Canada

A new study from the Fraser Institute puts the price tag to round up and incarcerate criminals above $85 billion a year in Canada.

Natural Resources Canada confirms an earthquake measuring 2.7 on the Richter scale rattled the region at 5:42 p.m. It happened 4 km WSW of Banff, and 20 km WNW of Canmore.

Luka Magnotta sat bent over in the prisoner’s box, holding his head between his legs, as the video of him viciously mutilating Lin Jun’s naked body was played Thursday in Quebec Superior Court.

Surveillance video presented in court shows the panic and bloodshed of the 2012 Eaton Centre shootings, when Christopher Husbands opened fire in the food court of Toronto’s biggest downtown mall.

The B.C. Coroners Service is investigating the death of a man at the Oppenheimer Park “tent city” in East Vancouver.

Shoeboxes are now available for Operation Christmas Child – a popular program to support underprivileged youth around the world. Donors will pick up a shoebox from the Estevan Alliance Church, or supply a box of their own. They will mark whether the container is for a boy or a girl, and the age group of the recipient.

The Saskatchewan government has followed through on a pledge from earlier this year, and has publicly posted the summer travel expenses of all its cabinet ministers, and their staff.

An underground explosion and fire on Saturday knocked out power to thousands of residents and a number of businesses in the downtown core and officials say it will be a few more days before it can be restored.

Suspended senator Patrick Brazeau will spend at least two months in a drug and alcohol rehabilitation centre while awaiting trial on alcohol-related charges. Brazeau looked relaxed in a Gatineau court and even smiled slightly as he accepted the deal worked out Tuesday between defence and prosecution lawyers.

Tampered potatoes from P.E.I. have reached other parts of Atlantic Canada. Over the last few days, police received three reports of tampered potatoes, one in Neil’s Harbour, Nova Scotia, one in Musgrave Harbour, Newfoundland and one in Chance Cove, Newfoundland.

Vancouver police officers will wear body-mounted cameras for the first time Wednesday night while helping to evict campers from Oppenheimer Park. The campers have been given until 10 p.m. to clear out, and Police Chief Jim Chu said officers will be watching when city workers start removing any tents and structures left after the deadline.