The suspect turned themselves into authorities on Thursday, just one day after  Police also confirmed they recovered the stolen Porsche.

Police have previously said the suspect attended the victim’s residence near Winston Churchill Boulevard and Eglinton Avenue in Mississauga on the afternoon of Sept. 6 after responding to an Auto Trader advertisement for his 2022 Porsche Cayenne.

In the footage, a young woman is seen knocking on the home’s door and telling the victim that she is waiting for her father and is interested in “taking a look” at the Porsche.

The video then cuts to the driveway, where the suspect can be seen in the driver’s seat of the Porsche. As the vehicle turns on and moves slightly, the victim tries to get inside before making his way to the rear of the vehicle.

That’s when the suspect floors it and reverses the vehicle onto the street, striking the victim.

“We published that video on Wednesday afternoon and within 24 hours it had been shared 95,000 times. So very, very quickly that video reached millions of viewers and folks then reshared it on social media allowing that message to be spread. We then received numerous tips from the public, which allowed us to identify her (the suspect) very rapidly and effectively pressure her to surrender to police,” Peel police Const. Tyler Bell told CP24 on Friday afternoon. “First and foremost, this speaks to the importance and significance of having home surveillance footage, especially quality footage like this but it also speaks to the power of social media.”

Bell described the theft of the Porsche as particularly “brazen” and noted that the victim would have been much more seriously injured “if not for some luck and some physics.”

He said that the suspect taken into custody is “linked to numerous (other) investigations in Peel” and is wanted by other GTA police services in connection with separate investigations.

Police have said that the accused has also been charged with .

Sarah Badshaw, 18, of Brampton is charged with four offences related to the theft of the Porsche, including theft of a motor vehicle and dangerous operation causing bodily harm.

“There is a saying in policing that I am sure we have all heard before - you cant outrun the chopper. But in Sarah’s case here you can’t outrun the share button. This was viewed so many times, it was shared so many times and it led to an influx of tips coming in,” Bell said.

Police say that their investigation remains active and “investigators anticipate additional arrests and charges.” 

“We have a two-car garage in my family home, and my mom told me to move my car so my brother could park in the garage,” said Lam. “At family dinners, the nicer pieces of the meat or fish were presented in front of him.”

And Lam said she was told in no uncertain terms the favourtism would be reflected in the distribution of her mother’s estate. “My brother was the boy, and he was going inherit,” said Lam. “I asked her, why is that? And she goes, ‘Well, because this is our Chinese custom, and everything goes to the boy.’”

When Law died in 2021 at the age of 74, that’s exactly what happened.

"I was very angry, I was very hurt," said Lam, who was her mother's primary caregiver in her final years. "I felt like I had done something wrong, and I felt ashamed because I was like, what is my worth being a woman?”

The court heard Lam's brother received approximately $2.2 million, both under the will and during their mother's lifetime, while Lam received just under $630,000.

Lam, who owns and operates a family entertainment business, said her mother never approved of her being an entrepreneur.

“It was always, ‘Ginny, don't be so smart, no man's going to want you. Your husband is going to leave you if you become too successful or too smart. Just stay at home, go get a secretarial job, and have sons – specifically, have sons,’” said Lam.

Unwilling to accept the unbalanced inheritance, Lam said she confronted her brother William, asking him: “How can you possibly … feel OK with this, just because you were born a boy?”

“He said, ‘Well, this is what mom wanted.’ And I said, ‘I know this is what mom wanted, but you can change it, you have the power to change this.’ He said, ‘I'm not going to change it.’ And the last words he said to me was: ‘Lawyer up.’ And that’s what I did.”

Lam took the case to B.C. Supreme Court, and hired estate lawyer Aubrie Girou.

“Legislation exists in this province and in other provinces and in other countries that protects those persons that are closest to a deceased will-maker, where those persons have been unfairly excluded or unfairly marginalized in the distribution of that person's estate,” said Girou, who added the legislation is limited to children and spouses of the deceased.

Ultimately, the judge sided with Lam, ruling she had been unfairly marginalized in the distribution of her mother’s estate because of her gender.

“It's not that the court found there was a difference in the diligence or the care that either child provided to their parent, rather that the household was this gendered household, and Mrs. Law, the deceased, held outdated beliefs as to what was the role and entitlements for a son versus the role and entitlements for a daughter,” said Girou.

The court ordered the will amended to give Lam 85 per cent of the estate – but her lawyers noted that is nowhere close to what her brother received outside of the will.

“The result is not going to be equality, it can't be,” said Girou. “Ginny’s mother wanted to prefer her son, Ginny’s brother, and she did. And so her autonomy in that regard is preserved. But what this decision gives us is some equity.”

“The victory is not so much monetary,” said Lam. “Really, this was more about saying it's not OK in terms of principle. That it's not OK to be treated to be a second-class citizen, to be treated any less, just because I was born a girl.”

The court battle has left her family fractured. But Lam hopes it inspires other women to stand up for their rights under the law.

“I have daughters as well, and I wanted to show them that this is not your story. No one can tell you what your worth is just based on your gender,” said Lam. “And now, because of my case, there is a precedent that was set, that basically says, you can't do this.”

Sept. 20, 2024 update: Lam told �鶹Ӱ�� her brother has filed an appeal of the court's decision.

Vanessa Renteria was from Buenaventura, Colombia, and had only been in Canada a short time prior to her confrontation with police early Thursday morning, according to Angela Marie MacDougall of Battered Women's Support Services.

She had already been approved for permanent residency and made friends in her community, where she attended a local church, said MacDougall, who has been in contact with the woman’s family since her death.

"People loved her. They said she was calm, nice, a wonderful mother," said MacDougall. "And like any hardworking mother, she was trying to establish herself in a new country."

Some who knew her were stunned to learn of the circumstances of her death.

Authorities said they responded to a report of a disturbance at a Cloverdale home around 4:40 a.m. Thursday, and that officers were told a woman had barricaded herself in a room, where she was "reportedly holding a weapon" near a toddler.

Less than an hour later, gunfire rang out in the neighbourhood.

A group of Renteria’s friends gathered at the scene later on Thursday, expressing shock and frustration.

"Police, they carry a lot of tools and resources, and we don’t see how someone who doesn’t have a gun would have to be killed,” said Gaston Ntabaza. “We just want justice to be done accordingly.”

Authorities would not confirm whether a weapon was ever recovered from the scene, or whether the toddler was still present at the time of the shooting. It’s also unclear who reported the initial disturbance to police.

The B.C. RCMP said Thursday that it would not be answering any questions while the incident remains under investigation by provincial police watchdog the Independent Investigations Office.

MacDougall said Renteria primarily spoke Spanish, and suggested there could have been a language barrier during the incident. The advocate also raised concerns about whether the RCMP had done enough to resolve the conflict peacefully before an officer opened fire.

"In 2024, we expect that the RCMP would have the skills to de-escalate a situation," MacDougall said. "We expect that they would use proper practices when confronting people that are not speaking English, and that they would do everything they can to prevent lethal violence against a mother with her child present."

�鶹Ӱ�� reached out to the B.C. RCMP again Friday for comment on whether de-escalation tactics were employed during the incident, and whether an interpreter was required or present, but has not received a response.

The IIO could not share any additional details either, as its investigation remains in the early stages.

In a news release Thursday, the IIO said its initial investigate steps will involve gathering details about what happened to determine "if the force used by police was necessary, reasonable and proportionate in the circumstances."

The watchdog is tasked with investigating all officer-involved incidents that result in death or serious harm, whether or not there is any allegation of wrongdoing on the part of police.

With files from �鶹Ӱ�� Vancouver’s Ben Nesbit 

The incident happened at around 1:40 p.m. at the Centre Culturel Musulman in Châteauguay, an off-island suburb of Montreal.

