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Global News
29-06-2025
- Health
- Global News
211 launches new N.B. services for victims of gender-based and intimate partner violence
Anyone experiencing gender-based or intimate partner violence in New Brunswick has a new dedicated tool to find the help they need on their terms. 211 New Brunswick has launched the 'It's Your Call' campaign, a 24/7 provincial resource linking those experiencing gender-based violence or intimate partner violence to social services ranging from safe places to stay to medical support. 'If you're in a situation where you're experiencing gender-based violence, it's an extremely stressful situation,' said Shelly Steeves, director of marketing and communications for United Way Moncton. 'And it can often be difficult to know where to go for help – what services are out there and who can you access. That's where 211 helps.' The 211 service, provided by United Way, has been available across Canada since 2020, connecting people to social, government, health and community services. This is the first time it is putting dedicated resources in place to help victims of gender-based and intimate partner violence. Anyone can call 211 or visit to access services anonymously. Story continues below advertisement 'Individuals do not need to formally report their experience, but they can explore the type of help they need and decide how to proceed accordingly based on what they need in their own individual situations,' Steeves said. Get breaking National news For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen. Sign up for breaking National newsletter Sign Up By providing your email address, you have read and agree to Global News' Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy She also says those who call in will be guided through the process by trained personnel. 'They are specially trained to really actively listen with empathy and understanding to the callers, whether it be a friend, family member or the person actually experiencing gender-based violence.' 2:03 New Brunswickers struggling with basic needs including housing The hope is 211 offers an easy-to-remember number for victims who may need to remain discreet in dangerous situations. 'They have to remember phone numbers. There is a risk that if you're with your partner who is violent that they would find those phone numbers. 211 is easy to remember,' said Valerie Roy-Lang, director of the Réseau des services pour victimes de violence du N.-B. Story continues below advertisement Roy-Lang says the service will also help victims overcome roadblocks. 'There are many barriers, if you look at financial barriers, some people have children, what happens then? They have so many questions on where to go and what to do,' she said. The campaign announcement follows the legislative assembly's unanimous support on June 6 to declare gender-based violence an epidemic and systemic crisis within the province. New Brunswick has the third highest police-reported rate of intimate partner violence in the country and the highest rate of reported gender-based violence in Atlantic Canada, according to the most recent data from 2023. The province saw an almost 40 per cent increase in intimate partner violence over a 12-year period, with rural communities being particularly affected. Since 2020, 211 New Brunswick has helped connect more than 100,000 people to services. – with files from Johnny James
18-06-2025
Retired detective found dead in hoarding conditions, months after she went missing
GLASTONBURY, Conn. -- Mary Notarangelo lived a reclusive life in her later years, according to the few people who had contact with her. The retired police detective tended to her many birds at her Connecticut home and posted videos of them on social media, including one accompanying her on a trip to a local crafts store. But a welfare check request to police last year uncovered disturbing truths. Hoarding conditions were found in her house in Glastonbury, just southeast of Hartford, when authorities tried to find her last July. It wasn't until February that a work crew using a small excavator discovered her skeletal remains. They were found beneath a pile of debris heaped just inside her front door, according to a police report released Wednesday. Glastonbury police said conditions in the single-family home set off a rural road in the woods were among the worst they've seen and hindered several search attempts over the months. Officers said there were 6-foot-tall (2-meter-tall) 'mountains' of garbage blocking entrance doors. Dead birds were found in cages along with mice running about and a live cat. And there was a terrible stench. 'Once inside, I observed more mountains of garbage, cobwebs, and spiders,' Officer Anthony Longo wrote in the report. 