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A Toronto police officer who witnessed her partner get run over by a car says she will co-operate with an external investigation that was called after a judge criticized the testimony she and two others gave at the trial of Umar Zameer.Mr. Zameer was acquitted last weekend by a jury that rejected the Crown’s argument that he had deliberately hit Constable Jeffrey Northrup in an underground parking garage in 2021. In her instructions to jurors, Ontario Superior Court Justice Anne Molloy cautioned them to consider whether the three police witnesses colluded in a common narrative. After the...
April 24, 2024 - 20:34 | Colin Freeze | The Globe and Mail
After winning the 100-metre final at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, now remembered as “the dirtiest race in history,” Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson failed his drug test and was stripped of his gold medal. He later admitted to steroid use and has lived in ignominy since. In her new book World’s Fastest Man*: The Incredible Life of Ben Johnson, author Mary Ormsby raises serious questions about the science, procedures and prejudices that led to Johnson’s disqualification. This is the second of three excerpts: Tomorrow, ‘I’d do it again’.The doping case against Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson seemed...
April 24, 2024 - 20:17 | Mary Ormsby | The Globe and Mail
The Manitoba government’s plan to let people grow cannabis in their homes is being accompanied by a temporary pause on approval of some new retail outlets.Justice Minister Matt Wiebe introduced a bill Wednesday that would lift the province’s ban on homegrown recreational cannabis.The change would leave Quebec as the only province with a ban. All other provinces leave the matter to federal law, which allows a maximum of four plants per household.
April 24, 2024 - 19:46 | Steve Lambert | The Globe and Mail
Reena Virk’s killer told parole officials that a television series about the Victoria, B.C., teen’s murder is “disrespectful” and will “re-victimize” Virk’s family.Documents released by the Parole Board of Canada Wednesday say Virk’s killer Kelly Ellard – who changed her name to Kerry Sim – demonstrated “remorse and victim empathy” after discussing the TV show about the high-profile 1997 murder with her case managers.The parole board decision says Sim, who was 15 at the time of the murder, admitted to playing a “greater role” in Virk’s death, and believes it was “so horrendous” that the...
April 24, 2024 - 19:36 | | The Globe and Mail
Ontario plans to reduce the number of sick notes doctors have to write and expand a pilot project to test artificial-intelligence, note-taking software, all to cut down on a paperwork burden many in the profession say discourages medical students from going into family medicine.The province’s Health Minister, Sylvia Jones, made the announcement on Wednesday, a day after a chorus of the province’s leading medical schools warned that more action is needed to stop an alarming decline in the number of students interested in becoming family doctors.
April 24, 2024 - 19:33 | Jeff Gray | The Globe and Mail
"On a nice normal, calm day here in Lethbridge, we do still have wind, and that fire could easily double in size every two to three seconds," explained Hicks.
April 24, 2024 - 19:25 | Brandon Cassidy | Global News - Canada
