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Governments are this weekend studying a "game changing" report on global drugs policy that is being seen in some quarters as the beginning of the end for blanket prohibition. Publication of the Organization of American States (OAS) review, commissioned at last year's Cartagena Summit of the Americas reflects growing dissatisfaction among Latin American countries with the current global policy on illicit drugs. It spells out the effects of the policy on many countries and examines what the global drugs trade will look like if the status quo continues. (Guardian UK)
REPORTS: Drug Problem in the Americas 2013 .pdf Scenarios for the Drug Problem .pdf
Jazeera
QUSAYR - Syrian troops have stormed the rebel stronghold of Qusayr and now control the town centre, state media say. State TV says 70 "terrorists" have been killed while activists say 30 people have died including many rebels. The town, near the Lebanese border, has been under siege for weeks. Its control would give the government access from the capital to the coast. Lebanese militants are said to be involved - Hezbollah siding with the government, Sunni gunmen with rebels. (BBC)
MORE: Army attacks rebel stronghold
PREVIOUS: Syrian civil war
OTTAWA - The Prime Minister’s Chief of Staff has resigned in light of the controversy around his handling of expense payments involving Senator Mike Duffy. (CP)
PREVIOUS: Life in a Banana republic
OTTAWA - A federal agency that ensures banks and other financial institutions follow the rules has itself broken the rules on hospitality spending. The Financial Consumer Agency of Canada (FCAC) spent well in excess of the maximum allowed for a gala dinner in Toronto last November. Only 1 of the gala guests was a federal public servant. The other 9 were invited guests from organizations, such as the Canadian Bankers Association (CBA), whose member banks the agency regulates. (CP)
VANCOUVER - A lawyer representing 300 women who worked for the RCMP alleging harassment and gender-based discrimination in a lawsuit says the national police force is declining an offer to mediate. "The RCMP indicated they have no interest to discuss settlement. It comes as a big surprise to us," said Vancouver class action lawyer David Klein. But earlier this year, RCMP commissioner Bob Paulson's action plan said the force would "expeditiously resolve, wherever appropriate, outstanding harassment-related lawsuits." (CBC)
PREVIOUS: RCMP Harassment
HALIFAX - All charges against a NS woman in the Royal Canadian Navy who is fighting cancer, and who was charged with being absent without leave, have been dropped. The news comes less than 24 hours after CBC News broke the story. (CBC)
PETERBOROUGH - Police and the province are investigating after footage aired that appears to show an elderly woman being repeatedly mistreated and humiliated at a long-term care home in Peterborough. Camille Parent has thousands of video clips, all of them featuring his 85-year-old mother, who suffers from Alzhiemer's, in her room at St. Joseph's at Fleming. (QMI)
MORE: Marycrest Home For The Aged
The human brain is the most complex object in the known universe. It contains 100 billion nerve cells. Considering how complex that is, it goes wrong remarkably rarely. But go wrong it sometimes does. Which is why, since 1952, the American Psychiatric Association has published its “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders”, the DSM. No other major branch of medicine has such a single text, with so much power over people’s lives. And that is worrying. (Economist)
PREVIOUS: By the book Psychologists attack psychiatrists
MEXICO CITY - State-owned Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) admits that “serious” corruption exists in some areas of the company and that contracting processes in particular have been plagued by “interference from organized crime.” (EFE)
MORE: Pemex admits corruption still exits
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BAGHDAD - Bombs struck Sunni areas in Baghdad and surrounding areas Friday, killing at least 76 people in the deadliest day in Iraq in more than 8 months. The attacks in Baghdad and surrounding areas pushed the 3-day Iraqi death toll to 130, including Shias at bus stops and outdoor markets in scenes reminiscent of the retaliatory attacks between the Islamic sects. (CBC)
MORE: 8 killed, 10 policemen kidnapped Violence continues Iraq body count
PREVIOUS: Mosques bombings Bombs kill 49 Shia-Sunni relations
