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Vancouver police hope the story of a man who broke into a home, stripped naked and began cooking eggs will encourage people to lock their doors.

For Bruno the Labrador retriever, all’s well that ends well.

Inflicting severe injuries on her toddler son — including a broke jaw and fractured rib — landed an Airdrie woman a two-year prison term Friday.Justice Jo'Anne Strekaf agreed with a joint submission from defence counsel Shamsher Kothari and Crown prosecutor Ron Simenik for the minimum federal penitentiary term.

A Winnipeg man who admitted to hooking a woman on methamphetamine and then selling her for sex to support his own drug habit has been sentenced to five years in prison.

Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould put forward a new bill Friday that is poised to reverse some elements of one of the previous Conservative government’s tough-on-crime laws that some judges have openly refused to impose on offenders and has been repeatedly criticized as unconstitutional.

About two months ago, when the ink had dried on the 1,600 pages of the Canada-EU free trade deal, two politicians decided another document — a mere five pages — would be necessary to tie up any loose ends.

That driver barrelling down the highway in a truck weighing up to 63,500 kilograms could suffer from a weight problem that’s making him sleepy.

Conservative MP Steven Blaney is joining the party’s leadership race.

Geishas are out. Feathered headdresses are forbidden. And if you’re planning to wear a Bill Cosby or Caitlyn Jenner costume, you may not be welcome at your Halloween party of choice.

She is one of B.C.’s best-known killers – found guilty of brutally beating and drowning a teenage girl under a Victoria bridge in 1997.

The CEO of the parent company of Tim Hortons said Monday he plans to keep pushing with an international expansion of the coffee-and-doughnut chain despite softness in the quick- service restaurant industry as well as political unrest and economic uncertainty abroad.

One Ontario university has already laid down the law on what costumes will be “prohibited” at the campus Halloween party this year.

Ontario’s highest court swiftly dismissed an appeal Monday by the man convicted of killing eight-year-old Victoria Stafford.

Conservative MP Tony Clement said the federal government should review the policy that allowed infamous killer Kelly Ellard to get pregnant while serving a life sentence for murder.

WOLSELEY, Sask. — Some people in a small Saskatchewan community say they are disgusted and disappointed after a beaver was beaten to death with a chair.

Shoppers Drug Mart says it has submitted an application to be a distributor of medical marijuana.

An internal federal analysis shows the government has studied the pros and cons of the nickel — but Ottawa insists it has no plans to force the five-cent coin into retirement, as it did the penny.

A bowl of nuts helped officers in Oak Bay, B.C., tail a suspected burglar.

The Belgian government has reached a deal to back the free trade pact between the European Union and Canada, reviving hope for a precarious agreement that was supposed to be officially signed today with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Trick-or-treaters across the country are in for some “eerily calm” weather this Halloween.

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