One Canadian couple's fight against a contractor who defrauded them

The director of a Quebec homeless shelter is urging empathy after a 38-year-old unhoused woman was charged for allegedly abandoning her newborn outside in the cold shortly after giving birth on the street on New Year’s Day.The woman, who can’t be named because of a publication ban protecting the infant, was scheduled to appear in court on Tuesday in Trois-Rivières, Que., about 125 kilometres northeast of Montreal. She has been charged with failing to provide the necessaries of life to her baby, who survived.Trois-Rivières police spokesperson Stéphanie Côté says police received a call...