Châteauguay police got a 911 call reporting that a man had entered the building on Saint Jean Baptiste Boulevard with a knife and then got into an altercation with people who were inside, said police spokesperson Nadia Grondin.

The three men are in their 50s and their injuries are not considered life-threatening. One of them was sent to hospital. 

Police arrested the suspect, a 24-year-old man, who is set to be questioned by investigators.

In a post on X, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau expressed expressed sympathies with the wounded men and the congregation, saying that he was "disturbed to learn that three people were injured in an attack."

"No one should feel afraid in their place of worship," Trudeau wrote. 

Federal Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre also reacted to the incident.

"Canada’s places of faith should be where our people feel safe," .

According to the mosque's administrator, Rachid Amane, the suspect entered the building and started acting suspiciously.

There were roughly 100 men, women, and youth inside the place of worship at the time when prayers were stopped as several men approached the suspect.

The three men suffered injuries to their hands and one of them was wounded on his body when the armed man resisted them, Amane told �鶹Ӱ��. The man was detained until police arrived on scene.

In a statement on social media, the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM) said it was "greatly concerned" by the incident.

"We are in touch with the local centre and will provide more information as it becomes available. However, we do not have information at this point to make a suggestion as to the motivation behind the incident, and we encourage our community not to speculate as the investigation continues," the NCCM wrote on X.

Amane said this is not the first time there has been a violent incident at the mosque. Nearly a decade ago, a suspected handmade explosive device was left there but it did not go off.

The administrator said he wasn't aware of any specific threats leading up to the incident on Friday and believes the suspect, who did not say anything threatening, was acting alone.

Amira Elghawaby, Canada's Special Representative on Combatting Islamophobia, , writing that the incident was "very distressing" and that she was waiting for more information about what happened. 

With files from CTV Montreal's Caroline Van Vlaardingen and The Canadian Press

The Democratic presidential candidate and gun owner made the seemingly unguarded comment in an interview with Oprah Winfrey before a live studio audience when the conversation turned to gun laws.

"I probably should not have said that. But my staff will deal with that later," Harris said, laughing.

Harris, who has robust protection from the U.S. Secret Service, made the statement amid heightened concern about political violence after a second potential assassination attempt against her opponent in the Nov. 5 presidential election, Republican Donald Trump.

Trump favors few restrictions on arms and ammunition while Harris supports a ban on assault weapons, stricter background checks for gun buyers, and "red flag" laws that can temporarily take guns away from those deemed dangerous.

Harris told Winfrey she supported the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which protects the right to gun ownership.

Harris mentioned her gun ownership in 2019 when she was a U.S. senator and again in last week's debate with Trump in what seemed like an appeal to more conservative voters.

Harris owns a handgun for personal safety reasons, and it is stowed away in a secure location at her California home, a White House source told Reuters earlier. The source declined to identify the make of gun, but said it is the same gun Harris mentioned in 2019 on the campaign trail.

Harris, the former district attorney of San Francisco and California attorney general, told reporters in 2019: "I am a gun owner, and I own a gun for probably the reason a lot of people do - for personal safety. I was a career prosecutor."

One-third of Americans own a gun and about two-thirds of Americans support stricter gun laws overall, with nearly 90% supporting policies that would prevent mentally ill people from getting guns, Pew Research shows.

(Reporting by Daniel Trotta; Editing by Heather Timmons and Stephen Coates)

The RCMP had been looking for the teen, who they said was carrying a firearm “with dangerous intent,” Friday afternoon.

Police say five people are in custody in connection with the incident.

New Brunswick residents received an emergency alert on their devices before 3 p.m.

Police initially said they were looking for the teen in the Moncton and Shediac areas. However, shortly after 3:30 p.m., they said they were in the Starkey Road area in Long Creek, near Codys, N.B.

Long Creek is located roughly one hour west of Moncton.

Police said at 4:10 p.m. that they had arrested the subject of the alert.

No other details are available at this time.

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What Cristiana Barsony-Arcidiacono, 49, the Italian-Hungarian CEO and owner of Hungary-based BAC Consulting, says she hasn't done is make the exploding pagers that killed 12 people and wounded more than 2,000 in Lebanon this week.

After her company was revealed to have licensed the design for the pagers from their original Taiwanese manufacturer Gold Apollo, Barsony-Arcidiacono told NBC News that she didn't make them.

"I am just the intermediate. I think you got it wrong," she said.

Since then, she has not appeared in public. Neighbours say they haven't seen her. She did not respond to messages seeking comment. Her flat in a stately old Budapest building, where a door to a vestibule had been open earlier in the week, has been shuttered.

Discussions with acquaintances and former work colleagues paint a picture of a woman with an impressive intellect, but a peripatetic career in a string of short-term jobs in which she never quite settled down, despite embellishing her CV along the way.

An acquaintance of hers, who like others who knew her socially in Budapest asked not to be identified, said she seemed like someone who "could easily be used."

"Good-willed, not a business type, more like someone who often tries something new, who quickly believes things and then gets enthusiastic about that," the person said, adding that Barsony-Arcidiacono had been looking for income as she wanted to leave another job.

'One of the biggest mistakes of my life'

Kilian Kleinschmidt, a veteran ex-U.N. humanitarian administrator who hired Barsony-Arcidiacono in 2019 to run a six-month Dutch-funded program to train Libyans in Tunisia in subjects such as hydroponics, IT and business development, described her as a "bullying" manager, and said he released her before her contract was over.

"Cristiana. That was one of the biggest mistakes of my life, I think," Kleinschmidt told Reuters. "It was simply awful on a personal level... Then at some point I said enough is enough. I should probably have done it sooner. I said that’s enough and I sent her home a month early."

Barsony-Arcidiacono has not responded to Reuters calls and emails and there was no answer when Reuters visited her private address in downtown Budapest.

At her Budapest home, a steel outer gate encloses a small vestibule where life drawings of nudes sketched in red and orange pastels can be seen taped up on the wall. An inner door leading into her apartment was ajar when Reuters first visited the building on Wednesday, and closed when the reporter returned on Thursday. No one answered the bell.

A woman living in the building for the past two years said Barsony-Arcidiacono was already a resident when she moved in, and described her as kind, not loud, but communicative.

She practiced her drawing as part of a Budapest art club, though she hadn't attended for a couple of years, said the organizer of the group, who said she seemed like more of a businesswoman than an artist but was upbeat and outgoing.

A school mate of Barsony-Arcidiacono said she grew up in a family with a working father and housewife mother in Santa Venerina, near Catania in eastern Sicily, and attended high school nearby. He described her as a quite reserved youngster.

In the early 2000s she earned her PhD in physics at University College London, where her dissertation on positrons - a subatomic particle with the mass of an electron and a positive charge - remains available on the UCL website. But she appears to have left without pursuing a scientific career.

"As far as I know she has not done scientific work since then," Akos Torok, a retired physicists who was one of her professors at UCL and published papers with her at the time, told Reuters by email.

A resume she used to get the job working for Kleinschmidt included references to other post-graduate degrees, in politics and development, from the London School of Economics and the School of Oriental and African Studies, which Reuters was not able to verify. She then went on to describe a string of jobs working on NGO projects in Europe, Africa and the Middle East.

In a separate CV on the BAC Consulting website, she described herself as a "Board Member at the Earth Child Institute," an educational and environmental charity in New York. The group's founder, Donna Goodman, told Reuters Barsony-Arcidiacono had never held any role there.

"She was a friend of a friend of a board member, and contacted us about a job opening" in 2018, Goodman said. "But she was never invited to apply."

That CV also described her as a former "Project Manager" at the International Atomic Energy Agency in 2008-2009, who organized a nuclear research conference. The IAEA said its records indicated she had been an intern there for eight months.

