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"He wasn't perfect, but he has given life and joy to many trans communities. I'm one living testimony of his work. ... The community and the entire world need to name him as a hero."
Coun. Joe Magliocca inappropriately expensed at least $5,600 for hotel rooms, meals and “hosting costs” over the past two years, and expenses for flight upgrades could push that tally to more than $15,000, according to a forensic investigation of the Ward 2 councillor’s spending.
A teenage girl who accused Coun. Sean Chu of a violent sexual assault in 1997 said she had previously met the former police officer multiple times and that he left her messages after the incident apologizing and asking to see her again, according to court documents. The information is contained in a statement of claim filed with the Court of Queen’s Bench in 1999 and recently obtained by Postmedia.
Health workers at the Edmonton Remand Centre (ERC) say a decision to remove on-site paramedics will compromise emergency care and put inmates at risk in Canada's largest jail. ERC staff received a memo late last month saying four paramedic positions at the facility will be eliminated after June 3.
Calgary's integrity commissioner is recusing himself from investigating a formal complaint about expenses claimed by Coun. Joe Magliocca, because the Ward 2 councillor had lunch with him on the taxpayers' dime last year.
Last October, in Alberta’s daily COVID update, you would hear Gisela Papenfuss described only as “a female in her 90s linked to the outbreak at the Mount Royal Revera care home in the Calgary zone.” She is one of the more than 1,200 Albertans living in continuing care who died of COVID-19 over the past year, accounting for nearly two-thirds of all COVID deaths across the province.
A significant shigella outbreak in Edmonton's inner city is putting vulnerable people at risk, and it could be months before it's resolved. Alberta Health Services said Wednesday that it's investigating 87 cases of shigellosis, an intestinal infection caused by bacteria, among the "inner-city population," with 64 of those infected being hospitalized since the first reported case on Aug.
The sentence came after the family of Jacob Sansom and Maurice (Morris) Cardinal gave victim impact statements, many bringing photographs of the two men, killed on March 27, 2020. Sansom’s younger sister Gina Sansom said she brought pictures to be entered into the court record because she wanted to make sure both Bilodeaus saw the fullness of her family, and the love, kindness and joy they had.
CALGARY-Almost no one gets by Liberal candidate Kent Hehr while he's campaigning. As he goes door to door in the Calgary Centre riding where he's running for a second term, whether you're on the other side of the street half a block away or sitting in a walk-up apartment with the windows open, you'll be flagged down and chatted up as Hehr calls out an exuberant hello.
MEDICINE HAT, Alta.-On an early fall day, in the city that made international headlines for eliminating homelessness in 2015, Peter Kerr woke up in the Salvation Army shelter. Kerr, 61, figures he's been on the streets for five years, off and on, in Medicine Hat.
