Canada

Noah Rabbani, A 15-year-old Hamilton boy is in recovery postsurgery for a blood clot on the brain after being robbed and beaten with a baseball bat over the weekend. Police say Noah Rabbani was attacked in the area of Rymal Road East and Fletcher Road around midnight on November 27. Two men in a vehicle pulled up beside him, got ... Read More »

Students from Queen’s University are facing backlash for throwing a party. Now, it’s not the partying per se that got the community riled up but its theme, which is racism. An extremely racist party is reportedly a tradition at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, but maybe not for much longer after Twitter responded to appalling photos from the event. Read More »

A video of a polar bear petting a sled dog that went viral seemed heartwarming, but a new development casts the interaction in a different light. The Dodo has updated its initial post on the incident, which took place near Churchill in Manitoba. “Conservation officers had to immobilize a bear in that area last week and move it to the ... Read More »

Sam Oosterhoff, 19-Year-Old Conservative, Wins Ontario Byelection. Sam Oosterhoff just became one of Ontario’s highest paid teenagers, winning a Niagara byelection and an MPP’s salary of $116,500 plus a taxpayer-funded pad in Toronto. The 19-year-old Progressive Conservative kept the wine-country riding in Tory hands while civil rights lawyer Nathalie Des Rosiers held Ottawa-Vanier for Premier Kathleen Wynne’s Liberals in Thursday’s ... Read More »

Scott Foote, a Canadian military officer has been found dead in a military gymnasium in Jordan, the Department of National Defence says. Military officials say 50-year-old Major Scott Foote of Carbonear was found unconscious in a gymnasium. Attempts to revive him failed. Scott was serving in the capital of Jordan, Amman. Read More »

New Westminster Police confirm the body of Florence Leung has been found in the waters near Bowen Island, and foul play is not suspected in her death. Her family has been notified, police said. Foul play is not suspected. Her husband, Kim Chen, told CBC News that it was a hard time for their family, but that he wanted to ... Read More »

Kaylee and Jenna Mears continue their recovery after a vicious dog attack on May 5, 2016 in the town of Vegreville, about 100 kilometres east of Edmonton. Last week, a judge ordered the dog to be destroyed. “It was definitely a sense of relief that this dog was now deemed dangerous,” mother of twin girls Holly Mears said Saturday when ... Read More »

Saskatchewan RCMP have called off the Amber Alert for seven-year-old Nia Eastman after she was found dead by investigators. An Amber Alert was issued by police on Wednesday (9 November), after the child was not returned to her mother. Officers discovered Nia Eastman’s body at a home in Choiceland, near Nipawin, where locals say that her father was renting a ... Read More »

An Amber Alert has been issued by Saskatchewan RCMP for Nia Eastman, a seven-year-old girl believed to have been taken by her father, Adam Jay Eastman. RCMP said Nia was to be returned home to her mother by 7 p.m. A vehicle believed to be operated by her father was located on a rural property east of Smeaton, Sask., near ... Read More »

Canada’s Immigration and Citizenship website was down for hours Tuesday and Wednesday. People interested in visiting the Citizenship and Immigration Canada website were instead met with the error message “this page isn’t working.” The website provides information about immigrating to Canada, settling in Canada, and Canadian citizenship. Read More »

How will Canada be affected by a Trump presidency?. Connections: As a self-described outsider of American politics, Trump would have few connections to the Liberal government in the Great White North. Trudeau would have to build a relationship with a man who he has suggested holds different values than himself. And Trump has bashed Canada at various points during the ... Read More »