As Canada mourns 15 killed in road crash, investigators review video footage
Ottawa, CanadaReuters Flags flew lowered in the Canadian province of Manitoba on Friday following a deadly crash between a bus carrying mostly elderly passengers and a truck, as investigators identified the injured and reviewed video footage from a camera mounted on the truck. Fifteen people were killed and another 11 people were injured in the […]
Inquiry into Canada’s worst mass shooting criticises police, urges reform
Ottawa, Canada Reuters Officials tasked with reviewing Canada’s worst mass shooting called for sweeping police reforms, stricter gun safety regulations and better public communication on Thursday after an investigation found many shortcomings in authorities’ response to the 2020 incident. In April, 2020, 51-year-old Gabriel Wortman, disguised in a police uniform and driving a fake police […]
StrangeSights: Nazi map sparks Netherlands treasure hunt; 911 calls that “missed the mark” in Canada; and, ‘Mermaid dog’ rescued in Chile
DAVID ADAMS provides a round-up of some stories on the odder side of life…
Border-crossing asylum-seekers hit six-year high in Canada
Toronto, CanadaReuters The number of asylum-seekers entering Canada between formal border crossings has surged to the highest point since the government started tracking them in 2017, as dropped pandemic restrictions enable more travel and conflict and catastrophe displace people in many parts of the world. In the first eight months of 2022, Royal Canadian Mounted […]
Updated: Suspect in Canada stabbing spree dies of apparently self-inflicted wounds – report
Updated: 12:15pm (AEST)Saskatoon, SaskatchewanReuters The suspect sought by Canadian authorities in a weekend stabbing spree that killed 10 people in and around an Indigenous reserve in Saskatchewan died on Wednesday, apparently of self-inflicted injuries, shortly after his arrest, Canada’s Global News agency reported. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said earlier that Myles Sanderson, 30, was […]
Updated: Canada stabbing spree suspects on the loose after 10 killed, 15 wounded
Updated: 12:20pm (AEST)Weldon, Saskatchewan, CanadaReuters Canadian police hunted for two suspects in a stabbing spree that killed 10 people and wounded at least 15 others mostly in a sparsely populated Indigenous community early Sunday. The stabbings across 13 crime scenes were among the deadliest mass killings in modern Canadian history and certain to reverberate throughout […]
Cross border smuggling: In fighting gun crime, Canada has an American problem
STEVE SCHERER and ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY, of Reuters, report on the cross-border trade in illegal guns…
Retired priest, 92, charged with indecent assault after Canadian residential school probe
Reuters A retired priest has been charged with indecent assault following a decade-long investigation into a residential school in Manitoba, Canadian police said on Friday. Arthur Masse, 92, was arrested and charged on Thursday with a single charge of indecent assault on a 10-year-old girl at Fort Alexander Residential School in Manitoba. A Royal Canadian […]
Fires destroy two churches on Canadian Indigenous reserves
Oliver, British Columbia, Canada AP Two Roman Catholic churches on First Nations reserves in British Columbia have burned to the ground in overnight fires, Canada’s national police force said Monday. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said a patrol officer saw fire come from the Sacred Heart Church on the Penticton Indian Band reserve early Monday […]