Canada

Rinelle Harper has been discharged from the hospital after a vicious attack that thrust the 16-year-old into the spotlight and shook Winnipeg anew.

A 31-year-old prisoner is accused of helping another inmate escape custody last week at the Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility in Burnside.

Gunman Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, who was shot dead in the Centre Block of Parliament Hill Oct. 22 after killing a soldier, toured the building as an ordinary member of the public more than two weeks before his rampage, the Citizen has learned.

Philip Boudreau’s death was murder for lobster, not a lapse of judgment, a Nova Scotia court was told Thursday.

As Rinelle Harper recovers in hospital, after surviving not one but two vicious attacks allegedly intended to leave her dead on the shores of a Winnipeg river, one word has risen to the surface in the vocal and emotional fallout: community. The concept of “community” was echoed again and again on Thursday as her family spoke publicly about the dangers …

In Longueuil, a preliminary hearing is underway for 27- year-old Nikolas Stefanatos. He is accused of throwing acid in his girlfriend’s face.

The hunt is on for a man who tried to record cellphone images of a woman in a restroom stall at a fast food restaurant in Oshawa on Remembrance Day.

Police have arrested an 18-year-old man in connection with a deadly stabbing outside Canada’s Wonderland last month.

A Vancouver dog walker, who first reported six dogs had been stolen from her vehicle but then said that the dogs died of heat exhaustion, pleaded guilty to two charges — animal cruelty and mischief.

Allegations that someone was posing as a Canadian soldier have lit up social media ­– with actual soldiers, past and present, rushing to condemn a man identified as Sgt. Franck Gervais.

Two men have been charged with attempted murder in the serious assault and dumping in the river of a 16-year-old girl last Friday. Justin James Hudson, 20, and a 17-year-old male were arrested on Nov. 11, and charged with attempted murder, aggravated sexual assault, and sexual assault with a weapon.