Standing by the docks in downtown Nanaimo, B.C., on Monday morning, Liberal MP Alexandre Mendes told Radio-Canada she came to this week’s Liberal caucus retreat with a message from her constituents: “dozens and dozens” of them were “adamant” the Liberal Party needed a new leader. Speaking later to CBC’s Power & PoliticsMendes said it was hard…
In a horrific crime that has shocked Switzerland, former Miss Switzerland finalist Kristina Joksimovic was allegedly murdered and her body dismembered and dissolved by her husband, Thomas. The 38-year-old model’s remains were found in their home in Binningen, near Basel, in February this year. Thomas, 41, confessed to the murder during a crime reconstruction but…
A trio of Good Samaritans thwarted an attempted robbery at a Vancouver convenience store over the weekend by scaring away the suspect and calling 911, police say, just days after an apparent random stabbing in the city’s downtown left one man dead and severed the hand of another. Vancouver police say a 23-year-old shopkeeper was grabbed from behind…
The Quebec government is following through on its promise last month to authorize certain early requests for medical assistance in dying, starting this fall. As of October 30, patients can make advance requests for the procedure before their condition renders them incapable of giving consent. Quebec adopted a law in June 2023 allowing requests from…
Stephanie Arteaga, a substitute teacher at Anderson Intermediate School in Anderson, Indiana, has been preliminarily charged with battery on one of her students. Arteaga was fired on August 30 following accusations that she duct-taped an 11-year-old student’s mouth shut, pulled her hair, sat on her, and hit her with a ruler, according to the Herald…
Hunter Biden plans to change his not guilty plea to avoid going to trial on federal tax evasion charges, his defence attorney said Thursday, appearing to surprise prosecutors and the judge just as jury selection was set to begin. Defence attorney Abbe Lowell told the judge that the evidence against Hunter Biden is “overwhelming” and that the president’s son wants to…
GUJRANWALA/ PAKISTAN: A man has been arrested for sexually abusing multiple young female students at a school run by his wife in Gujranwala, local police said on Thursday. The suspect, identified as Imran, had been running a canteen inside the government-affiliated non-formal education school, which his wife Sajida operated from their home in the Therhi…
Vancouver’s chief of police says the city’s collective sense of safety has been shaken after one man was killed and another was seriously injured in what police say were two unprovoked, random attacks in the city’s downtown early Wednesday. “Attacks like these shake our collective sense of comfort and safety, and we’re grateful that a…
As It Happens6:32Brazil is on fire, and both crime and climate change are to blame As Cristiane Mazzetti flew over the Brazilian Amazon this month surveying wildfire damage, she couldn’t help but feel frustrated. Mazzetti is a forest campaigner for Greenpeace in Brazil. For years, the environmental group has been trying to curb the deforestation…
WARNING: This story contains distressing details. Serial killer Jeremy Skibicki knew what he was doing was wrong, a judge said in a lengthy decision outlining why he convicted the Winnipeg man in the murders of four vulnerable Indigenous women. Court of King’s Bench Chief Justice Glenn Joyal said he came to that conclusion in part…