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KANDAHAR - 2 car bombs have killed at least 9 people in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar. More than 60 people were wounded in the blasts, mostly civilians. The blasts happened in Aino Mina, an elite housing development on the outskirts of the city. It is thought families were dining nearby. (BBC)
PREVIOUS: NATO workers targeted Suicide bomber
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MALAKAND DISTRICT - Police say bombings in two separate mosques in NW Pakistan have killed at least 12 people. 50 have been wounded and many are in critical condition. Both of the Sunni Muslim mosques were badly damaged, and the roof of one of them collapsed. The mosques were located in Baz Darrah village in the Malakand district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The blasts happened shortly after Friday prayers. (Jazeera)
MORE: Bomb blasts inside mosques Blasts kill 15 Bombs at mosques
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KANO - Nigeria's military on Friday attacked Boko Haram Islamist strongholds across the NE, launching deadly air strikes on insurgent camps, while residents reported that forces had deployed in border areas to block the militants from fleeing. Several thousand soldiers have spread across 3 NE states where President Goodluck Jonathan imposed a state of emergency after Boko Haram seized territory and declared war against the government. (AFP)
MORE: Boko Haram was planning to declare their own country Forces shell camps State of emergency Army imposes curfew
Misbahuddin Ahmed Khurram Sher
OTTAWA - An undercover source working for Canada's spy agency and sensitive intelligence from the United States and Britain helped build the case against three terrorism suspects facing criminal charges, court documents indicate. Other material was apparently gleaned through the secretive Five Eyes eavesdropping network. (CP)
MORE: Hiva Alizadeh
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada upheld the acquittal of a Saskatchewan woman who was charged with abandoning a child after giving birth in a Wal-Mart bathroom. (CBC)
JUDGMENT: 2013 SCC 28
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OTTAWA - The CTF today called on governments to end the tax-on-tax practice for gasoline and diesel, marking the organization’s 15th annual Gas Tax Honesty Day. The CTF called on both federal and provincial governments to end the practice of calculating the GST or HST after they’ve already levied provincial and federal excise taxes on gasoline, thereby taxing their own taxes. The result has been governments collecting an extra $1.6B from unsuspecting motorists. (Canadian Taxpayers Federation)
MORE: Tax gap
PREVIOUS: Corporate scandals
OTTAWA - A new report from the parliamentary budget officer shows Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd (AECL) continues to be a drain on the public purse. The budget watchdog says although Ottawa’s support for the nuclear agency has decreased by 60% over the last 4 years, AECL’s losses have also mounted from $300M in 2009-10 to $3B in the first three quarters of 2012-13. Ultimately, the report says, the government is on the hook for the Crown corporation’s liabilities. (Globe & Mail)
REPORT: Supplementary Estimates 2013-14 .pdf
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Canadians are being warned to keep an eye out for counterfeit $100 polymer bills after 7 imitation notes were discovered late last month in BC. (CTV)
Jean Roberge
MONTREAL - The suspended assistant manager of Laval, Jean Roberge, has told Quebec's corruption inquiry that there was a system of collusion in place in Quebec's fourth-largest city and that he took part in it. He was called to the stand Wednesday morning, after a surprise announcement by commission prosecutor Sonia LeBel that Roberge's boss, city manager Gaétan Turbide, would not be testifying because of questions about his credibility. (CBC)
MORE: Organized collusion Deep corruption exposed Vaillancourt allegedly tried to bribe Muclair
PREVIOUS: Greed & Corruption Quebec Mafia Political parties in Canada
Accounting for the billions spent
OTTAWA - Federal departments should provide proper descriptions of the work done for the millions of taxpayer dollars spent on management consulting, Treasury Board president Tony Clement said. The pledge for improved transparency comes after a Star investigation revealed 90% of the $2.4B paid out for management consulting in the past decade comes with no description of the services provided, despite government guidelines encouraging the information be disclosed. (Toronto Star)
PREVIOUS: Cash cow state secret
