Canada

CANADA – A Quebec man whose pit bull-type dog mauled a young girl in 2015 will be sentenced today. In convicting Karim Jean Gilles last month, the judge in the case suggested the sentence would be longer than the three years the Crown recommended. Quebec court Judge Pierre Belisle found …

The Toronto police board voted unanimously to commission an external investigation into how the force conducts missing-persons probes, as members of the city’s LGBTQ community detailed what they said is critically low trust in police. The independent investigation, initiated by groups within the LGBTQ community and brought forward by Mayor …

Five stories in the news for Thursday, March 22 ——— SON OF IRANIAN-CANADIAN WHO DIED IN JAIL SPEAKS OUT The son of an Iranian-Canadian professor who died in a Tehran prison says he can’t grieve his father until his mother is released to Canada. Mehran Seyed-Emami says he and his …

TORONTO — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to visit New Brunswick today. Trudeau will conduct some early morning press interviews before stopping in Sussex where he is to meet with Premier Brian Gallant. The prime minister is then scheduled to take part in a roundtable discussion on rural economic …

Councillor Giorgio Mammoliti will seek the nomination to run for the Ontario Progressive Conservative party in Brampton. Mammoliti, an outspoken and frequently controversial politician who counts few friends on council after holding elected office for a quarter century, will try to make the jump back to Queen’s Park after he …

TORONTO — Canada’s wireless providers are preparing for a looming update to the National Public Alerting System that will force smartphones to sound an ominous alarm when an emergency alert is triggered. In case of emergencies including Amber Alerts, forest fires, natural disasters, terrorist attacks or severe weather, officials will …

Toronto police say a 26-year-old man who was fatally shot while walking to his car last week was the victim of a “cowardly” attack meant to strike fear in a west end community. Det. Jason Shankaran says Nnamdi Ogba was walking toward his parked car in a Toronto Community Housing …

CANADA — The same Russian online troll farm that meddled in the American presidential election has also taken swipes at Canadian targets, including oil infrastructure and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Evidence is embedded in data made publicly available through investigations in the United States, where congressional probes have been examining …

OTTAWA — The Canadian military’s upcoming foray into Mali is expected to include a marked female presence as the Trudeau government looks to have Canada lead by example in the push to have more women on peacekeeping missions. Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland and Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan on Monday …

ONTARIO – Embattled former PC leader Patrick Brown will not be allowed to run as a Tory candidate in the June election. The party’s nomination committee, which made the announcement Thursday night, met earlier in the day and said “the unanimous decision … was that Patrick Brown will not be …