A Montreal man has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of his nine-year-old daughter in upstate New York.

Luciano Frattolin, 45, is being held at the Essex County Jail after the body of his daughter, Montreal resident Melina Frattolin, was found on Sunday in the town of Ticonderoga, N.Y., about two hours south of her home. Mr. Frattolin had reported Melina missing to local police on Saturday night and an Amber Alert had been issued for her.

A town in northeastern Newfoundland has been ordered to evacuate as an out-of-control wildfire closes in and officials declare a state of emergency, sending hundreds of residents fleeing and fearing for their homes.

Justice and Public Safety Minister John Haggie told reporters later Sunday that the fire was “a significant and serious issue.”

A group of Quebec businesses are suing the federal government for $300-million over Ottawa’s sharp tightening of the temporary foreign worker program last fall, arguing that the policy reversal was too abrupt and could drive some of them into insolvency.

The lawsuit, filed in late May, includes nearly two dozen companies in industries from plastics to truck components to slaughterhouses concentrated in the Montéregie region of the province, just outside Montreal, along with five temporary foreign workers whose livelihoods will be or have been affected by the policy changes.

Canada’s national police have arrested four men, including two active members of the Canadian Forces, alleging that they diverted items from the military in hopes of using them to create an extremist militia and take over a plot of land north of Quebec City.

Marc-Aurèle Chabot and Raphaël Lagacé of Quebec City, along with Simon Angers-Audet from nearby Neuville, were each charged with one count of facilitating terrorism.

Have you ever been asked to really give’r but ended up in a gong show? Gone to buy a freezie and some Cheezies only to be dinged with the GST? Gotten into a kerfuffle with an old winterer?

You’ve been speaking Canadian. A collection of our national expressions with the fittingly unflashy title A Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles, Third Edition has just been updated with more than a 100 words and phrases that are defiantly ours. The online publication by the University of British Columbia’s Department of English Language and Literatures goes way beyond “eh.”