Global National: May 18, 2024 | Did serial killer linked to 1970’s Alberta deaths also strike in BC?

In tonight’s top story: RCMP in Calgary announced on Friday they had linked Gary Allen Srery to the murders of four young women in the Calgary area in the mid-to-late 1970s. Now, officers on the West Coast are looking into other cold cases and whether Srery's murder spree may have spread to B.C. as well. Catherine Urquhart has the details.
The federal government has rejected requests from the City of Toronto to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of illegal drugs for personal use in the city, citing concerns for public health and safety. Lexy Benedict gets the local reaction from the mayor of the city, and what this rejection means.
The growing threat of wildfires year after year has ripple effects beyond the anxiety associated with forced evacuations and lost property. Wildfire smoke is increasingly putting our health at risk, sometimes with tragic consequences. Eric Sorensen reports on how our changing climate is fuelling more fires - and how those fires are indirectly affecting those who don't even live anywhere near a fire line.
Plus, convicted murderers Luka Magnotta and Paul Bernardo captured national headlines for their high-profile and horrific crimes. But their secretive transfers from maximum-security prisons to a medium-security institution is something else they had in common. After exclusive Global News reporting revealed Correctional Services Canada instructed staff to keep quiet about Magnotta's transfer, Mercedes Stephenson spoke with Canada's former correctional investigator on the state of the prison system.
Finally, as some Canadian colleges and universities face daunting deficits and decisions on where to cut spending, a critical examination of the sector's viability is emerging. Queen's University in Kingston, Ont., was the latest to project a staggering deficit this week. In a post on its website Wednesday, the institution said it's projecting a nearly $36-million deficit in its next operating year. It referenced factors like an "ongoing tuition freeze for Ontario students'' and "a decrease in international student enrollment" for the figure. As Neetu Garcha reports, the moves have unions raising questions about ongoing cuts at institutions across the country.
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[@asuraphreak]

How come there's no mention of the student who was brutally assaulted in Fredericton? Y'all are hiding a hate crime and it's disgusting.

[@stoneneils]

You didn't even name the victim so you're even more disgusting for pretending to care when you actually don't.

[@asuraphreak]

@@stoneneils I never caught the name, that's why I actually watched the news. Asshat.

[@ticesine6589]

That's not even close to the west coast ,, people always blaming the police.

[@commonsensecraziness7595]

@@stoneneils Minors are not normally named, so I'm not sure why you would expect an exception in this case.

[@stoneneils]

@@commonsensecraziness7595 Oh is Fredericton a high school? I assumed it was a college for some reason. My mistake

[@EndofDays-7777]

Only took 55 years ??

[@georgesimon6041]

That is fast in Canistan.

[@DonnellOkafor-pd7yn]

He was only in Canada for a short time. It's not like Canadian and US police share information about murder cases especially over 40 yrs ago

[@EndofDays-7777]

@@DonnellOkafor-pd7yn Dead girls along the BC border , Dead girls on the Alberta border ....no brainer

[@soapylulu]

Familial DNA registries didn't exist back then. That's how they linked him to the crimes.

[@JohnDelong-qm9iv]

Carbon tax will not prevent arson

[@gardensofthegods]

Countries can build pipelines for gas and oil but they don't want to build pipelines taking the areas that get flooded with too much water and sending the flood water to other parts that get droughts and not enough rain . Yes it would be very expensive but it would also create jobs to build these pipes and then start finding a way to spray the forest and grasslands enough that they're too wet to catch fire and I know that sounds crazy but look at the wildfires and all the smoke everywhere and the aftermath ... which is worse and costlier the prevention or the devastation

[@infolover_68]

Governments and companies are more interested in profit rather than the common welfare. Your reasoning is sound but they won't listen...

[@Mechelle6564]

Your solution makes too much sense therefore it will never be utilized. Our world is run by greedy unelected businesses that care nothing for humanity.

[@dustinwatkins7843]

Sorry, this actually makes too much sense. Perhaps back in the New Deal days in the US or something big public infrastructure projects like this could've been funded but those days are long gone.

[@deanl6613]

Clueless as to the volume of water you're talking about collecting and moving....there's almost 8 million square kilometers of wheat growing in Alberta...and thats a fraction of the total grain. Delivering one inch of rainfall that area would require the equivalent of 10 TransMountain pipelines...why are Marxists so bad at math?

