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READ MORE An ex-Mountie has been found guilty of indecently assaulting five teenage boys when he was a teenager hockey and ball manager in a B.C. Interior in the 1970s and ’80s. Alan John Davidson, now 62, was clear on dual other counts of faulty assault, according to a B.C. Supreme Court statute posted online Monday. Seven men, all now in their 50s, testified last year in B.C. opposite a man they once saw as a “mentor,” “friend” and in one box “a large brother.” One male in his 50s told Justice Sheri Ann Donegan how his teenager hockey manager assaulted him during a camping outing when he was a Grade 8 tyro in the 1970s. Then 13 or 14, he said what happened after he was alone with Davidson left him “shaking like a leaf.” Retelling a story 30 years later, a decider noted, done a male start to shake again. Davidson was charged with a fa...

READ MORE Sen. Colin Kenny will renounce his chair months before his scheduled retirement date, CBC News has confirmed. The Senate Speaker’s bureau says it perceived a minute from Rideau Hall informing Speaker George Furey that Friday will be a Liberal senator’s final day. Kenny was due to retire in Dec when he reaches a imperative retirement age of 75. His departure, therefore, comes 10 months progressing than expected. CBC News has not seen Kenny’s abdication minute and a Speaker’s bureau pronounced a essence are confidential. But a Canadian Press reported passages of a minute Wednesday, with Kenny citing ill-health as a reason for his resignation. “I consider we have finished my bit … It has been my good payoff to offer my nation over a final forty-four years, both in a bureau of Prime Minister (Pierre) Trudeau and as a member of a Senate,” Canadian Press quoted his minute as saying. Kenny, named to a Senate by former primary apport...

READ MORE The CBC Pollcast explores a universe of electoral politics, political polls and a trends they reveal. When Christy Clark’s supervision was degraded final Jul by an fondness between a New Democrats and Greens, she stepped down not usually as premier of British Columbia though as personality of a B.C. Liberal Party as well. On Saturday, a 60,000 members of a centre-right celebration will select her deputy — and a chairman who will take on Premier John Horgan when a range subsequent goes to a polls. Heated arguments as B.C. Liberal care candidates debate for final time Podcasts: Subscribe to a CBC Pollcast​ With a NDP governing with a minority propped adult by a Green Party’s 3 MLAs, a subsequent choosing could potentially come during any time. The B.C. Liberals won a many seats and a many votes in May’s provincial election, so a lapse to supervision earlier rather than after is a graphic possibility. Six people are in ...

READ MORE A Turkish court has ordered the release of Taner Kilic, chair of the Turkish chapter of Amnesty International . Kilic had been in prison since June 2017, when he was arrested for allegedly having links to a group accused of being behind the 2016 attempted coup . “It’s a great victory for the human rights movement in Turkey and it’s gonna give us more strength to go on and campaign for the acquittal of everyone in this case,” Andrew Gardner, senior adviser on Turkey for Amnesty International told Al Jazeera. “We’re all incredibly happy. This is what we campaigned for, for the last eight months.” Family members and colleagues were on the way to Izmir, the city where Kilic was being held. Authorities say Kilic was using ByLock, an encrypted communication software which the government says is used by members of a group led by Fethullah Gulen , a US -based, self-exiled religious leader who the government blames for last year’s coup at...

READ MORE A Turkish court has ordered the release of Taner Kilic, chair of the Turkish chapter of Amnesty International . Kilic had been in prison since June 2017, when he was arrested for allegedly having links to a group accused of being behind the 2016 attempted coup . “It’s a great victory for the human rights movement in Turkey and it’s gonna give us more strength to go on and campaign for the acquittal of everyone in this case,” Andrew Gardner, senior adviser on Turkey for Amnesty International told Al Jazeera. “We’re all incredibly happy. This is what we campaigned for, for the last eight months.” Family members and colleagues were on the way to Izmir, the city where Kilic was being held. Authorities say Kilic was using ByLock, an encrypted communication software which the government says is used by members of a group led by Fethullah Gulen , a US -based, self-exiled religious leader who the government blames for last year’s coup at...

READ MORE French police have questioned prominent Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan over allegations over rape and sexual assault. Two women filed complaints against Ramadan for an alleged rape in 2009 and an alleged sexual assault in 2012. Ramadan, a professor of Islamic studies at the University of Oxford, has denied the allegations. One of the women claims she was abused by the scholar in a hotel in 2012. The woman, Henda Ayari, said she described parts of the assault in a book published in 2016. Back then, she did not reveal the identity of her assailant, but in the wake of the MeToo-movement Ayari said the encounter involved Ramadan. Ayari then filed a formal complaint with police in Rouen.  Shorlty after, a second woman came forward who said she had gone through a similar experience with Ramadan in 2009. Following the allegations, French police started a preliminary investigation. After the accusations became public, Ramadan filed a complaint against Ayari for slander. He also t...

READ MORE French police have questioned prominent Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan over allegations over rape and sexual assault. Two women filed complaints against Ramadan for an alleged rape in 2009 and an alleged sexual assault in 2012. Ramadan, a professor of Islamic studies at the University of Oxford, has denied the allegations. One of the women claims she was abused by the scholar in a hotel in 2012. The woman, Henda Ayari, said she described parts of the assault in a book published in 2016. Back then, she did not reveal the identity of her assailant, but in the wake of the MeToo-movement Ayari said the encounter involved Ramadan. Ayari then filed a formal complaint with police in Rouen.  Shorlty after, a second woman came forward who said she had gone through a similar experience with Ramadan in 2009. Following the allegations, French police started a preliminary investigation. After the accusations became public, Ramadan filed a complaint against Ayari for slander. He also t...