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An ex-Edmonton lawyer who drove drunk and killed a teenage girl has been refused early release.
Shane Stevenson, a one-time top-flight corporate lawyer, was denied day and full parole after a Parole Board of Canada hearing Thursday.
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Stevenson was sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison last October for running down 16-year-old Chloe Wiwchar with his pickup while she crossed Kingsway Avenue in a marked crosswalk in 2018. Stevenson fled the scene. At the time of his arrest, his blood-alcohol level was more than twice the legal limit.
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Gaza Assault Left 400,000 Without Regular Access to Clean Water
“We stay up all night looking for water to fill plastic buckets,” said one mother in northern Gaza.
By Jake JOHNSON
Israel’s deadly 11-day assault on the Gaza Strip left an estimated 400,000 of the occupied territory’s roughly two million people without access to a regular supply of clean water, a humanitarian nightmare that is driving calls for immediate international aid and an end to the 14-year Israeli blockade.
In addition to killing more than 240 Palestinians including dozens of children and displacing tens of thousands, Israel’s aerial and artillery bombardment further devastated Gaza’s infrastructure, from sewage systems to electricity lines that power the coastal enclave’s water desalination plants.