On BAC Consulting's website, which was taken down by the end of this week, the company gave little idea of its actual business in Hungary. Its registered address is a serviced office in a Budapest suburb.

"I am a scientist using my very diverse background to work on interdisciplinary projects for strategic decision-making(water & climate policy, investments)," Barsony-Arcidiacono wrote on her CV.

"With excellent analytical, language, and interpersonal skills, I enjoy working and leading in a multicultural environment where diversity, integrity, and humor are valued."

(Reporting by Krisztina Than in Budapest Additional reporting by Francois Murphy in Vienna, Catarina Demony in London, Giselda Vagnoni in Rome, Johan Ahlander in Stockholm, David Guathier-Villars in Istanbul, Laila Bassam in Beirut, Nerijus Adomaitis in Oslo, James Pearson in London, and Marine Strauss in Brussels Writing by Niklas Pollard Editing by James Pearson and Peter Graff)

Johnson Redhead has been missing since Wednesday morning. Investigators said he went to school for the breakfast program until 9 a.m., but then he didn't arrive for his first class.

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RCMP search and rescue landed in Shamattawa Thursday and there have been a mix of community members and officers helping with the search.

"We were out this morning checking some areas," said Sgt. Paul Manaigre, with the RCMP media relations team.

"We've got more areas of interest that we want to get out to and we're going to keep searching basically until we get some, hopefully, good results."

He said RCMP did receive information Thursday night that Redhead may have been heard in an area, and searchers were able to find tracks.

"The idea now is basically trying to get as many boots on the ground as you can and going through the woods. A lot of trails and roads are covered, but now it's just getting into the meat and potatoes of the search, which is going through the bush."

Manaigre said other than some rain overnight, the temperatures have been good in the area, but RCMP is most worried about food and hydration for Redhead.

"We're still pushing hard. Hopefully, we're going to find something, clothing, footwear, find him."

The other thing searchers are thinking about is whether Redhead found any shelter.

"There's a lot of variables at play. So you've got to think of everything."

Manaigre is calling on more people to help search if they are able, noting more areas can be tackled with everyone involved.

"You need those eyes. In order to find him, you have to see him. So, we need more people."

Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak Grand Chief Garrison Settee said it's always heart-wrenching when a child goes missing.

"It touches a lot of people's lives and a lot of people are praying and hoping that we will find Johnson," said Settee.

He said it is important that people unite now more than ever to help ensure Redhead comes home safe.

"I think we need to remain hopeful and we continue to trust that we have the best people on the ground. Everybody that is there wants to find Johnson and I think that they are not alone, we're in this together."

RCMP said Friday afternoon that the police service dog has arrived in the community and is helping the search. RCMP is also using two drones and when the weather allows for it, a helicopter will also be brought in.

Police say officers were called to a business parking lot at the Colborne Street East and West Street South intersection around 5 p.m. on Monday for an animal complaint. They arrived to find the animal dead, spurring an arson investigation.

On Thursday, police say they obtained video footage of a person of interest leaving the area about 10 minutes before officers arrived.

The video shows the individual walking on the south side of Colborne Street East, crossing at a crosswalk before cutting through a gas station parking lot.

Moments later, police say the person is seen emerging from behind a building at the location where the incident took place.

The individual is a white male wearing black pants, a black sweater, a black baseball hat, white shoes, and a backpack.

Police urge anyone with information, including dash camera or surveillance video of the incident, to contact the OPP.

They have not disclosed whether they know if the  cat was someone's pet or a stray.

Provincial police also say the investigation will determine whether arson or animal cruelty charges should be laid.

The Temiskaming Shores Fire Department and Ontario Provincial Police were called to a structure fire on Paget Street South in downtown New Liskeard around 5:30 p.m. Sept. 19.

"Four people were located deceased in the residence," OPP said in a news release Friday morning.

"While the investigation is still in the preliminary stages, police believe there is no risk to the public at this time. Members of the community can expect to see an increased presence of OPP personnel and vehicles in the area as the investigation continues."

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A neighbour, who asked not to be named, told �鶹Ӱ�� reporter Eric Taschner near the scene there were six people inside the home when the fire started and two were able to get out safely.

"Quite a few people live there," another neighbour said.

"I just feel bad for the family."

Fire officials told Taschner it took about an hour and 15 minutes to extinguish the flames.

Members of the OPP crime unit, forensic identification services, the office of the fire marshal, officer of the chief coroner of Ontario and Ontario Pathology Services are helping with the ongoing investigation.

No word on the cause of the fire.

"Any person with information regarding this incident should immediately contact the Ontario Provincial Police at 1-888-310-1122," OPP said.

"Should you wish to remain anonymous, you may call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222- 8477 (TIPS), where you may be eligible to receive a cash reward of up to $2,000."

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The Democratic vice-president's visit came days after ProPublica reported that two women in the state died after they did not get proper medical treatment for complications from taking abortion pills to end their pregnancies.

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Such deaths, Harris said, were not only preventable but predictable because of laws that have been implemented since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Although Georgia's six-week ban allows abortions in early pregnancy to save a mother's life, critics say the law has created dangerous confusion for doctors about when they're allowed to provide care.

"Good policy, logical policy, moral policy, humane policy is about saying a health-care provider will only start providing that care when you're about to die?" Harris asked.

Harris shared the story of Amber Thurman, a mother who decided to have an abortion when she became pregnant again.

"She had her future all planned out," Harris said. "And it was her plan. What she wanted to do for herself, for her son, for their future."

However, Thurman waited more than 20 hours at the hospital for a routine medical procedure known as a D&C to clear out remaining tissue after taking abortion pills. She developed sepsis and died.

"She was loved," Harris said. "And she should be alive today."

Harris has been outspoken on abortion rights ever since the Supreme Court's decision more than two years ago, but Friday's speech in Atlanta was her first focused squarely on the issue since replacing President Joe Biden at the top of the Democratic ticket.

Harris heard Thursday night from Thurman's mother and sisters.

During a livestreamed campaign event hosted by Oprah Winfrey and attended by Harris, Shanette Williams, Thurman's mother, tearfully told viewers that "people around the world need to know that this was preventable." Williams said she initially did not want to go public about her daughter's 2022 death but ultimately decided it was important for people to understand her daughter "was not a statistic. She was loved."

Harris told the family: "I'm just so sorry. The courage you all have shown is extraordinary."

She spoke about Thurman at a second rally Friday, before a thunderous crowd of thousands in the swing state of Wisconsin. Speaking in the Democratic stronghold and state capital, Madison, she called the bans put in place in more than 20 states "immoral" and warned against another Trump term.

"We are not going back," Harris said.

Trump has repeatedly said he was proud to help overturn Roe v. Wade by appointing conservative justices during his term in office. He's also said he supports exceptions to abortion bans in cases of rape, incest or the life of the mother.

Karoline Leavitt, a spokesperson for Trump's campaign, said that since Georgia has such exceptions in place, "it's unclear why doctors did not swiftly act to protect the lives of mothers."

Anti-abortion advocates and doctors argued Friday that the women's deaths raise questions around the safety of taking abortion pills at home without management by a doctor. Advocates have been pushing for tougher restrictions on the pills for years, most recently at the U.S. Supreme Court in a failed attempt to limit availability.

"Women think that it's completely safe for them to go online and order these drugs," Christina Francis, a Fort Wayne, Indiana, OB-GYN who opposes abortion, told reporters Friday.

Since 2000, the FDA has approved a two-drug regimen of mifepristone and misoprostol as a safe way to end pregnancies through 10 weeks gestation. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the FDA eliminated an in-person visit requirement to get the drugs. Reported complications have been rare and surgical intervention to end the pregnancy is needed in 2.6 per cent of cases.