OTTAWA - The head of Canada’s National Library and Archives resigned Wednesday. Daniel Caron landed in hot water with Heritage Minister James Moore this week after it was revealed that he spent nearly $5,000 of taxpayer funds on private Spanish lessons last year. The publicly available figures show Caron expensed $87,000 in each of 2011 and 2012, dwarfing Moore’s own expenses, which averaged $46,000 in each of those years. (Ottawa Citizen)
OTTAWA - The Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP will examine policing issues in northern BC, including officers’ use of force, police handling of missing-persons reports, and the treatment of young people. The investigation comes after a Human Rights Watch report detailed allegations of abuse and mistreatment by police and suggested the RCMP has failed to properly investigate a series of disappearances and suspected murders of aboriginal women. (Globe & Mail)
REPORT: Those Who Take Us Away
PREVIOUS: RCMP harassment
MONTREAL - RCMP are investigating a number of senior employees of SNC-Lavalin International Inc. over who knew about and who approved alleged bribes paid through a secret accounting system for projects in Africa and Asia. (CBC)
PREVIOUS: 'Project consultancy costs' Web of illicit payments Corporate scandals
BRUSSELS - At a time when unemployment in the eurozone is at a record high amid the longest European recession since the war, the Prime Minister won majority support at a Brussels summit in February for cuts to the EU civil service. But lawyers in the European Commission and Council of the EU have warned that any "abrupt changes" to salaries or pensions would be illegal if reforms violated the "legitimate expectations" of officials. (Telegraph UK)
RELATED: Retirement can drastically damage health
PREVIOUS: Greek and corruption EU
Washington’s top tax official was fired on Wednesday as President Barack Obama sought to stem a rising tide of criticism in a scandal over the IRS’ targeting of conservative groups for special scrutiny. (AFP)
MORE: 3 scandals Behind IRS' targeting
COMMENT: Autocrat accountants
PREVIOUS: Phone records secretly seized Sweeping subpoenas Violation Outrage grows 'Stunned' Spinning Benghazi 2012 Benghazi attack
OTTAWA - More than a decade after going to war against the Taliban in Afghanistan, the Canadian government has officially declared them a terrorist group. The Taliban has been added to the so-called list of entities, along with the Haqqani network, an Islamist group believed to be behind ongoing attacks on international coalition forces in Afghanistan. (CBC)
MORE: Currently listed entities
GRANBURY - Officials awaited daybreak to fully assess the scope of the destruction left in the wake of a deadly tornado in Granbury, Texas. Hood County Sheriff Roger Deeds said he hoped the death toll from the tornado would hold at six, with about 50 people injured and 250 people left homeless. The twister was part of a swarm of tornadoes unleashed on North Texas, devastating two neighbourhoods in southern Granbury and a neighbourhood in nearby Cleburne. (AP)
Akein Scott NOPD
NEW ORLEANS - Police have arrested Akein Scott, 19, in connection with a shooting spree at an informal Mother's Day parade that left 19 people wounded. (USA Today)
MORE: Suspect in court Suspect arrested
PREVIOUS: Mother's Day shooting Police release video 19 hurt in parade shooting Police identify suspect
BAIR-JAMES - Little noticed by the world outside, the Cree of northern Quebec are writing a startlingly different story than their cousins on the western shore of James Bay. Self-government. Revenue-sharing. Decent schools and new development. Mining companies being welcomed instead of blockaded. And no hunger strikes. It's taken 40 years, but a long struggle is paying off. (CBC)
MORE: Eeyou Istchee
Most violent city in the world
SAN PEDRO SULA - Last year, an average of 20 people were murdered every day in Honduras, a country of just 8M inhabitants, according to the Violence Observatory at the National Autonomous University of Honduras (NAUH). That's a murder rate of 85.5 per 100,000 residents, compared with 56 in Venezuela, 4.78 in the US and 1.2 in the UK. In San Pedro Sula, the rate is 173, reportedly the highest in the world outside a war zone. (Guardian UK)
RELATED: El Salvador murder rate falls
PREVIOUS: OC deaths down Cartels
TUCSON - The detention of undocumented immigrants has become a multimillion dollar business for corporations devoted to the administration of prisons and detention centers in states like Arizona, activists say. Under Operation Streamline, launched in 2005, undocumented migrants apprehended at the border have to serve jail time before they are deported. Each day in federal court in Tucson an average of about 70 undocumented immigrants are processed and receive sentences ranging from 30 to 180 days behind bars. One of the biggest US operators of private prisons is Corrections Corporation of America (CCA). (EFE)
