ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY
September 25, 2012 – Globe and Mail
The federal government is being sued for not providing clean needles to inmates in prisons – something the former inmate and advocacy groups behind the suit argue not only violates offenders’ right to health care but makes a public health problem worse.
NATHAN VANDERKLIPPE – Rocanville, SK
ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY and PAV JORDAN – Toronto
September 25, 2012 – Globe and Mail
Darwyn Wirth was driving down a mine travelway a kilometre beneath the Saskatchewan prairie when he saw fire.
It was, he said, “a fairly large ball of flame.” Something had gone wrong deep inside the mine workings at Potash Corp’s Rocanville mine.
ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY
September 24, 2012 – Globe and Mail
Isabelle Ouimet’s younger brother is lost in snow and ice 6,800 metres above sea level and she doesn’t know who will decide whether to keep looking for him.
ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY
September 19, 2012 – Globe and Mail
Ontario’s Labour Ministry has launched two investigations after a Toronto Shell station employee was killed trying to stop a driver from absconding without paying.
Shell is doing an internal investigation of its own.
Photo by Tim Fraser
ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY, TIM APPLEBY, KIM MACKRAEL
Sept. 18, 2012 – Globe and Mail
As the pale SUV careered out of the gas station on Saturday night, Jayesh Prajapati went dashing after it.
The attendant ran out of the northwest Toronto station’s convenience store and almost into the path of the vehicle, trying to stop a driver making a run for it without paying for gas. From Ann Lapenna’s sixth-floor balcony, it looked like Mr. Prajapati grabbed the tailgate as the car sped up and screeched off.
But it was clear within moments that he couldn’t get loose. The speeding SUV dragged the man along the pavement for more than half a block. It took the bump from a pair of defunct streetcar tracks to knock him free.
ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY, KIM MACKRAEL AND TIMOTHY APPLEBY
Sept. 12, 2012 – Globe and Mail
Mirrored shootings, a decade apart: Cases of mistaken identity, turf-war homicides and bystanders caught in crossfire between young black men with guns.
Police trace this year’s fatal shootings back to the same name at the heart of the biggest street-gang prosecution in Ontario history: the Galloway Boys.
Richard Henry Bain
INGRID PERITZ, TU THANH HA AND ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY
La Conception, Que., and Toronto
Sept. 6, 2010 – Globe and Mail
On Tuesday morning, as Quebec voters headed to the polls, Richard Henry Bain showed up at Claude David’s auto garage in Labelle, north of Montreal.
The two briefly discussed the election – Mr. Bain wanted to know where his polling station was – and then Mr. Bain said he was heading into Montreal to visit an ailing sister-in-law.
He mentioned no other plans. But when Mr. David said he wouldn’t be able to finish fixing the battery on Mr. Bain’s Jeep by Thursday, Mr. Bain said it didn’t matter. “It’s no rush.”
The next time Mr. David saw his neighbour, it was on the news.
ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY, TU THANH HA, INGRID PERITZ
Sept. 5, 2012 – Globe and Mail
The man police say opened fire outside the Parti Québécois victory party at midnight, killing a technician and wounding another man, is a trained engineer with a fishing lodge near Mont-Tremblant, says one man who was shocked to see his friend Richard Henry Bain on TV early Wednesday morning.
“I can’t believe he would get to that point,” the man told The Globe and Mail. “He’s a businessman who’s very generous with his time. He’s not a man who needs money.”
Wednesday, September 5, 2012 – Globe and Mail
KIM MACKRAEL AND ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY
One person is dead after a gunman opened fire at the concert hall where Quebec Premier-elect Pauline Marois was delivering her victory speech.
Montreal police said a man in his 50s entered the rear of the Metropolis building around midnight. He fired at least one shot and injured two people. The suspect also lit a fire at the back of the building before he attempted to run away.
Eric Labbe/Le Soleil
ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY
Sept. 1, 2012 – Globe and Mail
The trickiest thing about legionella, the deadly bacterium that has killed nine people in Quebec City and sickened 158, is that it could be anywhere.
It’s entirely possible there’s a species in your nasal passages right now. Chances are you’ll be fine.
But for the very old, the very young, smokers or people with battered immune systems, inhaled bacteria can cause severe pneumonia that can kill up to a third of those it infects.
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