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An elite Montreal private school has been hit by another sex scandal after the school said one of its teachers has been arrested in the U.S. on child pornography charges and for the online solicitation of a 13-year-old boy.
VANCOUVER - A Vancouver police officer gets eight hours of training before being issued a Taser and the manual they use makes no distinction between people who are holding a passive protest and those resisting arrest
Maxime Bernier may face some uncomfortable questions Thursday after widely published reports surfaced that a former girlfriend's past included alleged ties to a biker gang.
WINNIPEG -- Two 17-year-olds have been sentenced to two years supervised probation for their part in a fatal mob attack that saw a man beaten with an axe, baseball bat and hockey stick.
Punk driver mowes down young woman and gives her life sentence as vegetable. Remorseless s.o.b. has gall and audacity to appeal his plea-bargain, 3-month jail sentence.
NEW ORLEANS - The way the warden sees it, the more than 400-pound black bear living in the middle of the sprawling Louisiana State Penitentiary is an extra layer of security.
Alberta's Court of Appeal reserved decision Friday on whether the widow of a slain Mountie is free to move her husband's remains from a northern Alberta cemetery.
NORTH HERO, Vt. -- A judge says the Montreal woman accused of drowning her eight-year-old son in Lake Champlain will be confined to the Vermont State Hospital
The 24-year-old father of two little girls who froze to death at a Saskatchewan reserve in late January has been arrested and charged by police, according to the girls' mother.
MONTREAL - A preteen girl was clueless during years of sexual abuse by the leader of a fringe Christian church that he had claimed her as his wife, a Quebec court heard Thursday
Two reserve soldiers who pleaded guilty to killing a man in a downtown Toronto park in 2005 have been sentenced to a total of more than 15 years in jail.
A provincial court judge has sentenced Nickelback front man Chad Kroeger to a one-year driving ban and a $600 fine on Thursday after he was convicted of drunk driving.
A Taser failed to subdue a teenager who pulled a knife on Calgary police and bit an officer, said police.
The 911 centre received an emergency call from a home on Hubalta Road S.E. on Wednesday night, but the caller hung up without saying anything. Whe
An elderly grandmother has been charged in the bizarre slaying of her husband, whose body was found stuffed inside an incinerator on a Spruce Grove-area acreage. Anne Semenovich, 71, faces charges of first-degree murder and interfering with human remains.
Defence lawyer Lt.-Cmdr. William Kuebler argued three months ago that prosecuting Khadr contravenes international law, including the Child Soldier Protocol signed by the United States.
Federal prisons were supposed to go completely smoke-free on Wednesday, but Correctional Service of Canada has decided to instead phase its smoking ban in gradually.
Omar Khadr's lawyer made a forceful plea before a federal subcommittee Tuesday, asking Ottawa to help get his Canadian client out of a U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Breaches of bail conditions and the fears of a woman who told police her abusive husband threatened to kill her and her family were not enough to result in the man's arrest in the weeks prior to a bloody five-person murder-suicide inside an Oak Bay home
WINNIPEG -- A 16-year-old passenger in a stolen truck laughed and joked about a collision that killed city cab driver Antonio Lanzelotti, telling police "he had to die sometime anyway," a judge was told yesterday.
VICTORIA -- A coroner's jury watched a chilling video Monday in which a terrified woman told police how she was worried her husband's anger, violence and his fixation with knives could eventually lead him to harm his family.
Another speeder has felt the wrath of Essex OPP -- and this time the driver is Californian.
OPP said the U.S. woman's Mercedes Benz was clocked at a speed of 140 km/h heading west on Highway 401 just before 10:30 p.m. Sunday.
An elite Montreal private school has been hit by another sex scandal after the school said one of its teachers has been arrested in the U.S. on child pornography charges and for the online solicitation of a 13-year-old boy.
VANCOUVER - A Vancouver police officer gets eight hours of training before being issued a Taser and the manual they use makes no distinction between people who are holding a passive protest and those resisting arrest
An elderly man in Kamloops, B.C., was zapped three times on the torso by a police Taser while lying on his hospital bed, CBC News has learned.
The actor was featured in TV ads for Alexander Keith's India Pale Ale that were taken off the air after his arrest on Feb. 14, 2006.
The network puts the price tag at $82,727 to be exact.
NEW ORLEANS - The way the warden sees it, the more than 400-pound black bear living in the middle of the sprawling Louisiana State Penitentiary is an extra layer of security.
Alberta's Court of Appeal reserved decision Friday on whether the widow of a slain Mountie is free to move her husband's remains from a northern Alberta cemetery.
NORTH HERO, Vt. -- A judge says the Montreal woman accused of drowning her eight-year-old son in Lake Champlain will be confined to the Vermont State Hospital
BRANTFORD, Ont. - A 17-year-old boy has been charged with assault with a weapon following an alleged stick-swinging incident
The mother of Abbygail Dice, the St. Thomas infant who hasn’t been seen in seven months, has been charged in the tot’s disappearance.
The 24-year-old father of two little girls who froze to death at a Saskatchewan reserve in late January has been arrested and charged by police, according to the girls' mother.
MONTREAL - A preteen girl was clueless during years of sexual abuse by the leader of a fringe Christian church that he had claimed her as his wife, a Quebec court heard Thursday
Two reserve soldiers who pleaded guilty to killing a man in a downtown Toronto park in 2005 have been sentenced to a total of more than 15 years in jail.
A provincial court judge has sentenced Nickelback front man Chad Kroeger to a one-year driving ban and a $600 fine on Thursday after he was convicted of drunk driving.
A court hearing will be held next week to determine what will happen with a ship seized after a protest against Canada's East Coast seal hunt
A Taser failed to subdue a teenager who pulled a knife on Calgary police and bit an officer, said police.
The 911 centre received an emergency call from a home on Hubalta Road S.E. on Wednesday night, but the caller hung up without saying anything. Whe
Brenda Martin has agreed to serve a five-year sentence in a Canadian prison - but she's counting on a shot at immediate parole.
Defence lawyer Lt.-Cmdr. William Kuebler argued three months ago that prosecuting Khadr contravenes international law, including the Child Soldier Protocol signed by the United States.
Federal prisons were supposed to go completely smoke-free on Wednesday, but Correctional Service of Canada has decided to instead phase its smoking ban in gradually.
Omar Khadr's lawyer made a forceful plea before a federal subcommittee Tuesday, asking Ottawa to help get his Canadian client out of a U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
VICTORIA -- A coroner's jury watched a chilling video Monday in which a terrified woman told police how she was worried her husband's anger, violence and his fixation with knives could eventually lead him to harm his family.
Another speeder has felt the wrath of Essex OPP -- and this time the driver is Californian.
OPP said the U.S. woman's Mercedes Benz was clocked at a speed of 140 km/h heading west on Highway 401 just before 10:30 p.m. Sunday.