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Three years after Canadian Armed Forces veteran Samantha Wylie was killed in a horrific accident on a highway west of Calgary, the woman who was driving the other vehicle involved has been sentenced on a charge of impaired driving causing death. As Elissa Carpenter reports, Deirdre Snow will spend the next three-and-a-half years in a...

In an effort to keep the roads safe, Lethbridge police officers will be running a blitz targeting impaired drivers this month. Justin Sibbet reports.

Two crashes on Manitoba roads this past week resulted in the drivers being arrested for impaired driving as concerns are being raised over the message not getting across.

Prince Albert Grand Council discusses the development of a regional Indigenous led police force. The federal government announces a multi-million dollar investment for new affordable housing in Saskatoon. A 37 year old man is facing multiple charges including impaired driving after an early morning collision on University Bridge.

The app allows officers conducting standard field sobriety testing to be more efficient, replacing the current paper and pen method of tabulating results. Catherine McDonald reports.

A man was arrested after police say he was driving in Western Manitoba while three times over the legal limit.

A Belleville police officer is one of more than a dozen recipients of the 2024 Ontario medal for police bravery. Acting Sergeant Jess Sarley was awarded the provinces highest honour for his heroic effort to stop a dangerous impaired driver.

A 23-year-old man faces several charges, including robbery and impaired operation of a motor vehicle, after an alleged carjacking in the community of Walden on Sunday. One witness says the driver crashed the vehicle into a pole moments after her vehicle was hit.

MADD Saskatoon is spreading awareness about drunk driving over the holidays with their Red Ribbon Campaign. With roads getting busier and Christmas events, driving impaired is more common during last months of the year. It is important for people to plan a safe ride home.

As Catherine McDonald reports, Arjun Sahota is also charged with impaired and dangerous driving causing bodily harm.

Police are still investigating a crash in Winnipeg Saturday night that killed two people, but say they’ve arrested a suspect who now faces a half-dozen charges, including two counts of impaired driving causing death. Katherine Dornian reports.

Arjun Sahota testified Thursday that he was not impaired on the night of Oct. 20, 2022, when he drove the wrong way down York Street, struck a pedestrian and fled the scene. As Catherine McDonald reports, Sahota says he has no memory of the collision which left a pedestrian with life altering injuries.

A new roadside memorial sign now marks the location where a Trenton woman was killed by an impaired driver in 2021. Jesse Reynolds was on site as her family, together with MADD Canada, unveiled the sign. A lasting reminder for drivers to make safer choices.

BC Highway Patrol says it took hundreds of impaired drivers off the road this summer. The results of the impaired driving campaign are out and show a higher number of tickets handed out in the north and central parts of the province. Kylie Stanton has the numbers.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford introduced “Andrew’s Law” on Friday which will aim to amend the Ontario Highway Traffic Act when it comes to serious offences. “Dangerous driving, impaired driving, stunt driving… There should be immediate licence suspension. Life-time driving bans,” Ford says, adding a host of other offences to the proposed law.

A man police say was behind the wheel of a vehicle that crashed into a parked car on Friday morning, damaging more than half a dozen vehicles in total, is also facing charges in another impaired driving crash in December 2024 that claimed the life of a passenger, and injured another. As Skylar Peters explains,...

Kasper Lincoln didn’t imagine when he borrowed his roommate’s daughter’s toy Barbie jeep for a trip to the gas station that he would wind up in cuffs and with a court date. The Prince George, B.C. man was arrested, ticketed and handed a 90-day driving prohibition after allegedly driving the battery-powered toy on the road...

Prince George RCMP made an unusual traffic stop on Friday morning. Officers stopped and eventually arrested an allegedly impaired driver piloting a pink toy Jeep along 15th Avenue.

Police have charged a Mississauga man with impaired driving in connection with a serious multi-vehicle crash that happened in Brampton over the weekend. As Caryn Lieberman reports, police are expressing frustration as the same driver has been convicted multiple times in the past with drunk driving.

Police in Montreal are investigating two separate violent incidents that left one woman dead and another seriously injured on Sunday. Though the exact circumstances are not yet clear, women’s rights advocates are sounding the alarm. A young man has been arrested and charged with impaired driving. Phil Carpenter has more.