Canada

An OPP officer shot at a suspect who had just punched a uniformed Ottawa police officer in the face during a Saturday afternoon traffic stop on Bank Street. The suspect was not hit by the bullet, but he was later Tasered, cuffed and taken from the scene in an ambulance.

A man, described as a “person of interest” by police, was in custody Saturday afternoon following a threat received regarding a Westjet flight from Kelowna to Calgary scheduled to leave YLW later that day. The airport received a call threatening a specific plane shortly after noon. The threat was to a plane that had arrived from Edmonton and was scheduled …

Parks Canada officials say a grizzly bear has been spotted in and around the Banff townsite recently and are advising residents and visitors to be cautious. The bear has been seen in a number of yards, streets and alleys looking for food and has come in close proximity to people several times.

An Edmonton teenager was killed on Highway 63 after his SUV slammed into a semi truck heading in the other direction Friday morning. Police say the 18-year-old`s vehicle was just south of Wandering River when it crossed the centre line and hit the tractor trailer.

The provincial government took steps October 23 to smooth over relations with the Tsilhqot’in First Nation, which hold the keys to a number of economic development projects in the Williams Lake region, with a formal apology over the execution of six war chiefs in the 1860s. “Today marks a significant step toward reconciliation with the Tsilhqot’in Nation, and to a …

Halifax Regional Police now say the 25-year-old man who was arrested after a firearm was found on a Halifax Transit bus Thursday morning is not connected to an earlier call about someone carrying a rifle in the downtown.

A woman charged with concealing the remains of six infants in a Winnipeg storage locker made her first court appearance on Thursday. A day after Andrea Giesbrecht, 40, was arrested outside her home in the north-end of Winnipeg, she appeared in court via video conference.

Two young adults are dead after a collision that has closed the Lincoln Alexander Parkway. Four cars were involved in the collision just after 2 pm in the west-bound lanes of the Linc at Garth Street.

The suspect believed responsible for shooting and killing a Parliament Hill soldier Wednesday was convicted in relation to a 2011 robbery that took place in Vancouver.

The soldier who was shot and killed by the Ottawa gunman has been named by police as Cpl Nathan Cirillo. Cirillo, 24 years old, was a soldier reservist serving in Hamilton, Ontario as a corporal in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada regiment.

Winnipeg police have arrested Andrea Giesbrecht, also known as Andrea Naworynski, after babies’ remains were found in a storage locker on McPhillips. Officers charged Giesbrecht with six counts of concealing the body of a child, along with breach of probation.