National News

TORONTO — A Canada-wide criminal warrant for alleged child abduction has been issued for a father who has flouted court orders to return his son to Alberta from overseas, police confirmed Tuesday.

On Saturday, dozens of U-Haul trucks and cars drove down Erie Shore Drive, in single file, as homeowners constructed the final reinforcements for their homes and packed up their most important belongings.

A man wanted in connection with a shooting west of Meadow Lake on Nov. 23, 2019, was arrested and is being held in custody.

A woman armed with a machete, who tried to run over an RCMP officer with an SUV, remains in custody pending a bail hearing. Jolene Nicole Sinclair, 35, appeared in Meadow Lake ProvincialCourt Jan. 20 with her co-accused Stephane Joseph Leclerc, 50.

“A seven-year-old tried to commit suicide in our community two months ago,” said Philip Chief, director of operations, Onion Lake Cree Nation (OLCN). “There are a lot of young people that see no hope.

The trial of Tyler Vandewater, accused with killing a fellow Saskatchewan Penitentiary inmate, started today in Prince Albert Court of Queen’s Bench.

Local experts are warning the provincial government's push for fiscal restraint could weaken the health care system's ability to respond to a pandemic crisis, as Alberta reports its first confirmed cases of COVID-19.

Probably one of the coziest public information meetings ever to occur around a potential marijuana production facility took place on Quadra Island in British Columbia Wednesday evening. Shane Hedefine of Quadraponics Cannabis Inc.

FREDERICTON — Highlights from the New Brunswick budget presented Tuesday: — The province's $10.2 billion budget for 2020-21 includes a projected surplus of $92.4 million. ——— — New Brunswick's net debt will be reduced by $129.3 million, reaching $13.

By Lisa Joy, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter *Sis was 10 when, following her older brother, she joined a gang. That’s also when she started using cocaine and began a life of criminal activity. Sis felt invincible.