Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Aaron Sousa
Publication Date: December 11, 2024 - 20:00
Officers won’t be charged after innocent man shot and killed, Alberta police watchdog says
December 11, 2024
Officers won’t face charges after an innocent man was unknowingly shot and killed in 2022, Alberta’s police watchdog said Wednesday.The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team, or ASIRT, said in a report that three Edmonton officers were chasing a robbery suspect when they fired several shots, including some that went into a downtown apartment building.The suspect was killed, and police later discovered James Hanna also died when a bullet that went through his apartment building struck him in the chest as he sat in front of his TV.
Unpublished Newswire
A member of the executive committee overseeing bids for the redevelopment of Toronto’s St. Michael’s Hospital testified in court on Wednesday that he opposed awarding the lucrative contract to Bondfield Construction Co. Ltd.Derrick Toigo, a former executive vice-president at Infrastructure Ontario and member of the four-person committee, was testifying at the criminal trial of Vas Georgiou, the former chief administrative officer of St. Michael’s, and John Aquino, the former president of Bondfield. They are each charged with two counts of fraud over $5,000 and have pleaded not guilty....
December 11, 2024 - 22:43 | Karen Howlett | The Globe and Mail
A few Ottawa Senators fans had to be feeling pretty good about leaving Canadian Tire Centre hatless Wednesday. Hats hit the ice in bunches near the mid-point of the second period when winger Drake Batherson completed his hat trick, sending game officials and arena workers scurrying to pick them up. It was one of those […]
December 11, 2024 - 22:29 | Tim Baines | Ottawa Citizen
Seven Vancouver police officers will soon face a public disciplinary hearing over their involvement in the fatal beating of a 33-year-old man while he was being arrested during a mental-health crisis nearly a decade ago.In 2015, Myles Gray died on the lawn of a property just east of Vancouver after police were called to respond to a complaint about a man behaving erratically. A subsequent investigation by B.C.’s Independent Investigations Office, which probes cases where police kill or seriously harm members of the public, found there there were grounds to charge some of the officers...
December 11, 2024 - 21:49 | Mike Hager | The Globe and Mail
Comments
Be the first to comment