The number of Manitobans getting the H1-N1 flu shot is dropping. Health officials were handing out about 10 thousand doses a day….but that number is down to around 5 thousand now. The province’s chief medical officer, Dr. Joel Kettner says he hopes everyone will get the shot. He says the flu is continuing to infect people and infection rates could rise as winter arrives.
City police are investigating a homicide around suppertime yesterday. Cops say they found a man who had apparently been stabbed in the upper body. He was rushed to hospital, but later died of those injuries. So far, police have not said whether any arrests have been made.
The province needs some new Quincy’s. The Medical Examiner’s office says it’s got a serious staffing shortage right now. 4 of its 7 investigators say they’re quitting over a salary dispute. The highly trained workers respond to deaths outside of hospitals, examine murder and suicide scenes, and respond to family and police members. The Police Association says officers can’t do their work without the assistance of those investigators.
A former Manitoba Mountie who quit, and is believed to be a high ranking Hells Angels associate, was one of those busted in that huge raid we told you about yesterday. Wayne Shuttleworth was picked up at his Winnipeg home on Wednesday, and charged with participating in a criminal organization, trafficking a firearm and conspiracy of money laundering…amongst other things. He was one of the 34 people arrest in the sting operation.
A Toronto woman has been awarded what’s believed to be a record setting spousal support payment. 61 year old Carol Ann Elgner will get 110 thousand dollars a month from her ex. The award was based on the length of the marriage, and Claude Elgner’s annual income of around 4 million dollars a year.
It started as an attempt to jump between 2 buildings in downtown Red Deer. But it ended with a man in his 20’s wedged in the 45 centimeter gap between the buildings. The man was stuck for 5 hours yesterday, and emergency crews had to cut a hole in the wall of one of the buildings to get him out. The man was taken to hospital, suffering from severe hypothermia.
A notorious killer is trying to persuade the courts that the Saskatchewan government doesn’t have the right to take the money from a book he wrote about his case. Colin Thatcher went to jail for killing his ex wife back in 1983, but insists he was framed. He says he could not have written a book about a crime he didn’t commit, and the memoir is about his dealings with the justice system and not the crime.
A factory that forced people to make shopping bags and clothing clasps, under slave like conditions has been busted by Mexico City Police. The factory was hidden inside an alcohol and drug rehab center. 107 people were freed in the raid, and 23 others have now been arrested for human trafficking.
