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SAULT STE. MARIE, Ont. — The man who killed four people — including three of his own children — before turning a gun on himself in Sault Ste. Marie had been charged four years ago with assaulting a police officer, court records show. Family have identified the gunman behind this …
Read More »‘It’s grim:’ Community devastated by shooting deaths in Sault Ste. Marie
SAULT STE. MARIE, Ont. — Neighbours are expressing devastation at shootings that left five people, including three children, dead in the northern Ontario city of Sault Ste. Marie. Police have described the Monday night shootings, that also left the shooter dead, as a tragic case of intimate partner violence. Aarika …
Read More »5 dead, including 3 kids, after shootings in Sault Ste. Marie, police say
Police in the northern Ontario city of Sault Ste. Marie say five people — including three children and the accused — are dead after shootings at two homes in what they are calling a case of intimate partner violence. Police say the deaths are the result of intimate partner violence …
Read More »Toronto man given life sentence for killing estranged wife with machete – Toronto
Four years after 27-year-old Tharshika Jeganathan was fatally attacked by her estranged husband with a machete as she was walking home from the bus in Scarborough, Sasikaran Thanapalasingam has been sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years. During a brief sentencing hearing Tuesday morning, …
Read More »Ontario won’t declare intimate partner violence an epidemic following inquest
TORONTO — Ontario is rejecting calls from a coroner’s inquest into the deaths of three women at the hands of their former partner to formally declare intimate partner violence an epidemic. The jury at a coroner’s inquest into the 2015 deaths of Nathalie Warmerdam, Carol Culleton and Anastasia Kuzyk in …
Read More »Brampton women’s shelter facing closure, in desperate need of provincial funding – Toronto
A women’s shelter in Brampton, Ont., is on the brink of closure, and may be forced to shut its doors as early as next month if it does not receive additional funding. This could leave dozens of single mothers and women fleeing intimate partner violence without a place to go. …
Read More »Survivor shocked, saddened by Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Program staffing challenges – Winnipeg
A sexual assault survivor who got care at Health Sciences Centre’s Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) program is shocked and saddened to see its staffing challenges unfold. Seven casual nurses with the program quit this week after working through long-standing shortages that forced some patients to return later for examination …
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