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Pet
rescuers charged
VANCOUVER - Janet
Olson, 58, and Louise Reid, 59, who both volunteer as
co-directors of
A Better Life Dog Rescue,
are alleged to have posed as animal welfare officers and
stolen a bulldog named Samson from his family home on
Nov. 21, 2011. (CBC) MORE:
Dognapping charges
Canadian
pleads guilty
WASHINGTON - Jason
Savedoff, a former BC resident and McGill University
student, had been working in New York City over the past
year with Barry Landau. (PostMedia) PREVIOUS:
Case of the disappearing
documents
Airport security thefts
MONTREAL - A dozen travellers from across
Canada have come forward to allege that they have been
robbed by airport security screeners. (QMI)
PREVIOUS:
Sticky fingers
Feds
shouldn't be language police
OTTAWA - Heritage Minister James Moore
who oversees official languages, said Official Languages
commissioner Graham Fraser has overstepped his mandate.
(QMI)
PREVIOUS:
Ottawa's businesses to be checked for bilingualism
French only ruling
Suspect ID'd
TORONTO - Police say they have identified a woman
accused of hitting a streetcar passenger with a child.
(CTV) MORE:
Police have identified woman
Child used as a weapon
Crackdown on cyclists
TORONTO -
Can you
imagine what would happen if motorists pulled up to a
red light and only half of them stopped? Well, many
bicyclists see red as drivers see yellow, and run them
as if intersections are their right of way, or a rite of
passage, police say. (Toronto Star)
Hate crimes rise
OTTAWA - The number of
police-reported hate crimes in Canada increased 42% in
2009, says a new study. (CP) REPORT:
Police-reported hate crimes
in Canada 2009
Refugee
TORONTO -
He's a convicted criminal, alleged bigamist, perjurer
and child abductor and if that weren’t enough, he’s also
the prime suspect in the mysterious disappearance of his
first wife in Israel. So how is it that Moshe Abuaf aka
Moshe Aviv remains in Toronto and has actually been
allowed to claim refugee status? (QMI) MORE:
Suspect married in Canada
Counterfeit postage ring
MONTREAL - The RCMP and Canada Post
believe they have licked a network that pumped thousands
of phoney postage stamps into the Toronto and Montreal
regions. (CP)
More than 6,000
charged
ORILLILA - OPP have reported 6 deaths and thousands of
traffic charges over the Victoria Day long weekend.
Officers laid a total of 6,361 driving related charges
over the long weekend. (CP) MORE: More
than 3,000 charged in AB
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Hundreds
file complaints
WINNIPEG - Since late Sept,
hundreds of Winnipeggers have come forward saying they
were slapped with photo radar tickets when they were not
actually speeding at Grant Ave and Nathaniel St. The
Canadian Taxpayers Federation
said they've received complaints
from about 500 drivers. (CTV) PREVIOUS:
Ticket complaint
Speed limit enforcement
Workplace
fraud
Fraud in the workplace cost
Canadian small businesses $3.2B last year, an
accountancy group says. The report published by the
Certified General Accountants Association of Canada (CGA)
found some 290,000 small and medium-sized enterprises
were victimized by some sort of occupational fraud last
year. (CBC) REPORT:
Occupational fraud
.pdf
Superheroes must stop
VANCOUVER - Four
young Chilliwack men who dressed as superheroes to
confront potential sex offenders have drawn public kudos
but are being criticized by police, who say
crime-fighting should be left to the proper
authorities. (Vancouver Sun) MORE:
Crusaders among us
Superheroes
Superheroes investigation
BC teens
YouTube
Kids from grow-op homes healthy
When it comes to children being raised in
homes where their parents produced drugs, medically
speaking, in most cases the kids are all right, suggests
a Canadian study. (CP)
Car break-ins
LACOMBE - 7
youths and 4 adult men are facing charges after more
than 1,000 vehicles were broken into all within three
months in a small Alberta city of 10,700 people.
(QMI)
Flashrobberies
OTTAWA - The "flashrob" at a convenience store this
month was the first of its kind in Ottawa. Police
are investigating a second that happened July 23 at the
Independent Grocer. (QMI) PREVIOUS:
Mob of teens ransack store
Limits ‘plucked out of the air’
LONDON - The Commons Science and
Technology Committee is to examine the evidence behind
current guidelines which say men should not regularly
drink more than four units of alcohol a day (equivalent
to two pints of ordinary strength beer) while women
should have no more than three (a large glass of
wine). (Telegraph UK)
Distracted driving
A comprehensive study on distracted
driving has found there is no conclusive evidence that
hands-free cell phone use while driving is any less
risky than hand-held cell phone use. (Fox)
REPORT:
Distracted driving
Home stolen
SOUTHGATE TOWNSHIP - Ontario police have
charged a man with stealing an entire home. (Toronto
Star) MORE:
Man charged after home
stolen
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2+ years
TORONTO -
Michelle Gopaul, a 24-year-old model and
actress from New York City, received the sentence after
pleading guilty to one charge of child abduction.
Gopaul was charged after one-month-old Roma Patel went
missing from a casting call in Toronto's east end on
Dec. 30. (CTV) MORE:
'I'm not a bad person'
Guilty plea
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Bad housing as unhealthy as no housing
Housing Vulnerability and Health:
Canada's Hidden Emergency,
revealed that for every person in Canada who is
homeless, another 23 live in housing that is unsafe,
crowded or costs more than 50% of their income. (CBC)
MORE:
Guaranteed income moving into the
spotlight
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Child
abduction
VICTORIA - Patricia
O’Byrne was in a custody battle for two-year-old
Sigourney when she and the child disappeared in 1993.
CTV) |
Apparently valid identification
Woman arrested
Child went to school in Ireland
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Guilty plea
BUFFALO - A Toronto sports doctor has
pleaded guilty in Buffalo to smuggling human growth
hormone into the US to treat pro athletes. (AP) |
Doc reveals client list
Implicated have plenty at stake
Anthony Galea
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Agency a PR stunt
OTTAWA - To date, the Office of the
Federal Ombudsman for Victims of Crime (OFOVC)
has released only one annual report. Two others were
filed to the federal justice minister but, for more than
a year, they have remained secret. (Toronto Star)
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Squeegee assault
TORONTO - A 23-year-old man has been charged with
assault with a weapon after a driver was attacked by a
man with a squeegee. (Toronto Star) MORE:
Don't challenge squeegee
kids police warn
Squeegee
kid beat driver |
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Couple remain in custody
TORONTO -
A 68-year-old woman remained in critical
condition in hospital on Tuesday, nearly a week after
police found her unconscious, freezing and starving in a
makeshift bedroom set up inside a non-insulated garage.