Dozens of pregnant patients have faced delayed care or been turned away from hospitals amid medical emergencies over the last two years, a violation of federal law, since Roe v. Wade was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court. Violations occurred in states with and without abortion bans. But an AP analysis earlier this year found an immediate spike in some states with abortion bans, including Texas, following the ruling.

Dr. Nisha Verma, an OB-GYN in Georgia, said the six-week ban has caused a "massive environment of fear and confusion and uncertainty" for the medical community.

She said Republican legislators who are now blaming hospitals and doctors are seeing the ramifications of the laws playing out in real time.

"The law is preventing us from being able to provide evidence-based care without having to think about the risk of criminal prosecution," she said.

With in-person early voting starting Friday in three states -- Virginia, South Dakota and Minnesota -- Harris' campaign is hoping that reproductive rights will be a strong motivator for Democrats. The party points to a series of electoral wins when abortion rights have been on the ballot, and advocates believe Harris is a strong messenger.

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About half of voters say abortion is one of the most important issues as they consider their votes -- but it's more important to women who are registered voters than to male voters, according to a new AP-NORC poll. About 6 in 10 women voters say abortion policy is one of the most important issues to their vote in the upcoming election, compared to about 4 in 10 male voters.

The gender gap doesn't stop there.

About 6 in 10 women voters trust Harris more than Trump to handle abortion, while about 2 in 10 women have more trust in Trump. Half of male voters trust Harris more than Trump on abortion, while about one-third trust Trump more than Harris.

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Long and Seitz reported from Washington. AP Polling Editor Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux contributed to this report.

She is also expressing concern that attacks like exploding pagers are only making the situation worse.

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"My message to Canadians who even think of going to Lebanon is don't go, and I've been saying that for months," she told reporters Friday in Toronto.

Since the brutal Hamas attack on Israel last October prompted Israel to bomb Gaza, Hezbollah militants have been shooting rockets at northern Israel. That has caused communities near the border to evacuate, and Israel to strike both civilian and Hezbollah infrastructure.

By late last October, Joly started urging Canadians to leave Lebanon, saying that the military was assessing how to conduct a possible evacuation of citizens if needed.

The government has never been clear on how many people may need to be evacuated, only stating the number of individuals who had proactively registered with Global Affairs Canada. That stood at around 21,400 people in late July, with Ottawa cautioning many have not registered.

At that point, Joly had warned that "the situation on the ground may not allow us to help you" if things get worse. On Friday, she specified how many people could end up trapped.

"We know that we have around 45,000 Canadians in Lebanon," she said.

"We need to make sure that message (to leave) is clear, that it is also well-followed by Canadians. And we need to make sure, also, that we're well prepared."

Joly said suffering in all parts of the region needs to end.

"We are very concerned for what is happening in Lebanon and of course, in the wider Middle East," she said.

Joly noted escalating violence in Lebanon including the deadly attacks, widely attributed to Israel and said to have targeted Hezbollah militants, which involved exploding pagers and walkie-talkies.

The Associated Press reported that the pager attack killed at least 12 people -- including two young children -- and wounded thousands more.

"Notwithstanding any form of tactics or different strategies, at the end of the day we need this war to end," Joly said Friday.

Her statement follows a social-media statement by Global Affairs Canada late Wednesday that drew criticism from Israel advocates.

"We are gravely concerned about the reports that civilians, including children, have been killed or injured," the department wrote, following the pager explosions. "Canada is calling on all sides to avoid further escalations of violence and to protect civilians."

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 20, 2024.

The Israeli military and a security source in Lebanon said Ibrahim Aqil had been killed with other senior members of an elite Hezbollah unit in the airstrike, sharply escalating the year-long conflict between Israel and the Iran-backed group.

Hezbollah confirmed Aqil's death in a statement just after midnight that called him "one of its top leaders," without providing details of how he died.

Lebanon's health ministry said at least 14 people died in the strike and the toll was expected to climb as rescue teams worked through the night. It was not immediately known whether the toll included Aqil and the other Hezbollah commanders.

Earlier, the ministry said at least 66 people were injured, nine of whom were in critical condition.

A second security source said at least six other Hezbollah commanders died when multiple missiles slammed into the opening of a building's garage. The explosion tore into the building's lower levels as Akil met other commanders inside.

Witnesses reported hearing a loud whistling and several consecutive blasts at the time of the strike.

In a brief statement carried by Israeli media, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel's goals were clear and its actions spoke for themselves.

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, who said this week that Israel is launching a new phase of war on the northern border, posted on X: "The sequence of actions in the new phase will continue until our goal is achieved: the safe return of the residents of the north to their homes."

Tens of thousands of people have been evacuated from homes on both sides of the Israel-Lebanon border since Hezbollah began rocketing Israel in what it says is sympathy with the Palestinians in parallel to the war in Gaza.

Israel, which last fought an all-out war against Hezbollah 18 years ago, has said it will use force if necessary to ensure its citizens can return.

The Israeli military described Aqil as the acting commander of the Radwan special forces unit, and said it had killed him along with around 10 other senior commanders as they met. Aqil sat on Hezbollah's top military council, sources in Lebanon told Reuters.

The strike inflicted another blow on Hezbollah after two days of attacks on the group in which pagers and walkie-talkies used by its members exploded, killing 37 people and wounding thousands. Those attacks were widely believed to have been carried out by Israel, which has neither confirmed nor denied its involvement.

Local broadcasters showed groups of people gathered near the site, and reported they were searching for people who had been in the vicinity and were still missing, most of them children. Drones were still flying over Beirut's southern suburbs hours after the strike.

"We are not afraid, but we want a solution. We cannot continue with the country like this," said Alain Feghali, a resident of Beirut who spoke to Reuters. "War? I don't know if it started or not, but nothing is reassuring. It is clear that the two sides will not stop."

The U.N. Special Coordinator for Lebanon, Jeanine-Hennis Plasschaert, said Friday's strike in a densely populated area of Beirut's southern suburbs was part of "an extremely dangerous cycle of violence with devastating consequences. This must stop now."

The strike marked the second time in less than two months that Israel has targeted a leading Hezbollah military commander in Beirut. In July, an Israeli airstrike killed Fuad Shukr, the group's top military commander.

Aqil had a $7-million bounty on his head from the United States over his link to the deadly bombing of Marines in Lebanon in 1983, according to the U.S. State Department website.

The Israeli military said Aqil had been head of Hezbollah operations since 2004 and was responsible for a plan to launch a raid on northern Israel, similar to the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on Oct. 7 that triggered the war in Gaza.

"The Hezbollah commanders we eliminated today had been planning their ‘October 7th’ on the northern border for years," Israeli army chief General Herzi Halevi said.

"We reached them, and we will reach anyone who threatens the security of Israel's citizens."

Rubble and burnt-out cars

The Israeli military reported warning sirens sounded in northern Israel following the Beirut strike. Israeli media reported heavy rocket fire in northern Israel.

Hezbollah said it had twice fired Katyusha rockets at what it described as the main intelligence headquarters in northern Israel "which is responsible for assassinations."

White House national security spokesperson John Kirby said he was not aware of any Israeli notification to the United States before the Beirut strike, adding Americans were strongly urged not to travel to Lebanon, or to leave if they are already there.

However he added that, "war is not inevitable ... and we're going to continue to do everything we can to try to prevent it."

"The IDF (Israel Defence Forces) conducted a targeted strike in Beirut. At this moment, there are no changes in the Home Front Command defensive guidelines," the Israeli military said.

The current conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, ignited by the Gaza war, has intensified significantly this week.

On Thursday night, the Israeli military carried out its most intensive airstrikes in southern Lebanon since the conflict erupted almost a year ago.

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The conflict between Israel and Hezbollah is the worst since they fought a war in 2006. Tens of thousands of people have had to leave homes on both sides of the border.

While the conflict has largely been contained to areas at or near the frontier, this week's escalation has heightened concerns that it could widen and further intensify.

