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Publication Date: April 20, 2026 - 17:13
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Kelowna long-term care worker convicted of sexual assault amid B.C. wildfire evacuations
April 20, 2026
A judge has found an unnamed health-care worker at a long-term care facility in the Central Okanagan guilty of three counts of sexual assault against his co-workers. The assaults happened while the workers were staying in the Lower Mainland in order to care for evacuated residents during the August 2023 McDougall Creek wildfire in West Kelowna.
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April 22, 2026 - 06:31 | Sierra Bein | The Globe and Mail
An Indian-born man who “absconded” from Canada the day after an Ontario jury convicted him of sexual assault and extortion has been sentenced in absentia to seven years in prison.
The offender, identified only as H.B. in a recent decision from Ontario’s Superior Court of Justice, was in an intimate partner relationship with his victim, who is described as a “new Canadian” who is also from India.
“The first assault occurred at the victim’s home which should have been a place of safety,” wrote Justice Stephen T. Bale.
“Some of the assaults were brutal, painful and degrading — when...
April 22, 2026 - 06:30 | Chris Lambie | National Post
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April 22, 2026 - 06:30 | Jessica Leeder | Walrus
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