(CTV) MORE:
Box of diapers, bucket of water
Shame in the garage
Elderly
abuse charges
Couple charged |
Thousands honour firefighters
LISTOWEL
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Firefighters from Ontario, Quebec,
Michigan and other parts of the continent joined the
thousands of people who bid Ken Rea and Raymond Walter
one last farewell. (Waterloo
Region Record) MORE:
Thousands
gather
Probe begins
Mourning firefighters
Deaths shock town
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Poverty costing taxpayers
OTTAWA - Poverty costs taxpayers more
than $24B a year. (PostMedia)
National Council of Welfare |
Cost of poverty
Cost of crime
Cost of crime in Canada, 2008
Tough on poverty, tough on crime |
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Toronto is the winner
TORONTO - Drivers in Toronto should keep their eyes
peeled for speed traps around every corner, according to
the National Motorist Association's annual list of
"Worst North American Speed Trap Cities".
(CTV)
Worst speed trap cities
Toronto is the worst city |
Death rates 'higher' among young adults
Premature deaths are now more likely to
occur in adolescence and early adulthood than in
childhood, a new global report claims. The study in
The Lancet
looked at data from 50 countries - rich, middle-income
and poor - over 50 years. (BBC) |
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Bear killed elder
LILLOOET -
Autopsy results have confirmed that a
bear attack killed a well-known elder in the Xaxli'p
First Nation whose remains were found near Lillooet,
BC. (CBC)
Woman complained about bears
Killer bear feared
Bear conflicts down this year
Bear killed in North Van
Polar bear shot in Churchill
Moose danger
Victims sue |
Deer attack
Skunk causes crash
Fatal Moose crash
'Thousand-pound rabbit on
stilts'
Grizzly attack on Vancouver Island
Whistler man attacked by bear
Human-animal encounters
Bears killed after break-ins
Moose project
Kill 50,000 moose to curb crashes
Bizarre crash
Bear
collision
Victims of moose crashes can
sue
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Tolerant Canadians
PARIS - Canadians are the most tolerant
people in the developed world, are terrific readers,
enjoy more "positive experiences" than everyone but
Icelanders, and don't produce many babies, according to
a new report. (PostMedia) REPORT:
Society at a Glance 2011
OECD. |
Landlords pay price for crime
CALGARY - Law-abiding landlords be
warned: Illegal activities by tenants causing damage to
rental properties will likely leave you on the hook.
(QMI) PREVIOUS: Landowner
vs. squatter
Woman ordered to sell condo |
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Shoplifting
PORTLAND -
Shoplifters stole $13.7B in merchandise in the US from
June 2009 to October 2010 according to the Centre for
Retail Research in England. (ABC) MORE:
Global retail theft barometer 2010 |
Fake wine at LCBO
TORONTO -
York Regional Police have launched an
investigation after the LCBO discovered several bottles
of fake Amarone, a highly-praised style of wine made
from partly-dried grapes. (Toronto Star) |
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Crown land blocked
TORONTO - A northern Ontario recreational group says the Ministry of
Natural Resources is blocking local access to lakes and
rivers in favour of foreign-based tourist outfitters.
(CTV) |
Homeless young targeted
TORONTO - "Being
homeless means constant exposure to dangerous people and
places," said the report,
Surviving Crime and Violence
(.pdf). (CBC) |
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Police investigate ER death
WINNIPEG -
Brian Sinclair, a
double-amputee, died in the emergency room of the city's
Health Sciences Centre after waiting for 34 hours
without receiving care in Sept. 2008. (QMI) MORE:
ER death probe launched |
Warrant issued
VANCOUVER - Douglas Archie Clark, 64, who faces a total
of 13 counts of fraud, was supposed to appear in court
July 11. (PostMedia) PREVIOUS:
Cancer
fake
Mother accused of faking cancer |
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Public Guardian suing Feds
VANCOUVER - The Public
Guardian of BC is suing the federal government on behalf
of 3 children who watched a prisoner slash their
mother's throat at a Christmas party. (CP) |
$35M lawsuit
OWEN SOUND
- Four families who say their children were bullied and
abused by teachers at local schools - and in one case
also by students - have filed lawsuits. (QMI) |
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Jump in death rate
MONTREAL -
The first heat wave of the summer in
Quebec has had fatal consequences, according to Montreal
public health authorities. 80 deaths were reported
Thursday, when the scorching heat reached its peak. The
average number of deaths on a regular day in Montreal is
40. (CBC) |
Guilty
GODERICH, Ont. - They were star-crossed lovers with
murderous intent. Tony Terpstra, 40, and Serenna
Benninger 39, were found guilty of
conspiracy and counselling to commit the murder of Terpstra's wife, Shelia, 41. (QMI) PREVIOUS:
Hottub, millions, a
hitman and a plot |
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Report leaked
TORONTO - The deadly 2008
propane blast was caused by an illegal “tank-to-tank
transfer” and a gas hose leak, according to a
confidential report by the Ontario Fire Marshal’s
Office. (Toronto Star) PREVIOUS:
2008 Toronto propane explosion |
Man's home got in the way
MALARTIC,
QC - Provincial police have forcibly
evicted the only person who had refused to leave his
home to make way for a massive (Osisko
Mining Corporation)
gold mine development northwest of
Montreal. (QMI) MORE:
Holdout gets dragged out |
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237
charges
TORONTO - Police laid 237
charges against Marcos Marinoni, 26, and Isaac Lewkowicz,
29, charges that range from possession of credit cards
and property attained by crime to theft and conspiracy.
