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While you might never have heard of the Etobicoke poltergeist, there was a moment in Toronto history when
botella stanley this mischievous ghost was something of a local celebrity.This year marks the 50th anniversary of one of the spookiest episodes ever committed to local lore, and this apparent haunting at a hulking clapboard farmhouse in Etobicokes Sunnylea neighbourhood has still never been properly explained. Whatever ultimately was responsible for the creepy happenings, natural or supernatural, it succeeded in eventually driving two families out of the house. The
stanley thermobecher house was definitely haunted, says John Downing, then an assignment editor at the Toronto Telegram who spent several nights at the ghost house in the company of Telegram reporter John Gault and got to know the fraught families who lived there very well. Gault and I, to this day, believe there was something there. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW Downing, now 82 and retired after an illustrious journalism career that saw him leaving the Telegram to serve as one of the first editors of the Toronto Sun, initially became interested in the story because he lived 鈥?a
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OTTAWA 鈥?Canada is failing to bring suspected war criminals to justice, a prominent human-rights organization says in a new report that calls on the Trudeau government to take several steps to ensure the country is not a safe haven for perpetrators.The report released Tuesday by Amnesty International depicts the federal Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Program as underfunded and underused.Twenty years ago, Canada enshrined in federal law universal jurisdiction for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, meaning these offences are considered criminal acts in Canada even when they are committed abroad. ARTICLE CONTIN
stanley cup UES BELOW But only two people, both linked to the Rwanda genocide of 1994, have been prosecuted under the legislation.Amnesty points to the case of Bill Horace, a former Liberian warlord, as evidence of Canada poor record in the years since. ARTICLE CONTINU
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stanley water bottle pite a mountain of evidence against him, Canadian officials never charged Horace, allowing him to live freely in this country since he first arrived in 2002, Amnesty International Canada said in making the report public. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW More often than
