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CTV News
6 days ago
- CTV News
N.S. man arrested after Bridgewater police find brass knuckles, stun gun in home
Bridgewater, N.S., police have arrested a man for allegedly assaulting a person and for being in possession of a stun gun, brass knuckles and a collapsible baton. Bridgewater Police Service officers executed a search warrant at a King Street residence on July 11. Along with the stun gun, brass knuckles and baton, they also found an imitation handgun, ammunition, cash and drug paraphernalia, according to a news release from the force. Following the search, Cody Trimper was charged with: uttering threats to cause bodily harm four counts of possession of a prohibited weapon or ammunition while prohibited by order two counts of possession of a prohibited device or weapon two counts of possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose possession of a prohibited device without licence Trimper, who has been on a 10-year firearms prohibition order since 2017, appeared in court last Monday and was released on conditions. 'Conditions included remaining away from the Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) victim of the uttering threats charge,' the release reads. Police say they arrested Trimper after he allegedly assaulted the same victim on Wednesday. He now faces additional charges of: assault administering a noxious substance unlawful confinement uttering threats to an additional party possession of a weapon two counts of breaching the release order Anyone with information on this case is asked to call police at 902-543-2464. For more Nova Scotia news, visit our dedicated provincial page
Time of India
7 days ago
- Automotive
- Time of India
Parkobot raises ₹2.09 crore in seed funding from Inflection Point Ventures
Parkobot, a start-up offering an IoT-enabled platform for private parking space monetisation, on Thursday said it has raised ₹2.09 crore in a seed funding round led by Inflection Point Ventures (IPV). The round also saw participation from high-net-worth individuals. The Kolkata-based company, which is still in stealth mode, plans to use the capital to expand infrastructure, strengthen its backend systems, and grow its presence in new markets. Described as an ' Airbnb for parking ', Parkobot enables private parking owners to rent out their unused spaces on an hourly basis through a connected app and proprietary IoT barrier system. The model aims to address urban challenges related to parking availability and road congestion by bringing underutilised private parking slots into the public domain. The platform operates on a full-stack, in-house tech infrastructure and uses smart automation to streamline parking management. Parkobot said it currently manages high-footfall locations and has recorded over 20,000 monthly bookings through its smart parking management system, which includes pre-booking features and automated boom barriers. The company's founder, Amrit Choudhury, said the broader objective is to improve urban mobility by offering a decentralised alternative to traditional parking infrastructure . The startup is targeting a total addressable market of $114 billion globally, with India accounting for $9.5 billion of that value, growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.5 per cent. Its strategy hinges on offering real-time, location-based booking capabilities while reducing manual oversight.
Indianapolis Star
08-07-2025
- Sport
- Indianapolis Star
This year was ridiculously loaded. Vote for Indiana high school girls athlete of the year
The 2024-25 high school sports season is officially in the books. Before we turn our attention to 2025-26 (and with it being the dog days of summer), we're recognizing Indiana's top-performing girls high school athletes from the past season! Voting for the Indiana girls athlete of the year, presented by YMCA of Greater Indianapolis, will be open until noon EST Sunday. Bell capped her career with a Class 3A state championship, hitting a career-best .313 with 333 kills last season. She also logged a career-high 63 aces, 26 blocks, 252 digs and 50 assists against the state's 24th-toughest schedule, per the IPV rankings. The Kansas incoming freshman finished her career with 1,280 kills, 1,131 digs, 168 aces, 108 total blocks and 79 assists, plus 115 wins and three regional championships in four varsity seasons. Creager claimed the all-around state championship at this year's state meet. She won the uneven bars title with a score of 9.675, placed third on beam (9.675), fourth on floor (9.275) and fifth on vault (9.775) to accumulate 37.975 points. The junior was the third Homestead all-around winner overall and first since Shellen Goltz in 2000. Crooke set a state high jump record with a nation-leading clearance of 6-2 in May, then claimed state championships in both the high jump (6-0.25, 2nd nationally; meet record) and long jump (20-4.75, 10th nationally). The Arizona track commit also notched 24 goals and six assists in 17 games for the semistate runner-up Heritage Christian soccer team (96 goals, 32 assists for her career). Dowty, a junior, finished sixth at state (17:48.79), then took fifth at the national Foot Locker Cross Country Championships, fifth at the Foot Locker regional championships and seventh at the NXN Midwest regional championships. Dowty took sixth in the 3200 at state with a time of 10:35.95. Erb, a Kentucky-bound junior, led the Panthers to a semistate runner-up finish, batting .659 with 56 hits, 53 RBIs and 59 runs scored. Her collection of hits included 21 homers, eight triples and 15 doubles, and she also stole 18 bases and posted a .937 fielding percentage on 79 chances with two double plays. Erb is a career .652 hitter with 57 home runs and 193 RBIs. Kirkland finished runner-up at this year's state meet to become the fourth golfer in state history to finish second or better three times in their career. The Xavier incoming freshman and Mental Attitude Award recipient was a three-time all-state honoree and led her team to a fourth-place finish at the 2022 state meet. The 2025 IndyStar Indiana Miss Basketball recipient, Makalusky averaged 22.1 points, 6.8 rebounds, 1.8 steals and 1.3 assists, while shooting 40% from 3 and 80% at the line for the semistate runner-up Royals. The IU freshman finished her career with 1,933 points. Mishler won two state titles and set a meet record at this year's state meet. The Louisville commit clocked a 21.87 to capture the 50 freestyle championship, then broke the record she set in the 100 freestyle prelims with a time of 47.86 in the finals. Mishler is Wawasee's second state champion in swimming (first since 2012) and set a national record in the 50 