6 h. ago RCMP probing death of woman on international flight diverted to Yellowknife

YELLOWKNIFE — RCMP in the Northwest Territories are investigating after the death of a passenger on an international flight that had to be diverted to Yellowknife. Mounties say they were told Sunday morning that Flight KLM601 landed at Yellowknife Airport because a passenger had become unresponsive. Police say a 34-year-old woman died in hospital, but […]

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6 d. ago Quebec Chinese community members want answers after RCMP ends ’police station’ probe

The RCMP announced in early 2023 that they were investigating two Montreal-area non-profit organizations for allegedly hosting secret Chinese government police stations.

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7 d. ago Manslaughter charges dropped against two men in the death of Calgary woman whose body was dumped near Okotoks

Tara Miller's body was found south of Calgary on March 30, 2023

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8 d. ago Brother speaks out as new date set for inquest into woman's death

The province has set a new date for an inquest into the 2019 death of a woman who was held in London police custody, after it was delayed earlier this year. The inquest into the death of 28-year-old Amanda Bolt is now set for Nov. 27, expected to last a week and hear from nine […]

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1 week ago Alabama executes man with nitrogen gas for 1997 shooting death of store clerk

ATMORE Ala. — An Alabama man convicted of killing a woman during a 1997 gas station robbery was put to death Thursday after apologizing to the family and pleas from the victim’s son to spare his life.  Geoffrey Todd West, 50, was executed at William C. Holman Correctional Facility by nitrogen gas, a method Alabama […]

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1 week ago Calgary police looking to identify woman in connection to fatal bike crash

Calgary police are asking for the public's help in identifying a woman believed to have information about a fatal collision involving a cyclist last week.

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1 week ago Manitoba RCMP investigating suspicious death of Pauingassi First Nation woman

Police said they were initially contacted on Sept. 12 about an earlier assault in the community that had left the victim, 41-year-old Melissa Owens-Keeper, in critical condition.

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1 week ago Toronto flight forced to land 3,000 km away after emergency on board

A Toronto-bound flight was forced to cut its roughly 12-hour journey short last week after a passenger suffered a medical emergency on board. On Sept. 15, a long-haul Air Canada flight departed from Tokyo's Haneda Airport at 6:13 p.m. and was headed for Toronto Pearson International Airport. The daily flight is usually scheduled to take off around 6:10 p.m. in Japan and land in Toronto at 5:35 p.m. local time, though things didn't quite go to plan this time around.While flying over Canada, the crew was forced to divert to Yellowknife Airport after a medical emergency took place on board the aircraft. The flight landed safely in Yellowknife roughly nine hours after taking off from Haneda Airport at 12:03 p.m. local time. Flight radar shows the aircraft diverting from its normal route, which usually takes it over Vancouver, to land in Yellowknife. Source: FlightAware.com.In a statement to blogTO, Air Canada confirmed that the diversion was du...

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1 week ago Police search Thunder Bay, Ont., landfill as part of investigation into woman’s death

Police in Thunder Bay, Ont., say they are searching a landfill in an ongoing investigation into the death of an Indigenous woman last year.

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2 w. ago Crown upgrades charge to murder in connection with death of woman found by Calgary pathway

Jelisa Maschki was found dead on a Nose Creek Pathway on Dec. 9

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2 w. ago RCMP claim record cryptocurrency seizure of $56M in money laundering probe

The Canadian investigation into TradeOgre began in June 2024, following a tip from the European Union's policing agency Europol to the RCMP's money laundering division.

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2 w. ago Ottawa police appeal for ID of woman with info on 2024 Centretown homicide

The woman in her 20s may have information on the shooting death of Quentin Dorsainvil, police say.

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2 w. ago Public appeal results in ID of possible witness to 2024 Centretown homicide

The woman in her 20s may have information on the shooting death of Quentin Dorsainvil, police say.

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3 w. ago AHS issues alert after passenger with measles flew from Toronto to Edmonton

Alberta Health Services issued a public alert Monday after a person infected with measles was on an Edmonton-bound flight last week. According to the alert, the individual was on Air Canada Flight 173 from Pearson to Edmonton International Airport on Sept. 10. The flight took off at 3:44 p.m. Edmonton time, landing at 7:30 p.m. […]

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3 w. ago RCMP says probe into fatal northern Manitoba plane crash could take days

Four people were killed Saturday night when their float plane crashed 40 kilometres south of St. Theresa Point First Nation, en route to Makepeace Lake.

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3 w. ago Woman pleads guilty to manslaughter in child death case EPS criticized Crown over

It comes a day after Edmonton police made public a letter from the force to Alberta's Justice Ministry saying it was aware of the plea deal and urging the Crown to call it off.

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3 w. ago Butt dial leads to arrest of woman who allegedly helped accused killer

A woman has been accused of tampering with evidence after the presumed death of an American Airlines flight attendant who mysteriously vanished earlier this year — all because of a butt-dial. Joni Thomas, 62, has been charged with tampering with evidence in the suspected murder of 47-year-old Rana Nofal Soluri — an Envoy Air flight […]

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3 w. ago Third person charged with murder of Hamilton international student Harsimrat Randhawa

A third person has been charged with murder in the April shooting death of Hamilton international student Harsimrat Randhawa. The 21-year-old woman from India, who attended Mohawk College, was killed by a stray bullet April 17 while waiting at a bus stop at Upper James St. and South Bend Rd. Randhawa, an innocent bystander, was […]

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3 w. ago Ukrainian woman stabbed to death in unprovoked attack on N.C. train

Iryna Zarutska boarded the train and sat in an aisle seat directly in front of the suspect, who can been seen in a window seat wearing an orange sweatshirt.

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3 w. ago Arrest made in death of Toronto woman found injured in a vehicle

Police in Toronto say they've arrested a man in a homicide case where a woman was found injured in a vehicle last week and died.

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