A teenage girl allegedly killed by her family along with her two sisters confided in school and child protection authorities that she was being pressured to wear a hijab and was being shunned at home, so she tried to kill herself, a court heard Wednesday. Sahar Shafia, then 16, told an assistant principal at her [...]

Brian Gionta scored the lone goal in the shootout to lead the Montreal Canadiens to a 4-3 win over Carolina on Wednesday night to snap the Hurricanes’ two-game winning streak. Montreal rallied from a two-goal deficit after Carolina’s Jiri Tlusty and Anthony Stewart scored first-period goals for the Hurricanes. Montreal tied the game by getting [...]

Montreal police distributed written notices to protesters at the city’s Occupy camp Wednesday night, asking them to tear down their tents. The city asks protesters to uphold public space bylaws. CBCThe notice orders Occupy Montreal’s indignés to take down installations and structures on public property, and to respect the Victoria Square’s midnight to 6 a.m. [...]

B.C. Supreme Court has upheld Canada’s polygamy laws, but says minors who end up in polygamous marriages should be exempt from prosecution. In a 335-page decision released on Wednesday, Chief Justice Robert Bauman ruled in favour of the section of the Criminal Code outlawing polygamous unions. In his ruling, Bauman said while the law does [...]

Police have made a DNA match to a male suspect and have released an old composite sketch of the man wanted in connection to the slaying of a B.C. teenager on Halloween night. Taylor Van Diest, 18, was killed as she walked to meet friends in the town of Armstrong, B.C., Oct. 31. RCMP said [...]