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Epoch Times
03-05-2025
- Epoch Times
3 Foreign Nationals Apprehended Trying to Enter Canada Through Ontario Railway Bridge: RCMP
Three foreign nationals have been caught attempting to enter Canada illegally via a railway bridge near Niagara Falls, where a vehicle was waiting for them on the Canadian side, according to the RCMP. Three individuals were seen attempting to enter Canada on April 13 through the Fort Erie train bridge, which links Ontario with Buffalo, New York, Niagara-on-the-Lake RCMP said in a May 1 . One of the migrants was detained immediately, while another fled on foot and was later apprehended. A third migrant managed to enter a waiting vehicle, which nearly struck various RCMP members while trying to drive away, police said. Both the migrant and the driver surrendered to authorities ten days later. A Cuban national, Alexander Cardenas, was assessed by the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) and found not eligible to enter Canada. He was returned to the United States. His wife, Yenny Justo, who was driving the vehicle, was arrested and charged with one count of dangerous operation of a conveyance, as well as one count of conspiracy and fail to report under the Customs Act, officials said. 'The strategic deployment of RCMP Border Integrity Officers between the Ontario Ports of Entry has proven to be a successful tactic in preventing illegal migration into Canada,' said RCMP Superintendent Dale Foote. Related Stories 4/6/2025 4/23/2025 Justo was held for a bail hearing in St. Catharines court, according to the press release. All three migrants were returned to the United States and Justo has been granted bail, an RCMP spokesperson told The Epoch Times in an email. 'She remains in Canada on a Surety with a future court date on the Criminal charges,' the spokesperson said. Details about Justo's immigration status and her time in Canada are not publicly available, as they are protected under the Privacy Act, CBSA spokesperson Luke Reimer told The Epoch Times. The RCMP has arrested several individuals in recent months attempting to illegally enter Canada. In mid-March, authorities a Cuban national who tried to enter Canada by running across the Fort Erie railway bridge, the RCMP said in a last month. He was deemed ineligible to enter the country and was returned to the United States the same day. The railway bridge is currently under full-time monitoring by the Niagara-on-the-Lake RCMP Border Integrity Unit, which is tasked with tackling cross-border smuggling into and from Canada. RCMP members conduct patrols along this area's border on land, water, and air. The issue of border security gained renewed attention after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to impose tariffs on Canada unless the country took steps to reduce the flow of illegal immigrants and drugs across the two countries' shared border. In response, Ottawa a $1.3 billion border plan last December that the creation of a North American task force to target organized crime, funding for helicopters, drones, and surveillance towers to ensure continuous monitoring between ports of entry, among other measures. Several provinces have also their own border security initiatives, including Ontario Premier Doug Ford's 'Operation Deterrence,' aimed at disrupting illegal border crossings, as well as drug and gun smuggling. The operation includes a team of 200 provincial police officers who will help guard the border using fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, drones, boats, off-road vehicles, and foot patrol. In its announcement about the Cuban national arrested in mid-March, the RCMP credited the Ontario Provincial Police for helping locate and arrest the man as part of 'Operation Deterrence.' 'The RCMP is committed to working with our partners to protect the residents and communities of Canada,' the RCMP said in its April 3 . 'Our collaboration with both the CBSA and OPP continues to provide positive results for Canada.'
Yahoo
14-04-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Doctors Just Found Something Horrifying in the Brains of Heavy Alcohol Drinkers
Boozers beware: a new study has found links between heavy alcohol consumption, brain damage, and earlier death. As the American Academy of Neurology notes, Brazilian researchers established in a new study that heavy drinkers — defined as those who have "eight or more alcoholic drinks per week," so not a particularly gigantic quantity — have a greater risk of developing brain lesions that can cause issues with memory and cognitition. Known as hyaline arteriolosclerosis, the lesions caused by this condition occur when small blood vessels in the brain narrow and become stiff and tight. "This makes it harder for blood to flow," the press release notes, "which can damage the brain over time." As detailed in a new paper published in the journal Neurology, pathologists from the University of São Paulo looked at records, both pre- and postmortem, for nearly 1,800 subjects that were published in the United Kingdom's first-class Biobank health database. Cross-referencing brain autopsies with living health record details, the researchers grouped the subjects into four groups: those who never drank, moderate drinkers who had "seven or fewer drinks per week," people who used to drink heavily, and those who drank heavily until the time of their death. Led by vascular biology expert Alberto Fernando Oliveira Justo, the researchers aimed not to establish any causal link but to demonstrate an understudied association — and did they ever. The good news is that moderate drinkers and those who used to drink heavily but stopped by the time they died appeared, per the study, to have lower odds of developing brain lesions. The bad news: former heavy drinkers were still at greater risk of developing not just lesions, but also for tau tangles, a neurological biomarker associated with Alzheimer's and dementia. While just 40 percent of the autopsied brains of teetotalers had brain lesions, the researchers found, after adjusting for other brain health factors like smoking and physical activity, that moderate drinkers had 60 percent higher odds of developing the lesions. Former heavy drinkers, meanwhile, had an 89 percent increased risk, and people who drank heavily up until death had 133 percent higher odds. "Researchers also found heavy and former heavy drinkers had higher odds of developing tau tangles... with 41 [percent] and 31 [percent] higher odds, respectively," the press release notes. "Former heavy drinking was associated with a lower brain mass ratio, a smaller proportion of brain mass compared to body mass, and worse cognitive abilities." To make matters worse, the researchers' data analyses suggested that lifetime heavy drinkers died, on average, 13 years younger than people who never touched the stuff. "We found heavy drinking is directly linked to signs of injury in the brain," Justo said in the press release, "and this can cause long-term effects on brain health, which may impact memory and thinking abilities." As with any study, this research had its limitations. Because the database these records were gleaned from is based in the UK, the randomized patients whose records the researchers analyzed were not known to them, and therefore, they didn't know how long they'd been drinking — only, it seems, that some never drank a drop while others kept drinking up until the bitter end. Still, these grim findings may encourage those with a history of hitting the sauce to slow down — or, perhaps, persuade others from going too hard moving forward. More on your brain on booze: Test Shows Alcohol Causing Long-Term Brain Damage
