Canada

The trucker involved in the crash that shut down the Burlington Skyway over the August long weekend will appear in court again today. 34 year old Sukhvinder Singh Rai of Brampton is charged with impaired driving and having a blood alcohol level over 80 milligrams.

The teenager accused of stabbing a young boy at a soccer field in Topsail last week has been remanded into custody to undergo further psychiatric assessment.

Three people are dead after shootings 250 kilometers southeast of Edmonton near the village of Consort.

Two people are facing drug charges after police seized about 120 pounds of marijuana, that was being transported to Alberta from B.C., from two vehicles in a northwest parking lot.

Canada plans to launch airstrikes against ISIS in Iraq following a U.S. request, a senior government official said. Prime Minister Stephen Harper was set to announce details later Friday.

Luka Magnotta was caught on video calmly leading an animated Jun Lin” into his apartment building hours before Lin was murdered and cut to pieces. Later, Magnotta is later seen wearing Lin’s shirt while leaving the building. Other clips played Thursday at Magnotta’s murder trial show him disposing of garbage bags and lugging away a heavy travel bag.

Employment Minister Jason Kenney says the Conservative government will not rethink its controversial changes to the temporary foreign worker program, and instead called on employers who are “freeloading” on the public system to start training workers to fill the skills gap.

MP Dean Del Mastro’s cousin was charged on Thursday with allegedly violating the Elections Act by funnelling money to the Peterborough MP’s 2008 campaign through employees of a Mississauga electrical company.

There’s a big winning ticket in Lotto 6/49 that was sold in Nova Scotia. A ticket worth $13.8 million in Wednesday’s draw was sold in Bridgewater.

It’s being hailed as the largest illegal steroid seizure ever by a Canadian policing agency. The Alberta Law Enforcement Response Team says 350,000 pills, 10,000 vials and more than three-dozen types of chemical precursors and additives were seized in Edmonton.

Lin Jun’s Chinese lover left Montreal for the summer on May 13, 2012, just days before the Concordia University student was killed and dismembered by Luka Magnotta. The last text Feng Lin received from his boyfriend was at about noon on May 25 in China, or around midnight the previous day in Montreal. He replied, but never received an answer, …