Author: Emmett Wallace
An Ontario woman who murdered her toddler in 2009 has won a faint-hope hearing, reducing her period of parole ineligibility by four years. Nadine Bernard of Mississauga was sentenced on Jan. 14, 2011, to life in prison with a parole ineligibility period of 20 years after pleading guilty to the second-degree murder of her 18-month-old son, Jayden Bernard.After a three-week hearing at the Brampton courthouse, a jury arrived at their verdict on the faint hope application on Jan. 27 after an hour and 40 minutes of deliberations.The verdict means Bernard, who has been in custody since her arrest on March…
Glenn Dennis, 61, said it felt like he was drowning last October when he could not catch his breath. “I was scared … I really didn’t know what was going on,” Dennis recalled, adding there were no warning signs that anything was amiss with his health.“I was being very careful with my life, very careful of what I ate. It came as a real shock that, all of a sudden, [I was] this sick,” the Scarborough man told Global News.Dennis called 911 and was rushed to Scarborough General Hospital in Toronto. Tests showed an infection in his heart known as…
A Canadian senior has been charged in Florida for allegedly using a drone to illegally photograph classified U.S. defence installations at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Xiao Guang Pan, 71, of Brampton, Ont., was charged with three counts of using an unmanned aircraft to photograph sensitive and vital military facilities and equipment at the Space Force base without the base commander’s prior authorization, according to a criminal complaint filed in Orlando. Xiao Guang Pan, 71, submitted his drone photos to the Brampton Arts Organization last year and one of his works was among those selected to celebrate the 50th…
The City of Toronto says it’s bracing for another big dumping of snow this Family Day long weekend, with snowfalls forecasted on both Saturday and Sunday that could bring at least another 20 cm of snow. According to Barbara Gray, the general manager for the city’s transportation services, Toronto is expected to get about five cm of snow on Saturday, and another 15 to 20 cm of snow on Sunday.That’s after Toronto got dumped with around 19 cm of snow in many parts of the city on Wednesday night, Gray said. Toronto Pearson airport, in the city’s northwest, recorded 26…
Descrease article font size Increase article font size A Mississauga man is facing an animal cruelty charge after police found five puppies in “abysmal conditions” last week. Peel Regional Police said on Feb. 9, they received information about a possible puppy mill operating out of a business near Dundas Street West and Mavis Road.When officers arrived at the business the next day, they found five puppies caged in a vehicle inside a garage.“Inside the van, the puppies were living in abysmal conditions with urine and feces throughout and no suitable food or water,” police said in a news release. Puppies…
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted February 14, 2025 6:27 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Ontario’s main party leaders will square off on northern issues today in their first debate of the election campaign. Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford, NDP Leader Marit Stiles, Liberal Leader Bonnie Crombie and Green Party Leader Mike Schreiner have all travelled to North Bay, Ont., for the debate. Get breaking National news For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen. The event hosted by the…
Forget chocolate. This week, Mother Nature gave skiers and snowboarders a Valentine’s gift they can enjoy all weekend long. The monster snowfall that blanketed much of Central and Eastern Canada this week, halting traffic and prompting snow days for many, is giving ski hills a lift.“It’s been a redemptive season for Mother Nature when it comes to ski hills in Ontario, for sure,” said Tara Lovell, public relations manager at Blue Mountain Resort.Large snowfalls usually result in an influx of people visiting the hills, she said.Toronto’s Pearson International Airport had seen about 26 centimetres of snowfall by Thursday morning after a…
Former Toronto Police Service officer Firouzeh Zarabi-Majd said she found out about the unofficial 51 Division group chat “accidentally” after being told about it by a colleague. What she saw included a message “talking about my vagina,” she said, among other disturbing conversations.Zarabi-Majd would go on to be fired for insubordination after posting the material on social media along with profanity-laced criticisms of the force.But fellow officers involved in the conversations have not been publicly disciplined, even after two of them had their remarks dissected to undermine courtroom testimony in unrelated cases, one of which collapsed.“It was so heartbreaking,” Zarabi-Majd…
More than halfway through Ontario’s snap election campaign, the province’s major parties are staying silent on whether they have any plans to balance the budget if they form government. In the opening two weeks of the campaign, the Progressive Conservatives, Ontario Liberals and NDP have all unveiled a series of high-cost promises.The PCs have pledged to build a new tunnelled expressway under Highway 401, while the Ontario Liberals are promising a middle-class tax cut. The NDP has pledged to increase the school repair budget by more than $800 million every year.But how those promises will impact Ontario’s bottom line is…
Gars Kourjakian’s brother and father have sat through four days of evidence at the first-degree murder trial for Devret Clarke and are upset by his defence that he’s not criminally responsible for the killing. “It’s just a little bit of disgust, to be honest with you, and the fact that we’re trying to pawn this off as an NCR is just another failure of the system,” Gars’ brother Sevag Kourjakian told Global News outside the courthouse.It was Dec. 30, 2022, when 37-year-old Devret Clarke, a former neighbour of Kourjakian’s, drove into the underground parkade behind Kourjakian, who had just pulled…
