A Canadian found dead in Peru was a suspect in the death of an Indigenous human rights defender, local police say.

— Police were continuing to investigate after the charred remains of four people were found Friday in a burnt-out car in Timmins.

— The mother of three-year-old Kaden Young says the search for her son is over, two months after he was swept from her arms and into the Grand River.

RCMP spies saw women's movement through 'red-tinged prism,' new book says

Halton police say death does not appear to be suspicious

The irony? An organization with ‘Empire’ in its title is addressing imperialism’s wrongs

The City of Hamilton is giving away compost and wood chips at Joe Sams Leisure Park, 752 Centre Rd., on April 28 from 7 until 11 a.m. The compost is processed from the yard waste collected curbside in Hamilton. It’s only for residential use and only available while supplies last. Bring your own buckets and shovels. For more information visit hamilton.ca/compost.

Welland’s Eugene Stranges ‘stole from his own church,’ judge declared in a stinging rebuke

Welland’s Eugene Stranges ‘stole from his own church,’ judge declared in a stinging rebuke

— Liberal MP Francis Drouin says an allegation has been made against him following an incident at the party’s convention in Halifax on the weekend.

A 28-year-old man was arrested and faces charges of break and entre, assault with a weapon and drug possession

— Russia is using Ukraine as a test ground for its information war against Western democracy, Ukraine’s foreign minister told G7 ministers meeting here on Sunday.

Tories demand government explain how much a carbon price will cost Canadians

You hear it often these days. People gathering and, regardless their backgrounds, prefacing the business at hand with an acknowledgment the land they’re meeting on is traditional Indigenous territory.

— The world’s oldest person, a 117-year-old Japanese woman, has died.

— A Russian lawyer who discussed sanctions with Donald Trump Jr. in New York during his father’s 2016 campaign for the U.S. presidency said Sunday that special counsel Robert Mueller has not contacted her yet.

Month-long pop-up event looking for solutions to reduce demand on justice system by 20 per cent by 2020

Nearly 75 years after a RCAF Halifax bomber crashed into a steep hill near Leistadt, Germany, killing all on board in a horrific explosion, researchers are trying to find descendants of one of the crew in Hamilton.

Since 2015 in Canada there are more people over 65 than under 15 — a “demographic shift” that is especially true in Hamilton where there are specific neighbourhoods with a large number of seniors, says the director of the McMaster Institute for Research on Aging.

Mother of three-year-old swept into river says search for her son has ended

— An Islamic State suicide bomber carried out an attack at a voter registration centre in the capital Kabul on Sunday, killing 57 people and wounding more than 100 others, said officials from the Afghan interior and public health ministries.

Two men were last seen running away from stolen Mercedes Benz toward escarpment rail trail

— Canada’s central bank governor says inflation will likely hover just above the historic target of two per cent for this year, but he’s comfortable with that because the longer-term trend line is steady.

NDP ‘ups the ante’ with ambitious child-care platform as daycare emerges as early election issue.

Remains of four people found in charred vehicle in northern Ontario, police say

— The number of illegal border crossings is up significantly this year compared with the same period last year, so federal and law enforcement officials have been preparing for the possibility of another spike as the weather warms up.

Police say a 32-year-old man has been charged with mischief and arson after allegedly trying to set a hair salon on fire in Milton, Ont.

— French authorities forced tourists to leave the Mont-Saint-Michel abbey Sunday and searched houses on the famed outcropping in the English Channel for a visitor who apparently threatened to attack security services.

North Korea nukes, Russia tension set to top G7 foreign ministers' talks in Toronto

Canadian was killed in Peru, Global Affairs says

Mike Harris Jr., son of former premier, will run for Tories in Ont. election

— Paul Edwards sits alone at a bare table and washes down scrambled eggs with coffee in the large auditorium of the civic centre in Kapuskasing, while in a small motel room on the nearby TransCanada Highway, his wife Lottie is hooked up to a dialysis machine.

Man facing charges after allegedly trying to burn down Milton hair salon

A gunman wearing only a jacket and carrying an assault-style rifle opened fire at a Waffle House in Nashville, Tennessee, early Sunday, killing four people and leaving the police searching for him and a motive, officials said.

Smoke forced evacuation of all seventh floor units

TORONTO - Canada and Japan signed a military co-operation agreement ahead of today's G7 foreign ministers meeting where the North Korean nuclear crisis will be front and centre.

North Korea nukes, Russia tension set to top G7 foreign ministers' talks in Toronto

NASHVILLE - Four people were killed in a shooting at a Waffle House restaurant in Tennessee early Sunday, according to police, who credited a bystander with saving "many lives" by wrestling a weapon away from the gunman.

Pot companies look across borders to raise money in battle for dominance

'So many other Tinas out there:' Caregiver calls for changes to curb runaways

Five things to watch for in the Canadian business world in the coming week

Mother of three-year-old swept into river says search for her son has ended

A man, with a pit bull, who was fleeing from a crash involving a stolen SUV was tracked to the back of a James Street North bar by the Hamilton police K-9 unit and a Tasered, before being arrested Saturday night.

Syrian military pummels IS-held districts in Damascus

Suicide bomber strikes in Afghan capital, 31 killed

No winning ticket for Saturday night's $26 million Lotto 649 jackpot

— The crew of the research vessel Shearwater has been out on the water for six frigid hours with almost nothing to show for it.

On a cold, clear night in January, Massachusetts Institute of Technology astrophysicist George Ricker and his students stepped onto a rooftop on campus and aimed a camera at the highest point in the sky.

A man has gone to hospital for treatment of suspected smoke inhalation after a fire in a seventh floor unit at a Dundas apartment.