B.C. coroner won’t call inquest into death of Lisa Rauch, who was hit by police anti-riot rounds
June 19, 2025
British Columbia’s chief coroner is taking the unusual step of not calling an inquest into the death of Lisa Rauch, who died after being hit by two plastic bullets fired by a Victoria police officer. While an inquest is mandatory after deaths in police custody, Coroner Dr. Jatinder Baidwan said in a statement that Rauch wasn’t considered in custody at the time of her death.
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The first heat wave of Summer 2025 is about to hit Eastern Canada, with temperatures climbing to the mid-30s early next week. Add the humidity from a wet spring and it will feel even hotter.
We’d better get used to it, as it is signalling “a torrid summer ahead,” says David Phillips, senior climatologist with Environment and Climate Change Canada.
“We rarely go a year without a heat wave,” he says, “but this will be the first one and people have to learn how to deal with it again.”
The high pressure system will settle over southern and eastern Ontario as well as southern Quebec. It...
June 20, 2025 - 07:00 | Stewart Lewis | National Post
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This story was originally published by our friends at Narratively as “Dozens of Infants Died Mysteriously at a Top Children’s Hospital—I Wanted to Know Why.” It has been reprinted here with permission.
Kevin Garnett was furious. He shouted and banged his fist against a wall inside Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children, demanding to know why his son had died.
The boy, Kevin Pacsai, had been born just twenty-five days earlier with a head of dark hair like that of his twenty-one-year-old father. His mother,...
June 20, 2025 - 06:30 | Leigh Kamping-Carder | Walrus
Health-care workers battling measles in southern Ontario say they think about the outbreak from the moment they wake until the moment they sleep.
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