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Task force eyed to set city councillor pay for ‘full time task’
Several familiar city hall arguments resurfaced during a Monday committee meeting, and politicians are seeking to resolve them in a review of their pay. Alongside voting to cut their own expense limit by 10 per cent, councillors revisited the part-time versus full-time council debate, and whether they should be paid more for the committees and […]
‘Gave people so much’: Teenage London homicide victim mourned
Candles burned Monday at a memorial to a London teenager in the parking lot of a public housing complex where the 18-year-old died after allegedly being stabbed Friday night. People close to Abdul Hashim, known to his friends as âZeko,” remember the Sir Wilfrid Laurier secondary school graduate as a hard-working teen with “a heart […]
14-year-old charged in mass shooting that killed Woodstock man
Toronto police say a 14-year-old boy has been charged with first-degree murder in a shooting that left two men dead and others wounded in a high school parking lot on a weekend in early June. Det. Sgt. Phillip Campbell says the teen is charged with two counts of first-degree murder and seven counts of attempted […]
Widow testifies to shock, fear after husband’s fatal shooting
St. THOMAS â The terrible, decade-old memories appeared to be as fresh to Eva Willer Frigo as the day she saw her husband shot to death. âThere was a shot,â she said, and paused. âAnd Don was on the ground.â The 56-year-old widow of Caledon businessperson Donato Frigo began her testimony Monday at the Superior […]
Neighbours stunned by woman’s slaying, decry violence in public housing
Neighbours at a London public housing apartment building are expressing grief over the death of a 62-year-old woman in what police say was the city’s third homicide of the year.