TORONTO – A 38-year-old teacher at Agincourt Collegiate Institute has been charged with three separate counts of sexual exploitation and police think there may be more victims. Peter Floro had been a teacher at the institute in Toronto for four years, said Const. Isabelle Cotton. “It is alleged that in June 2010, a student was [...]
OTTAWA – Canada has expressed grave concern about gas attacks on school girls by fundamentalists who view the education of girls as unnecessary. “Canada is deeply concerned with the growing number of attacks on school children in Afghanistan. These cowardly acts, targeting one of the most vulnerable groups within Afghan society, show the complete disregard [...]
CALGARY – A woman pedestrian has died following a crash at the intersection of 17th Avenue and 44 Street. Police said the woman was crossing the road when she was struck by a vehicle. The accident occurred at 10:51 p.m. on Tuesday. “She received significant injuries in the incident and was declared dead at the [...]
CALGARY – Two men have been badly burned in an explosion and house fire and a hero cop who went in to check for people was taken to hospital for treatment of smoke inhalation. The police arson unit is investigating the house fire and explosion that occurred around 7 p.m. on Monday in the 4800-block [...]
CALGARY – Police have identified a murdered man following an autopsy and they have also charged a man with second-degree murder. “At approximately 12:30 p.m., on Friday, Aug. 27, 2010, police were called to the 1500 block of 21 Avenue S.W., to reports of a stabbing. “When police arrived a man was located with life [...]
By Salim Jiwa SURREY, B.C. – Maninder Gill, the controversial managing director of Punjabi-language Radio India has been charged with a series of offences for shooting and wounding a man with whom his broadcasting outfit had been feuding for several weeks. Gill escaped from the Surrey Sikh Temple after he allegedly shot Harjit Singh Atwal [...]
OTTAWA– A Canadian soldier, who sustained injuries in Afghanistan, passed away at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany on Monday. Corporal (Cpl) Brian Pinksen from 2nd Battalion, The Royal Newfoundland Regiment, based in Corner Brook Newfoundland, was serving in Afghanistan with the 1st Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment Battle Group. Pinksen sustained his injuries when [...]
By Karen Mullins MONTREAL – For years the use of cannabis as medicine has been debated by governments, doctors and the public. A new study from McGill University shows real evidence that cannabis offers relief for patients with chronic neuropathic pain. The study, Smoked cannabis for chronic neuropathic pain: a randomized controlled trial authored by [...]
WINNIPEG – A doctor wanted by Winnipeg Police since August 2009 has been arrested by Greek authorities. Walid Ahmed Abdelhamid, 30, was arrested on Aug. 6 while traveling through Crete. Winnipeg police said he failed to appear in court in June 2009 on a charge of sexual assault on a male. He worked as a [...]
MISSISSAUGA, ON – What caused the death of a motorbike rider being followed by a Durham police cruiser remains a mystery after Ontario’s SIU issued a baffling press statement. The press statement said: ” Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit (SIU) is probing the circumstances surrounding the death of a person in the westbound lanes of Highway [...]
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