free (21.56) in December. Ocampo became the first girls wrestler to medal during the boys state finals, placing sixth at 106. Ocampo won her opening night match by fall in 5:46 over Plymouth's Alonzo Chantea to advance into medal contention. She wrestled back to reach the fifth-place match and lost by decision 3-0. A four-time state qualifier and three-time IHSGW state champ, Ocampo holds the most wins in school history (169) and ranks third in pins (78). The MaxPreps Female Athlete of the Year, Shackell became the second Indiana girl ever to medal at the Olympics while still in high school over the summer, then led the Greyhounds to their 39th straight state title in girls swimming in the winter. The IU swimming recruit won four state titles, leaving her with 15 for her career. The freshman claimed individual state medalist honors with a two-day score of 144 (72-72). She is only the third freshman in the 52-year history of the IHSAA finals to claim individual honors, joining Columbus North's Ava Bunker (2022) and Warsaw's Emily Johnson (2003). Snively is also the first medalist to play for the team champion (Zionsville) since 1999. Tippner led the Millers soccer team to a 19-0-2 record and a third consecutive Class 3A state championship, scoring 24 goals and 16 assists. On the hardwood, the Miami hoops commit set career-highs across the board with 26 points, 9.9 rebounds, 4.4 assists, 4.0 steals and 0.9 blocks per game. Vinson overcame a life-threatening illness last summer and returned to lead the Tigers to a 4A state runner-up finish, logging 361 kills (.324 hit%), 16 aces, 40 total blocks and 84 digs over 83 sets. Now an IU freshman, she set a school-record with her 1,940 career kills, and rounded out her high school stat line with 968 digs, 199 aces and 134 blocks. The junior claimed the state cross-country title with a time of 17:12.19, helping her team to a second-place finish behind Carmel. She took first in both the 1600 (4:49.06) and 3200 (10:28.26) at the state track championships. The 2025 Indiana Miss Softball recipient, Zachary totaled a .482 batting average, 196 hits, 169 runs, 174 RBIs, 41 doubles and 20 home runs, 79 stolen bases and a .926 fielding percentage in her four high school seasons. Now a freshman at Notre Dame, she batted a career-best .543 for the state semifinalists with 10 doubles, four triples and eight homers, career-highs in both RBIs (62) and runs (46), and 50 hits, which marked her third consecutive season with at least that many.
Yahoo
07-07-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
'Where do I go now?' Program for intimate partner violence victims in Nunavut cancelled
A medical program for victims of gender-based violence in Nunavut has ended, leaving those who attended it with few places to turn. For the last few years, survivors in Nunavut have had the option to attend the Intimate Partner Violence Traumatic Brain Injury (IPV-TBI) program, run under the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority and the Pan Am Concussion Program. The pilot program started in 2020, where it was first delivered in Rankin Inlet and led by Dr. Michael Ellis, a neurosurgeon with expertise in concussion and brain injury with the Pan Am Clinic in Winnipeg. It was later brought to Winnipeg and Nunavut clients were flown down for treatment. Now, the program has suddenly stopped. "Recently, Victim Services was informed that the Pan Am Clinic is no longer in a position to accept new IPV-TBI referrals from Nunavut, effective immediately," Christine Aye, director of community justice with Nunavut's justice department, told CBC News in an email. Delma McLeod is a psychiatric nurse who provided mental heath care to patients in the program. "What's happening to these women that I've seen? These families that I've seen? I don't know what's happening," McLeod said. "They certainly need ongoing care, and it's just stopped." According to Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada, the rate of violence against Inuit women is 14 times higher than the national average. Nunavut's public prosecution office also referred its clients to the program. Philippe Plourde, Nunavut's chief federal prosecutor, said the program ending will have a "negative impact on the services and support offered to victims of violent crime in Nunavut." "This program had the potential to significantly improve the services to victims of violent crime in Nunavut, and we are aware of victims who went through the program and obtained high quality services and support," Plourde said. "We are hoping that other programs will be created to provide the specialized medical support to victims in their path to healing." Patients' medical travel was also paid for by the Nunavut government The justice department said Nunavut Victim Services will also continue to explore options "for individuals who may be experiencing symptoms of traumatic brain injury as a result of violence." "We remain committed to raising awareness of this issue and advocating for the trauma-informed services that victims and survivors need and deserve," the department wrote. McLeod said resources for victims are limited in Nunavut, but this program provided a solution. "I've seen the impacts of the intimate partner violence like depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, which includes sleep issues, appetite issues, body aches and pains, just the list goes on and on," McLeod said. She said when the program started, she was seeing roughly two people a week. In recent years, that number has jumped to sometimes 25 clients in a day. In a statement to CBC, the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority said the program was a pilot project, and because of space and resource limitations, it can't continue. "We are currently looking to find a more suitable long-term home in connection with the provincial Intimate Partner Violence program," the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority wrote. "We continue to explore options to provide this care in a model that is sustainable and integrated with existing services throughout the broader health system in Manitoba and Nunavut." McLeod said the cancellation will only make it more difficult for people to get help. "Like everywhere these women are going, it's being drilled in that that they're not important," McLeod said. "And this final blow of this program being, well, we can't do it anymore." She said she hopes the program will somehow be able to continue. "Where are these people who are shutting this thing down? Because I'd like them to see the crying faces that I have to look at. They're like, where do I go now? What do I do now?" "I had to look at these women and say, I can't see you anymore."