(CTV) PREVIOUS:
2nd suspect arrested
1 arrested, another sought
Jewels stolen |
Most dangerous vehicles of 2010
The National Safety Council (NSC),
an Illinois-based organization aimed at lobbying for and
supporting safety standards, says the average economic
cost per traffic fatality in 2007, the latest year on
record, was $1.1M. (Forbes) PREVIOUS:
Laws don't stop crashes
Highway Loss Data Institute
Auto theft Canada 2009 |
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Secret G20 tape
TORONTO - A
provincial court judge allowed media access to a CD and
transcript of the meeting, surreptitiously taped by an
undercover OPP officer, Brenda Carey, who posed as a
dedicated activist and won their trust. (Toronto Star)
'Largest ever' police spy operation
Undercover cop drove
anarchists
Group cuts deal
G20 accused plead guilty
How police infiltrated
groups
G20 mistakes
Police overwhelmed by 'intensity'
Protest groups
infiltrated by police
24 convicted out of 1,100 arrested
Fresh G20 statistics
Toronto G20 protests
Secret law used beyond its
intent
Queen's Park to repeal law
3 years for firebombing
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Gov't erred
TPS bosses defend
refusal
Police want to keep G20 cameras
Chief and SIU boss went too far
G20 security slammed
'Mass violation'
'Officer bubbles' sues
G20 court appearances begin
Some G20 charges dropped
Class action lawsuit
Alleged ringleader
Police arrest alleged G20
troublemaker
Guelph woman prime suspect
22 more suspects
G20 arrest
G20 most wanted
G20 summit declaration
G20 Toronto
G20 cops facing discipline
Officers identified
G20 police will respond individually
Ottawa opens books on G8/G20 costs
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Rolling out the explanations
Probe into secret law
Ombudsman to probe G20 rule
G20 contract raises questions
G20: spectacle vs. substance
Seized weapons not what they seem
Olympics, G20 and Black Bloc
Damned if they do
Another dead-end summit
Toronto's not-OK corral at summit
Good Samaritan in Toronto
Review promised
'Thugs' justify $1B tab
Biggest mass arrests in history
G20 after-action review
.pdf |
36th G8 summit
Text of the G8 communique
Secret law was illegal
Police never given special powers
Secret laws didn't work
1 guilty plea
Firebombing charges
3 held in bank firebombing
Police push ahead with
investigation
Group says it bombed office
'Internationalist
Resistance'
Recruitment office blast
Explosion at army office
Group claims attack
Caught in the act
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Most dangerous city
Prince George, BC,
has once again been named Canada's “most dangerous
city." (CBC)
Canada's most dangerous
cities
Real deal on crime
Let's be honest about crime
Police-reported crime stats
Crime rate fell again
Crime rate falls to lowest
since 1973
Canada's most dangerous cities
Prince George named worst crime city
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Police say Victoria is not dangerous
Wild West
Canada's lousy mayors
27% report being victims of crime
Criminal victimization 2009
Number of crime victims unchanged
Fewer crimes reported to police
Reported crime declines
Police-reported crime statistics 2009
It's a lie that crime is down
Crime stats mask darker factors
Stats, smoke & mirrors
Crime rate, violent crimes drop 2009
Crime decreased
Police caseloads rise |
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3 trials
CALGARY -
Alleged sexual torturer Dustin Ward Paxton will face
three separate jury trials over the rest of the year to
deal with 10 charges against four victims.
(Calgary Herald)
Kin pursue suspect
Alleged torturer's winding criminal journey
Details emerge
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Dustin LaFortune
Possible torture
Girl held at same time
911 call linked
LaFortune speaks
Suspect agitated
Police tight lipped
'So many strange noises'
Dustin Paxton
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11 charged in fraud
TORONTO -
It started off as a common traffic
accident on one of Toronto’s busiest highways.
(Toronto Star) |
There is an app for that
Parking mobility
A non-profit company is
making it easier to catch people who use handicap
parking spots without a proper permit. (CBC) |
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Homeowner charged $35K
PARKSVILLE - Under the province's
Heritage Conservation Act, landowners whose property has
been designated a heritage site cannot build until
archeologists have done an assessment and removed any
First Nations artifacts or human remains - at the
landowner's expense. (CBC) |
Boy killed by pack of dogs
CANOE LAKE FIRST NATION
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A young boy was killed when he was attacked by a pack of
dogs on a northern Saskatchewan reserve. Family
members identified him as 10-year-old Keith Iron.
(CTV) MORE:
Boy dies in dog attack
Dogs destroyed
Band blamed |
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Boat operators card useless
OTTAWA -
Transport Canada says it is moving to fix
its multimillion-dollar pleasure craft operator card
program, amid widespread cheating in the tests and
complaints that the cards are largely useless to
police. (CBC) |
Return fraud
NANAIMO -
More and more retailers are getting stung by criminals
returning stolen merchandise or items bought using
stolen or fake credit cards, and many are reacting by
tightening their return policies. (Nanaimo Daily News) |
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Mistrial declared
TORONTO - Alexander Petraitis, 67, former chairman of
magazine wholesaler Metro News, is charged along with
his former dominatrix mistress, Sandra Rinella, 47, with
hiring a hit man to kill his then-wife of 40 years,
Kirsten Petraitis. (Toronto Star) MORE:
Case has waited to go trial
Mistrial in conspiracy case
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Traffic fines trend
GENEVA - European countries are
increasingly pegging speeding fines to income as a way
to punish wealthy scofflaws who would otherwise ignore
tickets. Advocates say a $290,000 speeding ticket
slapped on a millionaire Ferrari driver in Switzerland
was a fair and well-deserved example of the trend. (AP) |
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11 years for shooting TTC driver
TORONTO -
Malcolm Chalmers, now 23, fired several
shots through the open door of the bus just after 11pm
on Oct. 15, 2005. One of the slugs fired from the
tarnished silver Browning 9-mm pistol hit TTC driver
Jaime Pereira in the face, leaving him blind in one eye
and with only peripheral vision in the other. (Toronto
Star) MORE:
Gunman calls bus driver a hero |
Attempted carjacking
REGINA
- Saskatchewan Party MLA Lyle Stewart was driving into
Regina from his Thunder Creek constituency on a gravel
road when he stopped to offer assistance to a man whose
truck was in the ditch. The man, with a few "expletives
deleted," then informed Stewart he had a knife and he
wanted the rancher and ex-cabinet minister's car. Bad
move. (Regina Leader-Post) |
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BC truck safety report
VANCOUVER -
Truck drivers in BC
were to blame in 18.9% of fatal accidents, compared to
14.8% in the Western region, 10% in Central Canada, and
12.2% in the Atlantic. (Vancouver Sun) REPORT:
Best practices for truck safety
.pdf Random
truck safety inspection |
Ticket princess nabbed again
TORONTO - Since her 18th birthday earlier this year,
Connie Nydam has raked in five driving convictions and
two licence suspensions. (Sun Media) MORE:
Drunk speeder tried to flee on transit bus
Morning chase leads to charges
Woman charged |
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'Gaming' the system
TORONTO - Two Ontario drivers reported aches and pains
after their big Ford Econoline vans were struck from
behind as they sat at stoplights, weeks and kilometres
apart. But the cost of assessing, treating and
compensating the drivers was a world apart. One of the
collisions took place in London, Ont., and the driver's
claim cost his insurer $1,674. The second incident took
place in Toronto and has cost a whopping $51,808 to
date. (Toronto Star) MORE:
Insurers urge injury billing limits
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Break-in no average burglary
OTTAWA -
The criminal who broke
into the home of an Ottawa tax court judge and shot
holes through its windows left all jewelry, cash and
valuables untouched. In an e-mail exchange with the
Citizen, Judge Patrick Boyle's son, Joshua, revealed
that the perpetrator clearly had more in mind
than simple burglary. Boyle, 25, has been drawn into the
case because he recently married Zaynab Khadr, a
prominent member of Canada's notorious "al-Qaeda
family." (Ottawa Citizen) PREVIOUS:
A break-in, slaying and
marriage |
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Firm replaces toys
TORONTO - A toy company played Santa yesterday, donating
$50,000 in goodies after a tractor-trailer full of
presents for needy families was stolen on Sept. 26. "For
every grinch there is a Santa, so
Hasbro has come up with
$50,000 worth of toys for Peels Toys for Tots program,"
company spokesman Sandra Paulini said. (Sun Media)
PREVIOUS:
Grinches behind bars
Toys trailer found
Grinches on video
Van full of toys stolen
Food bank demand up 75% |
Top business scams of 2009
This year, the Top Ten Scams focuses in
on dubious practices of online commerce, asking
consumers to read the fine print BEFORE you click “yes.”
