The ongoing investigation into the death of Ontario father Tim Bosma and the man who has been charged with his murder has led investigators down several dark paths in recent days.

The announcement that Dellen Millard has been charged with first-degree murder in Bosma's death has led police to reconsider two other cases – one involving a missing woman who is said to have been last in contact with the young pilot, and the apparent suicide of Millard's own father.

CTV News reports that police are investigating a link between Millard and a 23-year-old woman who went missing last July.

Laura Babcock was last seen in Toronto last summer. Her former boyfriend told the network she was last known to be in the company of Millard and her phone records showed she had called him 13 times between June 30 and July 3, when the phone suddenly stopped being used.

[ Related: Tim Bosma public memorial Wednesday in Hamilton, Ont. ]

Toronto police told CTV Toronto's Tamara Cherry that nothing had seemed

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A recent incident involving an Enbridge Inc. crew working on the Northern Gateway project and a B.C. First Nation provides a hint of what the Calgary-based energy company can expect if the oil sands pipeline is ever approved.

The Canadian Press reports the Gitga'a First Nation turned away an Enbridge spill-response survey crew earlier this month. It won't be the last time work on the as-yet unapproved mega-project is tripped up.

The re-election of the resource-friendly Liberals in this week's B.C. election may have let Northern Gateway's backers breathe a little easier.

“I think British Columbians have spoken quite clearly that economic development and economic prosperity is a priority, but not at the expense of the environment,” Enbridge spokesman Ivan Giesbrecht told the Globe and Mail after Tuesday's vote.

“You know, that has been our message all along as well, and we are certainly committed to working with the Liberal government to move that forward.”

Premier Christy Clark set five

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Toronto Mayor Rob Ford called reports that he had been videotaped smoking what appears to be a crack pipe “ridiculous” on Friday in a brief statement dismissing the allegations that he may have used illegal drugs.

U.S. news site Gawker and the Toronto Star have both published stories that claim reporters were shown a video of the mayor smoking from what appears to be a crack pipe. In both cases, reporters suggest the video shows Ford heating the pipe with a lighter and inhaling.

Ford started the morning by greeting a cadre of news cameras outside his Etobicoke home claiming the accusation was ridiculous. He reiterated himself during a brief press scrum at city hall.

"Like I said this morning, these allegations are ridiculous. It is another story with respect to the Toronto Star going after me. That is all I have to say right now," Ford said.

But while Ford was painting this as another attack by the Toronto Star, both news groups that made the allegations against him were quick with

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Say what you will about the firing of Ontario Lottery and Gaming chairman Paul Godfrey and the resignation of its entire board of governors, but at the very least it suggests the province’s once-ambitious plans to modernize and expand the gambling industry have been put on the back-burner.

Godfrey was dismissed Thursday evening, just hours after Toronto Mayor Rob Ford accused the province of dragging its feet on plans to build a casino in the city’s downtown. A downtown Toronto casino was to be the jewel in the crown of a massive OLG modernization that was said to include as many as 29 new casinos and bring more revenue into provincial coffers.

The Canadian Press reports that Godfrey's dismissal triggered the entire OLG board to resign in protest, leaving the corporation completely leaderless just as massive plans for expansion were coming to a head.

Godfrey was appointed head of OLG in 2010 under former premier Dalton McGuinty, who had indicated he wanted the government-run gaming

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Former Manitoba MLA and MP Elijah Harper has died at the age of 64.

Harper was instrumental in stopping the 1990 Meech Lake Accord by famously holding an eagle feather in the Manitoba legislature and saying "No" in his refusal to support the accord while the clocked ticked down. Scuttling the accord blocked the amendment package negotiated to gain Quebec's acceptance of the Constitution Act of 1982.

Harper protested that the proposed accord was negotiated in 1987 without the input of Canada's Aboriginal Peoples.

[ Related: 'No:' Elijah Harper, who scuttled Meech Lake, dies at age 64 ]

The accord required ratification by all 10 provincial legislatures and Parliament, and Harper's action prevented Manitoba from doing so before the deadline.

Newfoundland followed by cancelling its free vote in the legislature.

Harper was the first status Indian elected to the Manitoba legislature where he served from 1981 to 1992. That included a two-year stint as minister of native affairs in former NDP

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Canada's largest-circulation newspaper and one of America's most-read news sites have both come out claiming they have watched a video of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford smoking from what appeared to be a crack pipe.

News and gossip blog Gawker broke the news late Thursday night, claiming that a staff member visited Toronto specifically to meet with a man who claims to have shot the video. The Toronto Star declared a short time later that two of their reporters had also met with a man and watched the video. An exclusive was published on the newspaper's front page today.

The allegations have not been proven and Ford allies have urged the public not to jump to conclusions. As neither organization has obtained a copy of the video, apparently being shopped with a six-figure price tag, the accuracy of the reports cannot be verified.

Both reports appear to have been written and published independent of one another and share some key similarities and some differences.

[ Related: Video of Rob Ford

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A bizarre headline about Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has made its way onto Gawker - a prominent U.S. news blog that has recently taken an interest in the leader of Canada's largest city.

According to Gawker correspondent John Cook, an unidentified person shot a video of Ford allegedly smoking crack cocaine. The person is now looking to sell the video for a six-digit figure.

Cook goes on to describe a journey he took to Toronto in an attempt to buy the video. He met a man who claims to have shot the video and watched the footage on a touch-screen cell phone while sitting in a car outside a housing project somewhere near the airport.

[ Related: Rob Ford declares downtown casino debate dead-ish ]

Here are a couple of significant claims made in the Gawker piece:

• The video was shot in the last six months
• Ford allegedly purchases crack cocaine from a dealer who is popular with the city's elite, allegedly including some of Ford’s staff members and his brother, as well as a "prominent hockey analyst."
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The Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP is launching an investigation after a Human Rights Watch report was released earlier this year.Longstanding complaints by northern B.C. First Nations people about their treatment at the hands of the RCMP has triggered an investigation by the force's independent watchdog.

But it took a report Human Rights Watch to do it.

The Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP said in a news release it has begun its own investigation into allegations contained the New York-based human rights organization's February report.

"I am satisfied that there are reasonable grounds for me to initiate this complaint," commission interim chairman Ian MacPhail said.

Commission operations director Richard Evans told CBC News there will be a thorough review of the abuse allegations contained in the Human Rights Watch report.

"When it comes to looking at some of the issues raised in the Human Rights Watch report, we don't have to just rely on what people are telling us," he said. "We'll be able to go into the RCMP files and examine them as well."

[ Related: Damning reports of abuse, mistreatment lend

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