Huntingdon train knife rampage suspect is charged with string of new alleged offences including attempted murder and GBH

A man accused of stabbing 10 people on a train has been charged with further offences linked to the incident, police have announced.

Anthony Williams is due in court this afternoon to face a further seven offences following the mass stabbing on a train which saw it diverted to Huntingdon station in Cambridgeshire earlier this month.

Williams, 32, of Langford Road, Peterborough, has been further charged with the attempted murder of a 14-year-old boy in Peterborough city centre on October 31 and attempted grievous bodily harm of a 28-year-old man in the city on the same day.

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Cocaine express

Brampton trucking company owners charged in Blue Water Bridge smuggling case

Lovedeep Singh, 32, and Khushdeep Singh, 29, who live at the same address in Brampton, are charged with conspiracy and possessing property obtained by crime. One of the conspiracy charges alleges between March 1 and March 6, in Point Edward, they conspired to import cocaine into Canada from the U.S. by organizing and directing Ravinderbir Singh, court records say.


I’m betting that last Sikh sungh like a Canary.

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BERNARDO: Carney cooking NATO’s books with a fantasy army of paper-pushers

Mark Carney stands up in front of NATO and vows that Canada will finally hit the magic 2% defence target, even accelerate the timeline, and then keep going toward the new 5% “defence and security” goal. On paper, that sounds bold and committed.

But then you see the trick. Instead of building a serious fighting force, the plan leans on relabeling existing agencies under armed forces control.

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First they came for the Ostriches …

‘Mindblowing’ population of feral goldfish in Ottawa pond to be euthanized

The City of Ottawa is preparing to euthanize a school of invasive goldfish living in a stormwater pond in the Central Park neighbourhood, though the size of the population remains in question.

In March, city staff removed about 5,000 dead goldfish “using nets in the water and by hand” from the pond in Celebration Park, according to a written statement.

The city now says it has found a new population of goldfish in the same pond. Based on “a rough visual assessment,” the surviving school is believed to number somewhere between 500 and 1,000, the city said.

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UK Supreme Court Brands Northern Ireland Christian Teaching ‘Indoctrination’

In the name of objectivity and pluralism, religious education must introduce the beliefs of Islam and other religions as well, the Court says.

The UK Supreme Court has ruled that the Christian-focused model of religious education (RE) in Northern Ireland’s schools is unlawful, concluding that the current system fails to meet the requirement that teaching be “objective, critical and pluralistic.” The judgment follows a legal challenge brought by an unnamed father and his daughter, who attended a state-controlled primary school in Belfast. The girl had received Christian religious education and participated in Christian worship, but her non-religious parents objected to her being taught about Christian faith, despite having an option to withdraw their child at any time from RE.

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Ottawa halts lending of indigenous art after more than 100 pieces vanish

Paddle to the sea – He got away!

Ottawa has stopped lending out pieces from its multi-million dollar Indigenous Art Collection after auditors found more than 100 works had gone missing — and after the department admitted police were never called to track down the loss.

Blacklock’s Reporter says Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Rebecca Alty told the Commons committee on indigenous and northern affairs that the long-standing practice of sending artworks to federal offices has been shut down.

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