Unpublished Newswire

The Alberta Court of Appeal has upped the sentence of a child pornographer and child abuser, saying the trial judge made a mistake when refusing to accept a joint sentence submission from the defence and the Crown and declining to view the images made by the accused pedophile. The accused, who is unnamed and referred to as R.P.A., amassed a collection of child pornography beginning in 2014 and sexually abused his daughter, named only as K.S. in court documents, between 2016 and 2022, and made child pornography featuring her, “mirroring some of the abuse depicted in his acquired...

A vicious organism so “armed to the teeth” it can dodge most drugs thrown at it and a fungus with a kill rate of up to 60 percent lead a new list of pathogens federal health officials say pose the greatest threats to Canadians.   The updated list of “high impact” superbugs making people sick, sometimes fatally sick, includes a family of bacteria that cause E. Coli and Salmonella, as well as extremely drug-resistant gonorrhea. All in, 29 pathogens made the watchlist, whittled down from 68 initially flagged by Public Health Agency of Canada expert working and advisory groups.  ...