Complaints in 2009 run the gamut from teeth whiteners to
premium text messages to government grants, but all tie
back to consumers unwittingly consenting to sign up for
the service or product. (Better Business Bureau)
RELATED:
Rogers charges for 'free' text messages
Plain English |
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Fallen firefighters honoured
TORONTO - 28 firefighters who paid the
ultimate price in the line of duty were honoured as
their names were added to the firefighter's memorial at
Queen's Park. (CTV) MORE:
Firefighters' memorial rises from ashes
Honour roll
9
firefighters honoured |
BIG market
BRAMPTON - It's like stealing a house.
Heavy construction equipment - graders, backhoes and
other pieces that cost up to $300,000 each - sit on the
side of the road, or in the middle of a housing
sub-division project - and are easy pickings for
thieves. (Sun Media) |
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Suspect was out on bail
WINNIPEG -
A woman charged
with abducting and trying to kill a 14-month-old baby
had walked out of jail only days earlier following a
string of recent arrests, according to court documents.
(Mike on Crime) MORE:
Suspect was on bail
Woman charged
Child assaulted
Hero to baby's grandmother Teen
stops savage attack |
Horse hanging
VICTORIA - David Whiffin and Clayton Cunningham are
accused of allowing a 27-year-old appaloosa gelding
named Jalupae to starve, and then tying its neck to the
bucket of an excavator, raising it so the horse was off
the ground. It died from strangulation. (Victoria Times
Colonist) |
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Few options for victim
MONTREAL - When a cyclist skidded into Léna Chabot while
she was walking on Mount Royal, leaving her with cracked
ribs, bruises and cuts in the shape of a bicycle chain,
she was incredulous. She also soon discovered that as a
victim of such an incident, she is nearly powerless.
(Montreal Gazette) RELATED:
Man charged after hitting
girl with golf cart |
Thieves detained
KRAKOW - Polish police detained five men
for stealing the metal sign that hung over the former
Nazi death camp of Auschwitz, and said they were common
thieves, not neo-Nazis. (Reuters)
MORE:
'Ordinary thieves'
Sign recovered
Thieves steal entrance sign
'An abominable act'
Auschwitz concentration camp
Arbeit macht frei
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Villages fined
GRAND
FALLS - 4 Newfoundland communities were handed
the minimum fine for refusing to shut down their local
landfills and truck their garbage to a superdump. (CBC) |
A pint-sized ripoff
VICTORIA - Had a pint of beer at your local pub lately?
Not likely, and certainly not legally. (Vancouver Sun) |
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Canada we have a problem
TORONTO -
Between 30-40% of Ontario students in Grades 3 and 6 do
not read, write or do math at the provincial standard.
(CP) MORE:
Half of Canadians struggling with literacy
Canadian Council of Learning |
Traffic deaths drop
EDMONTON - Traffic deaths decreased more than 10% from
2007 to 2008, the Alberta government reported.
But it appears the overall number of accidents has
risen over the past four years. (CTV) PREVIOUS:
Impaired crashes |
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Guilty plea
EDMONTON
- Patrick Clayton,
the man who took nine people hostage at the Workers'
Compensation Board building in Edmonton two years ago
entered a surprise plea of guilty just as his trial got
underway. (CBC) |
11 years
Clayton vs WCB
Legal fund created
Gunman apologizes
Gunman known for his temper
Frustration over WCB
WCB |
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Private firms strike government gold
OTTAWA - Private firms hit pay dirt and
taxpayers got the tab when the Royal Canadian Mint
launched an investigation into $20M worth of missing
gold, most of which turned out not to be missing at
all. (Toronto Star)
Mint can't count |
Missing Mint gold revealed
Liquid gold
Royal Canadian Mint
Real gold gone
Not
accounting error
Tour guide not briefed on spin
Mint freezes bonus pay |
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Alberta targets child support
CALGARY - Alberta has placed photos of its 10 most
wanted "deadbeat dads" online as part of a new
interactive
website that is meant
to help track down parents owing child support. (CBC) |
Ontario's new BAC rules
TORONTO -
As of May 1, a driver caught with a blood alcohol level
(BAC)
between 0.05 and 0.08 will have their licence suspended
for three days. (CBC) MORE:
Tougher rules questioned |
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Homes looted
KELOWNA - Thousands of West Kelowna, BC, residents
streamed happily back to their homes as a wildfire
threat receded, but that joy of return was shattered for
some who found their homes looted. (CP) |
Unorthodox anticrime program
NEW
YORK - The initiative, run by the
John Jay College of Criminal Justice,
targets violent crime and open-air drug markets that are
the scourge of some communities. (Wall Street Journal)
MORE:
National network for safe
communities |
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Sentence passed
TORONTO - The birth parents who abandoned a newborn baby
in a frigid stairwell early last year have been
sentenced - and neither will be spending any more time
in custody. (CTV) MORE:
Parents sentenced, released
Price for abandoning baby
Abandoned baby named 'Angelica-Leslie' |
Police: drop charges
SUTTON, Ont. - Police are recommending charges be
dropped against a 15-year-old boy who made national
headlines after punching a classmate when a racial slur
was allegedly hurled his way. (CP)
MORE:
The wimpification of the west
Vested interested 'adults' escalated a schoolyard
scuffle
Bullied teen charged |
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Security guard survives gunshot
TORONTO - Body armour only a few millimetres thick saved
the life of a Yorkdale Shopping Centre security guard
shot in the chest during an arrest. (Sun Media)
MORE:
Mall guard shot in scuffle
We must stop glossing over violence |
Bank robberies charged
OTTAWA - Police arrested five
suspects - including two 13-year-olds - on robbery and
conspiracy charges after three Ottawa banks were robbed
in a matter of hours. (Ottawa Citizen) |
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Details omitted from report
WINNIPEG -
Brian Sinclair didn't have much of a
chance when he showed up at the Health Sciences Centre
emergency room on Sept. 19, 2008. (Sun Media) |
Baby formula hot item
TORONTO -
Baby formula
is costly - about $30 in powdered form per 800-gram tin
- and it attracts shoplifters because it can be easily
sold on the black market. (Toronto Star) |
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Father-son duo arrested again
TORONTO -
A man accused with his son of
bullying a west-end neighbourhood for three years was
arrested again yesterday in a Toronto court where his
son was being sentenced. (Sun Media) MORE:
Bully out of jail
Neighbour from
hell |
Pilot charged
ST. LOUIS, MO. - Adam Dylan Leon has been charged with
transportation of stolen property and illegal entry for
flying the Cessna 172 airplane into the US from Canada.
