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United Way of San Joaquin County held its annual Power of One event. Former Stockton police Chief Eric Jones given Lifetime Achievement Award.

Beverly Fitch McCarthy was a champion of the arts and a feminist pioneer. She died on Dec. 23 at age 88 following complications from a heart attack.

A CBC investigation conducted over 16 months found one in four cases of intimate partner homicide was in a rural, remote or northern part of Canada.

Isolation, lack of transportation, poverty, lack of affordable housing and access to guns may all be at play

The hearings began in January 2020 and has heard numerous witness testimonies

Matt Riley didn't grow up celebrating Christmas. His mother, he explains, was Jewish. But now, it's Christmas year-round for the composer, his wife and their four children. Riley is also a very popular arranger of music, and he's working on new holiday arrangements constantly.

More than 200 strangulation-related charges have been laid in Waterloo region since the assault became a separate offence under the Criminal Code two years ago. 

PORT HAWKESBURY, N.S.

A lack of collaboration among health-care professionals was an "overwhelming theme" in the tragic case of an ex-soldier from Nova Scotia who killed three family members and himself in 2017, a provincial fatality inquiry heard Thursday.

Dr. Peter Jaff told a provincial inquiry there was evidence showing that psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers and others failed to share critical information about Desmond's mental decline in 2016