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OTTAWA — This one was a kick to the gut.

BRADFORD, Ont. – The tables turned on one Ontario officer on Monday, when a suspect put him in a chokehold with his own baton.

A University of Ottawa alumnus is being treated for a gunshot wound in one of her legs, but is otherwise safe and sound after being one of 17 hostages held inside a Sydney cafe.

The provincial government has approved the $8.7-billion Site C dam project, with construction on the energy project expected to begin next summer.

A 49-year-old-grandmother who was acting as a “Good Samaritan” was karate-kicked, sucker-punched, beaten and left with “catastrophic injuries” by a police officer, a judge said Tuesday.

Emery McLeod, 40, was sentenced Wednesday to 15 years in prison for killing and dismembering his roommate in February 2012.

MONTREAL — The jury in the Luka Magnotta murder trial asked a question about personality disorders during its second full day of deliberations.

A Toronto-bound Air Canada flight was diverted to Halifax Wednesday after a passenger allegedly assaulted two flight attendants.

A mall in Swift Current, Sask., invited a "Sensitive Santa" to come in last week to meet with children on the autism spectrum.

Nobody will be prosecuted for breaching the publication ban on Rehtaeh Parsons' name unless they use it "in a derogatory manner," Nova Scotia Justice Minister Lena Metlege Diab announced Wednesday.

A Montreal blogger faces 17 charges for allegedly collecting photos and videos of nude autistic boys.

Police in Vancouver say a man broke into an apartment, had a snack and took a nap.

VANCOUVER — The B.C. Commissioner for Teacher Regulation has suspended a Vancouver-area teacher who's been disciplined several times for inappropriate behaviour — including playing a Valentine's "kissing game" with students.

A Nepean man says he was surprised by the casual response from Parliament Hill after he tried to return a House of Commons-issue security pass he found on the street.

Sometimes a story comes along that is as Canadian as maple syrup. However in 2014, there seemed to be an abundance of them.

Two Vancouver radio stations have issued apologies and one show has been cancelled until the new year after a host wondered during a simulcast who Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau would "F, marry or kill" given the choice between three prominent women in Canadian politics.

Dalhousie University students and alumni are using the hashtag #DalhousieHatesWomen to protest the school's response to a dentistry students' Facebook group full of jokes about drugging and raping women.

Emma Czornobaj was sentenced Thursday to 90 days in jail to be served on weekends for triggering a collision that killed a man and his teenage daughter when she parked her car on a Montreal highway to save a family of ducks.