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A media monitoring organization says the 'news blackout' on Facebook and Instagram is blocking crucial updates for voters. CBC Calgary's Rob Brown reveals new research into how this shift might affect your feed during the election.
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Toronto Sun
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- Toronto Sun
Kirkland Lake mom fumes after third accused takes plea in daughter's slaying
'He can't apologize to Ashley, so why bother apologizing to me?' Get the latest from Brad Hunter straight to your inbox Ashley Lafrance of Kirkland Lake. Photo by Ashley Lafrance / FACEBOOK A Kirkland Lake mom whose daughter was brutally slain doesn't believe justice has been served. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. SUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. REGISTER / SIGN IN TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account. Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments. Enjoy additional articles per month. Get email updates from your favourite authors. THIS ARTICLE IS FREE TO READ REGISTER TO UNLOCK. Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account Not by a long shot. The last of a trio of accused involved in the killing of Ashley Lafrance, 29, on Sept. 8, 2022, has been sentenced to six years in prison. The two others already have pleaded guilty. Darcy Shail, 43, copped to manslaughter in Haileybury court on Monday. Minus time served, he will be out of jail in around five months. He apologized to Lafrance's family, but to her mother, it fell short. 'He can't apologize to Ashley, so why bother apologizing to me?' her mom, Marion Effenberger, told CTV Northern News. 'It's just killing our family … And before long, they'll be walking the streets.' Darcy Shail pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the death of Ashley Lafrance. Photo by Darcy Shail / Facebook In the agreed statement of facts, Shail and two others — Chantal Aube and Mark Anderson — drove Lafrance to a wooded area where she was beaten unconscious. The slaying was over drugs, and the trio left Lafrance to die in the woods alone. All four were high on fentanyl at the time. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. After his arrest, Shail helped cops locate Lafrance's remains. An autopsy revealed that she had suffered a cracked skull but her actual cause of death was never discovered. 'He knew where her body was,' Effenberger said. 'Why didn't he say before? Why did he have to wait so many days and then we could have proved how she died?' Shail's lawyer outlined his client's descent into drug addiction and associating with the 'wrong people.' Aube pleaded guilty to being an accessory to murder, while Anderson pleaded guilty to manslaughter. Both are serving time in prison. bhunter@ @HunterTOSun Other Sports Canada Other Sports Toronto & GTA Wrestling
Winnipeg Free Press
2 hours ago
- Winnipeg Free Press
SuperSonics fans feel no allegiance to the Thunder in these NBA Finals. Go Pacers, the scornful say
SEATTLE (AP) — It's logical to think someone like Danny Ball is a fair representation of Seattle these days. Ball, a hoops fan who runs an Instagram account called 'Iconic Sonics,' is pulling for the Indiana Pacers over the Oklahoma City Thunder in the NBA Finals. There are no deep ties between Seattle and Indianapolis. The Seahawks play the Colts this December, so the cities will be foes that weekend. Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever probably won't be warmly welcomed when they visit the Emerald City later this month to play the Seattle Storm. But right now, Seattle may as well be an Indy suburb. Seattle fans lost their NBA franchise, the SuperSonics, in 2008 when it was stolen from them and rebranded in Oklahoma City. For the scornful, that means one thing: Go Pacers. 'I'd love to see the Pacers pull it off in six games,' Ball said. The NBA Finals begin Thursday night. For some in Seattle, it'll be a heaping helping of fresh salt on the wounds that opened when the Sonics were taken away. And people like Ball, who grew up in Seattle hearing stories of Sonics legends like Shawn Kemp and Gary Payton, aren't exactly rooting for Oklahoma City right now. The Thunder are heavy favorites to beat the Pacers. Should they pull it off, the Thunder would claim their first NBA title in Oklahoma City, but technically their second as a franchise after Seattle won the title in 1979. It's no secret the city wants the league to come back. Expansion is on the NBA's to-do list, and it's likely that talks — the first of many, many steps in this process — could start in earnest with interested cities in the next few months. Commissioner Adam Silver, however, hasn't fully committed to adding new teams. 'The issue I would not have anticipated at the time I sort of began talking about the timeline is how much unknown there is about local media right now,' Silver said earlier this year. 