'There was no path whatsoever. The only way to move from room to room was by climbing over the garbage.' It's not clear how Notarangelo died. At 73, she was a retired Bridgeport police detective and longtime Wiccan, according to officials and friends. Her death was first reported by Hearst Connecticut Media earlier Wednesday. The state medical examiner's office said her cause of death could not be determined because the remains were mostly skeletal. A friend had called police to request the welfare check July 3, 2024. He told investigators Notarangelo last texted him around June 12, 2024, saying she was having abdominal cramps, vomiting and had fallen. It's not clear why the friend — who did not return phone and text messages — waited so long to call authorities. It's also not clear why it took seven months to find her remains, although several attempts had been made and officials cited the mounds of trash and other items. A police spokesperson did not immediately return an email seeking comment about the timeline. 'It's so upsetting and so sad,' said another friend, Patti Steeves, who worked with Notarangelo at the Bridgeport Police Department as a civilian employee years ago. 'She, as quirky as she was, she was a good person at heart.' Steeves added: 'She was passionate about her faith. She was passionate about her job. She had a great sense of humor. And she loved her animals. She loved her animals more than she did herself.' Steeves said she tried to talk with Notarangelo about the hoarding, but Notarangelo wouldn't discuss it. She said Notarangelo was a 'bird fanatic' who had about 20 birds, including cockatoos, cockatiels and parrots, and a cat and a dog. Bridgeport police said Notarangelo worked there from 1985 to 1996. She was promoted to detective in 1992 and to sergeant a year later. Steeves said she retired on disability after an on-duty car crash that injured her back and legs. Notarangelo posted occasionally on her social media accounts, saying she was an animal lover and an 'intuitive & reiki master,' referring to the Japanese healing practice. She posted videos and photos of her birds, including a cockatoo perched on a shopping cart during her outing to a crafts store. Police and firefighters first searched the home on July 3, 2024, the day of the welfare check request but couldn't find her, citing hoarding piles as a major factor. They also sent a drone in the house, but it hit cobwebs and became disabled, police said. More searches, they said, were conducted on July 5, July 11, July 12 and Nov. 20. On Feb. 24, an environmental services crew arrived with a small excavator. Plywood was removed from the front door area and crews used the excavator to carefully remove the contents of the home through the opening. Notarangelo's remains were discovered within minutes, police said. An attorney was assigned to handle Notarangelo's estate in March. He did not return phone and email messages Wednesday.
Winnipeg Free Press
18-06-2025
- Winnipeg Free Press
Retired detective found dead in hoarding conditions in Connecticut, months after she went missing
GLASTONBURY, Conn. (AP) — Mary Notarangelo lived a reclusive life in her later years, according to the few people who had contact with her. The retired police detective tended to her many birds at her Connecticut home and posted videos of them on social media, including one accompanying her on a trip to a local crafts store. But a welfare check request to police last year uncovered disturbing truths. Hoarding conditions were found in her house in Glastonbury, just southeast of Hartford, when authorities tried to find her last July. It wasn't until February that a work crew using a small excavator discovered her skeletal remains. They were found beneath a pile of debris heaped just inside her front door, according to a police report released Wednesday. Glastonbury police said conditions in the single-family home set off a rural road in the woods were among the worst they've seen and hindered several search attempts over the months. Officers said there were 6-foot-tall (2-meter-tall) 'mountains' of garbage blocking entrance doors. Dead birds were found in cages along with mice running about and a live cat. And there was a terrible stench. 'Once inside, I observed more mountains of garbage, cobwebs, and spiders,' Officer Anthony Longo wrote in the report. 'There was no path whatsoever. The only way to move from room to room was by climbing over the garbage.' It's not clear how Notarangelo died. At 73, she was a retired Bridgeport police detective and longtime Wiccan, according to officials and friends. Her death was first reported by Hearst Connecticut Media earlier Wednesday. The state medical examiner's office said her cause of death could not be determined because the remains were mostly skeletal. A friend had called police to request the welfare check July 3, 2024. He told investigators Notarangelo last texted him around June 12, 2024, saying she was having abdominal cramps, vomiting and had fallen. It's not clear why the friend — who did not return phone and text messages — waited so long to call authorities. It's also not clear why it took seven months to find her remains, although several attempts had been made and officials cited the mounds of trash and other items. A police spokesperson did not immediately return an email seeking comment about the timeline. 