Human remains were found following a house fire in eastern Quebec late Friday night.
Quebec provincial police say emergency crews were called shortly after 3:30 a.m. to a single-family home on 3e Rang Blais Nord in Saint-Tharcisius, in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region.
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Quebec provincial police say two people may have been inside the home at the time of the fire.
Authorities say the remains could belong to the occupants, but formal identification will be carried out by the coroner.
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Police say investigators were sent to the site.
The investigation into the cause and circumstances of the blaze is ongoing.
A sentencing hearing is scheduled today for a teen who set a girl on fire at a Saskatoon high school.
The 16-year-old girl pleaded guilty last year to attempted murder in the lunchtime attack of her former friend at Evan Hardy Collegiate in September 2024.
Court heard the friendship had spiralled into obsession and threats, and the offender splashed lighter fluid on the victim, setting her ablaze in a hallway.
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The victim, who was 15 at the time, was so badly burned that skin melted off her arms and fused her backpack to her clothes.
The offender also pleaded guilty to unlawfully causing bodily harm to a teacher who came to the victim’s aid.
Neither the victim nor the attacker, who was 14 at the time, can be identified under the Youth Criminal Justice Act.
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A historic church in Montreal has been lost after a major fire erupted at the building.
The century-old Saint-Paul Catholic Church in the Sud-Ouest borough burned to the ground early Monday morning, with plumes of smoke still billowing from the rubble.
A five-alarm fire was reported just after 1:30 a.m., with flames lighting up the sky.
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According to Montreal fire crews, no one was injured during the incident but due to difficulty containing the blaze, a neighbouring retirement home was evacuated as flames also spread to the building.
The Canadian Red Cross says about 150 residents from the area were taken into care. Among those evacuated were 73 people from the retirement home, which had been converted from the church’s former rectory.
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The church has been vacant for years, but was still considered a staple of the community since it was built in 1910. It is part of a heritage site comprised of a few buildings in the area.
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The extent of the damage to the church is being assessed by fire officials. An investigation is also underway into the cause of the fire and where it started.
— With a file from Global News’ Brayden Jagger Haines and The Canadian Press
Antoinette Dick was asleep in her northeast Edmonton home on Saturday morning when a light woke her up just before 4 a.m.
“All of a sudden, my eyes just went bright and I looked out the window and there was a fire,” Dick said.
That fire was from propane heaters at a construction site behind Dick’s house near the Clareview Recreation Centre, around 138 Avenue and 37 Street.
The blaze was so intense, it was shooting flames “40 to 50 feet in the air” when first responders arrived.
Fire flares from a propane tank in northeast Edmonton on Feb. 21, 2026.
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“We responded to reports of an explosion,” District Chief Cory Cremer said.
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“Unconfirmed whether there was an explosion or not, but we did have some commercial propane heaters on fire.”
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Cremer said about 20 people — one of whom was Dick — were evacuated from nearby homes.
The propane company was also called to help mitigate the fire.
Neighbours are glad the sudden — and bright — wakeup call wasn’t more serious.
“A little scary because it could’ve exploded and that would’ve rocked a few blocks, probably,” said Margaret Belleperche, another person who had to leave their house.
As of Saturday afternoon, there’s no word on a cause or impact on nearby buildings.
Edmonton fire crews were called out around 5 a.m. on Thursday to reports of a fire in the old Jasper Place Hotel, located at 15326 Stony Plain Rd.
Responding firefighters kept a steady stream of water on the flames and smoke billowing out of the windows of the abandoned hotel.
Large pools of water also began forming on the streets and sidewalks around the burning building.
The Jasper Place Hotel was declared unfit for human habitation following a previous fire in December 2019.
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Edmonton police were also called in to block off several streets in the area and people were asked to avoid the area to give emergency crews room to work.
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The hotel previously caught fire in December of 2019 while there were still 41 people living in it.
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The damage from that fire resulted in it being declared unfit for human habitation by Alberta Health Services.
Edmonton firefighters could be seen pouring a steady stream of water on the hotel as they fought to get the fire under control.
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Some of the building materials were also confirmed to contain asbestos that was damaged by the fire.
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Ken Clements, who lives in Edmonton’s Boyle-McCauley neighbourhood, recounted what he saw early Monday morning when a fire broke out in a neighbour’s house, near 93 Street and 105 Avenue.
“I woke up, because I usually get up around 5:30 anyways. I seen lights outside my window and I seen the smoke coming out of the corner of the house,” he said.
“I figured the house was on fire. I figured it was going to burn to the ground because they’re old houses. But it didn’t. They got it out before it burnt to the ground.
“About two hours they were working on the inside, and then one guy came out and said, ‘I think there’s a body in here,’ one of the firemen. She was in the back bedroom, from what I understand.”
Investigators had to use DNA evidence to identify the victim, and while her death has been ruled a homicide, police won’t say how she was killed.
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Family members have identified the victim of a fatal fire on Monday in Edmonton’s Boyle-McCauley neighbourhood as 39-year-old Teresa Katcheech.
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Family members have identified her as 39-year-old Teresa Sara Katcheech, a mother of two sons, ages 11 and 17 and an 8-year-old daughter who were being raised by a cousin of hers, although she still visited with them.
Police tape surrounds the house in Edmonton’s Boyle-McCauley neighbourhood, following Monday’s fatal fire.
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“I just started crying,” said her oldest son Damen about learning of the death of his mom. “That was my biggest fear, losing my mom.”
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Her family remembers her as funny, outspoken, kind and beautiful and they set up a memorial of flowers, cards and photos outside the house where she died.
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“I was missing her a lot,” said younger son Kieran. “I wrote, ‘I love you Mom’ and then I wrote, ‘Love, Kieran.’”
“I just don’t get how you could do that to mom, and like whoever did it I hope that every day that they go to bed (with) my mom on their mind. Every day that they wake up, my mom’s on their mind,” said Damen.
“For her life to end this way is just — it’s not fair,” said her cousin Jeslyn Tremblay.
Teresa Katcheech’s two sons, Damen and Kieran, told Global News they don’t understand how anyone could do what they did to their mom.
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Teresa’s family members say she didn’t live at the house where her body was found.
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But a neighbour told Global News a man who did was evicted three months ago, but was still squatting there.
The victim’s family have set up a GoFundMe campaign has been set up to help cover the cost of a “celebration of life” for her and to support her children.
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The city of Calgary says it has spent more than $2 million this year trying to save a number of Calgary’s fire trucks.
The money was spent to repair the steel frames on nine of its trucks— that’s about a fifth of the fleet.
A member of the Calgary Fire Department checks the undercarriage of a fire truck for signs of corrosion.
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The department said road salt is thought to be the source of the corrosion, eating away at the older trucks in the fleet which are only around 10 years old.
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But the department says it is a quicker alternative than ordering replacement trucks, which, due to backlog, could take up to four years to deliver.
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The cost of a replacement truck can also be steep, at up to $1.5 million.
The corrosion on Calgary’s fire trucks is believed to be caused by the The city of Calgary uses up to 50 thousand tonnes of road salts used on city streets each year.
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The city of Calgary uses about 40 to 50 thousand tonnes of road salt on city roads every year.
A chemical engineer who spoke with Global News, Arthur Potts, suggests more frequent washing of the vehicle’s undercarriage, or applying a wax sealing solution to the trucks, could help slow down the corrosion process caused by the chemicals.
