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Tyler Greening pleads guilty in vicious Prince of Wales Collegiate attack
Tyler Greening, 18, of Paradise has pleaded guilty to aggravated assault for his role in the group beating of a St. John's high school student. (Heather Gillis/CBC)A teenager accused of severely beating a student at a St. John's high school last year pleaded guilty Friday to aggravated assault.Tyler Greening, 18, was among a group of students who attacked the victim with weapons at the entrance of Prince of Wales Collegiate last March.The assault left the victim severely injured.Greening, absent
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Charlottetown police looking for missing person from West Royalty
Police and Ground Search and Rescue are looking for a man missing from his home in the West Royalty neighbourhood of Charlottetown.Lowell Morrison is 74 years old and suffers from dementia.He left his home on Kenwood Circle on foot sometime overnight Thursday. He was found to be gone at 8:40 Friday morning.He is believed to be wearing jeans, a burgundy dress shirt, ball cap and sneakers, and possibly a khaki pull over sweater.Anyone who has seen Morrison is asked to contact police.Police also wa
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Hostage was lying on captor before police opened fire: officer
The first police officer to enter a room where a woman was being held hostage told a B.C. coroner's inquest that he saw her lying on a bed on top of her captor, who was holding a knife to her throat with a gun in his other hand.Cpl. Chris Dibblee told the inquest jury Thursday that he almost immediately felt he would need to shoot Randy Crosson to save hostage Nona McEwan but initially didn't think he could do so without hitting her, too."This is what I was thinking. Can I get to him before he c
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Teens among 3 charged in GTA carjackings
Three people, including two teenagers, are facing charges after carjackings in the Greater Toronto Area, York Regional Police say.In a news release issued Friday, police said that on April 6, officers were called about a carjacking attempt in a parking lot in the area of Yonge Street and Glen Cameron Road in Thornhill.A woman was walking to her SUV when a person approached and pulled her away, while a second person then jumped in her vehicle, police said.The victim struggled, and her husband jum
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Legal drinking coming to parks throughout Toronto
Torontonians will soon be able to legally drink alcoholic beverages in at least one park in every ward of the city.On Thursday evening, city council voted to immediately and permanently allow drinking in 44 parks, codifying and expanding a pilot project that began last summer in 27 locations.Meanwhile, councillors who represent areas without at least one park where alcohol consumption is legal will now need to identify a park where it will be permitted. If they don't do so by early July, city st
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City forced to pump water from Yellowknife Bay after leaks deplete reservoir
In the first three months of 2024, multiple water main breaks caused by frost and shifting ground resulted in Yellowknife's water reservoir being "depleted quickly."That's according to a document on the Mackenzie Valley Land and Water Board website from the city. It explained that the city pumped water from Yellowknife Bay to make up for what was lost and exceeded the amounts it is typically allowed to take from the bay under its water licence, which is regulated by the board. The city's primary
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Planters beware: Looming frost threat across Ontario and Quebec
Despite a warmer start to the year, and an early arrival of some plants and flowers, those eager to get in their gardens to plant, may want to hold on a little bit longer. A chill is in the air
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