'It's so upsetting and so sad,' said another friend, Patti Steeves, who worked with Notarangelo at the Bridgeport Police Department as a civilian employee years ago. 'She, as quirky as she was, she was a good person at heart.' Steeves added: 'She was passionate about her faith. She was passionate about her job. She had a great sense of humor. And she loved her animals. She loved her animals more than she did herself.' Steeves said she tried to talk with Notarangelo about the hoarding, but Notarangelo wouldn't discuss it. She said Notarangelo was a 'bird fanatic' who had about 20 birds, including cockatoos, cockatiels and parrots, and a cat and a dog. Bridgeport police said Notarangelo worked there from 1985 to 1996. She was promoted to detective in 1992 and to sergeant a year later. Steeves said she retired on disability after an on-duty car crash that injured her back and legs. Notarangelo posted occasionally on her social media accounts, saying she was an animal lover and an 'intuitive & reiki master,' referring to the Japanese healing practice. She posted videos and photos of her birds, including a cockatoo perched on a shopping cart during her outing to a crafts store. Police and firefighters first searched the home on July 3, 2024, the day of the welfare check request but couldn't find her, citing hoarding piles as a major factor. They also sent a drone in the house, but it hit cobwebs and became disabled, police said. More searches, they said, were conducted on July 5, July 11, July 12 and Nov. 20. On Feb. 24, an environmental services crew arrived with a small excavator. Plywood was removed from the front door area and crews used the excavator to carefully remove the contents of the home through the opening. Notarangelo's remains were discovered within minutes, police said. An attorney was assigned to handle Notarangelo's estate in March. He did not return phone and email messages Wednesday. Relatives of Notarangelo, including her brother and niece, declined to comment.
Yahoo
14-05-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Health care providers gather in Dunmore to lament Medicaid cuts
Health care advocates assembled Tuesday to express dismay over federal Medicaid funding cuts in the works. Around two dozen nursing home caregivers, providers and health care advocates gathered on a rainy morning under a gazebo behind Dunmore Health Care Center, 1000 Mill St., Dunmore, to present deep concerns around the cuts and to remind U.S. Rep. Rob Bresnahan, R-8, Dallas Twp., to 'do the right thing' by voting against cuts that would disproportionally affect Northeast Pennsylvania. Matt Yarnell, the president of SEIU Healthcare, a statewide health care union, addressed a wide range of frustrations amid a bevy of statistics. * Certified Nursing Assistant Lucy Hurst speaks to a crowd outside of the Dunmore Health Care Center Tuesday, May 13, 2025. (SEAN MCKEAG / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER) * Nursing Home Administrator for the Saber Healthcare Group Lori Steeves speaks to the media outside of the Dunmore Health Care Center Tuesday. (SEAN MCKEAG / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER) * Union members and healthcare professionals gather to rally against proposed Medicaid cuts outside of Dunmore Health Care Center Tuesday, May 13, 2025. (SEAN MCKEAG / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER) Show Caption 1 of 3 Certified Nursing Assistant Lucy Hurst speaks to a crowd outside of the Dunmore Health Care Center Tuesday, May 13, 2025. (SEAN MCKEAG / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER) Expand 'Medicaid cuts could result in a loss of $3.4 billion in funding to our state annually, ripping health care coverage from vulnerable Pennsylvanians, and causing the closure of nursing homes, of home care services and rural hospitals, and other essential programs across the commonwealth,' Yarnell said. 'At a time when the state's population is older, sicker and needs more care than ever before, the last thing we need is funding cuts.' Yarnell shared a barrage of facts and figures, including that 78% of all Medicaid spending goes toward senior care, and 63% of nursing home funding comes from Medicaid, providing care for 67,000 Pennsylvanians. Additionally, he stated that 208,000 residents in the 8th Congressional District rely on Medicaid, with at least 25% of residents in the district under the age of 65 depending on Medicaid. 'This is a matter of life and death,' he said. Lori Steeves, a nursing home administrator with Saber Healthcare Group, said nursing homes are already 'hanging on by a thread' due to under-funding. 