[@fayknox2138]

Did Chow not see the amount of death in BC when they decrimilized drugs .

[@jamesfowler1955]

RIP Eva and Pat we have missed you.

[@dannylake4357]

These fires aren’t starting by themselves start doing something to the people that are doing them starting them

[@user-wu4yh8bu4t]

Dont you use a kid for smoke fire he died of his condition not from the fire

[@commonsensecraziness7595]

It's all about that fear.

[@asuraphreak]

He died due to the smoke, as his condition made him vulnerable. Grow a brain before running your heartless mouth.

[@UkrainianToons]

When drugs became legal in British Columbia my province became a 3rd world country. For Chow to even ask for that tellata person she has absolutely no idea what she's doing

[@commonsensecraziness7595]

The whole conversation is a red herring. It's not about criminalization or not. You give them a "safe place" but don't try to help them actually get off the drugs. That's the main problem. They need to make it mandatory that they can avoid jail by being part of a program they can't quit until they're off their drugs.

[@ericwolf2641]

100% - If anybody has any doubt about the abysmal drug situation, just take a walk down East Hastings in Vancouver.

[@UkrainianToons]

@@commonsensecraziness7595 they need jail drugs are a choice it's not

[@UkrainianToons]

@@ericwolf2641 take a look at Penticton. It's crazy

[@commonsensecraziness7595]

@@UkrainianToons If you send them to jail, they actually have more access to drugs there then they would if they were in a program.

[@truvision1958]

Maybe write proper English in your title I mean come on!

[@AnwerHashimSamnani]

May Love Peace Prevail in The World....

[@BenGalaz-go5gc]

Thank_you_👍⚡💐🏹🕊🌶🌬💖

[@kcirdorb9591]

Always amazes me how many rights criminals have.....the people they killed have zero rights....

[@doowop54]

Everyone should read Fire Weather -

[@ericwolf2641]

No thanks... I try and avoid so called "climate catastrophe" propaganda at all cost.

[@richardlapanne2412]

Its making more room for houses buildings and companys in the future to be built on because the trees will not regrow after the fires have restored them.its sad but what does the future hold for the next generation

[@josephalberta1145]

I fought fires for years. Some years were unbearable but it was never as bad as the problems caused by the covid shot.

[@guardianoffire8814]

NATO grows with more members but is more divided. The Nordic countries, and Western Europe get along; and Estonia, Latvia, and Poland seem to support the NATO alliance. But the rest of members are clearly undermining the alliance like Hungary, Slovakia, Turkey, United States under Trump and the countries that refuse to meet the spending requirements to viable member like Canada.

[@BDee3126]

Diversity is our strength!

[@UkrainianToons]

Diversity is our weakness

[@jimdent351]

I think you mean downfall

[@BDee3126]

@@UkrainianToons Yea look at that Caucasian guy serial killer.

[@UkrainianToons]

@@BDee3126 look at the hate between the Jews and Muslims. Look at all the Asian gangs at war with each other.

[@ericwolf2641]

Don't hold back... tell me how you really feel about the PWHL. I give it 5 years max. Here's a marketing tip - actually giving nicknames to the womens teams might be a good place to start.

[@beadblaster9508]

How could he enter canada illegally. Oh ya ,he walked across the border. Welcome to canada. 6000 km undefended border. What could go wrong.

[@justadildeau]

PROPAGANDA REPORTED FOR MISINFORMATION. HOW DARE YOU USE A CHILD TO PUSH YOUR IDEOLOGY

[@waldmarwolchuk9483]

GO CANUCKS GO

[@o1ecypher]

The last beatle is already dead, who you are looking at was a look alike that stepped into his shoes so the brand and band didn't fall apart. Paul died in a car crash. and John told us about it

[@EndofDays-7777]

Ringo ???

[@o1ecypher]

@@EndofDays-7777 Paul

[@user-eo1vz9lt8g]

ha ha, you're funny

[@73cidalia]

Get help. So, they'll cover up a death to keep the band together (and quickly find an identical lookalike) but they couldn't stop the whole John-Yoko thing from breaking up the band? You're either trolling or not mentally okay.

[@rustythecrown9317]

You are definitely the reason asylums need re-opening.

[@stubby7934]

Big old nothing burger...with a bit of ideology-based bias tossed in for flavour.

[@bobbydennis8333]

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[@DonnellOkafor-pd7yn]

Please. The ANC destroyed South Africa

[@Tha66]

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