MORE: CCA lobbying
RELATED: 10 euphemisms
Ryan Christopher Fogle
MOSCOW - Promises of millions, a new face and detailed instructions on a double-agent conspiracy in Moscow. Bearing the hallmarks of a Cold War spy thriller, Russia’s counterintelligence agency says it caught a CIA officer trying to flip a Russian operative. The Federal Security Service (FSB) Public Relations Center announced that detained individual was Ryan Christopher Fogle, a career diplomat working as the third secretary of the Political Section of the American embassy in Moscow. (RT)
MORE: US diplomat accused of spying, ordered to leave Russia US ambassador summoned FSB reveals identity of CIA Moscow station chief
Mahmoud Mohammad Issa Mohammad
OTTAWA - Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney announced that Mahmoud Mohammad Issa Mohammad, convicted in a deadly attack on an Israeli plane in the 1960s, has been deported to Lebanon a quarter-century after he was first ordered to leave Canada. Kenney said the man, who is of Palestinian origin and has legal status in Lebanon, was flown out of the country on Saturday on a plane chartered by the Canada Border Services Agency. (CBC)
TORONTO - Advanced technology is helping Toronto police learn more about the history of the guns they seize from city streets, but wary criminals are paying attention and taking steps to thwart that process. (CBC)
MORE: Bullet proof
MONTREAL - Almost 3 weeks ago, two men walked into a UPS store in Lachine and told the clerk they wanted to send a microwave oven and a toaster to an address in Colorado. When drug squad officers took apart the appliances, they discovered that the men were shipping a narcotic that is 40 times more powerful than heroin. Hidden inside were about 10,000 pills of Desmethyl Fentanyl, a derivative of the painkiller Fentanyl. (Montreal Gazette)
MORE: Painkiller hits black market Cops issue warning
RELATED: Liverpool gang jailed for drugs
As of Dec. 31, 2012, Health Canada had received 17 fatal reports in children related to so-called second generation antipsychotics. 4 of the reports concerned deaths in babies who were exposed to antipsychotics in the womb. (PostMedia)
OTTAWA - Canadians have stashed a staggering $170B in the top 12 global tax havens around the world, says a watchdog group that is calling on the federal government to do more to combat offshore tax evasion. At the same time, only 44 Canadians were convicted of offshore tax evasion between April 2006 - shortly after the Harper government took office - and March 2012, according to new documents tabled in Parliament. (PostMedia)
MORE: Tax havens at all-time high
PREVIOUS: Global meltdown: wealth
RELATED: Sovereign wealth funds go after Western property SWF
Efforts underway to sue for downloads
MONTREAL - At the center of the effort is Canipre, the only anti-piracy enforcement firm that provides forensic services to copyright-holders in Canada. The Montreal-based firm has been monitoring Canadian users' downloading of pirated content for several months. It has now gathered more than one million different evidence files, according to its managing director Barry Logan. One of its clients is now before Federal Court in Toronto, requesting customer information for over 1,000 IP addresses - a user's unique Internet signature - collected by Canipre. (CTV)
MORE: Anti-piracy firm a pirate
TORONTO - A third suspect in custody in connection with an alleged terrorist plot to derail a VIA Rail train near Toronto is a former Université Laval graduate student who arrived in Canada nearly three years ago but moved to the US in March. Ahmed Abassi, a 26-year-old Tunisian citizen, was arrested at New York’s JFK airport on April 22 - the same day the RCMP picked up Chiheb Esseghaier in Montreal and co-accused Raed Jaser in Toronto. (National Post)
MORE: Terror suspect USAO Abassi unsealing Terror suspect discussed killing with bacteria
PREVIOUS: Charges Canadian Jihad
WASHINGTON - The US government has demanded designs for a 3D-printed gun be taken offline. The order to remove the blueprints for the plastic gun comes after they were downloaded more than 100,000 times. Although the files have been removed from the company's Defdist site, it is not clear whether this will stop people accessing the blueprints. Many links to copies of the blueprints have been uploaded to file-sharing site the Pirate Bay, making them widely available. (BBC)
