Canada

The Surrey Police Service will officially take over from the RCMP in the city on Nov. 29, the province has announced. Public Safety Minister and Solicitor General Mike Farnworth confirmed the date for the switch on Tuesday, after promising to give a firm timeline for the transfer of jurisdiction. “This date was identified after…

A Montreal-area woman is asking Canadian authorities to help locate her father's body in Cuba after a devastating mix-up that saw her family receive a stranger's remains instead. Funeral services for Miriam Jarjour's father, Faraj Allah Jarjour, were supposed to happen Sunday and Monday. But instead of laying her father to…

Multiple agencies are conducting a search for two men who went missing while kayaking near Central Saanich on Saturday. Sidney/North Saanich RCMP say the two men were kayaking between Island View Beach and D’Arcy Island on April 20 and have not returned. Daniel MacAlpine and Nicolas West were last known to be kayaking from D’Arcy Island to…

FREDERICTON - A wrongfully convicted New Brunswick man who spent decades trying to clear his name before being declared innocent by a judge in January has died at the age of 80. Innocence Canada, the organization that led the legal fight to exonerate Walter Gillespie and his friend Robert Mailman of their 1984 murder…

The head of the TTC is warning of possible impacts to service on Monday if the union representing a group of more than 650 electrical and trades workers moves ahead with a strike. CUPE Local 2, which represents 661 communications, electrical and signal workers at the TTC, has set a strike deadline of 12:01 a.m. on April 22.…

Cabinet minister Dominic LeBlanc says he plans to run in the next election as a candidate under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's leadership, amid questions about his rumoured interest in succeeding his longtime friend for the top job. Asked if he planned to run for Liberal leader, in the event the position opened up, he said…

Advocacy groups across Canada are expressing widespread disappointment about the amount of funding earmarked in the 2024 federal budget for the long-awaited Canada Disability Benefit. On Tuesday, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland revealed that the Liberals were finally ready to roll out funding for…

Ontario Provincial Police are investigating the theft of "several thousand" dollars worth of tropical fish stolen from an Upper Ottawa Valley restaurant last week. OPP say a break and enter was reported to police at a restaurant in the Town of Beachburg in the early morning hours of April 11. Beachburg is located about 25…

The union representing more than 10,000 transit workers in Toronto says it has taken the "first step toward strike action" as contract talks with the TTC stall. On Monday morning, the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 113 said it has applied to the Ministry of Labour to request that a conciliator be appointed. “Our…

Toronto firefighters say they needed to use an inflatable raft to rescue three people from a vehicle after it rolled over into a ditch Sunday morning. The incident happened near the interchange of Highways 400 and 401 at around 5 a.m., prompting a brief shutdown of the northbound Highway 400 on-ramp to Highway 401. A Toronto Fire…