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A 20-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of a teenage boy in Thorncliffe Park last year.
Toronto police found 16-year-old Nazirullah Abdul-Rashid inside a vehicle with apparent gunshot wounds at 5 Leaside Park Drive on the evening of April 5, 2020.
Despite life-saving efforts, he was pronounced dead at the scene.
On Friday, police announced that 20-year-old Salman Jogiyat was arrested and charged with first-degree murder.
A Chicago jury reached guilty verdicts Thursday on five of six charges against "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett, who was accused of falsely reporting that he was the victim of a disturbing, hate-fueled beating.
The panel, which had deliberated since Wednesday afternoon, weighed six counts of felony disorderly conduct against Smollett for telling police that he was brutally assaulted at 2:45 a.m. Jan. 29, 2019, in Chicago's Streeterville neighborhood.
The offenses are class 4 felonies and could be punishable by up to three years behind bars. But Smollett has a clean criminal record, making any jail time highly unlikely.
Dan Webb, the special prosecutor selected to lead the case, said the sixth charge was an aggravated battery charge. He said after the verdict that he was proud of the jury, characterizing Smollett's defense as a "completely ridiculous story."
He also defended the Chicago Police Department's response to Smollett's initial report of a hate crime.
"For the next three weeks, these 26 Chicago officers spent 3,000 hours of time costing the city well over $100,000 for a fake crime that never occurred," Webb said. "And by the way, a fake crime that denigrates what a real-hate crime is and to use these meanings and symbols that are so important in our society. It's clear why the police would take it seriously."
Smollett’s defense attorney said they will appeal, calling his client "an innocent man."
"We feel 100 percent confident that this case will be won on appeal," lawyer Nenye Uche said. Smollett is disappointed and is confident his name will be cleared, Uche said.
Smollett left court without answering shouted questions from reporters.
Smollett said two men punched him, kicked him, used racist and homophobic slurs, threw chemicals in his face, wrapped rope around his neck and even yelled out a slogan in support of then-President Donald Trump.
On January 17, 2003, it became known that Peterson had engaged in two other extramarital affairs prior to an affair with a woman named Amber Frey.[41]
Amber Frey approached the police about Peterson, who had denied to police that he was having an affair. She told detectives that she met Peterson on November 20, and that he had initially told her he was single. After they had begun dating, however, she came to suspect that he was married, and confronted him on December 9 about this. Frey said to Brocchini, "He said he lost his wife, this would be the first holiday he was without his wife."[42]
Frey allowed police detectives to secretly record her subsequent phone conversations with Peterson in the hopes of getting him to confess.[43] During the trial, the audio recordings of the couple's telephone conversations were played, and the transcripts were publicized. The recordings revealed that in the days after Laci went missing, Peterson told Frey that he had traveled to Paris to celebrate the holidays, in part with his new companions Pasqual and François. In reality, he had made one of these phone calls minutes before attending the New Year's Eve candlelight vigil for Laci in Modesto.[44]
It’s unclear how the car got into the Niagara River. Witnesses reported seeing it floating near a pedestrian bridge, where it was believed to have gone in. Roads in the area were slippery.
One witness, Trey Parks, tells CityNews he lives a block away from where it all took place.
“I’ve never seen anything like this.”
After the rescue, the car remained almost entirely submerged, with only part of the roof and open trunk hatch visible, in the rapids upstream from the American Falls, one of three waterfalls that make up Niagara Falls. Onlookers watched as emergency crews prepared to try to pull the vehicle from the water.
Authorities said the driver lived in the area. Her name was not released pending the notification of her relatives.
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WorkSafeBC is investigating the deaths of two people after being trapped under glass sheets in Richmond in mid-October.
Emergency personnel were called to the scene Oct. 12 around 9 a.m. in the 16000-block of River Road, close to No. 7 Road.
Richmond Fire-Rescue – who included the information in their monthly report to city council – arrived at the scene and determined the two workers had died. Soon thereafter, they were joined by paramedics who confirmed the deaths.
Richmond Fire-Rescue crew members helped remove the glass off the two bodies using airbags.
WorkSafeBC and the RCMP Special Crimes Unit also were on scene.
According to WorkSafeBC, the two people who died were employees, but they didn’t say who they were working for at the time of the incident.
WorkSafeBC said the primary purpose of their investigation is to determine the cause of the incident as well as any contributing factors, “so that similar incidents can be prevented from happening in the future.”
Overworked and lack of staff are only two of many reasons some nurses are quitting Richmond Hospital, according to Aman Grewal, president of the BC Nurses Union.
