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A man who attacked a SkyTrain attendant in New Westminster, B.C., in 2021 has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.A statement from Metro Vancouver Transit Police says 29-year-old Howard Geddes Skelding was found guilty of one count each of assault causing bodily harm and forcible confinement.Police say Geddes Skelding followed the attendant as she entered an employee room, then exposed himself, punched her in the stomach and shoved her to the ground.
May 16, 2024 - 19:04 | | The Globe and Mail
The unofficial start to the summer also brings a holiday Monday and closures. Here's what's open and closed in Hamilton, Burlington and Niagara Region on Victoria Day.
May 16, 2024 - 19:01 | Don Mitchell | Global News - Canada
The recently retired director of B.C.’s independent police watchdog says people with substance use disorders and other health problems would be safer if they were put in a new kind of secure health care facility instead of a jail after they were arrested.Ronald MacDonald, the Independent Investigation Office’s former director, made this proposal in a report published last week on his final day on the job, in reference to a woman who died in the White Rock RCMP detachment after being locked up the entire 2016 Easter long weekend. He stated that Patricia Wilson’s death occurred largely...
May 16, 2024 - 18:59 | Mike Hager | The Globe and Mail
A Naramata resident said one tree near his home wound up crashing down onto his deck five months five months after it was trimmed.
May 16, 2024 - 18:58 | Doyle Potenteau | Global News - Canada
There was laughter and tears at a Montreal press conference Thursday, following news that a new cultural centre for Black communities across Canada is to be opened in the city.
May 16, 2024 - 18:39 | Phil Carpenter | Global News - Canada
A British Columbia Supreme Court judge has sentenced the mother and stepfather of a six-year-old boy who died from blunt-force trauma in 2018 to 15 years in prison.
May 16, 2024 - 18:37 | Todd Coyne | CTV News - Canada
