Around Canada

Two little girls whose bodies were found by police last week hidden in their mother’s Edmonton apartment were stabbed to death, police said Monday in a news release. One sister was six months old, and the other was three years old. The mother of the two children remains in hospital …

Alberta’s United Conservative Party will be allowed to intervene in an upcoming court case involving the Province of Saskatchewan and Ottawa over the national carbon tax. Saskatchewan’s Court of Appeal ruled all 16 applicants will be allowed to intervene in the case to be heard in mid-February. Those include the …

A delegation from Drayton Valley braved freezing rain Monday to deliver bags of letters addressed to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to the Alberta legislature. The group collected 6,800 letters in five days they hope will highlight the impact low oil prices have had on their central Alberta town. They met …

A black person in Toronto is nearly 20 times more likely than a white person to be shot and killed by police, according to a new Ontario Human Rights Commission report on race and policing. The commission’s interim report said black people were overrepresented in several types of violent police …

Postal workers in Canada are delivering parcels seven days a week to ensure they will be in time for the holidays, says Canada Post’s largest union. Mike Palecek, national president of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW), said in an email on Monday that union members are working every …

After months of fruitless efforts with the Trump White House, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appears ready to make Canada’s case for the lifting of steel and aluminum tariffs directly to allies in Congress and across the U.S., as U.S. workers and businesses also feel the sting of the border taxes. …

One of the leading U.S. forensic experts, who served as the primary DNA specialist prosecutor in O.J. Simpson’s murder trial, says Canadian agencies are doing victims a disservice by using a potentially misleading DNA technique, instead of a surer method to identify suspects. But it’s a method that does come …

Months after the first Amish families in Manitoba started arriving in the town of Vita, the sight of their horse-drawn buggies rolling down the highway still draws crowds to the windows. “People are always quite excited to see them,” said Eva Dyck, who owns Eva’s Restaurant along the town’s main …

It was a terrifying ordeal for Humboldt Broncos survivor Ryan Straschnitzki this past week as the bus carrying him home from physiotherapy was rear-ended by a truck. Straschnitzki, 19, was one of 13 survivors April 6 when a team bus was hit by a semi-trailer at an intersection north of …

Calgary featherweight fighter Hakeem Dawodu was up against more adversity than just his opponent at UFC 231 in Toronto on Saturday — he was also battling a cold. Despite that, the 27-year-old was dominant in a split-decision victory over American Kyle Bochniak, with two judges giving Dawodu a lopsided 30-27 …