(CanWest) PREVIOUS:
Attempted suicide by fighter jet
Stolen plane leads bizarre chase |
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ICBC names top frauds of 2008
VANCOUVER - ICBC's special investigations unit has named
its top five frauds of 2008. The list is put together
by the people who investigate insurance claims to make
sure they're legitimate.
(Vancouver Province)
MORE:
Scams of 2008
BBB top 10 scams of 2008 |
Teens in & out of psychiatric ward
WINNIPEG - The two teens charged with planning a major
killing spree in Winnipeg have spent time in psychiatric
institutions, and that they had no intention of being
taken alive after the attack they allegedly planned.
(CTV) PREVIOUS:
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accused of plotting a bloodbath
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Broken windows theory
If you
saw $10 in an envelope sticking out of a mailbox, would
you steal the money, or pop the envelope in the mail? If there is graffiti all over the mailbox or lots of
litter on the ground, you'd be twice as likely to take
the cash, according to a provocative study that taps
into a shady side of human behaviour. It also lends
support to the controversial "broken
windows" theory
behind crime and anti-graffiti prevention programs.
(CanWest)
Spreading of disorder |
Shooter says she is a vet
GIBSONS - A woman who allegedly went on a shooting
rampage at a care home here was a military vet who
claimed she suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder
and paranoia following a car accident. (Vancouver
Province) MORE:
Canadian Forces trying to establish military record
Victim's family on edge
Shooting in assisted-living home
Evicted woman opens fire
Bullets fly at nursing home
2 in hospital after shooting
Woman in wheelchair opens fire |
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Grandmother beats charge
TORONTO - Jane Raham, 62, a grandmother with a clean
driving record and a fear of transport trucks, just
drove a big hole through one of the Ontario government's
signature laws. (Sun Media) |
'Stunt-driving' grandma
ON to appear street racing
ruling
Street Racing Nonexistent
Problem, Stats Show
Speeding isn't stunt driving
Street racing laws
unconstitutional
Stunt-racing law challenged |
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Charges dropped
TORONTO - The Crown has withdrawn charges against former
Ontario attorney general Michael Bryant in connection
with the death of Darcy Allan Sheppard. (Toronto
Star)
28 seconds
Criminal charges withdrawn
Charges dropped
Bryant ordered not to drive |
Michael Bryant
Darcy Allan Sheppard
Spinning the 1st week
Deadly duel
Police had contact with
cyclist
Dispute leads to cyclist's
death
Fatal crash
Traffic signs can make
streets dangerous |
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Canadiens players
linked
MONTREAL - NHL security officials are on their way to
Montreal to speak with police and investigate
allegations that some Canadiens players have links with
a man accused of dealing drugs. (CanWest)
MORE:
Security probes Canadiens' connection
Jabs 'concerned' players
hung out with alleged dealer
Andrei
&
Sergei
Kostitsyn |
Call for job safety
CALGARY - A provincial court judge is calling on the
province to consider changing the Occupational Health
and Safety Code to cover group home workers who deal
with potentially violent individuals in light of the
murder of a youth worker at the hands of a teen in her
care. (Calgary Herald) MORE:
Inquiry judge recommends
changes |
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Inquest called
CAMBRIDGE BAY
-
Nunavut's chief coroner
has called an inquest into the death of Julien Tologanak,
20, a Nunavut man who leaped to his death from an
airplane that was en route from Yellowknife to Cambridge
Bay. (CBC) |
Jumper detained earlier
Lift a favour
Ground search
Jumper detained earlier
Man leaps 23,000 feet to death
Inuit men commit suicide at rate 28 times that of
southern peers |
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Death leaves digital trail
EDMONTON - A death in the family no longer simply means
sorting through the person's belongings and dividing
assets, but also scouring the Internet for the digital
trails that linger online in e-mails, blog postings,
videos, photos and social networking sites. (Edmonton
Journal) |
Half of homeless are addicted
TORONTO -
A new report
finds that nearly half of the homeless adults in Toronto
say they use crack cocaine on a regular basis. The
study by
Street Health
found that there's an
urgent need for non-judgmental crack-specific services
aimed at marginalized street people. (CityNews) |
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Pipeline bombing website
PRINCE
GEORGE - The investigation into the bombing of
three EnCana pipelines in the Dawson Creek area has
turned to the public for information.
(Opinion250)
MORE:
www.dawsoncreekbombings.com |
'Suspicious package' a bomb
MONTREAL - Police say a bomb found underneath a car
parked in the driveway of a Montreal West home has the
potential to be more dangerous than initially thought.
