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Relative arrested in death of 81-year-old man: Sask. RCMP
Saskatchewan RCMP have charged a man with second-degree murder in the death of an 81-year-old relative.Kevin Swanson, a 57-year-old man from Naicam, has been charged in the death of Dennis Swanson, 81. Police say the two are related but did not specify how.Melfort RCMP were called around 4:30 p.m. on Thursday with a report of a serious assault at a home on Third Avenue N. in Naicam, about 150 kilometres east of Saskatoon.Officers found Dennis injured at the home. He was later declared dead at th
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2 men charged with manslaughter in Williams Lake, B.C., stabbing
Two men have been charged with manslaughter in connection with the death of a teenager in Williams Lake, B.C., on May 5, 2022.Richard (Richie) Todd, 19, was fatally stabbed on Midnight Drive around 11 p.m. PT, RCMP said in a Saturday statement. Williams Lake is about 550 kilometres northeast of Vancouver.Almost two years after Todd's death, 26-year-old Michael Bauer and 25-year-old Garrett Shirey were charged with manslaughter in relation to the stabbing.Bauer, of Williams Lake, and Shirey, of H
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Police investigating an alleged homicide in Mission, B.C.
Police are investigating an alleged homicide at a rural property in Mission, B.C., on Friday night.Mission RCMP said they received a report from B.C. Emergency Health Services of an incident at a home at the 30300-block of Dewdney Trunk Road around 11 p.m. PT. Mission is about 75 kilometres southeast of Vancouver. A 25-year-old man was found unresponsive at the scene and could not be resuscitated.A suspect has been arrested and is in police custody. Police did not state if the suspect has been c
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Faculty join U of T encampment protest
Pro-Palestinian student protesters are entering the third day of their encampment demonstration at the University of Toronto Saturday and are seeing faculty joining them in support. Robyn Maynard, an assistant professor at the University of Toronto, was at the encampment Saturday supporting students. She said there's a large number of University faculty there in solidarity."We feel it's really important that we can be here as witnesses, given the kinds of dangers some of the students have been e
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2024 Hot Docs 'The Day Iceland Stood Still': For 24 hours in 1975, 90% of women in Iceland took a day off
In 1975, 90 per cent of women in Iceland walked out of their jobs and homes, taking a day off from working, doing housework, caring for their children.
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Barss Corner gets first custom postmark
It's taken over a century, but the post office in Barss Corner, N.S., is finally able to make its mark with pictures on mail arriving for local residents and postmark collectors alike.The tiny rural post office in Lunenburg County that serves about 500 addresses held a launch ceremony at the end of April to celebrate joining several other Nova Scotia communities that have pictorial postmarks, also known as cancellation stamps.The postmark is an ink stamp used to indicate the date that a piece of
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