Ontario Provincial Police are investigating after a Bluewater resident died in a snowmobile crash in Huron County Wednesday afternoon. Police and local snowmobile clubs are reminding drivers to ride sober, wear a helmet and stay on maintained trails.

An investigation is underway after what police are calling human remains were found at a golf course in the east end of St. John’s.

The RNC says an area has been cordoned off at the end of the Bally Haly country club next to Logy Bay-Middle Cove-Outer Cove. The chief medical examiner has been called in to make a positive determination whether they are human remains.

The golf club used to be known as Clovelly, but was taken over by Bally Haly in 2023.

A recent landslide on the Takhini River just north of Whitehorse sent a torrent of debris crashing through the ice and into the river, blocking part of the channel.  

The trial of Kenneth Law has been pushed to January 2026 to allow time for an appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada in a separate case that has a "direct bearing on this prosecution," according to court documents.

The RCMP says a suspicious death in Bible Hill has been ruled a homicide.

A woman was found dead in a home on Bomber Drive on January 3 after police responded to a wellness check.

Police say an unconious man was found as well and he was taken to hospital.

According to the Mounties, the 42-year-old woman’s death has now been ruled a homicide, and search warrants have been executed to collect evidence in the case.

Police say there is no information suggesting any risk to the public, or that the murder is a case of intimate partner violence.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Newly in the minority, Democrats voted with Republicans on Thursday to advance legislation that would require federal authorities to detain unauthorized immigrants who have been accused of certain crimes — signaling that they will try and find spots to work with President-elect Donald Trump while simultaneously trying to block much of his agenda.

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and most other Democrats voted to proceed with the legislation, advancing the bill 84-9. Trump and Republicans have pushed the bill and made it a priority since Georgia nursing student Laken Riley was killed last year by a Venezuelan man who entered the U.S. illegally and was allowed to stay to pursue his immigration case.

Still, Schumer hasn’t promised to vote for the final bill — and he made clear that Democrats will only allow it to pass if Republicans work with them on bipartisan amendments. Thursday’s procedural vote will allow that process to begin.

Schumer said that Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., “has said he wants to make the Senate a place where all members should have a chance to make their voices heard. This bill would be a fine place to start.”

Schumer’s support for the bill comes after Democrats lost the Senate and the presidency in the November elections, and are trying to thoughtfully pick their battles against Trump while also trying to block much of his agenda. Republicans will need seven Democratic votes to pass most major policy items in the 53-47 Senate, and Schumer has maintained that Thune will have to work with them to get things done.

The new Democratic strategy is a shift from Trump’s first term, when Democrats openly and aggressively fought Trump on policy. And it’s evidence of the delicate balance that Schumer is trying to strike after Republicans dominated last year’s elections and some of the more moderate members of his caucus are trying to show they can work with the new president.

Moderate Democrats have supported some Republican efforts to crack down on immigration and have signaled they may support the final bill. Several Democrats who were up for re-election last year embraced stricter immigration controls as a way to blunt GOP attacks as the Biden administration struggled to manage an influx of migrants at the Southwest border.

The House passed the legislation earlier this week, making the legislation one of the first actions in the newly Republican-controlled Congress after they seized on Riley’s murder as a rallying point during the election. It would require U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to arrest unauthorized migrants who commit theft, burglary, larceny, or shoplifting offenses and mandate that they are detained until they are removed from the U.S.

The bill also would allow states to sue the federal government if they can demonstrate harm caused by immigrants who enter the country illegally.

The House passed the bill last year, but Schumer did not bring it up for a vote when Democrats were in the majority.

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Mary Clare Jalonick, The Associated Press

Streaming guide JustWatch has revealed the top 10 movies streaming in Canada. Topping the charts is Coralie Fargeat’s satirical body-horror film The Substance, starring Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley, which is streaming now in Canada on MUBI.

“Have you ever dreamt of a better version of yourself? You, only better in every way. You should try this new product, it’s called The Substance. IT CHANGED MY LIFE. With The Substance, you can generate another you: younger, more beautiful, more perfect. You just have to share time — one week for one, one week for the other. A perfect balance of seven days each… Easy right? If you respect the balance… What could possibly go wrong?”

In second and third place are Juror #2 (Crave) and Woman of the Hour (Netflix).

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A Sioux Valley Dakota Nation man told the story of coming home to find a woman dying in his living room two years ago in a southwestern Manitoba courtroom on Wednesday.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre holds a news conference for the first time since Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his resignation on Monday.

Over 100,000 residents have been ordered to evacuate their homes as of Thursday as wildfires continue to ravage Los Angeles communities. Some former and current Calgarians describe how the rapidly evolving situation has impacted the area.

This article deals with the topic of suicide. If you or someone you know is thinking about suicide, support is available 24/7 by calling or texting 988, Canada’s national suicide prevention helpline.

The trial of an Ontario man accused of selling lethal substances online to people who later used it to take their own lives has been pushed back to next year.

Kenneth Law is now set to stand trial on 14 counts each of first-degree murder and aiding suicide starting in January 2026, with the proceedings expected to last eight weeks. 

His trial was initially set to begin in September but court documents say it was postponed this week in light of an upcoming appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada in a separate case that has a “direct impact on this prosecution.”

The Supreme Court has agreed to expedite the appeal, a move that had been requested by prosecutors given the implications for Law’s upcoming trial.

The Crown is appealing a ruling by Ontario’s top court that suggests a person may only be liable for murder if they provided a person who committed suicide with the lethal substance and “overbore the victim’s freewill in choosing suicide.”

Police have alleged that Law ran several websites that were used to sell sodium nitrite and other items that can be used for self-harm, shipping them to people in more than 40 countries.

They have said all charges against him relate to the same 14 people, who were between the ages of 16 and 36.