MORE: Hype is overblown Inventors realize their dreams in 3D
Brad Deering
SAN JOSE - A father from Vancouver shot dead in his Costa Rican home appears to be the victim of a targeted hit, according to a local private investigator. Brad Deering, 42, and 3 others were inside his gated community home in San Jose Thursday morning, when 3 men stormed the house, shot and killed Deering and tied up the others. (Vancouver Province)
MORE: Canadian dead Canadian killed
GLEICHEN - RCMP are investigating the death of a 26-year-old man in the town of Gleichen. Police were called to the home early Saturday morning after reports of a disturbance. When they arrived, they found 2 people inside the home suffering from undisclosed wounds. STARS ambulance was called to transport one man to hospital but he died of his injuries at the scene. (CBC)
MORE: 1 dead RCMP investigate
Seymour Sharpe & Natasha Jeffrey
WINNIPEG - The deceased have been identified as Natasha Jeffrey, 37, and Ronald Dabreo, 39. Earlier on Saturday, police announced they have charged a 44-year-old man with second-degree murder in their deaths. Police were sent to the house at 4317 Roblin Blvd around 8:00am on Friday by a tip from the accused. Seymour Lloyd Sharpe, 44, is charged with two counts of second degree murder. (CTV)
MORE: Man charged in double homicide Identities confirmed
PREVIOUS: Double slaying confession
Gabriel & Chona Guevara Clorina
CALGARY - Police have charged a man with second-degree murder in connection with the deaths of a mother and her son at a home in Evanston on Thursday afternoon. Guevara Wilson Clorina, 26, from Calgary has been charged with two counts of second-degree murder in connection to the deaths of Chona Manzano, 35, and her son Gabriel, 5. Police were called to a home in the 200-block of Evanspark Circle NW at about 12:50pm on Thursday after they received a 911 call from a neighbour. Manzano and her son were found deceased at the scene. (CTV)
PREVIOUS: Charges laid Man linked Man detained Deaths suspicious Stabbings
Johnathen Felix
WINNIPEG - Police have charged a second man in connection with the death of a young model who was shot to death in March of last year. A 23-year-old man faces second degree murder in the death of Winnipegger Johnathen Felix. In January police also charged Derek Davin Merrick, 19, with second-degree murder in the same case. Felix, who was 21 years old at the time of his death, was found in a yard in the 200-block of Balmoral St on March 31, 2012. (CBC)
PREVIOUS: Charges Suspicious incident
HOBBEMA - 2 more Hobbema residents are facing murder charges in the murder of 51-year-old Winston Crier. Last weekend, Mounties charged 26-year-old Clifford Soosay - a known acquaintance of Crier - with first degree murder in Crier’s death. On Wednesday and Thursday, Hobbema RCMP arrested and charged Hobbema residents 25-year-old Nikki Saddleback and 27-year-old Troy Crier with first degree murder. (QMI)
MORE: 2 more arrested 3 arrested
PRECIOUS: Man charged
Richard Oland Dennis Oland
SAINT JOHN - Dennis Oland is considered the prime suspect in the killing of his father, Richard Oland, according to search warrants. His name had been previously subject to a publication ban ordered last fall by provincial court Chief Judge R. Leslie Jackson. But a Court of Queen's Bench judge has quashed the publication ban. Justice William Grant ruled Friday that Jackson "made an error of law" in imposing the ban on the names of people who were subject to searches in the murder investigation. Oland, 69, a prominent businessman, was found dead in his uptown Saint John office on July 7, 2011. (CBC)
MORE: Publication ban lifted Son is suspect
PREVIOUS: Murder page 4
Valerie Xavier
BLOCKVILLE - An Ontario man pleaded guilty Friday to choking an elderly Ontario woman to death when he was teenager because she told him to stop talking to his girlfriend on the phone. Valerie Xavier, 80, died Sept. 26, 2010, when one of her boarders blew into a fit of rage after she told him to hang up a telephone he'd been hogging to speak with a girlfriend in Ottawa. The now 18-year-old man, who cannot be named by court order, pleaded guilty Friday to second-degree murder, theft of Xavier's 2000 Buick Sentry and possession of her credit cards. (QMI)
PREVIOUS: Teen found with woman's car Body is missing woman
