Charges laid against 2 hikers with off-leash dog followed by grizzly in Banff

An Ontario judge has sentenced a man to house arrest in a “covert scheme” to traffic handguns into Canada from the United States. Emerson Wright, 29, was charged with conspiring with his childhood friend, Dylan Crawford, to traffic firearms and possessing a firearm for the purpose of transferring it while knowingly not being authorized to do so. On his first day of trial in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, Wright pleaded guilty to conspiracy to traffic in a firearm to Crawford. “Although the gravity of this offence highlights the need for punishment, it is not so pressing as to...