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The mother of Claire Bell, the three-year-old girl reported missing on Sunday, was arrested and charged with child abandonment on Monday evening. Rachel Todd, 34, is scheduled to appear in court again today in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Que. She’s been charged under section 218 (a) of the Criminal Code for allegedly abandoning a child under 10, “so that its …

The RCMP say the arrest of a Russian national who is alleged to have illegally exported goods to Russia came as a result of a transnational investigation, involving a number of ports outside of Canada. Anton Trofimov, who lives in Toronto, was arrested on May 5 and charged with one count of exporting …

A 14-year-old boy from Pickering has been charged with first-degree murder after an elderly woman was fatally stabbed in the city on Thursday, Durham police said.  The accused appeared via Zoom in Oshawa court on Friday from Durham Regional Police Division 17. During the hearing, he spoke to confirm he had the opportunity …

Influencer brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate have been charged in Britain with rape and other crimes, prosecutors said Wednesday. The charges were authorized in January last year but not publicized, though news media at the time reported on a U.K. arrest warrant issued against the Tates, dual U.S. and British …

Ottawa police say a 31-year-old man has been charged with multiple offences following an hours-long Parliament Hill lockdown on Saturday. In a news release sent Sunday morning, the Ottawa Police Service (OPS) said the man entered the security screening area of the East Block of Parliament Hill around 2:40 p.m. Saturday …

British police charged actor-comedian Russell Brand with rape and multiple counts of assault connected to a number of allegations between 1999 and 2005, a police statement on Friday said. Brand, 50, the former husband of U.S. pop singer Katy Perry and once one of Britain’s most high-profile comedians and broadcasters, had repositioned himself in recent years as …

South Korean military investigators charged two Air Force pilots on Thursday with criminal negligence over an accidental bombing of a village last week during a training exercise, which injured at least 29 people and caused extensive property damage. Defence ministry investigators have confirmed that errors by the pilots when they …

Toronto police have charged a 50-year-old man with first-degree murder in a cold case homicide from 1998.  Donna Oglive, 24, was found dead around 7 a.m. in a parking lot at 130 Carlton St. in March 1998, Toronto police said. She had been strangled, Det.-Sgt. Steve Smith said at a news conference …

A day after CBC revealed that a self-styled Vancouver Island “childbirth activist” was under police investigation, a manslaughter charge has been sworn against Gloria Lemay in relation to the death of a newborn last January. The charge against the 77-year-old comes almost one year to the day after the alleged victim died …

Descrease article font size Increase article font size A Vancouver man has been charged with second-degree murder in a decades-old Ottawa cold case police say they cracked using cutting-edge DNA technology. Lawrence Diehl, 73, is accused of fatally stabbing 22-year-old Christopher Smith on the Portage Bridge connecting Ottawa and Gatineau …