Matthew Perry’s family trusted his assistant to help keep him sober. He instead helped him overdose
LOS ANGELES (AP) — paid $150,000 a year to be his live-in personal assistant. His role for the star would expand to drug messenger, addiction enabler and de facto doctor, according to court filings.
Iwamasa injected Perry with the doses of ketamine that would prove fatal on Oct. 28, 2023, and then left the actor to run errands. He returned to in the Jacuzzi.
The ex-assistant became the first to reach a plea deal
Shooting investigation shuts down eastbound Hwy. 401 in Mississauga
Eastbound Hwy. 401 in Mississauga has reopened after an overnight shooting investigation shut down a major stretch of the highway.
Peel Regional Police (PRP) confirmed the shooting happened around 12:16 a.m. Friday. Investigators say the victim pulled off the highway after the gunfire and called police for help.
A vehicle believed to be involved in the shooting was located in the collector lanes near the Mavis Road off‑ramp, where officers were seen searching the roadway with flashlights.
Peel Paramedics say they
Springer homers, Blue Jays hold Yankees to 3 hits in 2-0 win
George Springer homered, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. reached base three times, and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the New York Yankees 2-0 on Thursday night to split a four-game series.
Springer hit his second homer of the series and gave the Blue Jays a 2-0 lead in the seventh inning by sending a 2-2 slider from Camilo Doval into the left-field seats.
Toronto went with a bullpen game — highlighted by a career-best 4 1/3 innings from Spencer Miles — and held
Alberta’s Smith to answer questions about referendum on holding separation referendum
CALGARY — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is set to hold a news conference today about her referendum question on separation, which separatist leaders are dismissing as “spineless” and ineffective.
Smith, in a televised address Thursday, announced Albertans would vote in an Oct. 19 referendum on separation.
However, they won’t directly vote on whether Alberta should leave Canada.
They will be asked if the province should later hold a binding referendum to separate.
Jeff Rath, the lawyer for Stay Free Alberta, the group that collected
Hudson’s Bay painting with mysterious past sells for $217,250 in auction
TORONTO — A Prince Rupert painting with a mysterious backstory has sold for $217,250 in an auction.
The 361-year-old portrait was once owned by collapsed department store Hudson’s Bay Co., which has hired Heffel Fine Art Auction House to sell its 4,400 pieces of art and artifacts.
For most of its life, the portrait of HBC’s first governor, Prince Rupert, was believed to have been painted by the studio of Flemish portraitist
Quebecer graduating from Polytechnique with service dog who attended every class
MONTREAL —
When Victor Bal walks across the stage to collect his mechanical engineering degree at Montreal’s École Polytechnique, his service dog Kopeck will be by his side — just as she’s been for every single class.
When Bal was 12, he was one of the first students to attend classes with a service dog that was trained by Quebec’s Mira foundation to support youth with autism spectrum disorder. Now the foundation says that at age 27, Bal is among the first people to have benefited
Ebola: How it spreads, the treatments available and why this outbreak is so devastating
TORONTO — As a rare strain of Ebola virus continues to spread in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, here’s what Canadians need to know.
ARE THERE DIFFERENT TYPES OF EBOLA?
Yes. There are a few strains of viruses that cause Ebola disease. The most common are the Ebola virus, also called the Zaire strain, and Sudan virus, said Dr. Isaac Bogoch, an infectious diseases specialist at the University Health Network in Toronto.
The type of Ebola causing the outbreak that’s happening right now
Suspected impaired driver in custody as two vehicle crash kills 1, leaves 2 others critically injured
A man in his 40s is dead, and two others have been critically injured following a multi-vehicle crash in Scarborough.
Toronto police say two vehicles collided on Sheppard Avenue East between Tallpines Court and Vandorf Street around 10 p.m. Thursday.
Investigators say a man in his 40s was declared dead at the scene, while another man in his 40s and a 35-year-old female were taken to the hospital in life-threatening condition.
Police say the driver of
‘Baffling’: Reaction to Alberta’s referendum on a separation referendum
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said Thursday that a referendum on Oct. 19 will include a question about whether Albertans want, at a future date, to hold a binding referendum on the province quitting Canada.
“Kicking the can down the road only prolongs a very emotional and important debate,” Smith said in televised speech. “It’s time to have a vote, understand the will of Albertans on this subject, and move on.”
Here’s what some are saying about the premier’s announcement:
City approves closing down Church Street for two months as part of pedestrian project
The City of Toronto plans to go ahead with a pilot project that would see a portion of Church Street closed to vehicles to create a pedestrian-only area for part of the summer, including during the World Cup.
Under , Church Street between Wellesley Street East and Alexander Street, would be closed to traffic from June 19 to August 21, leaving all east-west corridors open to vehicular traffic.
Coun. Brad Bradford proposed adding an “escape hatch,” noting that congestion is already a massive problem and