(CTV) MORE:
Bomb squad neutralizes
device |
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Armed gunmen terrorize jeweller
CALGARY - Armed intruders bound a Calgary jeweller and
five others inside an upscale southwest home before
robbing his business in a terrifying overnight home
invasion. (Calgary Herald) PREVIOUS:
Jewelry-heist hostage
Home invasion
Hostages
held to rob jewelry store |
32 armed robberies
TORONTO -
Three Brampton teens are in
custody and a fourth suspect is on the run, all alleged
to have used knives, meat cleavers and masks in a
32-store string of armed robberies described as one of
the most concerted crime rampages the Toronto hold-up
squad has seen in years. (Toronto Star) |
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Buzzing
VANCOUVER - Local beekeeprs are buzzing over reports of
honey-laundering by unscrupulous importers. (Vancouver
Province) PREVIOUS:
Honey laundering |
Elderly turn to crime
TOKYO -
Beset by economic worries and loneliness, elderly
Japanese are turning to petty crime in increasing
numbers, the nation's Justice Ministry reports. (CNN) |
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Students come up with solution
SASKATOON
- A text-message to your stolen car, ordering it to shut
down, is being heralded as a new way to thwart auto
thefts. (CBC) |
Everyone speeds
VANCOUVER - The
Traffic Injury Research
Foundation
is drawing attention to the issue of excessive
speeding. (News1130) |
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Man shot by carjackers
EDMONTON -
A 29-year-old man who spent his Christmas recovering
from a gun shot wound says he suffered the leg injury
while trying to sell his car. He's now issuing a
warning to anyone selling their vehicle privately, after
a test drive with two prospective buyers turned into an
armed carjacking. (Edmonton Journal) |
$25,000 bounty
EDMONTON - City cops want help tracking down an Edmonton
man believed to have been involved in an extortion
scheme and arsons that terrorized families and caused
millions of dollars in damages. Police say
Christopher David Meer
left Canada before he could be arrested and may be in
the US or Mexico. (Sun Media) |
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Gifting clubs a pyramid scheme
EDMONTON - Alberta women taking part in so-called
gifting clubs may be unwitting participants in a pyramid
scheme, the RCMP warned at a press conference.
(Edmonton Journal) PREVIOUS:
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'Substantial' reward
TORONTO - The
Bronfman family
is offering a reward and full anonymity to the person
who returns jewellery stolen in a recent
break-and-enter. (Toronto Star) MORE:
Bronfman
jewellery |
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Motorcycle stolen
HAGERSVILLE
- Officers say the man was riding north on Indian Line
between Villa Nova Road and Concession 2, Townsend, and
was seriously injured when the machine went into a ditch
and the rider was thrown. An SUV with several people
inside stopped, and one man got out and stole the
motorcycle. The man later died. (Hamilton
Spectator) |
Thieves steal jewels
PARIS - Armed robbers
have stolen at least $102M worth of jewels from one of
Paris's most prestigious jewellery shops, police say.
As many as four robbers, two disguised as women,
stormed
Harry Winston's
store near the Champs-Elysee and stole nearly all its
valuables. (BBC)
MORE:
Robbers steal diamonds
Robbers
in drag net $100M in heist |
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Give Canadians right to use arms
In a
recent Windsor Star article (Cops
see spike in number of crime-fighting do-gooders),
it was reported that there has been a rise in private
citizens defending themselves or others against
criminals. (Windsor Star) |
Distracted to death
Ontario is witnessing a deadly jump in crashes caused by
drivers fiddling with radios, chatting on cellphones and
staring at road signs. (Waterloo Record)
PREVIOUS:
Transit collisions up 63%
Defiant and deadly
Grim toll After
the crash |
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Angry ex guilty in house blast
BRAMPTON -
A
Mississauga man was found guilty of deliberately blowing
up his house to get back at his wife. (TorStar)
PREVIOUS:
Note leads investigators to
launch probe |
The art of protest
VICTORIA -
It takes skill and know-how to protest successfully, and
Victoria is producing a bumper crop of well-trained
activists. (Victoria Times Colonist) |
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‘Exchange bandit' turns himself in
TORONTO - Just one
day after Toronto Police and the Canadian Bankers
Association
announced a $10,000 reward
for information leading to the arrest of a suspect
dubbed the "Exchange Bandit", the alleged robber
surrendered himself. (CityNews) |
Scrivener charged
WINNIPEG - Colin Scrivener, a former member of the
Saskatchewan Roughriders and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers,
has been charged with attempted murder in connection
with an incident in Winnipeg on Aug. 3. (Regina
Leader-Post) |
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Sabotage charges dropped
OTTAWA - A court martial for two Canadian naval officers
from CFB Esquimalt will be held in Ottawa next year to
hear allegations they corrupted a classified military
database, the Department of National Defence said
yesterday. (Victoria Times Colonist) PREVIOUS:
Forces charge 2 officers |
Speeding tickets increase by 1M
LONDON
- A million more speeding tickets
are being issued every year than a decade ago, the
Tories said, raising Ł100m a year in fines. David
Ruffley, the shadow police reform minister, said
official figures showed 1,773,412 fixed penalty notices
were given to drivers in 2006, up from 712,753 in 1997.
(Guardian UK) |
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Passport scandal
BUENOS AIRES
- The authorities in
Argentina
say they have uncovered a multi-million dollar operation
in forged Italian passports. Many of those being
investigated are professional footballers. It is
thought they use the false passports to overcome the
limit on the number of non-European Union foreigners
playing in the Italian league. (BBC)
PREVIOUS:
Judge orders 120 raids Passport
scandal
Argentina
national football team |
Skateboarding still a crime
FREDERICTON
- A skateboarder jailed last week for refusing to pay a
fine for skateboarding on a Fredericton street has
received another ticket. Lee Breen, 25, spent a night
in jail last week after he refused to pay a $100 fine
for breaking a Fredericton bylaw that was designed to
"prevent nuisances" and forbids skateboarding on the
road. (CBC)
PREVIOUS:
Skateboarder
sparks debate
City of Fredericton
Green Matters
Skateboarder jailed |
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Tomb vandalized
MONTREAL - Vandals have spray-painted graffiti on the
mausoleum of former Liberal prime minister
Pierre Trudeau.
The words "FLQ" and the French word for "traitor" were
written in black paint on at least two sides of the
massive family tomb, located south of Montreal in Saint-Remi,
Que. (CTV) MORE:
Vandals spray-paint tomb
Vandals
deface tomb |
OD spurred dance club raid
TORONTO -
It was the death of
a Hamilton man who overdosed on the date-rape drug GHB
that gave police the green light to raid a downtown
after-hours club they have suspected for years was a
drug den. (Toronto Star) PREVIOUS:
Comfort Zone raid 33
arrested in club raid, drugs seized
Police powerless to close drug 'flea
market' |
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$100M for victims
TORONTO -
The provincial
board that compensates victims of violent crime in
Ontario is receiving $100 million from the government.
