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As Windsorites feel the pinch at the pump with gas prices on the rise, the Windsor Bike Kitchen says they’re seeing more people come looking for two wheels.

A British Columbia judge has sentenced a fraudster to two years less a day of house arrest for bilking an “extremely vulnerable” client out of $155,800 that he frittered away on gambling. Kenneth David Derksen, a former consultant at Investors Group Financial Services Inc., pleaded guilty last year to fraud over $5,000 for sending the…

He’s an unlikely candidate for town council: Paul Hanlon’s recent criminal history includes convictions for assault, a violent home invasion and trying to sell drugs to an undercover police officer. Now he wants to be a councillor in the rural Newfoundland town where he perpetrated some of his offences, saying he has “paid my debt…

Ontario lawyer Gavin McNeill Grant impregnated a 17-year-old Crown ward, showed off pictures of her in lingerie to his coworker, and assaulted two women, including a client-turned-girlfriend, according to a decision of Ontario’s Law Society Tribunal. In all, Grant, who worked as a criminal lawyer in Owen Sound, Ont., engaged in what two provincial Law…

A scarcity of aluminum cans due the war in Iran means there’s a Diet Coke shortage in India, where the drink only comes in cans. As a result, people there are hoarding the beverages and throwing parties to celebrate their favourite drink.

Ahmed came to Canada as an international student planning to return home — until falling in love with another man forced him to confront the dangers he says he faces in Pakistan. Now, a new federal asylum law could make his refugee claim ineligible before he even got a hearing.

Some former students of Vancouver College say a proposed $30-million settlement is meaningless without an apology and an admission of liability for the abuse they allegedly suffered at the hands of Christian Brothers linked to the Mount Cashel Orphanage.

The Mikisew Cree First Nation (MCFN) is suing the governments of Alberta and Canada over the impacts it says industrial development such as oilsands mines have had on its territory over the years.

RCMP Deputy Commissioner Dwayne McDonald says there has been an overall decrease in extortion-related activities in the province, attributing the progress to the work of the B.C. Extortion Task Force, its partners and others.

Ontario’s ministry of health is asking seven more people to isolate in relation to a global hantavirus outbreak, though it says those individuals are considered “low-risk” contacts.