Opinion: Footing the bill for Montreal's overpaid employees
The city must start paying its workers fairer salaries and give over most of the savings to reducing business taxation.
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The city must start paying its workers fairer salaries and give over most of the savings to reducing business taxation.
The boys had gathered at the Warminster Recreation Center to shoot some hoops. Admittedly, they smoked some marijuana, too. When they were caught by then-Warminster Officer James Carey, who ran the youth program there and knew some of the boys from his work as the town DARE officer, they knew they could get in trouble. But Carey, prosecutors allege, saw the incident as an opportunity to prey on at least one of the boys. He took the boy behind a curtain and while patting him down, fondled him, the now 37-year-old man testified in court Monday. He said he walked away and kept it to hi...
Lionel Perez, the leader of the opposition at Montreal city hall, is running for borough mayor in Côte-des-Neiges—Notre-Dame-de-Grâce as part of Denis Coderre's party.
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Former Pa. cop faces 122 charges over accusations he sexually abused boys 20 years ago Updated 9:25 AM; A former police officer in Bucks County is accused of sexually abusing four teenaged boys 20 years ago, authorities said. James Carey, 52, turned himself in Wednesday morning to face 122 charges, including multiple counts of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a child under the age of 16, aggravated indecent assault of a child under the age of 16 and statutory sexual assault. The offenses allegedly occurred between 1987 and 2009. Wednesday’s charges come after previous reports an...