A Nigerian woman has managed to stave off deportation from Canada by arguing that she feared a powerful businessman in her homeland who wanted to make her his mistress. Read More
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Toronto police have launched a homicide investigation after a woman was shot inside a downtown apartment building Saturday morning. Officers were called to the area of Jarvis Street and Dundas Street East at about 9:30 a.m. after reports of a shooting, according to a media release from…
Peruvian rescue teams have recovered the bodies of a Canadian woman, Sandra Covone, and Daniel Navarro, her Mexican husband, after they were engulfed in an avalanche on the summit of a 6,000-metre mountain in the Andes. Read More
Nova Scotia’s police watchdog has cleared an RCMP officer of wrongdoing in the fatal shooting of a woman in Eastern Passage, N.S., last fall. In her decision, the Serious Incident Response Team’s (SiRT) director, Erin Nauss, called the events “an extremely tragic situation.” The evidence used in the investigation included 911 call recordings, police radio…
Halifax police say a 24-year-old woman escaped serious injuries after being struck by a train Wednesday night in Bedford. First responders were called just after 8 p.m. to the train tracks near the 960-block of the Bedford Highway, in the Mill Cove area. “It’s unsure exactly why she was on the railway tracks,” said Halifax…
A Nanaimo, B.C., woman is receiving praise for jumping into action and fighting off a cougar to save one of her goats. Earlier this month at Gina Moore’s farm, surveillance video captured a cougar latching onto the neck of Donnie the Nigerian Dwarf goat. Get breaking National news Get breaking Canada news delivered to your…
A lawyer representing a transgender woman incarcerated in a men’s prison says her client should be transferred to a women’s institution for her safety. Lawyer Jessica Rose told a Federal Court judge Monday that male inmates harassed and assaulted her client, Amanda Joy Cooper, after she came out as a woman in 2020. During a…
Meanwhile, counsel for Cooper, Jessica Rose, told the court that there was a significant safety risk if Cooper were to be part of the general prison population due to the surgery. Cooper is a “woman with a vagina,” said Rose. There are also serious harms to health and well-being when a person remains in segregation,…
Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. A London, Ont., woman has been charged with six counts of criminal negligence causing bodily harm after Friday’s vehicle crash into…
LISTEN | Backcountry skiers rethinking their relationship with risk: What On Earth25:35Here’s how it feels to get caught in an avalanche Hannah Hughes was backcountry skiing on a Norwegian mountain in March, when she heard a rumbling. “Someone yelled avalanche … it was maybe 20 or 30 metres away,” said Hughes, a massage therapist and…