Toronto Sun
06-07-2025
- Toronto Sun
OPINION: Intimate partner violence is not a women's issue – where are the men?
On June 6, 2025, the Ontario government rejected a unanimous consent motion to officially declare intimate partner violence an 'epidemic'— even as it resurrected a committee to study the issue. Premier Doug Ford's government has not explained its position, nor offered a path forward to effectively address the issue. The silence is not just disappointing, it's dangerous. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. 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Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account Failing to name the crisis prevents us from confronting it with the urgency it demands. Every 48 hours, a woman in Canada is killed by her partner. This isn't rhetoric — it's reality. In December 2024, a 23-year-old woman thought she was safe after leaving her abusive ex. But he returned, forced her into a car and drove it into the freezing Richelieu River before swimming away. She survived, but many aren't as lucky. Prominent journalist Sally Armstrong's provocative question: 'Where are the men?' strikes at the heart of the issue. IPV is too often labelled a 'women's issue,' placing responsibility on victims rather than addressing the root cause: Violence enacted by men. Women cannot end IPV alone. Declaring IPV an epidemic isn't semantic; it's a public health approach that frames violence as systemic, societal and preventable. In 2022, Canada's federal government launched a 10-year National Action Plan on Gender-Based Violence, focused on prevention, survivors, justice, community-led solutions and social support. Ontario received $162 million in federal funding and pledged $1.4 billion over four years, with programs ranging from IPV-focused training for judges and education for high school coaches to promote healthy relationships among male athletes. At the municipal level, Toronto has declared IPV an epidemic, building on programs like the IPV Action Plan and SafeTO's Community Safety and Well-Being Plan, but the action remains fragmented and under-resourced. Your noon-hour look at what's happening in Toronto and beyond. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. Please try again This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Each day, about 699 women and 236 children in Canada are denied access to domestic violence shelters. This crisis forces survivors into an impossible choice – returning to their abuser or facing homelessness. The lack of immediate options underscores the urgent need for increased investment in shelter capacity and survivor support. No one should endure further harm because they have nowhere to go. IPV is rooted in power dynamics among men. Until men, especially those in leadership, speak up and act, change is stalled. We need men to be unequivocal: IPV is unacceptable and silence is complicity. Just as Bell's Let's Talk campaign shifted the conversation on mental health, corporations can lead public education efforts and business leaders can use their platforms to drive cultural change. We also need faith leaders to challenge harmful norms in their congregations and sports organizations to adopt respect and consent as foundational values. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. As immediate next steps, we must: • Declare IPV an epidemic in Ontario and across Canada to reflect its scale and urgency; • Embed comprehensive education on respect, consent and intervention in schools, universities and workplaces; • Expand shelter capacity with sustained funding so that when survivors seek help, no one is turned away; • Define clear metrics, timelines and public reporting across all levels of government; • Launch targeted public education campaigns that engage men as active allies and leaders. It's impossible to ignore the growing crisis of IPV. In the past three months, six women in the Maritimes have been killed. The tragic deaths of these women — mothers, daughters, and friends — underscore the deadly consequences of inaction. Their deaths are a direct result of warning signs being ignored, systems failing to intervene and a lack of comprehensive support for survivors. We can no longer afford to wait for another tragedy to mobilize us. If we are serious about ending IPV, we must hold ourselves and each other accountable. The time for change is now. Corporate Canada must step up. Ralph Lean is a distinguished counsel in residence at Ted Rogers School of Management and Claudia Redondo is a student at Lincoln Alexander School of Law, Toronto Metropolitan University Toronto Raptors Columnists Toronto & GTA Toronto Maple Leafs World