Israeli newspapers reported that due to the situation, Netanyahu had delayed his trip to New York for the United Nations General Assembly next week by a day and would arrive on Wednesday.

The Iranian embassy in Lebanon said it "condemns in the strongest terms the Israeli madness that crossed all lines with targeting residential buildings in Beirut's southern suburbs."

(Reporting by Laila Bassam, Tom Perry, Maya Gebeily and Emilie Madi in Beirut, James Mackenzie and Maayan Lubell in Jerusalem, Clauda Tanios, Nadine Awadalla, Nayera Abdallah and Ahmed Elimam in Dubai, and Andrea Shalal and Steve Holland in Washington; Writing by Tom Perry, Conor Humphries and Jonathan Landay; Editing by Sharon Singleton, Jon Boyle, Frances Kerry, Daniel Wallis and Rod Nickel)

Cayden Thompson was riding on top of a G train when he hit his head on a metal overhang by the Fourth Avenue station and died.

His family spoke exclusively to CBS News New York's Ali Bauman about their regret and warnings for other kids.

At 15 years old, Christian Vega is grief-stricken and plagued by guilt.

"I can't really put it into words. He was literally always looking up to me," Christian said.

Christian is Cayden's uncle, but said they were more like brothers.

"He's been looking at videos online and playing Roblox. They have Roblox games you can subway surf and stuff," Christian said.

Christian admits he also made subway surfing videos, which he believes may have influenced Cayden.

"Same way he got hooked on it, I got hooked on it. I'd seen videos online, decided to do it," Christian said. "It's really easy to get hooked onto that stuff because once you do it, nothing ever's gonna top it off, like that adrenaline rush you get."

Worried that Cayden may have followed his lead, Christian hopes now to set a new example for his peers.

"I'm never going into tunnels, never train surfing, never doing that stuff again," Christian said.

He added, "Other kids who are thinking of going into subway surfing and other kids who still do, just stop doing it. It's not worth your life."

Subway surfing incidents up across NYC, NYPD data shows NYPD data shows subway surfing incidents are up citywide so far this year – 173 this year, compared to 104 last year.

The MTA has been running public service announcements online and in stations against the deadly trend. The MTA said in working with social media companies over the past year, it has gotten more than 10,000 videos taken offline for glorifying subway surfing.

In a statement a spokesman for the gaming site Roblox said, "This is a tragic situation and our heart goes out to the family. We work tirelessly to create a safe and civil platform. We have policies against content or behavior that explicitly encourages real-world activities that may create an extreme risk of physical harm."

The subway surfing game does not violate its policies, according to the company.

The retired physical education teacher from Quebec's Outaouais region had just purchased a Lotto-Max ticket the day before.

It wasn't just any lottery — . Two winning tickets were sold in Ontario and Quebec.

The Loto-Quebec employee on the other line asked Morissette, who is in his 80s, if he had heard that a Quebecer had one of the two winning tickets. He said no.

"Well, it's you who won in Quebec," the employee said.

"Forty million?" he replied.

"Yes, sir," she said.

"Rachel! We won $40 million, it’s Loto-Quebec on the phone! It’s true!" he shouted to his wife in excitement. 

On Friday, Morisette was presented with the cheque for $40 million, telling a press conference that he almost missed out on Tuesday's draw because he forgot to play. He logged onto lotoquebec.com at around 9 p.m. on Sept. 17 to pick the same numbers he always does when buying a lottery ticket.

As for his plans with his new fortune, he said he's still figuring that out. But he does know he wants to help out his three children financially and, as a sports fan, watch a soccer game in Italy.

The $40 million winner from Grey County in Ontario has yet to claim their prize.

Steve Sherlock, from LaSalle, Ont., says he purchased a 1955 Dodge Coronet for his wife from a seller in Duchess, Alta. in August for $28,000. He says the seller is legitimate and the vehicle exists, but problems began after he hired transport company, “carmoves.ca,” to move the vehicle to his house.

“They quoted me $2,400, which I paid in full,” said Sherlock.

“But they started to give me the runaround early on and I started to think something doesn’t seem right here.”

Under the Terms of Shipping on the company's website, it states it "cannot guarantee exact pickup or delivery dates."

However, in his agreement with the company, Sherlock says the car was scheduled to be delivered on Aug. 9. But he claims that after inconsistent communication with carmoves.ca and multiple delays on the delivery date, he filed a police report and got his bank to flag the company’s account as fraudulent.

Sherlock says he eventually heard back from the company, which told him he owed them more money.

“At this rate, I was fed up. I just wanted the car, and I was willing to pay the extra. It was around $1,500,” he said.

But Sherlock told the company he would only pay the remaining balance once the vehicle was delivered to his door, which still hasn’t happened more than a month later, he says.

“I just can’t believe there’s people out there like this. I really can’t. It’s just disgusting what’s happened.”

Sherlock isn’t the only person speaking out about the company. Camille Raiche from Quebec says he purchased a classic 1963 Mercury Meteor in British Columbia and hired caremoves.ca to transport his vehicle back east.

He also paid in full and says he still hasn’t received the vehicle after more than a month.

Like Sherlock, Raiche says communication with carmoves.ca has been spotty and the delivery of his vehicle keeps getting delayed. Raiche sent �鶹Ӱ�� a recent email correspondence with carmoves.ca which states that it hired a third-party company to transport Raiche’s vehicle.

"The vehicle is with third party, we have attempted to ask them for the location of the car many times. They are not answering, and we do not have the car,” reads the email. Raiche says he was directed by carmoves.ca to file a complaint against the third-party contractor.

“I have lost hours of sleep during the months of August and September hoping for a miracle,” said Raiche.

“My wish is that people responsible for these scams and thefts are found and jailed. They are nothing but a bunch of crooks.”

According to the Better Business Bureau (BBB), a non-government watchdog, this type of incident possibly falls under the umbrella of “vehicle transport scam,” which has multiple variations.

The BBB says one of the variations is people hire a transport company to move their vehicle and they are asked to pay upfront. The company will delay the delivery of the vehicle and ask for more money. Eventually, the vehicle may or may not be delivered.

BBB spokesperson Melanie McGovern says people need to be vigilant.

“If you are transporting a high-ticket item, you really want to thoroughly research the company and not just based on their website,” said McGovern.

“Ask some friends. Take it to other websites, take it to review sites, use the name of the company and a search engine, and type the word scam to see if anybody else is reporting any kind of suspicious activity.”

McGovern is encouraging people who’ve been victims of scams to file a complaint with the BBB.

Sherlock says he thought carmoves.ca and carmoves.com were the same company, the latter he is familiar with. He says it was a costly mistake and wanted to share his story.

“I just don't I don't want to see other people get hurt. That's my biggest concern.”

Sherlock did purchase insurance for the transport of his vehicle; however, he won’t be able to claim any money until the vehicle is reported stolen. Unfortunately, he says he hasn’t been able to file the car stolen with LaSalle RCMP because although he has a bill of sale and proof of payment, he says the detachment requires the vehicle to be in his name.

Sherlock asked the seller of the vehicle, Richard Berg, to file a report with Alberta RCMP, but says Berg was told that the purchaser of the vehicle needs to file a stolen vehicle report.

“I have all this information, and yet I got the police pointing fingers at each other saying, ‘no, you have to report it stolen,’ ‘no, you have to report it stolen’ and it's just frustrating,” said Sherlock.

�鶹Ӱ�� has reached out to carmoves.ca multiple times through email and phone and have not received a response from the company. 

Weighing 22 kilograms (49 pounds) at nine months old, Pesto is the heaviest penguin chick the Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium has ever had, its education supervisor Jacinta Early said on Friday.

By contrast, his doting parents, Hudson and Tango weigh 11 kilograms (24 pounds) each.

