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Canada has failed to address several human rights concerns regarding safe drinking water on First Nation reserves and violence against Indigenous women, according to the Human Rights Watch. In its 2023 World Report released Wednesday, the organization said widespread abuses against Indigenous Peoples “persist” across Canada caused by “decades of structural and systemic discrimination.”The report outlines the lack of access to clean, safe drinking water in Indigenous communities in one of the world’s “most water-rich nations” that has continued to “pose a major public health concern” despite the Canadian government’s promise to end all drinking water advisories on First Nations reserves by…

The 6-year-old boy accused of shooting his Virginia teacher Friday with a gun he took from home is unlikely to be charged, but his parents could be criminally culpable depending on how the firearm was stored, experts say. Legal experts said even though it is theoretically possible under Virginia law to criminally charge a 6-year-old child, there are numerous obstacles to doing so and it’s highly unlikely that any prosecutor would even try.Virginia law does not allow 6-year-olds to be tried as adults.In addition, a 6-year-old is too young to be committed to the custody of the Department of Juvenile Justice…

Kevin Harvick is expected to announce the upcoming season will be his last as a full-time NASCAR driver, according to The Athletic.The 2014 NASCAR Cup Series champion is expected to make the announcement Thursday before the start of his 23rd season.Harvick was asked Dec. 1 about his future, and he said he would have a decision one way or another before the Daytona 500, which is scheduled for Feb. 19. “I think as we get to Daytona, I know 100 percent that we will have a direction because I’m not gonna start the season without knowing that direction,” he said…

A former NYPD officer was fatally stabbed in Staten Island on Wednesday night, according to police and sources. Nicholas Nelson, who was fired from the department in 2021, was knifed in the neck around 8 p.m. at 25 Elizabeth Street in West Brighton, police and sources said. Sources said the 37-year-old ex-cop was walking with his kids when he got into an argument with another man. He brought his children home but returned to continue the argument, during which the suspect stabbed him, according to sources. The suspect, described as a man dressed in all black and a ski mask, fled…

A low-altitude manoeuvre causing an ultralight plane to go into a spin immediately preceded a fatal crash east of Didsbury, Alta., in July, according to the Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB). Just before 10 a.m. on July 13, 2022, a privately-registered Zlin Savage Cub took off from a private airstrip seven nautical miles east of Didsbury for a “local recreational flight” with two men onboard: a 69-year-old local pilot and a 65-year-old male passenger from New Zealand.TSB investigators tracked the flight’s path via portable GPS and obtained smartphone video taken inside the plane of the last minute of flight.The video…

A supportive family! Lindsay Arnold, Daniella Karagach and more of the Dancing With the Stars cast could not contain their excitement over the arrival of Jenna Johnson and Val Chmerkovskiy’s little one. “Our world is forever changed ? 1.10.2023,” Johnson, 28, wrote via Instagram on Wednesday, January 11, announcing that she and Chmerkovskiy, 36, had welcomed their first child. The post included a black and white photo that showed herself and the Ukraine native holding their new bundle of joy’s hand. Following the big news, the professional dancers’ costars flocked to the post to offer the happy couple their congratulations.…

ESPN New York radio show host Michael Kay is walking back his threat to a producer he said he could get fired if he made one phone call. Last Friday, Ray Santiago, a producer on the “DiPietro and Rothenberg” morning show with ESPN radio, took a shot at “The Michael Kay Show” by saying the latter program is on a decline. After playing the clip with his co-hosts Don La Greca and Peter Rosenberg, Kay looked directly into the camera and said he could put Santiago on the “unemployment line” with a single phone call.  On Tuesday, Kay wasn’t as angry, claiming…

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A number of British Columbia strata corporations are considering implementing 55-plus age restrictions, after the province moved to block bans on rentals. The amendment to the Strata Act, passed last November, eliminated all rental restriction bylaws, except those banning short-term rentals, and all age restriction bylaws, except those for “seniors only” (55-plus) buildings.In announcing the plan, Premier David Eby said the changes were necessary to address the province’s persistent housing crisis.Not everyone was pleased with the changes, and some strata councils have started looking at ways to get around them.“People are afraid of the change, so they are taking some…

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