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PARIS -- One person is to appear before a judge as part of a terrorism-related investigation into a shooting attack that killed five people last week near a Christmas market in the eastern French city of Strasbourg, the Paris prosecutor's office said Monday. Source

TORONTO -- A report from Ontario's independent corrections adviser has made a number of recommendations aimed at making jails safer, in response to an increase in reported inmate-on-staff violence at the province's correctional institutions. In a report released Thursday, Howard Sapers makes 42 recommendations to the province's Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services, including overhauling data management, improving workplace culture and enhancing training for correctional…

TORONTO -- The Ontario government is set to hold an emergency session today to introduce legislation aimed at preventing a strike at one of the province's major power utilities. The Progressive Conservatives are reconvening the legislature this afternoon -- just over a week after lawmakers rose for their winter break -- to table the bill that would stop job action by about 6,000 workers at Ontario Power Generation. Source

JOHANNESBURG -- The U.S. military says it has carried out six airstrikes in the Gandarshe area of Somalia which killed a total of 62 al-Shabab extremist rebels. In a statement issued Monday, the U.S. Source

LONDON -- Prime Minister Theresa May is set to condemn growing calls for a second referendum on Britain's departure from the European Union, saying it would do irreparable damage to trust in democracy. May's office said she will tell lawmakers in the House of Commons on Monday that staging another referendum "would say to millions who trusted in democracy that our democracy does not deliver. Source

Malaysia said on Monday it has filed criminal charges at home against Goldman Sachs and two of the U.S. bank's former employees in connection with a corruption and money laundering probe at state fund 1MDB. Goldman Sachs has been under scrutiny for its role in helping raise $6.5 billion US through three bond offerings for 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB), which is the subject of investigations in at least six countries. Source

A Winnipeg reservist who the military said died during training last November in fact stepped away from other soldiers on that exercise and killed himself — a year after telling his superiors he was being bullied and harassed. Source

As I approached the Canadian border from Roxham Road on a sunny and beautiful July day earlier this year, my mind was scattered over the years of my struggled life. This was another struggle and something that I had to do — cross the border illegally. Source

When the Royal Family takes its annual stroll on Christmas morning, there's likely to be more media scrutiny than usual as they make their way to church in the lush English countryside. For weeks, there has been fevered tabloid speculation about tensions behind palace walls, particularly suggestions that all is not well between the "duelling duchesses," Kate and Meghan. Source

SRINAGAR, India -- Soldiers and police fanned out across Indian-controlled Kashmir on Monday to enforce a security lockdown for a second straight day to stop anti-India protests and foil a call by separatists for a march toward India's main military garrison in the disputed region. Source