Pesto’s global fame has grown with his size. More than 1.9 billion people around the world had viewed him through social media, an aquarium statement said.

He ate more than his own substantial body weight in fish in the past week: 24 kilograms (53 pounds), Early said.

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The veterinary advice is that that quantity of food is healthy for a chick approaching adulthood.

His growth will plateau as he enters his fledging period. He has started to lose his brown feathers and will replace them with the black and white plumage of a young adult.

His keepers expect him to trim down to around 15 kilograms (33 pounds) in the process.

“He’s going to start losing that really adorable baby fluff. It might take him one to two months to really get rid of it. Then he’ll be nice and sleek and streamlined,” Early said.

But she expects Pesto will remain recognizable as the sought-after TikTok celebrity he has become for another two weeks.

For now, he's a star attraction.

“Such a small head for such a big body,” one admirer remarked on Friday as a crowd gathered against the glass of the penguin enclosure at feeding time.

Hatching on Jan. 31, Pesto was the only king penguin chick to hatch at the aquarium this year and the first since 2022, a year when there were six. The reason why there was none last year isn’t clear.

Adult king penguins weigh between 9.5 kilograms (21 pounds) and 18 kilograms (40 pounds), according to the Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition, a global environmental group.

They are the world’s second largest penguin species, after the emperor penguin.

“He is a fake, a phony and a fraud. How can anyone ever believe what this sellout NDP leader says in the future?” Poilievre said to Singh during question period, posing questions to Singh, rather than to any member of the government.

As he did, heckling could be heard from NDP MPs, including complaints that this question wasn’t related to government business.

In response, Singh, who sits further down on the same side of the chamber as Poilievre, yelled over to the Official Opposition leader, leading to an eruption of jeers and cheers from all sides of the House.

House Speaker Greg Fergus then paused proceedings for a few minutes in an attempt to bring order to the chamber.

Microphones were muted on the live feed from the floor of the House of Commons and cameras did not cut away from the Speaker’s chair. But, as those in the viewing galleries above the chamber could see, Singh got out of his seat and continued to address Poilievre, pointing at him from the floor.

“I would suspect, although the chair didn't hear, that there might have been some strong words which were exchanged between members,” Fergus said after the tense moment, reminding all MPs that question period is meant to hold the government accountable, not opposition parties.

“I ask members to please remember that Canadians are looking at us and let us conduct ourselves in a way really befitting of each of our constituencies and a country as a whole.”

Both leaders left the chamber soon after the exchange.

The boiling over of simmering tensions between the two leaders came shortly after Singh announced the NDP will vote to support the Liberal government in next week’s non-confidence motion vote.

The motion was already set to fail after the Bloc Québecois announced Wednesday that they will be voting against the Conservative’s attempt to force an early election.

Singh said his party’s decision to support the Liberals is about pushing back against potential Conservative cuts to programs like dental care and pharmacare.

“The decision moving forward is far too important for Canadians and for the middle class,” Singh said. “That's why we're not going to let Pierre Poilievre tell us what to do. We're not going to listen to someone who wants to cut the things that people need.”

Speaking to reporters on Thursday, Singh was repeatedly asked how he could support the Trudeau government just weeks after pulling out of his party’s supply-and-confidence deal.

“I stand by my words… Trudeau has let you down, and does not deserve another chance,” Singh said.

When asked if the NDP’s support means the party is giving Trudeau another chance, Singh said “not at all.”

“Canadians will have that decision to make when the election comes. And when that election comes, we want to make it very clear, I do not believe that Justin deserves a second chance.”

As he came out of question period, Poilievre marched to the microphone stationed in the House of Commons foyer and accused Singh of taping up his pact with Trudeau after the byelections had passed, repeating the line of attack he used in the House.

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It's the first civil case launched against Kenneth Law, who is facing criminal charges of murder and abetting suicide in connection with 14 deaths across Ontario.

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Among those deaths is that of Jeshennia Bedoya Lopez, whose parents allege in a notice of claim filed this month in Newmarket courthouse that she obtained a "suicide kit" from Law and a company he operated online in August or September 2022.

"The Plaintiffs plead the Defendant Law operated this online store with the primary intent of assisting, luring and/or enabling suicide to vulnerable individuals such as Jeshennia," the suit says.

In the suit, parents Leonardo Bedoya Forero and Maria Lopez Ocana claim damages totalling $2 million.

The suit also claims that doctors at Southlake Hospital repeatedly discharged Jeshennia Bedoya Lopez without proper psychiatric treatment.

The claims have not been proven in court.

Lawyers gathered in a courtroom on Friday for a pre-trial hearing in the criminal case. Law remains in custody, facing 14 counts of first-degree murder and 14 counts of aiding and abetting suicide relating to deadly products he allegedly sold on his websites.

Investigators previously said they believe Law sent more than 1,200 packages that may have contained instruments for suicide to as many as 40 countries. Police said that approximately 160 of those packages were sent to addresses in Canada.

Law's lawyer, Matthew Gourlay, said that Law will elect a jury trial where he will plead not guilty.

"He's fine. He's in custody. It's not pleasant for him, as it isn't for anyone. But he's dealing with it. He's chosen not to exercise his right to bail at this point. And, of course, that can always be revisited as the proceedings go on," Gourlay said outside the courthouse.

The lawsuit is a new approach to trying to hold Law accountable for his actions, said lawyer Ari Goldkind, who is not involved in the case.

"It's easier to bring a claim, given the lower standard of the civil realm. Balance of probabilities, versus proof beyond a reasonable doubt in the criminal system," Goldkind said.

The suit claims that Jeshennia Bedoya Lopez visited the Southlake Hospital emergency room twice in August 2022, but was not admitted. Shortly after that, the lawsuit says, she purchased a kit and died on Sept. 10, 2022.

When reached by �鶹Ӱ��, a spokesperson for Southlake Hospital didn't address the claims in the lawsuit.

"Our thoughts and heartfelt condolences go out to the family and friends of Jeshennia Bedoya Lopez. While we cannot comment on specifics due to privacy concerns, patient care remains our top priority at Southlake," said Derek Rowland, the hospital's communications director.

While the magazine did not identify the subject, a person with direct knowledge of the matter told CNN that the relationship was with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who ran for president as an independent candidate and recently endorsed Donald Trump. The person said the relationship was emotional and digital in nature, not physical.

A Kennedy spokesperson told CNN, “Mr. Kennedy only met Olivia Nuzzi once in his life for an interview she requested, which yielded a hit piece.”

The alleged relationship was by Oliver Darcy in Status.

In a statement to CNN, Nuzzi said her relationship with a reporting subject had “turned personal” and that she regretted not disclosing it to the publication.

“Earlier this year, the nature of some communication between myself and a former reporting subject turned personal. During that time, I did not directly report on the subject nor use them as a source,” she said. “The relationship was never physical but should have been disclosed to prevent the appearance of a conflict. I deeply regret not doing so immediately and apologize to those I’ve disappointed, especially my colleagues at New York.”

In a , New York magazine said Nuzzi is “currently on leave,” and the publication is “conducting a more thorough third-party review.”

Nuzzi of Kennedy last November, in which she went hiking with the then-candidate, and has since written numerous about Trump and the 2024 campaign.

Kennedy has been married to actor Cheryl Hines since 2014. A representative for Hines declined to comment Friday on his relationship with Nuzzi. While Hines had supported her husband’s presidential run, appearing at campaign events, she has not commented on Kennedy’s decision to throw his support behind Trump.

According to the magazine, Nuzzi “recently” acknowledged a relationship with a reporting subject, which was a “violation of the magazine’s standards around conflicts of interest and disclosures.”

“Had the magazine been aware of this relationship, she would not have continued to cover the presidential campaign,” the New York magazine statement added.

