Joanne Merlene Jones. Joanne Merlene Jones, 41, has been charged in a kidnapping incident at an Oshawa school on Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012. Police arrested Jones in connection with the abduction of child from a Toronto mall in 2006. Toronto Star file photo Torstar News Services file photo

Woman who kidnapped toddler in 2006 accused of abducting another

Woman who snatched toddler in 2006 is accused of kidnapping another
Published on Wednesday December 19, 2012

Alex Tavshunsky/For the Toronto Star
Joanne Jones in a 2006 courtroom sketch.
Wendy Gillis and Niamh Scallan
Staff Reporters

They said Joanne Merlene Jones was no longer a threat.

Six years after the woman kidnapped a 4-year-old boy from a Toronto shopping mall and sparked a city-wide search, an Ontario Review Board panel decided she no longer required its oversight.

Pictured is Gurjinder “Gary” Dhaliwal;former boyfriend of Surrey murder victim Maple Batalia.
Photo Credit: , Special to the Sun

Ex-boyfriend charged in shooting death of B.C. teen
Maple Batalia, 19, was shot to death last year
CBC News Posted: Dec 1, 2012 11:22 AM PT Last Updated: Dec 1, 2012 7:07 PM PT

The ex-boyfriend of a Surrey, B.C., teen gunned down last year has been charged in connection with her death, the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team announced Saturday.

Maple Batalia, 19, was shot in a parking lot at SFU’s Surrey campus on Sept. 28, 2011.

Gurjinder “Gary” Dhaliwal, 20, has been charged with first-degree murder. Gursimar Bedi, 22, has been charged with manslaughter and being an accessory after the fact.

Police say northwest Calgary mother killed her son and herself
By Stephane Massinon, Calgary Herald October 13, 2012

Calgary police at the townhouse in the 1500 block of Varsity Dr. N.W. where investigators say six-year-old Kevin Liu, was killed by his mother Yu Mei Lai.
Photograph by: Stuart Gradon , Calgary Herald

Police are calling the deaths of a mother and her young son in Varsity a murder-suicide.

The woman’s husband discovered the bodies of his son, 6, and wife, 39, shortly before 10 p.m. Thursday in his carbon-monoxide filled townhome in the 3500 block of Varsity Drive N.W.

The homicide unit is investigating and believe the boy, Kevin Liu, was killed in the home by his mother, Yu Mei Lai.

Johra Kaleki, the Dorval woman charged with the attempted murder of her daughter, quickly went from defiant to repentant in the hours after her arrest.

Dorval mother accused of killing daughter cried after stabbing
Paul Cherry | Top News | September 27, 2012

Johra Kaleki, the Dorval woman charged with the attempted murder of her daughter, quickly went from defiant to repentant in the hours after her arrest.

A video of her police interrogation, conducted hours after her then 19-year-old daughter, Bahar Ebrahimi, was stabbed repeatedly in the basement of their home in Dorval, was shown to Quebec Court Judge Yves Paradis as part of a voir-dire, a request from the defence to have statements Kaleki made to police inadmissible.

Muslim “parents” starve two-year-old daughter to death

Abused Edmonton girl, 2, dies at hospital after being taken off life support
Thursday, Sep 20, 2012 08:15 pm | Chris Purdy, The Canadian Press

A pedestrian walks past the Supreme Court of Canada in Ottawa on June 11, 2012. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

EDMONTON – A two-year-old Edmonton girl allegedly abused by her parents has died after the Supreme Court of Canada rejected a request to keep her on life support.

A source confirmed to The Canadian Press that the toddler died Thursday night at the Stollery Children’s Hospital after being removed from a ventilator that was keeping her alive.

Lawyers for the child’s parents applied to the Supreme Court Thursday morning for an emergency stay of an Alberta Court of Appeal ruling that allowed doctors to remove the girl from life support. The lawyers wanted time to file an application for the court to hear an appeal.

Neighbours described Tanya Brancalion, Wojciech Kosalka and 6-year-old Noah as a normal family. The family held a garage sale two weekends ago.

Deaths of Milton father and 6-year-old son ruled murder-suicide
Published on Sunday September 09, 2012

RICHARD LAUTENS/TORONTO STAR
An officer stands guard on the front porch of a home on Clark Blvd. in Milton where the bodies of a boy and his father were found on Saturday. Police on Sunday identified the victims as Wojciech Kosalka, 43, and Noah Kosalka, 6.

Raveena Aulakh
Staff Reporter

They were inseparable.

Noah, 6, with a mop of thick, dark blond hair, and his dad Wojciech Kosalka, tall and smiling, were always together.

If Noah wanted a piggyback ride, Kosalka gave him one. If Noah was on his little bike, Kosalka would follow him around the block. If Noah was playing in the backyard, Kosalka kept an eagle eye on him, said neighbours.

On Saturday, Noah and Kosalka were found dead in their two-storey semi-detached home on Clark Blvd. in Milton, in what Halton Regional Police have ruled a murder-suicide.