As many as 100,000 people could be forced from their homes by heavy flooding in western Canada, Calgary city officials said, while mudslides forced the closure of the Trans-Canada Highway around the mountain resort towns of Banff and Canmore.

A man who beheaded and ate parts of a fellow bus passenger will not go to prison after a Canadian judge ruled that he was not criminally responsible.

Canada’s Atlantic provinces of Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia were in a state of emergency today as they began to dig out from under three feet of snow dumped by a fierce blizzard.