The magazine also said that “an internal review of her published work has found no inaccuracies nor evidence of bias.” Still, the magazine said, “we regret this violation of our readers’ trust.”

In a note to staff on Friday obtained by CNN, New York Magazine editor David Haskell said they had learned of Nuzzi’s relationship with Kennedy “a few days ago” and were told it began after her profile of Kennedy published in December and ended in August.

Haskell said that while editors had not found evidence of bias in her reporting during that period, “I made clear to Olivia, she had created at the very least the appearance of a conflict, and, by choosing not to disclose this to her editors, had violated our policies and potentially damaged our readers’ trust.”

“I am so deeply proud of the work we make together, and I am sorry this brings a cloud of distraction over us,” he added.

Nuzzi had been engaged to Ryan Lizza, Politico’s chief Washington correspondent and Playbook co-author.

In a note to readers Friday in the Playbook PM newsletter, Lizza wrote, “Because of my connection to this story through my ex-fiancée, my editors and I have agreed that I won’t be involved in any coverage of Kennedy in Playbook or elsewhere at POLITICO.”

CNN’s Hadas Gold contributed reporting.

reported that the teen was from the Montreal area and allegedly recruited by a street gang from the region.

According to teens interviewed by Noovo Info near the victim's high school, the boy had reportedly gone to Quebec's Beauce region to carry out a contract. His body was found near the outlaw biker gang's hideout in Frampton, about 80 kilometres south of Quebec City.

The Sûreté du Québec (SQ) has not yet released the victim's identity.

"It's disgusting for street gangs to recruit young people, children, to do their dirty work," public security minister François Bonnardel wrote in a post on X.

"I'm reassured to know that the SQ will have a strong presence in Frampton over the next few days. I have every confidence in our provincial police force to carry out the necessary investigations and reassure the public in eastern Quebec."

An SQ spokesperson said officers were deployed to shed light on the suspicious death of a male that happened overnight on Sept. 16 on Rang 2 in Frampton. 

A person arrested in connection with the death was released with a promise to appear in court at a later date.

According to Noovo Info, identifying the body has been challenging due to the victim's injuries. The teen was reportedly mutilated.

The investigation is ongoing.

Increased police presence in Frampton

The SQ addressed the violence on Thursday, saying they are concerned about the sense of security in the community. Officers will be meeting with residents to gather information about recent events and deploy a mobile command post in Frampton on Friday and Monday of next week.

There will also be an increased police presence in the area.

"We are aware that the police have a meticulous investigation to carry out and that they cannot elaborate on this in order to preserve its integrity. However, as citizens, we have a collective duty to inform the police of any information that we believe may or may not be related to what happened recently," said Frampton Mayor Jean Audet in a statement Thursday.

Police ask anyone with information about any criminal event to contact the Criminal Information Centre at 1-800-659-4264.

Shots fired in Mauricie region

Provincial police also received reports from residents in Hérouxville, Que., of gunshots near the Hells Angels hideout on Rang Saint-Pierre.

When police arrived on the scene, they confirmed that shots had been fired. However, no injuries have been reported.

"The target is the Trois-Rivières Hells Angels premises. The event appears to have been targeted. The reasons for this incident will be investigated," the SQ said in a news release. 

Crime scene technicians were still on site on Thursday afternoon, examining the scene.

Rang St-Pierre was closed between Route Lefebvre and Chemin St-Timothée.

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On Feb. 7, her then three-year-old son Jacob along with his father Loc Phu "Jay" Le departed for what was supposed to be a week-long visit to Vietnam to celebrate the Lunar New Year with family, McArthur says.

They were expected to return home on Feb. 15, however McArthur said she later received a message from Le informing her that Jacob had developed a rash and needed a prescription, which would delay their return to Canada until after a doctor’s appointment on Feb. 28.

Since then, McArthur said she’s made countless attempts to speak with Le, whom she shared custody with, but has been unable to reach him and has found that his cellphone number has been reassigned to someone else.

She said that she also hasn’t been able to reach one of his family members, whom had served as a court-appointed liaison.

“So obviously, when there's multiple parties that have cut off communication, you know, that intermediary party is a three-year-old child, you know, that's gets really concerning,” she said.

McArthur said that said she knew in her heart that something wasn’t right leading up to her now-four-year-old son’s trip abroad and did not want to hand him over to his dad as the details about their upcoming trip were unclear to her and communication with him was strained and practically non-existent.

However, on Jan. 31 she said that a judge ordered her to give Jacob to Le and shortly thereafter they left the country for Vietnam.

“I think that whenever we have concerns that regard our intuition, that can be a little bit difficult in court. That's not necessarily something you can go to the court with and sustain, but that was definitely part of the red flags for myself, you know,” she said.

“And then there's lots of other red flags when you look in hindsight about (Jacob’s) behavior, the communication (with Le) prior to the trip, even the communication with his counsel, all of those things really have should have been going really smoothly because they're really just factual information sharing between parents.”

McArthur hired private investigator

Shortly after Jacob left for Vietnam, McArthur hired a private investigator there and said she quickly learned that the basic information she’d been given about his whereabouts were incorrect. She said that her son had been spotted in a completely different part of Ho Chi Minh City than where he was supposed to be. The investigator provided her with a photo of him riding on a scooter with two unknown women. He wasn’t wearing a shirt, shoes, or a helmet., she said.

“I thought, ‘This is crazy, but I think that this might be what I have to do,’ and unfortunately, it did, you know, show that the travel details that I had gotten were incorrect, and that's concerning,” said McArthur, who noted that financial constraints prevented her from continuing to retain the private eye.

She’s since set up a to help pay for her efforts to bring her son home.

Global Affairs Canada confirmed to CP24.com that it is aware of the in Vietnam, but noted that the nation is not a signatory to an international convention that helps to resolve cross-border custody disputes.

“Consular officials are in contact with local authorities and are providing consular assistance to the family,” spokesperson Kevin Sweet said.

“Child abductions are some of the most difficult consular situations that the Government of Canada responds to and are a profoundly difficult and damaging experience for both the children and their families.”

McArthur said the situation has been made even more challenging by the fact that Vietnam does not have similar parental abduction laws in place as Canada.

“And so it becomes a really complicated legal matter that takes cooperation from both sides,” she said.

“It's been a lot to learn and it's been scary to know that, you know. These situations are hard and they take a long time to resolve and, you know, there's a potential that it could be a long time before I do see it Jacob again, which is really hard.”

McArthur said has taken things day-by-day and leaned on her family and friends for support since Jacob’s disappearance.

In early April, McArthur decided to travel Vietnam to try to find her son herself. At that time, she also met with the Canadian consulate and hired lawyers to help her understand her rights and build a legal case.

“(What has happened) is especially difficult because it's such a young child and I know that even the government and the consulate and the feedback that I got from authorities in Vietnam was that people were pretty uncomfortable with the case, especially with the child being so young, and me being the mother,” she said.

“It's unbelievable, it really is. It just feels unbelievable a lot of days.”

McArthur returned to Canada earlier this month to regroup and consider her next steps.

“I'm here sort of hoping I can work with the government and work further down different avenues to reunite with Jacob. … My plan is to kind of push the case a little bit more forward here with the government and then hopefully return to Vietnam to retrieve Jacob at some point,” she said.

“But right now, my main focus is working on bringing Jacob home and doing everything that I can to share his story and hopefully make sure that one other child maybe this doesn't occur because of Jacob's story.”

Warrant was issued for father in May

A media officer from Toronto police told CP24.com this week that there is no update on the case and that Le is still wanted on a that was first issued in May.

He is described by police as five-foot-ten and 190 pounds with short black hair.

Anyone with further information is asked to contact Toronto police at 416-808-5100 or Crime Stoppers anonymously.

CP24.com has reached out to Le’s legal counsel, Normandin Chris LLP, for comment, but we have not heard back.

