Canada

Toronto’s mayor made his first public appearance Friday night since undergoing chemotherapy for a rare and aggressive form of cancer. Just days after being released from hospital, Rob Ford returned to the campaign trail canvasing door to door in Etobicoke.

A Canadian man allegedly caught with 51 live turtles stuffed down his pants as he tried to re-enter Canada from the U.S. was denied bail in Detroit on Friday.

Matthew de Grood, the man accused of stabbing five people to death in Brentwood in April is expected back in court on Friday.

Police in St. John’s say they now have a suspect in custody in connection with the stabbing of a boy, believed to be 11, at a soccer field in Topsail on Thursday evening.

A young Siberian Tiger shipped from The Calgary Zoo to Winnipeg earlier this year, has killed another tiger at the Assiniboine Park Zoo.

Tina Fontaine, the Manitoba girl whose murder sparked renewed calls for a national inquiry into missing and murdered aboriginal women, encountered multiple first responders the day before she disappeared. Details continue to emerge about the 15-year-old’s last known hours on Aug. 8, nine days before her body was found in a bag pulled from Winnipeg’s Red River. According to police …

Ontario Provincial Police have charged 60 people in a massive child-porn investigation. Police are providing an update on the “massive” province-wide probe that targeted Internet child exploitation.

Two police officers stopped a car in which Tina Fontaine was a passenger on the last day the teenager was seen alive, CTV News is reporting.

A local teacher has been suspended two weeks for a homophobic prank on a student. In September 2013, Daniel Ogloff, a teacher at Aldergrove Community Secondary School, placed the tape on the back of a Grade 11 male student without his knowledge, reads a discipline decision from the British Columbia Commissioner for Teacher Regulation.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper says Canada is “weighing our response” to a U.S. letter asking for more help in the fight against Islamic State militants in the Middle East. But any military action against extremists in Iraq and Syria would have to be debated by the government first, Harper said Wednesday.

Federal officials are trying to confirm whether a 20-yearold man from Hamilton, Ont., was killed last week during clashes between Kurdish forces and Islamic State fighters in northern Syria.