Canada

Officers surround Genesta Garson, 19, after a community security officer in Thompson, Man, punched her face and knocked unconscious.

The 48-year-old Toronto mother of three was in desperate need of a break; she had been laid off from her work as a market analyst last summer as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, and her husband's salary had been reduced by 20%.

Dr. Brian Nadler, a physician at the Hawkesbury and District General Hospital, has been charged with first-degree murder in connection with the death of 89-year-old Albert Poidinger, a patient at the hospital. The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario revoked his medical license days after he was charged on March 26.

A man has been charged with second-degree murder in connection with a fatal stabbing in Nepean. Nicholas Cox, 20, has been charged in the death of Christopher Avery Houghton last week.

Susannah-Joy Schuilenberg called for professional designations to break ethical code. A C.B. Psychotherapist accused of selling three degree phoney graduates was disciplined after an investigation discovered she failed in her obligation to be truthful and uphold the rules.

Some students at Hillcrest High School in Ottawa say they have been treated badly because they are black or brown. There have been rumors of racism at the school for months, and now the Ottawa Carleton District School Board is looking into what happened.

In April, Jeff Peters pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting two former students. Emily Dickinson, 31, says she now realizes she was duped during her high school years by a master manipulator — her former teacher Jeff Peters, who was recently convicted of sexual assault in Perth, Ont.

Mayor Wally Andersen reports that the findings of the investigation are not available for privacy purposes. Joseph Tuglavina's family a homeless Inuk man who was arrested in October after a video had circulated online, reveals the decision of Happy Valley-Goose Bay to get the officer back to work.

Ottawa police have filed ten charges against a 32-year-old woman, including kidnapping and abuse, for allegedly abducting an eight-day-old child on Mother's Day.

Albert Muckle raped and battered the vegetative Julianne Courneya. A remorseless rapist who left a young pregnant woman for dead is too risky to release into the society, says Canada's Parole Board in its new decision to reject Albert Muckle 's bid for freedom.