The Mediterranean-DASH Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay diet combines elements from the traditional Mediterranean diet and the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension, or DASH diet, which focuses on reducing blood pressure.

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The MIND diet was specifically designed to combat cognitive decline, said lead study author Dr. Russell Sawyer, an assistant professor of clinical neurology and rehabilitation medicine at the University of Cincinnati Gardner Neuroscience Institute.

“Among the MIND diet components are 10 brain-healthyfood groups — green leafy vegetables, other vegetables, nuts, berries, beans, whole grains, seafood, poultry, olive oil and wine,” Sawyer said in an email.

Five unhealthy food groups — red meats, butter and stick margarine, cheese, fried and fast foods, and pastries and sweets — are limited in the MIND diet, which helps reduce the intake of trans and saturated fats, Sawyer said.

“The MIND diet has all the key features — notably an emphasis on real food, mostly plants — required to reduce systemic inflammation, facilitate weight loss, improve the health of the microbiome, ameliorate insulin resistance, lower elevated blood lipids (fats), and slow atherogenesis (clogging of arteries),” said Dr. David Katz, a specialist in preventive and lifestyle medicine who founded the nonprofit , a global coalition of experts dedicated to evidence-based lifestyle medicine. He was not involved in the study.

“That such effects would translate into protection of the brain is anything but a surprise,” Katz said in an email. “This study of association does not, by itself, prove that the MIND diet protects cognitive health, but given the clear mechanisms in play, it certainly suggests it does.”

A larger benefit for women and Black people

The study,  in Neurology, the journal of the American Academy of Neurology, is part of an ongoing study called  or Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke. Sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, REGARDS was created to examine why Southern American and Black American people have a higher incidence of stroke, and it has been following about 30,000 adults age 45 and older since 2003.

Of the more than 14,000 people in the study, 70 per cent were White and 30 per cent were Black. At the start of the study, and again at 10 years, participants were asked about their dietary intake and underwent electrocardiograms, blood pressure measurements and blood work.

Researchers then scored the diets on higher adherence to MIND diet parameters: eating more than three servings of whole grains per day, consuming more than six servings of green leafy vegetables each week, eating at least one other vegetable each day, eating more than two servings of berries each week, having a fish meal more than once and poultry more than twice a week, and eating beans more than three times per week. Eating nuts and using primarily olive oil were also scored more highly.

People who ate red or processed meats less than four times a week, fried or fast food less than once a week, and less than a tablespoon of butter or margarine a day were also scored higher.

People who followed the MIND diet more closely were 4 per cent less likely to develop memory and thinking problems than those who did not adhere to the diet, the study found. The finding remained even after mitigating factors such as exercise, education, smoking, body mass index, medical conditions, age, and anxiety or depression were factored out.

For women, the risk was even less — they were 6 per cent less likely to develop cognitive impairment. Men, however, saw no such benefit, the study found.

When it came to how quickly those with such memory and thinking issues declined, the study found that people who closely followed the MIND Diet regressed more slowly than those who did not. That association was stronger in Black participants than in White participants, Sawyer said.

“These were surprising findings,” Sawyer said. “The benefits of the MIND diet may have a differential impact in women and Blacks and this is an area for future research.”

More research needed

A 2023 randomized controlled clinical trial found the MIND diet no better than the control diet in reducing signs of cognitive decline in the brain. However, experts were concerned the trial was not long enough to fully capture results.

“The three years follow up, while admirable for a randomized clinical trial provides less insights about the long-term benefits of diet compared to the 10+ years of follow up in our study,” Sawyer said.

In addition, only 66 people in the clinical trial were Black, which limits “the generalizability of this randomized control study compared to our cohort study, though both offer important information,” he said.

The program is designed to compensate owners of assault-style firearms that were banned by the Liberal government in 2020. Although many details of the program still haven't been revealed after four years, businesses and gun owners only have until the end of October 2025 to turn in, deactivate or dispose of outlawed weapons. The government estimates there are 150,000 prohibited assault-style firearms in the country.

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The $67.2 million includes $56.1 million spent by Public Safety Canada and almost $11.1 million by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Nearly $11.5 million of that money went to external consultants for software, logistics, communication support and more.

The figures were acquired by Senate opposition leader Donald Plett through what's known as an order paper question, a procedure lawmakers use to get information from the government. Plett calls the program a "boondoggle."

"$67 million is an incredible, shocking amount of money to spend on a program that doesn't yet exist, which ultimately targets licensed, trained, law-abiding gun owners and not criminals," Plett said in a statement to CTVNews.ca. "And even more outrageous is the fact that $11 million of taxpayers hard-earned money has been given out to external consultants. Those contracts need to be made public."

When Plett pressed government Senate representative Marc Gold on the issue on Wednesday, Gold said he would not table information detailing the $11.5 million in external contracts.

"This government's position on its firearm legislation and its work to launch its firearms buyback program are centrepieces of its concern for the well-being of Canadians," . "It is regrettable that the program has not made further progress. The government is doing everything it can to move it forward."

The firearm buyback program was announced in May 2020 following Canada's worst mass shooting, which left that April. Canada followed the lead of New Zealand, which launched a similar program after a horrific mass shooting there claimed 51 lives in March 2019. In its first six months, the New Zealand program collected more than 56,000 banned semi-automatic weapons.

A from Plett revealed that 60 employees from Public Safety Canada and 15 from the RCMP were assigned to the Canadian program at the time. At least $117 million in funds have been obtained to further advance the program, according to Public Safety Canada.

Public Safety Canada plans to roll out the program in , beginning with business owners who hold banned stock and then individual owners. Approximately 2,000 models and variants of assault-style firearms are covered by the May 2020 ban. is based on original pricing and ranges from about $1,100 to more than $6,200 per weapon. The deadline for both businesses and individuals is Oct. 30, 2025.

In 2021, the parliamentary budget officer estimated that it could cost the government $756 million to buy back every gun at fair market value.

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The controversial program has been criticized by the opposition Conservatives, and even a .

In a statement to CTVNews.ca, a Public Safety Canada spokesperson said that work on the program is "well advanced" and that more information on the business phase will be available later in 2024.

"The Government of Canada continues to engage with various stakeholders and service providers to ensure a safe, efficient, and cost-effective program," the Public Safety spokesperson said. "Once the Program is launched, firearms businesses and individuals who have impacted firearms and devices in their possession will have the option to turn in the firearms and devices for compensation, have the firearms deactivated at the Government's expense, or export the firearms with a valid export permit."

Here's what to know:

Why is GM recalling cars?

The glitch, said to affect 2023 and 2024 editions of popular Cadillac, Chevrolet and GMC-branded models, involves the warning lamps that indicate low brake fluid.

Under certain conditions, warning lamps may fail to turn on, allowing the car to lose effectiveness in braking, undetected.

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"A driver that isn't aware of a low brake fluid level could experience reduced braking and an increased risk of a crash," the recall notice reads.

What models are affected by the GM recall?

Makes and models under the recall include the following:

• Cadillac Escalade (2023 and 2024)
• Cadillac Escalade ESV (2023 and 2024)

• Chevrolet Silverado (2023)
• Chevrolet Tahoe (2023 and 2024)

• GMC Sierras (2023)
• GMC Suburban (2023 and 2024)
• GMC Yukon (2023 and 2024)
• GMC Yukon XL (2023 and 2024)

In all, 38,382 individual trucks and SUVs are estimated to have been affected.

What happens next?

Transport Canada says that GM will notify owners by mail and "send a wireless over-the-air software update to eligible vehicles," targeting their electronic brake control modules.

Alternatively, Transport Canada advises owners may schedule an appointment at a GM dealership to ensure the update has been performed.

To learn more, you can call GM's customer line at 1-800-263-3777, or visit their recall centre online at .