguire, who does not appear to be reading from script, spews extremist rhetoric through a six-minute video posted to YouTube — and later taken down — and linked …

A bull moose was shot and killed behind a northeast Calgary home Friday morning after it turned on the officers that were trying to subdue it with a tranquilizer dart. Calgary Police officers and officials with Alberta Fish and Wildlife tracked the animal as it strolled through the parking lot of Marlborough Mall, where it had sought refuge from morning …

A worker has been killed in a collision at the Horizon Oil Sands mine north of Fort McMurray early Friday morning, the third workplace fatality in northern Alberta this week.

Justin Bourque’s videotaped confession to murdering three RCMP officers and an audio clip of a wounded officer screaming for help after she was shot are among more than 100 pieces of evidence that must be made public, a New Brunswick judge has ordered.

Toronto police have two young offenders in custody on charges of abduction, robbery, and lesser offences after a woman and her baby were allegedly attacked in Scarborough. The incident happened around 11pm Thursday in the neighbourhoood of Guildwood Parkway and Livingston Road. A 14-year-old boy and 12-year-old girl are accused of trying to abduct the infant while robbing the woman.

A jury has found former Toronto pastor Philip Grandine guilty of manslaughter in the 2011 drowning of his pregnant wife. Grandine had been on trial for first-degree murder. His wife, Anna Karissa Grandine, 29, was found in the bathtub of their Scarborough bungalow in October 2011.