Canada

The body of a man was discovered in a Richmond Road apartment building damaged by fire early Wednesday morning, police say. Crews were called to the building at 1330 Richmond Road just after 1 a.m. on Wednesday when smoke was spotted on the fifth floor.

The City of Montreal’s taxi bureau is cracking down on ride-sharing service UberX and has seized 40 vehicles from drivers in recent weeks, prompting the company to say it will fight back in court.

Faye Kennedy’s family hasn’t heard from her in more than a week. Kennedy, 32, hasn’t been heard from since Monday, several days before Saturday’s devastating earthquake. At the time of the quake, she’d been on a trek through Langtang National Park, an area that’s been affected by landslides after the 7.8 magnitude earthquake shook the country, killing more than 2,000 …

Almost 13 years after the firefight in Afghanistan that led to Omar Khadr’s capture, an Alberta judge has granted him bail. The federal government says it will appeal the ruling. The 2002 firefight killed U.S. Sgt. First Class Christopher Speer and two Afghan soldiers, and badly wounded the 15-year-old Khadr.

Police say three teens, all under legal driving age, were in an SUV that hit a parked car early Friday morning, but no one was seriously injured.

A woman who posted an image online of a senior Montreal police officer with a bullet in his head was convicted Thursday of criminal harassment.

A suspect in a string of lottery ticket thefts this spring has been identified and is now facing 17 theft charges.

Jim Doak, a fixture on Bay Street for more than three decades and most recently a commentator on BNN, has died in Mongolia. The cause of his death is not known though an autopsy is planned. Doak was in Mongolia for talks toward realizing a $104 million arbitration award in a long-standing dispute with the government over the cancellation of …

The youngest and oldest people in the remote northern Ontario community of Kashechewan will be moved out of the area starting today amid concerns about flooding. An evacuation was initially planned for next Monday, but officials have decided to start the effort earlier because of concerns about damage to a dike.

A mother and three children from Tisdale, Sask., were found slain and police say a suspect in the killings has also been found dead.

The Town of Tisdale’s slogan has generated snickers and stares, indifferent shoulder shrugs and passionate complaints for well over a half-century. The community is now questioning whether it should reconsider calling itself “The land of rape and honey.”