The left winger has been suspended eight games, retroactive to Nov. 23 against Saginaw, when he was handed a major penalty for slashing, along with a game misconduct.

"My employees don't feel safe," he added. "They come to work and, unfortunately, they feel scared if they're isolated or if they're in a corner of the store where they're alone."

In a blog post, the company points to a National Retail Federation (NRF) survey that found 67 per cent of retailers reported an increase of aggression and violence in 2023 compared to 2022.

The participating Calgary stores are the Real Canadian Superstore in the East Village on Sixth Avenue S.E., and the Shoppers Drug Mart next door.

The prosecution has presented their closing remarks against Ruben Manz to a 13-person jury, bringing an end to arguments before their sequestering.

Gio Petti put together a documentary on OC Transpo, asking how we got here. How did a city that was once lauded as an example of how to do transit right, and that boasted some of the highest per capita transit ridership numbers in the country, become a system that now elicits so much frustration from users?

It’s a Thanksgiving miracle for one California family after a man who went missing in 1999 was found 25 years later when his sister saw a photo of him in an online article, authorities said.

A U.S. company is recalling cucumbers sold in Ontario and other Canadian provinces due to possible salmonella contamination.

The provincial government says increases to crop insurance claims later in the growing season are a main reason for Thursday’s mid-year deficit forecast of $743.5 million, which is up more than $470 million from the budget.

"The reality is violence against our staff members, against our team members, is at an all-time high, and the trend isn't getting better – it's getting worse."

Sleeping and waking up at different times is associated with an increased risk of heart attack and stroke, even for people who get the recommended amount of sleep, according to new research.

Windsor police officers have charged one man with 29 offences and they are seeking a second suspect in a kidnapping and extortion investigation.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has confirmed a case of avian flu has been detected in Greater Victoria, on the Saanich Peninsula.

Santa Claus visits Ottawa and eastern Ontario, the Ottawa Black Bears play their first game and Christmas market season continues. CTVNewsOttawa.ca looks at things to do in Ottawa and eastern Ontario this weekend.

Canada's top court will rule Friday on the appeal of a class-action lawsuit meant to recoup some of the costs associated with British Columbia's opioid crisis from major drug makers and distributors.

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Environment Canada has issued an extreme cold warning for parts of central Saskatchewan, including Saskatoon, on Thursday.

"Today, it's actually really difficult to be on the front lines," said Fabio De Rango, Shoppers Drug Mart owner/pharmacist, in the Axon video.

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The resulting furor about the problems with Tasers has resulted in numerous lawsuits and calls for controlling legislation. In partial response to these complaints, special cameras can now be attached to Tasers whenever they are used. Although in itself the Taser is a race-neutral tool, police use of the Taser has been disproportionately directed toward minorities. Numerous newspapers and official reports address this issue. For example, from 2006 to 2007, in Sioux City, Iowa, of 70 uses of the Taser, 33 were against racial minorities. Between 2012 and 2014, police in Baltimore, Maryland, used Tasers 730 times; nearly 90 percent of the time, the suspect was African American, even though African Americans made up just 63 percent of the city’s population. In 2015, Connecticut police used Tasers 56 percent of the time against minorities, even though they constituted just 19 percent of the population, and were more likely to threaten Taser use but not actually fire against white suspects than against African American or Hispanics.

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"We've seen a growth in violence against police and peace officers in public spaces over the last number of years, and that's carried straight on through to private spaces, so it's definitely been an issue that we're been trying to tackle here in Calgary," he said in the Axon video.

Many law enforcement agencies reported outstanding success concerning the Taser. These agencies cited numerous examples where it prevented the use of deadly force in many situations, thereby saving lives. There is little doubt that the availability of a nonlethal tool to control people who need to be subdued is much preferable to the use of a firearm.

New details suggest that there were communication issues between the pilots of a charter flight and the control tower at Montreal's Mirabel airport when a Boeing 737 made an emergency landing on Wednesday.

New details suggest that there were communication issues between the pilots of a charter flight and the control tower at Montreal's Mirabel airport when a Boeing 737 made an emergency landing on Wednesday.

Brody Robinson was found without vital signs in his cell at Millhaven Institution the evening of Oct. 29. He was 23-years-old.

Alberta is taking the federal government to court, saying Ottawa has failed to follow through on what Premier Danielle Smith calls necessary changes to a law governing resource development.

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Kavis Drake, 18, and Denim Ross, 20, won the average in last year’s Maple Leaf Finals Rodeo team roping event at Agribition. The two were the youngest competitors in 2023 and are once again in their event this year.

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The Surrey Police Service took over from the RCMP and became the city's force of jurisdiction Friday, after a six-year saga set in motion by former mayor Doug McCallum.

On Nov. 17, 2019, 26-year-old Marshal Iwaasa left his mother's home in Lethbridge and told his family he was driving to Calgary.

Statistics Canada says the economy grew at an annualized pace of one per cent during the third quarter, in line with economists' expectations.

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In the last of a three-part investigation, W5's Avery Haines was given rare access to a Syrian prison, where thousands of accused high-ranking ISIS members are being held.

What is unique about the Taser is its ability to inflict a high degree of pain and suffering on a suspect while leaving few marks, such as those that would be left by a baton or a firearm. When Taser use results in death, there is physical evidence of its misuse, but in nonlethal cases, it is more difficult to prove misuse. As demonstrated in the case of Rodney King, without evidence such as a videotape or physical evidence, it is difficult to establish charges of police abuse through the use of Tasers.

Rick Smith, founder and CEO of Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Axon Enterprise, says the company's mission is to use technology to reduce violence.

The Christmas spirit was on full display Thursday morning inside Toys "R" Us thanks to the team from Avonlea Homes, who spent their morning buying toys and gifts for Lethbridge Family Services’ Angel Tree Campaign.

