Feb. 4: Team Canada arrives at the opening ceremony of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. The ceremony, directed by Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou, who kept things relatively short compared with the 2008 festivities in Beijing. tgam.ca/3I55IKF
Feb. 7: Canada's Max Parrot and Mark McMorris celebrate after winning gold and bronze, respectively, in men's slopestyle snowboarding. It was the second straight Olympics where the two would share the podium in that event. tgam.ca/3I55IKF
Feb. 13: This weekend featured the first real snow at the Games, which relied mostly on machine-made snow – a controversial precedent that has some sports experts worried about the Olympics' future in a changing climate. tgam.ca/3I55IKF
Feb. 15: Speed skaters Isabelle Weidemann, left, Valérie Maltais and Ivanie Blondin of Canada celebrate after winning gold and setting an Olympic record. tgam.ca/3I55IKF
Feb. 16: Canadian speed skater Charles Hamelin, right reacts with teammate Jordan Pierre-Gilles, middle, after winning gold in the men's 5,000-metre short-track relay. tgam.ca/3I55IKF
Feb. 17: The Canadian women's hockey team celebrates with gold medals after beating the United States 3-2. It was something of a rematch of 2018's final in Pyeongchang, which the Americans won. tgam.ca/3I55IKF
Feb. 20: Triple medal winner Isabelle Weidemann leads Canada in the parade of athletes as flag-bearer for the closing ceremony in Beijing. tgam.ca/3I55IKF
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A former senior executive at St. Michael’s Hospital and the former president of an Ontario construction company have been charged as part of a long-standing criminal probe into corruption at one Canada’s premier healthcare facilities: theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…
Vas Georgiou, the former chief administrative officer at St. Michael’s, and John Aquino, the former president of Bondfield Construction Co. Ltd., voluntarily surrendered to police on Tuesday. theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…
The cases against both men, which involve allegations of collusion and kickbacks, date back to 2015, when Bondfield was selected as the winning bidder to redevelop the aging hospital. theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…
The rate of sexual-assault complaints that police reject as “unfounded” has dropped by more than half since a Globe and Mail investigation put a spotlight on the issue five years ago.
Today, 8 per cent of sexual assaults reported to police are being closed as unfounded, a law-enforcement term that means the allegation is false or baseless.
This is down from the 19-per-cent rate that The Globe reported in its 2017 Unfounded series.
Back in 2017, the Halton Regional Police Service had one of the worst unfounded rates in Canada. Now, the Halton police have among the lowest in Canada.