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.
Calgary's mayor says a now-delayed Alberta government bill about gay-straight alliances in schools would have focused international attention on "what kind of hillbillies we are."
OTTAWA — The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. is cutting 215 jobs in a organization of the Crown corporation, which provides mortgage loan insurance and market statistics.
The BC Coroners Service says workers at the Catalyst Paper Mill couldn't find 66-year-old Perry Thomas about a half hour after he arrived on Tuesday.
"Life will never be the same after losing my daughter to murder. Our family courts and thus we all failed #Teagan," he wrote in abbreviated social-media style.
SURREY, B.C. — A 33-year-old Randeep Singh Match has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of Tarsem Shane Dhaliwal whose body was found in a vehicle in Surrey, B.C.
QUALICUM BEACH, B.C. — Torrential rain and strong winds carried by a series of weather systems have hammered British Columbia's south coast and more is to come.