HALIFAX — A South African woman was arrested in Halifax today for allegedly assaulting two flight attendants during a flight from London to Toronto.
RCMP Sgt. Al LeBlanc says the Air Canada flight had to be diverted to Halifax at about 12:30 p.m. local time.
LeBlanc says police apprehended the woman after it landed at the Halifax Stanfield International Airport and nobody was hurt.
A spokeswoman for the airport says 239 people were on board the flight.
RICHMOND, B.C. — Fourteen people who were rescued from a boat that hit a rock wall in the Fraser River in Richmond, B.C., were in training to save others in a similar situation.
OTTAWA — Booze will not be as cheap or flow as freely aboard Canadian warships in the wake of a review of an incident last summer which saw a coastal defence vessel ordered home from a U.S. exercise because of the conduct of sailors.
TORONTO — The $12-billion merger between Tim Hortons Inc. (TSX:THI) and Burger King has been finalized.
BRISTOL, Vt. — Police in a Vermont town are thanking a college student in Canada for alerting them via Facebook about a local woman who posted a message about taking an overdose of prescription medication.
Toronto's newly elected mayor says he had a private meeting with Stephen Harper on Thursday, the same day the premier of Ontario publicly complained she hasn't had a chance to meet with the prime minister in over a year.
OTTAWA — The Canadian Public Health Association is calling on the government to regulate the sex industry as a business with rules to protect the safety of prostitutes.