Canada-wide arrest warrants for Prince George fugitive

Yehonathan Tommer

Michael Andreou Michalakis

PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. – Police have appealed to the public for help in arresting a 51-year-old man wanted for immigration-related and sexually-related offences.

The suspect, Michael Andreou Michalakis , alias Andreou Michaels, of Prince George is wanted on a Canada-wide warrant and two provincial-wide warrants.

On May 3rd, a Canada-wide arrest warrant was issued after Michalakis failed to comply with court-imposed conditions in Prince George, BC.

A province-wide warrant was also issued that same day after Michalakis failed to comply with probation conditions.

A second province-wide warrant was issued on May 4th, after Michalakis failed to comply on five counts for breach of probation.

All the warrants are connected to an incident dating to October 2011 in which Michalakais is charged with alleged sexual assault.

Jordan Morrison is pictured in this undated photo from a tribute page on Facebook.(HO- facebook / THE CANADIAN PRESS)

Verdict expected in death of Ontario man in Dominican

Jordan Morrison is pictured in this undated photo from a tribute page on Facebook.(HO- facebook / THE CANADIAN PRESS)

The Canadian Press

Date: Monday May. 7, 2012 6:35 AM ET

TORONTO — A verdict is expected today in the case of two men charged in the beating death of a Canadian man who was on vacation in the Dominican Republic.

Jordan Morrison, a 19-year-old resident of Barrie, Ont., was killed outside a resort nightclub in Punta Cana on Feb. 4, 2011.

Witnesses have said Morrison was attacked after he had come to the aid of a woman in a bar who was spit on.

Canadian citizen Dmytro Aref Yev and Algerian national Bouzid Redha, who were both 21 at the time, could face up to 20 years in jail if found guilty of homicide.

Their lawyer has said the men were drunk at the time of the fight and did not intend to kill Morrison and that the death was an accident.

Three other Canadian tourists were initially held in connection with the attack, but were released on bail after a judge decided they had no direct role in the fight.

Dr. Joel Ray, a researcher on immigrant health at The Keenan Research Centre at St. Michael's Hospital, poses for a photo on a bridge between the research centre and the hospital in Toronto. Michelle Siu/The Globe and Mail

Health Care
How a simple translation tool is helping doctors and immigrants communicate
Dakshana Bascaramurty
Globe and Mail Update
Published Friday, May. 04, 2012 7:05PM EDT
Last updated Saturday, May. 05, 2012 12:20AM EDT

Now in use across the country, the guide is a simple tool – a computer-based list of phonetic pronunciations of medical symptoms and questions in the 15 most-spoken languages in Ontario – but it addresses a major obstacle that immigrants face when accessing health care.

“In the emergency department, if somebody comes in with a serious problem and there’s nobody there that speaks that language,” says Dr. Ray, 44, a clinician and researcher at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, “you immediately have a barrier to the information exchange that’s critical to finding out what’s wrong.”

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In one recent study, he identified a Caucasian bias in birth-weight standards used in most hospitals that could cause ethnic-minority newborns to be labelled as underweight. His revisions may reduce the need for unnecessary follow-ups, tests and worry among immigrant mothers.

In another study, he outlined the elevated risk for gestational diabetes for immigrant women, and called for improved ethnic classification (for example, “South Asian” instead of just “Asian”) so practitioners can evaluate patients more accurately.

Doctors and nurses are on the front lines with immigrant patients, Dr. Ray says, so hospitals should be ground zero for cultural innovation.

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Do you know an immigration innovator? The Globe would like to hear from you – nominate an innovator here.

Roma speak out against refugee crackdown
By Tobi Cohen, Postmedia News May 3, 2012

OTTAWA – The government’s singling out of the Hungarian Roma community as justification for tough new refugee laws proposed in Bill C-31 is overtly racist and completely unfair, according to a community leader who says she’s stepping up to give Canada’s 80,000 European Gypsies a voice.

Toronto Roma Community Centre executive director Gina Csanyi-Robah was among the final witnesses to testify before a Commons committee reviewing the bill Thursday.

She asked the government to drop a key clause that would designate certain countries as “safe,” non-typical producers of refugees and fast-track applicants under the belief they are not bona fide claimants.

Four arrested in counterfeit goods raid at Dr. Flea’s

Four people were arrested and more than $1 million worth of knock-offs were seized when Toronto police executed two search warrants at a north Etobicoke flea market late last week.

Members of 23 Division’s Major Crime Unit raided Dr. Flea’s International Flea Market at 8 Westmore Dr. on Friday, April 27 and Sunday, April 29 after a three-month counterfeit investigation.

Police allege they seized numerous counterfeit items of clothing, toys, handbags and wallets in their search of 16 booths at the popular flea market. The value of the seized items is estimated at more than $1 million.

Also seized were 5,359 fraudulent DVDs, valued at $107,180.

The four people arrested now face 11 charges under the Copyright Act.