14-year-old dubbed ‘El Chapito’ arrested for 8 murders in Mexico City – Global News

A 14-year-old boy has been arrested for the drive-by shootings of eight people in a suburb of Mexico City, according to Mexico’s Public Safety Department. Police allege the teenager and another man dubbed “El Ñoño” rode up on motorcycles to a house party and unleashed a hail of bullets. A photo taken by Mexican media […]

Meth-related ER visits on the rise in Ontario, following western Canada trend: study | Globalnews.ca

Dr. Arun Abbi, an emergency physician at Foothills Medical Centre and the Peter Lougheed Centre in Calgary, said they started seeing an influx of patients who had taken meth well before Ontario hospitals did. That can either be intentional or unintentional, she said, and can lead to overdoses. Or, they may mistakenly believe that taking […]

More than 130K Canadians sign petition for trans people to claim asylum – Global News

The petition, created by Caitlin Glasson from Waterloo, Ont., calls on the government to allow trans and non-binary people from “so-called ‘Western democracies’” like the U.S. The petition explicitly references the U.K.’s Equity Act, which says trans people can be barred from single-sex services such as housing shelters, toilets, prisons and changing rooms. The appeal […]

Durham Region students saddened after Qur’an desecrated at local school | Globalnews.ca

This comes after students at Courtice Secondary School say the Qur’an, their central religious text of Islam, was desecrated by other peers last Friday. Kawartha Pine Ridge School Board, which the school falls under, has also condemned the acts. Maliha says they are taking the incident very seriously and do not tolerate acts of discrimination […]