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The RCMP seek leads as they try to find who left a meat-trap for animals near the North Shore's Baden Powell Trail. A dog bit into the trap, full of sharp hooks, but made a full recovery. RCMP Corporal Rich De Jong said the trap had recently been set.

It took a long while to determine but at last there has been a decision on whether to send Costa Concordia Captain Francesco Schettino to trial. A judge in Grosetto, Italy ruled this week that prosecutors can go ahead with the charges.

It seems the chickens may be coming home to roost with regard the Ford family. On the heels of the Toronto Star story on Mayor Rob Ford's alleged crack cocaine usage, The Globe and Mail has published a story on his brother Coun. Doug Ford's drug days.

It's pretty obvious, no? I mean for Rob Ford to say "I don't use crack cocaine" and that he is not addicted to it instead of "I've never used crack cocaine and am not in a video using crack cocaine" makes it obvious he is in a video using crack cocaine.

Republican Party and Tea Party member, Sarah Palin may have gotten two current scandals involving the American government mixed up with a tweet on Friday morning. If that's not the case then her meaning is arguably unclear.

Maybe to be the kind of guy that can afford a Porsche you have to be the kind of guy with a ho-hum attitude about owning one. That may be the case with a man who left his on a B.C. Ferry Wednesday. Boat trip over, he walked off and got the bus.

The Washington State patrol told media it was a Canadian truck driver who struck a girder on the bridge over the Skadgit River, causing the bridge to collapse and hurtling two vehicles to the waters below. No one was killed but 3 were injured.

Four fever medications for infants and for children have been recalled by Health Canada. The move is due to concerns of the sanitary conditions at the plant in China where the medication is made, and not because of reports of reactions to it.

American pop rock star Jon Bon Jovi trashed Canadian pop R and B star Justin Bieber this week. Bon Jovi, on his 'Because We Can' tour in Vienna, told the London Evening Standard the Biebs may be just another rock screw-up.

Former Beatle Paul McCartney joined a list of people calling for the release of a member of the Russian band, Pussy Riot. McCartney wrote on his website that Maria Alyokhina's punishment should end. Two members of the band are still in prison.

It was a 'worst kept secrets' scenaro but now it's out in the open: the Colorado Avalanche have hired former star goalie, Patrick Roy, as their new head coach. Roy replaces Joe Sacco, fired after the team failed to make the playoffs.

Senator Mike Duffy did not cooperate with the independent auditors reviewing his residency claims, the audit report said. However that fact did not become public knowledge because it was sanitized, or redacted, out of the report.

An annual run in Rwanda to benefit young girls and women is expanding to a global affair this year. The run is part of The Komera Project, a movement that awards scholarships to young women in that country.

A giant badger - at least some British schoolgirls report it as such - is running loose at the Folkestone School for Girls in Kent. The badger hasn't attacked anyone, per se, but has managed to be the focus of colorful stories and the occasional scream.

On Tuesday night at a European Tour event in England, Sergio Garcia said that he would have Tiger Woods over to dinner and serve him "fried chicken". The remark appears to have been intended to be a joke by the Spanish golfer but the crowd did not laugh.

A man linked to dead Boston Bombing suspect, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, has been shot and killed in Orlando, Fla., reports say. The Orlando Sentinel said that Ibragim Todashev was killed by an FBI agent. Todashev may have attacked the agent before he was shot.

Police in Norwich in the U.K. are looking into an incident where a driver knocked a cyclist off the road and into a hedge and then drove on. The driver later boasted about her deed in a tweet and police read it and began an investigation.

The phrase 'you can't take it with you' may have been on Hugh Hefner's mind when he dropped a cool $4.995 million for a house in the Hollywood Hills for he and his wife, Crystal Harris. The couple will continue living in their Playboy mansion, however.

Another female RCMP officer has filed a lawsuit against the force alleging abuse. The officer, Staff Sgt. Caroline O'Farrell, 52, filed the claim this week in Ontario Superior Court. The abuse, she alleges, took place in the 80s.

A train derailment in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan has lead to an oil spill. Five cars carrying oil derailed near the town of Jansen but just one spilled oil. The amount spilled was 575 barrels of Western crude.