Kelsey Patterson

An Alberta man is facing animal cruelty charges after 72 dogs were surrendered to the Alberta SPCA last month. Mounties say they were conducting a check on a rural property in Brazeau County on Nov. 15 to make sure the owner was following conditions of a court-issued prohibition order. Police allege the owner had more […]

The City of Montreal has created a new warming shelter in an Old Montreal building that recently was the workplace of municipal officials. The Lucien-Saulnier building will provide 30 warm spaces for those in need as shelters in the area reach capacity. It will be open every night from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. “over […]

The number of investigations within Alberta’s Internet Child Exploitation (ICE) unit is only getting bigger. “We have a problem, to be honest,” said Acting Insp. Jon Morrison with ALERT’s ICE unit. 2024 was a record-breaking year for online child sexual exploitation. ICE says there were more than 5,100 reports this year – up 35 per […]

The two individuals accused of drug trafficking in connection with the death of a 15-year-old boy last year pled guilty to multiple charges this week. BACKGROUND: 15-year-old Montreal boy killed by drug more potent than fentanyl, father warns youth to beware Laxshan Mylvaganam, 24, pled guilty on Tuesday to five charges of possession and trafficking […]

Alberta’s police watchdog says there’s no evidence an offence was committed when Mounties used force to arrest a prominent First Nation chief outside a Fort McMurray, Alta., casino in 2020. The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team also said in a report released Thursday that there’s no evidence of racist treatment by officers against Athabasca Chipewyan […]

Host and producer Julie Snyder laboriously recounted Thursday, her voice cracking with emotion and taking numerous pauses, the assault she alleges she suffered at the hands of disgraced producer Gilbert Rozon in 1991 in Paris. Snyder is testifying in the civil lawsuit for sexual assault filed by nine other women against the former comedy mogul. […]

The personal information of current and former students and staff at the Pembina Trails School Division may have been compromised in the cyber attack earlier this month. The school division says it learned personal information “was either accessed or could have been accessed by an unauthorized third party.” It warned students, staff, and former staff […]

If the Alberta NDP hopes to form government after the next provincial general election, the path to victory goes through small cities like Lethbridge. That’s according to Mount Royal University political scientist Duane Bratt, who spoke to CityNews after the NDP’s byelection win in Lethbridge-West Wednesday. He called it a “pretty convincing win.” The NDP […]

Edmonton police believe two shootings in east Edmonton from earlier this year – one in February and the other in April – are “targeted and related.”