'We are constantly forced to make hard choices, while we work to ensure safe staffing for our residents and the recruitment and retention of employees,' Steeves explained. 'There is zero excess or wiggle room for Pennsylvania nursing homes.' Over the past five years, 30 nursing homes have closed across Pennsylvania, with two in the last 12 months locally, Steeves said, explaining that closures cause 'havoc and chaos,' and accentuating the difficulties family members, communities, residents and staff of facilities face. 'These jobs are tough, physically, mentally and emotionally,' Steeves said. 'It takes a special kind of person to work in a nursing home, so it is very challenging to find and keep staff at a time when our state's population is older and sicker than ever before in history,' she added, explaining that nursing homes need more funding resources and support to meet these kinds of challenges than previously. Steeves also addressed Bresnahan directly. 'The nursing home providers of Pennsylvania want to send this message,' she said to the congressman. 'We have been inspired by your courage to stand up for Medicaid funding for your district and for all Americans. We are calling on you, urging you in the strongest way possible to stay the course, vote down these catastrophic cuts. Continue standing up for seniors, people with disabilities, small businesses, and the future health and economic prosperity for Northeastern Pennsylvania.' Lucy Hurst, the union president at Dunmore Health Care Center and a nursing assistant for 'almost 50 years,' cited 'the terrible Medicaid cut' and shared enthusiasm for her work and the people she helps. 'I love my residents,' she said. 'We go above and beyond for them. This is their home.' Hurst explained that her sister lives in a care facility in Wilkes-Barre. 'I can't imagine telling her, 'You have to leave,'' Hurst said, adding that moving residents out of care due to funding cuts would be detrimental. 'The sad thing is, they're gonna die. … It makes me angry, really angry, that politicians are treating seniors and their loved ones with disabilities like they don't have any value to their life. It's all about greed,' Hurst said. Yarnell ended the gathering by asking anyone listening to make a phone call to their representatives. He added that 'fraud and abuse' are not relevant arguments for the actions of Congress. 'This program is a very regulated program. It's very hard for people to get on Medicaid,' Yarnell said. 'We live in the richest country on the planet. The last thing that anybody, elected president or Congress, should be doing right now is figuring out how to transfer more to the wealthiest people in this country and leaving the rest of us behind.'
New York Times
23-02-2025
- Sport
- New York Times
After first NHL goal, Alex Steeves deserves a lengthy look with the Maple Leafs
TORONTO — Alex Steeves pumped his fist, smiled and thought what many ardent Toronto Maple Leafs followers thought, too: Finally. Steeves scored his first NHL goal in his first shift in a 6-3 Maple Leafs win over the Carolina Hurricanes. The goal came after the 25-year-old pending UFA got called up to the Leafs this week. Steeves, 25, had scored 29 goals in 40 AHL games this season. That's still tops in the league. Since signing as a free agent out of the University of Notre Dame in 2021, Steeves has been a dominant Marlie, leading the team all-time in goals and points. ALEX STEEVES 🚨 FIRST NHL GOAL! — Omar (@TicTacTOmar) February 23, 2025 But the question surrounding Steeves has long been: Will he impact NHL games the way he has in the AHL? In his first 11 NHL games spread over four seasons, Steeves has just one point and has never looked like more than a 'AAAA' type of player. In just 1:10 of ice time to start his 12th NHL game, Steeves took massive strides toward answering that question. He logged a goal and a secondary assist in his first two shifts. Hello, secondary scoring, which the Leafs have lacked all season. Advertisement 'I am a goal scorer and I know I can be a goal scorer at this level,' Steeves said confidently postgame. With the Marlies, Steeves has been 'dangerous every time he steps on the ice' according to Marlies and former NHL forward Logan Shaw. And that was also the case against the Hurricanes. In just 1:10, Steeves logged as many points as Ryan Reaves has all season and one less than Connor Dewar. Steeves now has more goals than Reaves and Dewar, too. And so while Craig Berube might be inclined to go back to what he knows in his veteran fourth liners, Steeves' performance Saturday proves he deserves a lengthy look above his competitors for Leafs' fourth-line jobs. Steeves deserves that look not just for potting a tap-in goal, either. In the lead-up to his first NHL goal, Steeves moved aggressively as the first Leafs forward deep into the Hurricanes zone on the forecheck. He tied up all of 6-foot-1 Hurricanes centre Jack Roslovic and held his own as all-world defender Jaccob Slavin joined in on the battle for the puck. Steeves smartly held onto the puck to allow his Leafs forwards to gain positioning in the offensive zone. As John Tavares forced a turnover, Steeves moved unchecked to an optimal shooting position at the faceoff circle. Without overthinking things, he then fired home Tavares' pass for his first goal. 