EDMONTON - The man who was found not criminally responsible for stomping his cellmate to death at the Edmonton Remand Centre is now suing centre staff. Two years ago, Justin Caldwell Somers, 27, killed 59-year-old Barry Stewart by stomping on his head 26 times. Somers was later found not criminally responsible for the death after he told his psychiatrist that he thought Stewart was eating human heads. Now he has filed a statement of claim against the province and 11 staff members at the centre, arguing that the Crown was negligent in not providing him with proper accommodation and medical attention. (CBC)
VANCOUVER - A police officer had no choice but to shoot a knife-wielding Vancouver man last October, says BC's police watchdog in a report that cleared the officer involved of any wrongdoing in the death of Christopher Ray. The IIO also concluded that in a separate case, a Prince George Mountie acted lawfully when he chased after a man in response to reports of someone banging on doors in an apartment building in March. During the pursuit, the man jumped and fell into a ravine, seriously injuring himself. (CTV)
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Would-be firefighters looking for employment are believed to have caused some of the wildfires in SK, an arson expert says. "There's a saying, 'The blacker the forest, the greener the wallet,' said Ken Ness, a senior fire investigator with the SK Ministry of Environment. Seasonal firefighting is an important source of income for people in northern communities. (CBC)
Everett Goodrunning
BRETON - The Medical Examiner’s Office has positively identified the human remains found near Breton in early May as Everett John Goodrunning, a 38-year old Rocky Mountain House man. A passerby came across the remains of Everett Goodrunning on May 7, close to the North Saskatchewan River, near Township Rd 503A and Range Road 40. The Rocky Mountain House man was reported missing to RCMP in June of 2008. The manner of Mr. Goodrunning’s death is under investigation by police. (Beacon)
MORE: Remains identified
GRANDE PRAIRIE - RCMP have arrested a man in connection with the death of 40-year-old Stuart Foster from Beaverlodge. Officers labelled the case as “suspicious” almost immediately after finding Foster dead in his home last week and are now treating the death as a homicide. An autopsy conducted May 14 revealed that Foster did not die of natural causes, though the exact cause of death has not yet been released. Police arrested 56-year-old Edward Charles Desjarlais without incident after issuing a warrant for his arrest. (QMI)
PREVIOUS: Suspicious death Body found
Iyanna Teeple Tammy Bouvette
CRANBROOK - A Cranbrook woman was sentenced to one year in prison Thursday for the drowning death of a 19-month-old toddler she was babysitting. Tammy Bouvette, 29, pleaded guilty to criminal negligence causing death after toddler Iyanna Teeple was left alone in a bathtub in May 2011. She was originally charged with second-degree murder, but pleaded guilty to the lesser negligence charge. Bouvette was also sentenced to 1 year for an attempted armed robbery of a gas station while on bail. (CTV)
MORE: Out in 6 months
PREVIOUS: Disbelief surrounds charge Babysitter charged
SYDNEY - The Cape Breton Regional Police Service has been cleared of any wrongdoing after a man died while in custody late last year. The Serious Incident Response Team says it will not lay charges against any officers after a 66-year-old man who was arrested on Dec. 9 later died. The unit says he died as a result of a blockage in his coronary arteries, and while a search of his SUV found no drugs, it says the arrest and other actions of the police were appropriate. (CTV)
WINNIPEG - The MB government is taking the first step to have an infamous motorcycle gang declared a criminal organization. Justice Minister Andrew Swan announced on Thursday that his department has submitted an application to have the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club added to a schedule of criminal groups. The group will have an opportunity to object to the classification in writing, and an independent, external review panel will review the material to determine if the group is a criminal organization. (CBC)
MORE: Province moves to blacklist bikers
CTV
VANCOUVER - In what many suspect is the latest attack by an as-yet unidentified column of anarchists, a group calling themselves the Anti-Gentrification Front have claimed responsibility for torching an under-construction family home in one of the city’s most diverse quarters. As with previous attacks that, so far, have targeted a mid-range pizzeria and a well-known Downtown Eastside eatery, the fire has left locals scratching their heads over the attackers’ seemingly arbitrary choice of targets. (National Post)
