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‘I assumed’: Mountie on trial says he trusted information about man he shot
By The Canadian Press on December 2nd, 2022
EDMONTON – An Alberta Mountie charged in the fatal shooting of a man who had been sleeping in a pickup truck at a rest stop says he trusted information from a fellow officer that the man was wanted as a suspect. Cpl. Randy Stenger and Const. Jessica Brown have pleaded not guilty to charges of ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Goggia wins 1st World Cup downhill of season in Lake Louise
By The Associated Press on December 2nd, 2022
LAKE LOUISE, Alberta (AP) – Italy’s Sofia Goggia won the first World Cup women’s downhill race of the season Friday at Lake Louise by holding off Olympic champion Corinne Suter of Switzerland. The ninth racer to take the course, Goggia finished in a time of 1 minute, 47.81 seconds, which edged Suter by 0.04 seconds. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘Wanted more information’: Second Alberta Mountie charged with manslaughter testifies
By Angela Amato, The Canadian Press on December 1st, 2022
EDMONTON – A second Mountie on trial in the killing of a man at a rest stop says he wanted more information before he and his team approached a pickup truck that he assumed had a shooting suspect inside. “There isn’t a day I don’t think about this,” Cpl. Randy Stenger told a jury Thursday. ... Read More »
1 responseMountie shoots armed man on First Nation, suspect in life-threatening condition
By The Canadian Press on December 1st, 2022
MASKWACIS, ALBERTA, CANADA – Alberta’s police watchdog has been called in to investigate after a Mountie shot an armed suspect on the Samson Cree First Nation. RCMP say in a release that the wounded man was flown to hospital in critical life-threatening condition. Police say they responded to a report of a man firing a ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Second Alberta Mountie charged with manslaughter testifies before Edmonton jury
By The Canadian Press on December 1st, 2022
EDMONTON – A second Mountie on trial in the killing of a man at a rest stop has acknowledged that more information was needed before he and his team approached a pickup truck that he assumed had a shooting suspect inside. RCMP Cpl. Randy Stenger and his colleague Const. Jessica Brown have pleaded not guilty ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘Cautiously optimistic’: Lawyer for trucker in Broncos crash waiting on Federal Court
By Bill Graveland, The Canadian Press on December 1st, 2022
CALGARY – A lawyer for a former truck driver who caused the deadly Humboldt Broncos bus crash says he’s cautiously optimistic that he will get the chance to argue against his client’s possible deportation before Federal Court. In 2019, Jaskirat Singh Sidhu was sentenced to eight years after pleading guilty to dangerous driving causing death ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Alberta Mountie charged with manslaughter tells jury she feared for her life
By Angela Amato, The Canadian Press on November 30th, 2022
EDMONTON – An Alberta Mountie testified Wednesday that she feared for her life before she and another officer fatally shot a man at a rest stop northwest of Edmonton. “That’s not something I ever wanted to do in my entire career,” Const. Jessica Brown told a jury as she teared up. Brown and Cpl. Randy ... Read More »
1 responseAlberta Mountie charged with manslaughter testifies at trial
By The Canadian Press on November 30th, 2022
EDMONTON – An Alberta Mountie has testified she believed the man she and another officer are accused of killing was a suspect in a shooting a day earlier. RCMP Const. Jessica Brown and Cpl. Randy Stenger have pleaded not guilty to manslaughter and aggravated assault in the fatal shooting of Clayton Crawford in 2018 near ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Alberta Court of Appeal orders new trial for man acquitted of beating four-year-old
By The Canadian Press on November 30th, 2022
CALGARY – The Alberta Court of Appeal has ordered a new trial for a man found not guilty of aggravated assault on his four-year-old stepdaughter, who suffered a life-altering head injury. Tyler Laberge of Calgary was accused of beating the girl while she was in his care in March 2018. Laberge testified that he heard ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Rural Alberta rocked by magnitude 5.8 earthquake, other tremors, no injuries
By The Canadian Press on November 29th, 2022
EDMONTON – If you felt the Earth move in parts of Alberta on Tuesday, you were not alone. Earthquakes Canada reported a series of tremors in northwestern Alberta. The largest was a magnitude 5.8 earthquake shortly before 6 p.m. MST that was preceded by two 5.2 earthquakes, followed by several aftershocks. All three quakes occurred ... Read More »
1 responseCP NewsAlert: Alberta sovereignty bill introduced in legislature
By The Canadian Press on November 29th, 2022
EDMONTON – The Alberta government has introduced Premier Danielle Smith’s sovereignty bill in the legislature. The proposed legislation would grant Smith and her cabinet broad powers to rewrite provincial laws behind closed doors to push back against Ottawa. It would also allow cabinet to direct public bodies – such as school boards, universities and police ... Read More »
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