'It's a simple game, it's direct,' was how Berube described Steeves' game. 'And that's what I like about it.' Throughout the entire shift, it was hard not to feel like Steeves' movement, details and confidence just made him look like an NHL player. '(Steeves) was in the right spots,' his fellow fourth-liner Steven Lorentz said. 'It's so easy to come in and try to do too much.' Ditto less than four minutes on Steeves' second shift of the night. He deftly moved around another all-world player in Sebastian Aho to be first to the puck behind the net. Again without any Leafs teammates nearby, Steeves held onto the puck just long enough to allow his teammates to get set up. Cripplingly poor defending from the Hurricanes followed, but Steeves' movement still put his team in the right spots. He then circled to the centre of the ice, accepted a pass and — confidence still overflowing — turned to quickly set up Lorentz close to goal. David Kämpf scored seconds later. Advertisement Fourth-line goals have been hard to come by for the Leafs this season. Steeves earned a promotion to skate alongside John Tavares and William Nylander briefly late in the second period for his efforts, too. And the best scoring chance the Leafs had early in the second period? It came after Steeves skilfully drew Hurricanes toward him and found Kämpf with a sharp pass into the slot. another scoring chance for the fourth line — Omar (@TicTacTOmar) February 23, 2025 Steeves' package of effort and smarts looked like it could finally make an impact in the NHL. '(Steeves) fit right in tonight,' Lorentz said. In a season with plenty riding on it for the Leafs, Berube's insistence on icing proven veterans instead of rolling the dice with young players is somewhat understandable. Yet what Steeves did with limited opportunity should buck that trend. He scored by playing Berube-style hockey. Steeves has purposefully added size and snarl to his game over the last two seasons. He recognized what incoming Leafs general manager Brad Treliving wanted from his players. 'I want to be the most well-rounded dog out there,' Steeves told me eagerly ahead of the 2023-24 season. 'I just want to be a dog with my effort, physicality and well-rounded with my ability to play defence on both sides of the ice.' Over the past two AHL seasons, Steeves has followed through. And when you do what's asked of you and shoot the puck in the back of the net to boot, you deserve a longer look in the NHL. 'Sometimes you get frustrated in hockey,' Shaw said of Steeves. 'Even when he gets angry and frustrated, he takes it out on the puck and not his teammates. That's a sign of maturity from him.' With Max Pacioretty out for Sunday's game against the Chicago Blackhawks with injury and Dewar's status still up in the air, Steeves has a window of opportunity. He shouldn't have that window shut on him quickly just to insert players who have had trouble scoring. Advertisement '(Steeves) wasn't trying to cheat for offence,' Lorentz said. 'When we needed an outlet pass, he was there. And then when we found some space, he gave it to us.' There have been plenty of comparisons between Steeves and Bobby McMann this season. They're friends, and McMann was a potent shooter in the AHL before landing with the Leafs. McMann, like Steeves, was often sent up and down between the NHL and the AHL. But when McMann had a true opportunity, he grabbed it and didn't let go. Set to be a healthy scratch on the morning of February 13, 2024, McMann got into the lineup because illness had hit the team. Not only did McMann score a hat trick, he rode his hot streak with four more goals in the following four games. Isn't it worth seeing what a clearly confident Steeves can continue to do with his opportunity? Doesn't he deserve a longer run instead of sending him back to the AHL to make way for veterans who haven't been scoring? Steeves ended with two points and two shots on goal in just 9:04 TOI, the lowest of any Leaf. Maybe Steeves just found lightning in a bottle for one night and one night alone. Maybe he levels out and looks more like the player he has in previous seasons at the NHL level. Or maybe, with a few more games from Steeves, the answer to a question that's frustrated them all season — that of a lack of secondary scoring — could emerge as well. 'I've got belief that I can (score goals),' Steeves said, 'It's just nice to get the results.'
