Crime & Courts

Mother of man whose funeral Laverdiere attended now charged in her homicide

Tiki Laverdiere attended the funeral of Tristen Cook-Buckle on the Thunderchild First Nation in the days before her death. Now, Cook-Buckle's mother Nicole Cook, 36, is charged in Laverdiere's homicid...

Aug 01, 2019 Edmonton's Tiki Laverdiere. (supplied photo/RCMP)

‘He wanted to talk:’ Saskatchewan woman recalls finding Mountie killer in field

SPIRITWOOD, Sask. - For a Saskatchewan woman who discovered a fugitive Mountie killer hiding in her family's hayfield more than a decade ago, the intense search for two young murder suspects in northe...

Aug 01, 2019 (Submitted photo/Canadian Press)

Fired Saskatoon cop found not guilty of arrest assault

A former Saskatoon cop is looking to get his job back after a judge cleared him of assault on Tuesday.Cheers erupted in the courtroom after Justice Richard Danyliuk found Jarrett Gelowitz not guilty o...

Jul 31, 2019 Jarrett Gelowitz arrives for Saskatoon Court of Queen's Bench. (Global News)

RCMP scaling down search for murder suspects in northern Manitoba

WINNIPEG - The RCMP are scaling back the search for two British Columbia murder suspects in remote northern Manitoba.Assistant Commissioner Jane MacLatchy said over the past week officers have searche...

Jul 31, 2019 THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO, Twitter, Manitoba RCMP, @rcmpmb

Break and enter at Yellow Quill under investigation

Greeenwater RCMP are looking into a break and enter at a residence on the Yellow Quill First Nation where several small items were stolen.In a release, Mounties said unknown persons broke into a resid...

Jul 29, 2019 (File photo/northeastNOW Staff)

RCMP getting air support from military in hunt for homicide suspects

The RCMP are getting some help from the Canadian military as they continue the hunt for two young homicide suspects in northern Manitoba.Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale tweeted last night that th...

Jul 27, 2019 (Submitted photo/CKOM News)

B.C. murder suspect not a neo-Nazi, is more fascinated by Russia, dad says

PORT ALBERNI, B.C. - A murder suspect who allegedly sent photographs of a swastika armband and a Hitler Youth knife to an online friend was not a Nazi sympathizer, but he did think the memorabilia was...

Jul 26, 2019 Alan Schmegelsky, father of Bryer Schmegelsky, poses for a photo during an interview with The Canadian Press in Mill Bay B.C. on Wednesday, July 24, 2019. The father of a suspect in the deaths of three people in northern British Columbia says his son is in "very serious pain" and he expects a nationwide manhunt will end in the young man's death. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Laura Kane

Alberta RCMP apologize for poor investigation into Indigenous woman's death

EDMONTON - The commanding officer of the RCMP in Alberta has apologized to the family of an Indigenous woman who disappeared nine years ago and whose killer has never been found.Amber Tuccaro was 20 y...

Jul 25, 2019 Amber Tuccaro

Police seek B.C. murder suspects in swamp, bush, bugs of northern Manitoba

The deputy mayor of a remote northern Manitoba town says residents are locking their doors earlier than usual after word of a police manhunt in the area for two suspects in the deaths o...

Jul 24, 2019

Crime rate rose in 2018 but country still safer than a decade ago

OTTAWA - Statistics Canada says the country's crime rate ticked up again in 2018, for a fourth year in a row, though it was still lower than it was a decade ago.The severity of crime also rose by two ...

Jul 22, 2019