The money will be spread out over two to three years to
help the
Criminal injuries compensation board
speed up the compensation process. (CBC) |
Attempted murder
TORONTO -
Kamal Khanna, 44, reportedly was arrested while sitting
on the steps of his home in suburban Alliston, Ont. on
Tuesday morning when police responded to an emergency
call at his home. (CanWest) MORE:
Girl in hospital, father
charged |
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Walk4Justice in Regina
REGINA
- A group of walkers is determined to bring justice to
the more than 3,000 missing and murdered women and
children in Canada. (Regina Leader-Post) |
Walk 4 justice
Walk4Justice 2008 Vancouver
to Ottawa
Walk across Canada puts
focus on missing, murdered women |
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Families face eviction
LONDON - Parents who fail to take
responsibility for their unruly offspring will be thrown
out of council accommodation or be forced to attend
intensive classes under the Government's youth crime
strategy to be unveiled by ministers. (Telegraph UK)
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Parents to blame
Offenders to face victims
Knife crime claims 60
victims a day
Knife crime 'overtakes
terrorism'
Guardian: knifecrime |
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Canada #11
LONDON
- Canada is among the more peaceful countries in the
world, but still a ways from the top, according to the
Global Peace Index released by Britain's Economist
Intelligence Unit. (AP) |
Denmark 'happiest place on
earth'
Canada 8th
Global Peace Index 2008
GPI Canada 2008
The happiest places on earth
World Database of Happiness
World map
of happiness
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Letter bomb suspect
TORONTO - The
man accused of last
month’s letter bombings
in Toronto and Guelph may have been acting on personal
grudges,
targeting his former
lawyer and a
past neighbour among his victims, sources say.
(National Post)
PREVIOUS:
Letter-bomb suspect
seemed unstable
Police
probe letter bomb mystery |
'Relief' at last
EDMONTON - Lesley Miller gasped, then wept quietly after
Leo Teskey was found guilty of a brutal assault more
than seven years ago that left her husband an invalid.
Dougald Miller was left an invalid by Teskey's assault
on Nov. 21, 2000. . (Edmonton Journal) MORE:
'He
never showed any remorse' |
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Cops at odds on tactics
MONTREAL - Police officers on duty when violence broke
out after Monday night's playoff game were not trained
to handle the situation, the head of the Montreal police
brotherhood says. The violence, touched off as
thousands of people were on Ste. Catherine St. W.
celebrating the
Montreal Canadiens'
victory over the
Boston Bruins,
caused damage to 16 police vehicles and 10 buildings.
(Montreal Gazette) |
Gazette photos
Hockey hooligans give
fans a bad rap
Fear & loathing on
Ste. Catherine St.
Throw the book at
playoff hooligans
Streets Erupt
Pandemonium in downtown
core
Rioters torch police
cars
Citizen 'snitches' |
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2011 most stolen cars
TORONTO - Bad news for Toyota Venza owners - the 2009
edition of the crossover SUV is the new hot target for
Canadian car thieves. The Toyota model tops the
Insurance Bureau of Canada’s
top 10 most frequently stolen
vehicles in Canada. (CP) |
2010 top stolen cars
Top 10 stolen cars
Gangs go for luxury
Civic most stolen vehicle
Top
10 most-stolen cars
They
were movie stars
Driver charged in crash
Mazda owners bad locks |
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New charges
VANCOUVER -
Tracy Lloyd Caza, 47, faces a charge of break and enter,
assault and attempt to defraud in relation to an
incident Nov. 14 in the 3500-block Vanness Street.
(Province) |
Suspect has history
Rings nowhere to be found
Alleged thief 50 convictions
Ring thief a professional |
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Rosato sent to
psychiatric institution
KINGSTON - Comic actor
Tony Rosato
has exchanged his jail cell for a hospital room.
Justice Gordon Thomson of the Superior Court yesterday
found Rosato guilty of criminally harassing his wife but
sentenced him to a conditional discharge. (Toronto
Star) |
Judge's
verdict reveals sad descent
Rare disorder centre
state
Capgras delusion
From
jokester to jailbird
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Guilty plea
WINNIPEG - An 18-year-old man has pleaded
guilty in connection with a crash that killed a
47-year-old man last year. Last December, the
18-year-old suspect stole a Hummer and went joy riding.
The Hummer sped through a stop sign at Alfred Ave,
smashing into another vehicle. 47-year old Zdzislaw
Andrzejczak, a husband and father, died from injuries
after being hit by the Hummer. (CTV)
Plea deal
Sentence reserved
2nd arrest
Arrest made
Teen charged
Manslaughter charge
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Escape at all costs
Inside the mind of the teen car thief
3rd time for 16-year-old
Banished
Suspects resort to more
violence
Mayor blasts feds over car
thefts
Laughing car thief back in
jail
Laughing car thief out again
5 youths charged
Youths arrested after SUV
hits officers
Car thief must pay
Firebug says she'll 'do it
again'
Car thieves target cops
Suspect's bail gets forceful
challenge
Serial auto thief accused
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National day of mourning - April 28
OTTAWA - The numbers are staggering. In Canada, some 855
employees die from work-related incidents each year,
averaging more than 2 deaths every day. (CCOHS) MORE:
Families pay tribute to
124 Alberta workplace victims
More than
200 Quebecers died on the job last year |
Relatives responsible for most violence
against seniors
Seniors are less likely to be the victims of violent and
property crimes than younger Canadians, but when they
are victimized, it's often at the hands of a family
member, according to a new study released yesterday.
(CanWest) MORE:
Seniors as victims of crime |
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Girl sentenced as youth
DARTMOUTH -
A 15-year-old girl who
took part in a brutal beating last September has been
sentenced as a young offender to two years in custody.
