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Recent arrests tied to spate of robberies and other crimes in Quebec City: police
By The Canadian Press on December 28th, 2022
Quebec City police say they think the recent arrests of several suspects will help solve a spate of robberies and other crimes in the provincial capital over the last few days. Police arrested five people on Tuesday between the ages of 21 and 47 – four men and one woman – but released one man ... Read More »
1 responseCanadian Army feeling squeeze of more demands, fewer soldiers
By The Canadian Press on December 28th, 2022
OTTAWA – The head of the Canadian Army says his force is facing more demands at home and in Europe even as the number of soldiers under his command continues to shrink. Lt.-Gen. Joe Paul says the squeeze is forcing the Army to take a closer look at some long-established assumptions and ways of doing ... Read More »
1 responseInvestigation opened after death of inmate at Bordeaux jail in Montreal
By The Canadian Press on December 28th, 2022
MONTREAL – An inmate from Bordeaux jail in Montreal has died from injuries he sustained last weekend inside the provincial detention centre. Nicous D’Andre Spring, 21, died in hospital. Quebec provincial police are investigating the incident on Saturday afternoon that led to the man’s death. Police spokesperson Nicolas Scholtus says an autopsy will be performed ... Read More »
1 responseAbout 19K Quebec hydro customers still without power almost 1 week after storm
By The Canadian Press on December 28th, 2022
MONTREAL – Nearly 19,000 Hydro-Québec customers are still without power this morning, after a winter storm slammed Eastern Canada last week. The public utility’s outage map shows more than 5,700 clients without electricity in the Quebec City area, nearly 5,000 in the Côte-Nord region and more than 2,400 in Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean. Hydro-Québec’s CEO said earlier this ... Read More »
1 responseOntario Provincial Police expected to announce charges into fatal shooting of officer
By The Canadian Press on December 28th, 2022
HAGERSVILLE, Ont. – Charges are expected to be announced today regarding a police investigation into a shooting that left an Ontario Provincial Police officer dead in southeast Ontario. OPP say Const. Grzegorz Pierzchala of the Haldimand County detachment was shot just after 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday while responding to a vehicle in a ditch just ... Read More »
1 responseIn The News for Dec. 28: What a look back at Manitoba’s 2022 politics reveals
By The Canadian Press on December 28th, 2022
In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what’s on the radar of our editors for the morning of Dec. 28 … What we are watching in Canada … Despite a change in the premier’s chair, an economic rebound and new spending announcements, opinion ... Read More »
1 responseFrom smart homes to connected cars, new tools of domestic abuse make escape harder
By Brieanna Charlebois, The Canadian Press on December 28th, 2022
VANCOUVER – A phone, a smart home, a digitally connected car – these are the tools of digital domestic abuse that anti-violence experts say is on the rise. “Methods that are sort of presented as advances in technology, whether it’s a smart home or a smart car, are just another method of surveillance that can ... Read More »
1 responseOntario Provincial Police officer shot dead had just passed probation
By The Canadian Press on December 27th, 2022
HAGERSVILLE, Ont. – Ontario Provincial Police say a 28-year-old officer who was fatally shot while on duty Tuesday afternoon had just been told he had passed probation. OPP say Const. Grzegorz Pierzchala was shot while responding to a vehicle in a ditch west of Hagersville, Ont., in Haldimand County, just after 2:30 p.m., and died ... Read More »
1 response‘He was a wonderful officer’: Force mourns constable shot dead in southern Ontario
By The Canadian Press on December 27th, 2022
HAGERSVILLE, Ont. – A 28-year-old Ontario Provincial Police officer who was fatally shot while on duty Tuesday afternoon was remembered by the force as having “the biggest heart of gold.” The OPP said Const. Grzegorz Pierzchala was shot while responding to a vehicle in a ditch west of Hagersville, Ont., in Haldimand County, just after ... Read More »
1 response‘A huge loss to the OPP family’: Force mourns officer shot dead in southern Ontario
By The Canadian Press on December 27th, 2022
HAGERSVILLE, Ont. – A 28-year-old constable with the Ontario Provincial Police who the force says was “one of the biggest-hearted police officers” was shot and killed while on duty in southern Ontario on Tuesday afternoon. The OPP said Const. Grzegorz Pierzchala was shot while responding to a vehicle in a ditch west of Hagersville, Ont., ... Read More »
1 responseB.C. bus crash probe to look at earlier incident too, amid questions over icy road
By The Canadian Press on December 27th, 2022
VANCOUVER – British Columbia’s transportation minister says investigators looking into a bus crash that claimed four lives on the Okanagan Connector road on Christmas Eve are also considering another involving the same operator days earlier. Minister Rob Fleming said Tuesday that maintenance contractors were plowing and salting the road, also known as Highway 97C, on ... Read More »
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