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For brutal domestic slaying, a powerful nighttime guilty verdict of 1st-degree murder
WARNING: This story contains graphic descriptions of intimate partner violence.After months of abuse, threats, manipulation and control by her on again, off again partner, 24-year-old Marie "Mimi" Gabriel was done.She told 40-year-old Jean-Bruno "Berno" Fenelon — 16 years her senior, who started seeing her when she was 17 — to leave the south Ottawa home she'd fled to with their two young children months earlier, with help from social services.But it wasn't working. She texted the man she was se
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Ottawa police shoot, arrest man after 4 people injured
Ontario's police watchdog is investigating after four people were injured and a 33-year-old man was shot by police at a shopping plaza in Ottawa's east end.In a news release Saturday morning, the Special Investigations Unit (SIU) said Ottawa police received multiple emergency calls around 11:15 p.m. Friday that a man with a weapon was assaulting people and damaging vehicles near St. Joseph Boulevard and Place D'Orléans Drive.The independent civilian agency confirmed that officers confronted a ma
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Student nurse attacked with knife at Vancouver hospital, union says
The B.C. Nurses' Union says a student nurse was attacked with a knife at Vancouver General Hospital (VGH) on Thursday, during what the union president says was the victim's first clinical placement.A Vancouver Police Department spokesperson says officers responded to an assault around 9 a.m. PT on Thursday at the hospital, and a 37-year-old woman sustained non-life-threatening injuries."VPD arrested a 48-year-old man, who was a patient at the hospital," Sgt. Steve Addison said in a statement."Be
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Edmonton man handed 14-year prison term for online targeting, sexual exploitation of girls
A man who used social media to manipulate and sexually exploit young girls in the Edmonton area will spend more than a decade in prison.Imesh Ratnayake, 23, pleaded guilty to 11 criminal charges in August, admitting that over nearly three years, he committed sexual offences against eight girls between the ages of 11 and 16.Court of King's Bench Justice James Neilson accepted a joint submission from Crown prosecutors and Ratnayake's defence lawyer on Friday for a 14-year prison term.With enhanced
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Sean 'Diddy' Combs is trying to obstruct justice from jail, prosecutors say
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs has tried to reach out to prospective witnesses and influence public opinion from jail in a bid to affect potential jurors for his upcoming sex trafficking trial, prosecutors claimed in a court filing urging a judge to reject his latest bail request. The government accusations were made in a Manhattan federal court filing late Friday that opposes the music mogul’s latest $50 million bail proposal. A bail hearing is scheduled for next week.