Jennifer Stahn

VANCOUVER – It isn't ghosts that Paul Kingsbury's after this Halloween as he prepares to accompany a troop of supernatural investigators on a soul-searching expedition at a Vancouver-area heritage building. He's on a hunt for the hunters themselves.

TORONTO – Jamie Oliver is calling on Canadians to push Justin Trudeau to develop a strategy for child nutrition, including more education, a crackdown on junk food advertising and better labelling on food products.

LUDINGTON, Mich. – A couple with a love of Halloween — and each other — got married at a haunted house in western Michigan.

VICTORIA – A Victoria-area man who beat a dog with a baseball bat until it could barely walk has been sentenced to six months in jail and banned from owning animals for 10 years.

VANCOUVER – The beautiful game has stopped for a girl's soccer team on northern Vancouver Island over media attention arising from the sideline issue of salmon farming.

FREDERICTON – The national president of the Canadian Legion says it's unbelievable that anyone would stoop so low as to steal memorial plaques off two cenotaphs in Fredericton.

OTTAWA – As Justin Trudeau prepares to tackle the politics of legalizing pot as part of his Liberal government's legislative agenda, industry experts say he will have access to a world-class marijuana framework set up under the Conservative government.

TOFINO – Passengers were crowded on the left side of the top deck of a whale-watching boat when it was struck by a wave from the right side, causing the vessel to capsize and send 27 people into the water off Vancouver Island, an investigator said.

VANCOUVER – British Columbia's public auto insurer says a cyclist's own carelessness led him to be run down and killed by an alleged impaired driver on a B.C. highway.

TORONTO – Before there was Pooh, Tigger or Eeyore, there was a real bear cub and a helpful veterinarian pal, who were both from Canada.

OTTAWA – Snowbirds beware: The federal government will use its planned border exit-tracking system to avoid paying hundreds of millions of dollars in social benefits now going to people who shouldn't receive them due to absences from Canada.

CALGARY – There are three petitions generating a heated debate on whether the Calgary International Airport should be renamed for outgoing prime minister Stephen J. Harper.