Teen charged with attempted murder in attack on girl in Quadeville, Ont.

Nearly 24 years ago, in December 2001, a British man named Richard Reid attempted to blow up an American Airlines flight from Paris to Miami by hiding homemade bombs in his shoes. It’s likely one of the factors that influenced the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to implement a “shoes-off” policy. It required travellers to remove their shoes while going through security checkpoints at airports across the United States to screen for explosives. Although that rule didn’t become official until 2006, TSA started to ask passengers to voluntarily take off their shoes following...