Since the practical recognition of civil rights by the U.S. Supreme Court concerning police abuse in the 1960s, the improper use of deadly force has become a significant problem for law enforcement agencies. The Supreme Court’s decision in Tennessee v. Garner (1985) highlighted that there were significant limits to the use of deadly force under the Bill of Rights.

"What might at first seem like low-level retail crime can explode into violence. We're seeing dramatic increases of violent encounters in stores," he said in a video posted to the company's YouTube channel.

The federal government's five-page piece of legislation to enact Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's promised two-month tax break on a range of consumer goods over the holidays passed in the House of Commons late Thursday.

City hall is once again considering changes to when Dundas Place transforms into a pedestrian-only street, but the city councillor representing Downtown London doesn’t think the time is right for scheduling weekly closures to traffic.

Black Friday is officially the busiest shopping day of the year, even surpassing Boxing Day and Super Saturday, the final Saturday before Christmas. Analysts say retailers are rolling out Black Friday sales sooner now, making them last longer into Cyber Monday and beyond.

Taser, handheld device that incapacitates a person by transmitting a 50,000-volt electric shock. The Taser fires two small darts, connected to the device with thin wires, up to a distance of approximately 11 metres (35 feet). The darts can penetrate clothing and, once they make contact with the target, deliver the electric shock, which disrupts the target’s nervous system, resulting in temporary incapacitation. The Taser is not considered a firearm, because it uses compressed nitrogen to launch the darts. A Taser can also be used as a stun gun by pressing it directly against the target’s body, thereby administering the electric shock.

Anja Vandervlies and Michelle Stein could hardly believe it when they heard South Bruce was not going to host Canada’s first permanent storage facility for nuclear waste.

A battle with bed bugs continues at 217 Pine St. North in Timmins, according to a tenant who has lived there for a year and a half.

Several police officers and city staff attended a homeless encampment in Barrie’s south end on Thursday morning to inform the individuals living there they would have to vacate the area.

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Proposed developments and new businesses opening are fueling optimism for some on a revival of downtown Winnipeg, but some business owners say the present remains problematic.

A number of alternatives were tried. In the 1990s, the Taser became a nonlethal alternative to the use of deadly force where the baton was insufficient to control persons. However, the Taser presented its own set of problems, which resulted in lawsuits and limiting legislation.

Loblaw is launching a pilot program that will see employees at two Calgary locations don body-worn cameras in an effort to increase safety.

However, as of 2012, according to the human-rights organization Amnesty International USA, there had been at least 500 deaths as a result of Taser use by law enforcement in the United States, which belies the “nonlethal” claim concerning Taser use. Many of the deaths have been attributed to related medical conditions, such as heart disease, to illicit drug use at the time a Taser was used, and to the Tasers themselves.

The NRF survey found that in 2023, more than 45 per cent of retailers adjusted specific store operating hours, with nearly 30 per cent reducing or altering in-store product selections, and 28 per cent completely closing store locations, due to the rise of violence.

Windsor police say a 47-year-old man is facing impaired driving charges after going the wrong way on the E.C. Row Expressway.

The Crown wants a Wasaga Beach man to be deemed a dangerous or long-term offender following a violent sexual assault of a senior inside her Stayner home two years ago.

The Taser was first developed in the mid-1970s by American inventor Jack Cover. Taser is an acronym for Tom A. Swift Electric Rifle (the Tom Swift books about an inventor of amazing gadgets were a childhood favorite of Cover) and is a brand name for the device, which is manufactured by Taser International. During the 1990s, the Taser was introduced to law enforcement use as an alternative to deadly force. As of 2011, more than 15,000 law enforcement agencies in the United States used the Taser.

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It’s a Thanksgiving miracle for one California family after a man who went missing in 1999 was found 25 years later when his sister saw a photo of him in an online article, authorities said.

Hockey fans know the adage: U.S. Thanksgiving, while unofficial, serves as a great calendar marker in predicting which teams will make the National Hockey League playoffs.

A U.S. company is recalling cucumbers sold in Ontario and other Canadian provinces due to possible salmonella contamination.

"Violent encounters at retail locations across the country have increased dramatically in recent years," explained Loblaw Companies Ltd. in a statement to CTV News.

Statistics Canada says the economy grew at an annualized pace of one per cent during the third quarter, in line with economists' expectations.

There has been extensive criticism of the method and circumstances in which the Taser has been used. For example, law enforcement personnel have used the Taser on a 6-year-old boy who held a broken piece of glass, on a 12-year-old girl who was running from a law enforcement officer, on an elderly person who failed to stand up when ordered to do so, and on a person already handcuffed who subsequently died. Also, there have been numerous criticisms of the use of the Taser on people with mental illnesses. Furthermore, there have been numerous complaints of the Taser being used to torture subjects, by both multiple and extended applications of the electric shocks.

The Hanover School Division is laying off 93 educational assistants, citing an "unexpected loss of federal funding for Jordan's Principle programming."

Saskatoon police say officers arrested three 20-year-old men Wednesday afternoon and seized nearly $70,000, in cash as well as various illicit drugs.

The general principle of escalation of force by law enforcement consisted of the following continuum: verbal control, hand control, handcuffs, mace, batons, and finally firearms. The huge gap between the use of the baton and the use of a firearm presented problems for law enforcement. As a result, law enforcement personnel shot people who arguably should not have been shot and could have been saved if there were a less-lethal alternative.

Frigid temperatures and wind chills have prompted Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) to issue an extreme cold warning for areas around Regina and other pats of southern and central Saskatchewan.

The City of Ottawa will begin the final phase of the graduated approach to enforcing the city’s new three-item garbage limit on Monday, leaving behind any extra items not in a yellow bag.