Some seniors are at risk of losing their homes in a scheme involving door-to-door equipment rental contracts, questionable renovations and mortgages worth hundreds of thousands of dollars that many didn’t know they had and can’t afford.

The bodies of six people, including one child with a Canadian passport, were recovered from the St. Lawrence River near Akwesasne on the Ontario-Quebec border late Thursday afternoon, according to police in the community.

Vancouver Island-based G.T. Farms has been fined $22,100 by the Ministry of Environment for environmental violations, and more fines have been recommended. The farmer has appealed and moved the dumping of slaughter waste to another site, which the ministry has also inspected and found noncompliant.

A Canadian biotech company has developed new test strips to detect the dangerous animal tranquillizer xylazine in the highly toxic street drug supply — but while the strips are already shipping across the U.S., Canada hasn’t yet approved the potentially lifesaving tool.

In my experience growing up as a closeted minor hockey player, hockey culture cultivates an insular, us-against-the-world mentality far stronger than that of most other sports, writes Colin Walmsley.