MORE: Mayor vows to track down anarchists
TORONTO - Paul Godfrey was ousted as chairman of the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG) on Thursday, prompting the board of the agency shepherding an overhaul of its operations to resign en masse. (National Post)
MORE: Departing appointed board members
TORONTO - A cellphone video that appears to show Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack cocaine is being shopped around Toronto by a group of Somali men involved in the drug trade. (Toronto Star)
MORE: For sale a video of Mayor Ford smoking crack Allegations are 'absolutely not true' Newspaper 'going after me' Forensic analysis of photo
HINTON - RCMP in Hinton have laid a charge in a case of alleged assisted suicide. Officers were called early on the morning of May 10, 2013 after a woman was found dead inside a car parked in front of the Hinton Healthcare Centre. A second woman was admitted to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries. On Wednesday, the second woman was formally charged with aiding suicide contrary to Section 241(b) of the Criminal Code, and remanded into custody. The RCMP requested and were granted a publication ban on the identities of the two women. (CBC)
MORE: Aiding suicide charge
Malik Adjokatcher
OTTAWA - Police are investigating after 24-year-old Malik Adjokatcher was fatally shot outside of a home west of Britannia Park. Police said they were called to a house in the 100-block of Richie St just before midnight. He was known to police and was involved in gang activity. (CBC)
MORE: Gunned down Rap artist gunned down
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EDMONTON - Justin Mark Samuels, 25, has been identified as the latest homicide victim in Edmonton. Samuels was fatally stabbed at the Hex Lounge on 107 St and 104 Ave early on Wednesday morning. (Edmonton Beacon)
MORE: Stabbing
PREVIOUS: Incident Suspicious death
Guay, Minuty, Tate & Antoine
MONTREAL - 4 men have been arrested in connection with the murder of Gaetan Gosselin, the right-hand man of organized crime figure Raynald Desjardins. Gosselin, 69, was shot in the upper body as he exited his car near his home on Jean-Tavernier St.in the Mercier neighbourhood on Jan. 22. On Wednesday, police confirmed the arrests of Edrick Antoine, 34, Olivier Guay, 30, Stanley Minuty, 29, and Kevin Tate, 29. (CTV)
MORE: Arrests 'Working for the Mafia' Suspects
PREVIOUS: 2 arrested after shooting Mafia style hit Victim's ties
Ashley Smith
TORONTO - A psychiatrist who prescribed medications for Ashley Smith while the teen was an inmate at Joliette prison in Quebec testified she was unaware the injections were being given without the 19-year-old’s consent. (Toronto Star)
PREVIOUS: Surprise video Drug injections Acted out to get moved Sad and repetitive pattern Ashley Smith inquest Correct Corrections Canada
VANCOUVER - When the CFSEU contemplated using Garry Shank in a Cranbrook undercover investigation into a gangland murder for hire, officers were well aware of the challenges posed by the unsavory character. Lawyers for the 3 men later accused in the case argued in BC Supreme Court that police had violated their clients’ rights by employing someone as sketchy and violent as Shank. They asked for the court to “stay” or drop all the charges against Lonnie Adams, Lorne Carry and Colin Correia, who were all convicted on April 29 for their roles in a thwarted murder plot. BC Supreme Court Justice S. Dev Dley denied the stay of proceedings. (Vancouver Sun)
TORONTO - 15 family members have been arrested in a 3-year financial crime investigation headed by the RCMP. Police allege the family generated $3.6M in profits from “illicit activities,” which they laundered by buying 41 properties, as well as 3 coffee shop franchises, one commercial fishing vessel and other small businesses. The RCMP seized $2.7M, including more than a dozen properties, 6 vehicles, a fishing vessel and 32 bank accounts. Police also allege fraudulent documents were used to obtain more than $8.7M in mortgages for properties, some of which were used to grow marijuana. (Toronto Star)
VANCOUVER - 2 men convicted of attacking a Good Samaritan during the Stanley Riot in Vancouver will spend 7 and 8 months each behind bars. Robert Timleck and Nathan Blake were among a group of 15 who swarmed a man in the city's downtown core on the night of June 15, 2011. Robert Mackay was punched, kicked and pepper sprayed as he tried to stop looting at The Bay department store after the Vancouver Canucks lost Game 7 of the Stanley Cup final to the Boston Bruins. (CP)
PREVIOUS: Vancouver General Crimes
