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TORONTO -- A 34-year-old man is in police custody in hospital after the fatal stabbing of both of his parents inside a high-rise condominium building in Hamilton on Monday afternoon. Det. Sgt. Peter Thom says that officers were initially dispatched to the building on George Street near Caroline Street at around 12:30 p.m. after several witnesses called 911 to report that a man was attacking a woman in a 13th floor hallway. Thom says that when officers arrived on scene they found a 34-year-old man and a 61-year-old woman lying on the ground with stab wounds. He says that officers then r...
Advertisement Richard Kirby of Campbelltown remembers when his daughter used to keep peafowl (C8), open range, and also Guinea fowl. “When the peacocks would display the Guinea fowl would duck behind them and peck the peacocks’ behinds, much to their annoyance. We found it most amusing.” And we have an origin story for Nimbin’s most ostentatious birds. Peter Thom of Goonellabah writes, “In the 1970s my partner and I purchased a breeding pair of peafowl from a bird fancier on Sydney’s North Shore and took them to our farm at Blue Knob near Nimbin. Over the ensuing years, the flock ...