Grewal said a nursing crisis has been going on for decades and the pandemic has only highlighted that fact.
“We know that nurses are quitting at Richmond General Hospital due to overwork, stress and the lack of nursing staff available to help with the workload,” said Grewal.
“Our nurses are tired everywhere. We hear it locally, on the Island and in the Interior.”
According to a recent survey conducted for the union, 35 per cent of B.C. nurses surveyed said they are considering leaving the profession in the next two years due to the pandemic.
Grewal said the lack of staff in the ER and in various departments has resulted in nurses being redeployed throughout the hospital.
She explained that nurses are continuously being moved around from their original units to another unit where there is a need for more staff, which adds to the mental exhaustion nurses face.
“This is happening everywhere. Nurses are taken from one area to better support one area in dire situations.”
The high number of deaths nurses have to see, especially in ER, is also contributing to their mental exhaustion and burnout, said Grewal.
“(Prior to COVID-19) you may see one death every couple weeks, but now at times you could be seeing several in one shift,” she added.
As well, the lack of staff resources and heavy workload may potentially also cause physical injury to nurses, such as sprains or strains while working without sufficient rest.
Finally, the lack of resources is impacting patient care, said Grewal.
Pre-pandemic, one nurse would attend to four patients on average. Now, nurses are attending up to six or seven patients.
“This limits the time nurses can spend with their patients in order for them to get to everyone, and we can’t provide the best care for patients (this) way,” said Grewal.
In order for staffing needs to be met, the provincial government projected that B.C. needs close to 24,000 nurses in healthcare by 2029.
BCNU is calling on the government for a comprehensive plan to recruit nurses now and for the future, while developing strategies to retain those already in the profession.
More than 120 staff at Maplehurst Correctional Complex in Milton have been placed on leave after Halton Public Health banned unvaccinated staff from working at the jail last week amid a COVID-19 outbreak, according to a union memo obtained by the Star.
The combination of outbreak control measures and staffing shortages is raising concerns for both inmates and staff at the jail, which has seen frequent lockdowns through the pandemic particularly during an outbreak at the start of the year that spread through 250 inmates and 100 staff members.
There are 80 cases linked to the current outbreak, according to Halton Public Health. As of Dec. 1, according to the Ministry of the Solicitor General, there were 36 active inmate cases.
The majority of the unvaccinated staff, including correctional officers, were placed on unpaid leave as of Dec. 1 due to a public health order issued by local officials, outraging union leadership who say staff had been following Ontario Public Service rules. Those rules had allowed unvaccinated workers to submit to regular antigen testing as an alternative to vaccination.
The weekend memo from OPSEU Local 234 president Peter Figliola says 124 staff members working at Maplehurst are affected by the new requirement, including 16 people assigned to a unit housing inmates from the Ontario Correctional Institute which closed down after a major outbreak last year. As of 2019, the jail employed 440 correctional officers. The local represented 1,078 members from Maplehurst and the neighbouring women’s jail.
“The focus of this isn’t about who is vaccinated and who isn’t, the focus of this is these individuals were in compliance with an OPS mandate and they were punished for it,” Figliola said an in an interview. The public health order does not stipulate that unvaccinated staff should be placed on unpaid leave.
Figliola said staff who are able to work at the jail are doing their best and working 12 to 14 hours days and through breaks in order to keep the facility operating, as other staff members are facing an unknown amount of time without pay.
“I feel like we are being used as a test run to see what the reaction is for the rest of the province,” he said. He noted that proof of vaccination or testing is not a requirement for visitors to provincial jails and said the union had been asking for this to be addressed for weeks.
A 31-year-old man from Ottawa is facing charges after a multi-year cross-border investigation into cyber attacks against governments, businesses and individuals in the United States and Canada.
https://globalnews.ca/news/8431601/ottawa-cyber-crime-opp-rcmp-fbi-malware-ransomware/
The Ontario Provincial Police joint press conference with members of the RCMP and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation’s attaché in Ottawa on Tuesday to unveil the results of Project CODA, which investigated recent spikes in cybercrime.
The FBI first got into contact with the OPP in January 2020 to alert the provincial force about ransomware and malware attacks originating in Canada.
OPP and the Mounties conducted a “separate, parallel investigation” alongside the FBI, based on the U.S. intelligence agency’s tips, with help from Europol.
Officials did not provide specifics on the volume or specific targets of attacks under investigation. However, they stated the attacks were “numerous” and included businesses, government agencies and individuals on both sides of the border.
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