VANCOUVER - A Richmond acupuncturist is accused of bilking BC's Medical Services Plan of more than $2M after claiming to have seen up to 461 patients in a single day. An investigation by the College of Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioners and Acupuncturists of BC found Dr. Mubai Qiu's clinic nearly empty during an inspection last July. (CBC)
Clifford Arthur Devitt
VANCOUVER - A body found this weekend in the Colony Farm park area of Coquitlam has been identified as a Maple Ridge man. IHIT him as Clifford Arthur Devitt, aged 44. (Maple Ridge Times)
MORE: Homicide victim identified
PREVIOUS: Body discovery Homicide probed Investigation
Kamloops Daily News
ANGLEMONT - The BC Coroners Service has confirmed the identity of the two people who were found deceased in a residence in Anglemont on April 30. Tracy Nichol, aged 45, and Christian Robert Tallick, aged 15, both residing in Anglemont were found dead in what police determined to be a murder-suicide. Police have also not indicated which person was determined to be the murder victim. (Salmon Arm Observer)
PREVIOUS: Murder-suicide 2 bodies discovered Deaths homicides Double murder confirmed
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CALGARY - 2 people have been taken into police custody and 3 others were taken to hospital after an officer-involved shooting in NW Calgary on Tuesday afternoon. Police say 2 of the injured were innocent bystanders, a couple in their 70s, who were struck by a vehicle that was fleeing officers. (CTV)
MORE: Officer-involved shooting Man shot
VICTORIA - BC Premier Christy Clark defied poll predictions and led the BC Liberals to victory Tuesday night, but she failed to keep her own seat. The incumbent Liberals won a decisive majority throughout the province. The victory came as a shock to many. The NDP, under party leader Adrian Dix, had been widely expected to unseat the Liberals after months of polls predicting an NDP win. (CTV)
MORE: BC general election BC Liberals majority Decision BC NDP stunned Pollsters are the biggest losers NDP disappoints union hand that feeds it
WINNIPEG - From snooping on spouses to downloading pornography, a number of RCMP members in Manitoba have been disciplined for abusing their time on duty and the resources available to them on the job. RCMP documents obtained by CBC News reveal the disciplinary action taken against 10 members of Manitoba's D Division. In the 11 files, given to the CBC by the RCMP's Adjudications Directorate in Ottawa, some of the most serious instances involve breaches of civilian privacy, often for personal reasons. (CBC)
MORE: RCMP member hunting on the job
Timothy Bosma Dellen Millard
HAMILTON - Timothy Bosma, the southern Ontario man missing since he took 2 strangers for a test drive of his truck more than a week ago, has been found dead. Investigators have located human remains, which appeared to have been burned. Police have conducted a number of searches at locations throughout southern Ontario linked to the suspect charged in connection with Bosma’s disappearance, Dellen Millard. Millard, 27, was charged with forcible confinement and theft over $5,000 following his arrest Saturday. (CTV)
MORE: Missing man is dead 1 charged, 2 on the lam Charged with murder Tips lead to more questions about Millard Millard hasn't been questioned about other cases
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INDUS - RCMP are investigating the discovery of human remains east of Calgary. The land owner called police after he found the remains in a clump of bushes, while cleaning his property on Monday night. The discovery was made near Range Road 275 and Township 232. (Global)
Letandre McPherson Andretti
WINNIPEG - Family members of Myrna Letandre, who was found dead in a Winnipeg home last week, asked police to check out the same house years ago but nothing happened. Letandre's remains were discovered in a rooming house on Lorne Ave, on May 9. She was 36 years old when she was last seen in the downtown area on Oct. 5, 2006. (CBC)
PREVIOUS: Remains found Caretaker charged Husband charged Man charged with killing missing wife Police probe link Hanson Island
TORONTO - Police have identified a 58-year-old man who died after being stabbed multiple times in an east-end basement apartment last month. On April 30 police were called to a home on Kingston Rd around 3:45am where Alan Clements of Toronto was found suffering from stab wounds. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Kalib Dufty, 23, was arrested at the scene and was charged with second-degree murder. (CityNews)
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