'Having said that, though, I would just say again to our many fans in Seattle, and I hear from them often, and the legacy of the Sonics is still very strong and it's a fantastic basketball market, is that we are very focused on it. … We don't take those fans for granted. We're thankful that the interest has remained over all these years.' Any mention of expansion sends fans into a tizzy. Steve Ballmer, the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, spoke to the crowd before a preseason game in Seattle — his hometown — in 2023, and made a thinly veiled reference to how fans need to remind the league's New York office how much the city loves the game. 'All night long, it better be loud enough in this building to hear us all the way back in New York, if you get me,' Ballmer told the crowd. 'Let's make sure we're loud tonight.' And then came the Ballmer bellow: 'Go Seattle,' he screamed. It's something Seattle takes seriously, as Mayor Bruce Harrell learned earlier this year in his address to the city. 'Right now, at this moment, I have an announcement to make,' Harrell said, reaching into the lectern where he was standing and pulling out a basketball, spinning it in his hands as he displayed it to the crowd — which began roaring. 'Ah, I'm just kidding.' The crowd wasn't amused. Harrell later was interviewed by Seattle's KOMO News and apologized for the attempt at humor, getting reminded that residents of the city aren't happy that the NBA hasn't returned yet. 'Count me among them,' Harrell said. A very real void has been left in the SuperSonics' absence. The NHL's Seattle Kraken entering the fold has helped, as has the success of the WNBA's Seattle Storm, both of whom play at Climate Pledge Arena, which sits on the site of the SuperSonics' former home. That same arena received a significant remodel ahead of the Kraken arriving, which could make it suitable for NBA games. That would ultimately be up to the association to decide one day, but Ball hopes it would be the Sonics' former home in the Queen Anne neighborhood they get to triumphantly return to one day. 'A lot of Sonics fans that I know I'm sure never got over the wounds of what happened here 17 years ago with them leaving (for) Oklahoma City,' SuperSonics fan Eric Phan said. 'All of the Sonics fanbase (is) rooting for the Indiana Pacers.' Seattle seemed to have a chance at getting a team back in 2013 when the Maloof family put the Sacramento Kings up for sale. But investor Chris Hansen's bid to relocate the team to Seattle was rejected by the NBA's Board of Governors. For fans like Ball and Phan, hope lives on. Ball recognizes that's partially because he is an inherently positive person, and he's hoping for a Hollywood ending. 'It would be poetic if the year that OKC wins the finals — if that occurs — is in the same summer that the league comes out and says, 'Hey, we're forming an expansion committee to start really exploring this process,'' Ball said. 'I think that would help damper or therapize the feelings and emotions that would come along with seeing the Thunder hoist the Larry O'Brien.' Phan pointed out that just because the Sonics don't play in Seattle, it doesn't mean the team is truly gone. Thursdays Keep up to date on sports with Mike McIntyre's weekly newsletter. 'You can see people walking the sidewalks and streets of Seattle, and even the suburbs,' Phan said. 'People are wearing Sonics gear like they never really left.' ___ AP Basketball Writer Tim Reynolds in Oklahoma City contributed. ___ AP NBA:
Global News
3 hours ago
- Global News
Judge orders rethink of preservation plan for endangered piping plovers on East Coast
See more sharing options Send this page to someone via email Share this item on Twitter Share this item via WhatsApp Share this item on Facebook A federal judge has ordered Ottawa to rethink its strategy to preserve an endangered shorebird. In a decision released yesterday, Justice Richard Southcott sent the piping plover recovery plan back to the federal environment minister for 'reconsideration.' The judge wrote that federal lawyers had failed to 'intelligibly respond' to the concerns raised by Nature Nova Scotia and the East Coast Environmental Law Association about the plan approved by the minister in 2022. Get daily National news Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day. Sign up for daily National newsletter Sign Up By providing your email address, you have read and agree to Global News' Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy The plaintiffs argued Ottawa's system of protecting specific sections of beaches in Atlantic Canada and Quebec was confusing and vague — and they asked the minister to go back to protecting entire beaches as piping plover habitat. Piping plovers are small shorebirds that nest primarily on sand, gravel or cobblestone beaches. The court heard that there are only between 170 to 190 nesting pairs left, well below the 2022 plan's goal of 310 pairs. Story continues below advertisement This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 3, 2025.