(CBC) |
Teen gets 6 years for attack
Teen recounts horror of beating
'I just wanted them to stop
2
girls sentenced for beating
Teenage girls held in beating |
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Youth crimes rise
WINNIPEG -
Crimes by youths in Winnipeg appear on the rise in
2011. Between January and August of 2010, 1300 youths
were charged, including 1,059 males and 463 females
under the age of 18, according to statistics from
police. (CTV)
Swarming
Attempted murder
Lesbian love triangle cited in attack
Guilty in ‘mob beating’
Swarming kids
Winnipeg swarming
81 charges laid after
swarmings
9 charged in swarmings
Charges laid in swarming
Mob attack
Police investigate attack
Calgary swarming
Swarming caught on tape
Swarmings
Swarming worth 6 months
Swarming
Police shocked by alleged attack
Details emerge in vicious
teen beating
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Another swarming in
Halifax
Swarming in Winnipeg
Another swarming
Plague of swarmings
Swarming in Halifax
Swarming with a hatchet
iPod muggings on rise
Team suspended
2nd teen charged
Residents on edge over
swarmings
Ring uses swarming tactics to shoplift
Youth violence escalating
Solving the case is just the first step
2006
Crime Stats Analysis
Pair accused of stabbing
Swarming-type robberies
Police snare 'wolf pack'
Bail delayed for accused
Assault over 'ratting
Paying the price for stepping up
Caught on
tape
Common criminals' common crime
Victim says he wouldn't help
again
Struggling against crime
'Shock, sadness and ...
hate'
Swarming at Montreal high
school
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World's Most Remarkable
Heists
In 1950, when a gang of thieves
broke into the heavily guarded offices of the
Brinks
Mat's armored car company in Boston, the headlines
heralded it the crime of the century. The building was
considered impenetrable, but the thieves managed to walk
out with $2.8 million in cash, checks and money orders.
Today, the Brinks bandits seem like petty crooks robbing
a 7-11. (Forbes) |
World's
Most Remarkable Heists
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Ramsbury Manor
Knightsbridge Security Deposit Center
Antwerp Diamond Center
Brinks Mat warehouse
Schipol airport
Banco Central Fortaleza
The Scream
Northern
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Bedard found guilty
QUEBEC
- A jury has found former Olympic gold medallist
Myriam Bedard
guilty of charges she violated a custody agreement with
her former husband. (Montreal Gazette) |
A plot, Bedard claims
Bédard
an Olympic-sized oddity
US Marshalls arrest Olympian
Bedard
Interpol joins search of
Bedard
Arrest warrant issued
Arrest warrant issued for
Bedard |
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Rioters get conditional
sentences
ST. ANDREWS, NB - Four
men who burned down a house last summer during a riot on
New Brunswick's Grand Manan Island will not have to
serve more time in jail. Three of them received
conditional sentences, which means they'll have to stay
in their homes except to go to work and appointments.
The fourth accused received a conditional discharge,
meaning he won't be penalized further unless he fails to
keep the peace. (CTV) |
Guilty verdicts at vigilante justice trial
4 NB men declared guilty
NB verdict opens island to
dealers
Grand Manan mob shouted 'let
it burn'
Man
charged with arson
Alleged arsonists hailed as
heroes
Police appeal for calm
during riot talks
Arrests in
Grand Manan riot
Canadians want
crackdown on crime
Mayor calls for calm after
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Choking game
TORONTO - At least 79,000 elementary and
high school students in Ontario say they've tried the
choking game, a dangerous activity in which a person
self-asphyxiates or has someone else choke them, a new
survey of adolescent behaviour has found. (CBC) |
ON student drug use
and health survey
Choking game is killing
kids
Ontario teens play
choking game
Children choking themselves to death
'Choking game' killed at least 82
kids
Unintentional
Strangulation
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Missing from cruise ships
According to the US
based
International cruise victims association,
165 people have gone missing at sea since 1995, with at least 13 this
year alone. (Daily Mail)
Beauty
dies mysteriously on cruise
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Passenger alerted cruise ship security
Cruise lines take lax
approach
A
groom's watery grave
Vanishing cruise ship passengers
Missing
passenger a Victoria woman
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Business of selling body parts
Is the human body sacred? Or is it a
commodity ready to be chopped up and exposed to the
forces of supply and demand? The answer is a matter of
perspective. Our own body is a temple. But when we need
a spare part, suddenly we’re surprisingly open to a
transaction. To a person looking for a kidney, a
scientist trying to learn anatomy, a beauty parlor
customer looking for the perfect ‘do, there’s no
substitute for a piece of someone else. (Wired)
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'Cutter' guilty
Alistair Cooke
Ringleader pleads guilty
Mastermind pleads guilty
The organ grinder
How a body broker got
away with it
US steps up inspections
Bodysnatchers
stole bones Body
snatchers tied to allograft firms
NYC
body part scandal
Police capture body gang
What was killing us in 1967
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Abuse behind spike in OD's
OTTAWA - Fentanyl is a
potent drug, similar to morphine and stronger than
OxyContin, and is used to treat chronic pain. Drug
abusers have been cutting the prescription patches into
four pieces, cooking them down in small silver drug
pots, and injecting them. (CBC)
Cocktail of medications connected
Fentanyl
'The right to get high’
High on harm reduction
OxyContin
Heroin losing its
popularity
Painkiller addictions trump heroin use
Superbug infections
up 150%
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Against the law: Calgary
Lets
law-breakers run wild
3 Cocaine bricks found
SFU prof takes prize
Decriminalize pot:
Campbell
Police charged 63 in drug sweep
Pot
possession laws unconstitutional
Rules set to loosen
City police getting tougher
with pot
Potmobile busted in
ferry lineup
Pot busts bounce back
Aid to
treat chronic criminals
INCB Annual report
More junk science
Free crack mouthpieces
on the way
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Marijuana
production in the US (2006)
Drunk until proven innocent
Drug-impaired driving bill
The changing face of crack addiction
Doctors contribute to addictions
Giving
cash to addicts
Gov't
targets meth with more funds
Drug
treatment court proposal lauded
100%
purity crystal meth
America's
most dangerous drug
Cannabis drug on sale in Canada
Kidnapping
was gang-related: police
Pot
report
Nine
Strikes - You're Out…Sort Of
Pot
use doubled over past decade
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Another bloated bureaucracy
Meth
addiction spreading
Some
facts about crystal meth
A
closer look
CBC
Indepth: Crystal meth
Combating
crystal meth
A
Family's Fight Against Crack -
Part
1
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2
Part 3
Part 4
Part
5 Part
6
Part
7
Medical
marijuana sub-standard
Government should cash in on pot
Border
inspector arrested
Customs officer smuggling pot
Canada's
growing marijuana problem
Regional Highlights
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Money
mystery
Eighty
years ago Pauline Marsh began a journey that
would change her life and her family forever.
They
were leaving behind a life of borderline poverty as her
father had become suddenly wealthy a few months earlier.
(Tri-City Herald)
PREVIOUS:
DeAutremont
Brothers
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Great-Unsolved
Mysteries
A
team of historians has been trying to solve some
historical "cold cases" - old crimes in which
innocent people may have been hanged while the guilty ones
walked, and even more insidious crimes where a whole
village may have been complicit.
(Canadian Mysteries)
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UK:
Crime Reduction website
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