Canada

The Burlington teacher who’s been trapped behind bars in Indonesia for months, accused of sexual abuse at a school in Jakarta, will now have his case heard in court. Neil Bantleman’s indictment will be read on Tuesday.

Four men wearing bandanas and wielding guns stormed a Cole Harbour home and opened fire Sunday night, shooting three people and sparking a manhunt. The three victims, two men and a woman, were transported to hospital, police said. Two of them are in serious condition.

A Canadian-Israeli woman who has joined the ranks of the Kurdish militias fighting Islamic State in northern Syria has been taken captive by ISIS fighters, blogs and Islamist websites thought to be close to the militant group reported.

Homicide detectives are investigating after three people were found dead in an apartment in Toronto’s Thorncliffe Park neighbourhood on Saturday. Toronto Paramedics said they responded to a call at 85 Thorncliffe Dr. at 4:41 p.m. and found three deceased inside. Paramedics said police then took over the scene.

Metro Vancouver and B.C.’s South Coast woke up to snow in the ground for the first time this season. About two to five centimetres of the white stuff fell in the Vancouver area. A multi-vehicle crash closed the eastbound lanes on the Trans-Canada Highway near Gaglardi Way in Burnaby on Saturday morning, backing up traffic.

A 13-year-old girl is in hospital after she was struck by two vehicles in different directions while jaywalking in North Vancouver.

Const. Taylor Robinson, a Vancouver police officer, has been given a six-day unpaid suspension for pushing a woman to the ground in the city’s Downtown Eastside in June 2010.

2 brothers accused in a brutal sexual assault and kidnapping of a teenage girl will remain behind bars for at least another week. And a third man is now involved , the father of the accused.

Rinelle Harper case : Crown prosecutors in Manitoba say they will be seeking an adult sentence if a youth charged with attacking a 16-year-old girl and leaving her to die by a river is convicted.

Ezra Levant makes his living saying things most people would never say. Now he’s going to have to pay for it. On Thursday, Ontario Superior Court Judge Wendy Matheson ruled that Levant libelled former law student Khurrum Awan and must pay him $80,000 in damages, according to National Post reporter Joseph Brean. Awan had sought $100,000 in damages.

Police in Vaughan, Ont., have released a video showing a 14-year-old boy being head-butted by an unruly wedding guest.