Maricyl Palisoc /Photo: Facebook

Disabled parents fight to keep newborn at home
Social workers demand child receive 24-hour care
CBC News Posted: May 1, 2012 5:41 PM ET Last Updated: May 2, 2012 8:41 AM ET

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A disabled couple in Mississauga are fighting to keep their newborn son after social workers threatened to take the boy away unless he receives round-the-clock care from an “able-bodied attendant.”

Maricyl Palisoc and her partner, Charles Wilton, are the parents of a healthy month-old baby boy named William. Both parents have cerebral palsy, a disorder that limits their motor skills and slurs their speech, but has no effect on their cognitive abilities.

Anna Karissa Grandine and Philip Grandine. Courtesy of Facebook.

The cause of Anna Karissa Grandine’s death was drowning, police say. (Humphrey Funeral Home)

Pastor faces murder charge in pregnant wife’s death
05/02/2012 | CityNews.ca staff

Anna Karissa Grandine and Philip Grandine. Courtesy of Facebook.

A Toronto pastor has been charged with first-degree murder in the drowning death of his pregnant wife last fall.

Philip Grandine, 25, was arrested and charged on Tuesday, and was scheduled to appear in a Toronto courtroom the same day.

On Oct. 17, 2011, police were called to 12 Marsh Rd. in the city’s east end where they found Anna Karissa Grandine in medical distress. She was taken to hospital where she was pronounced dead. The cause of death was drowning, police said in a release.

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The victim was a casualty underwriter at Berkley Canada in downtown Toronto and was active in several Baptist churches, most recently at Ennerdale Road Baptist Church where her husband had served as pastor, the notice said.

Fode Mohamed Soumah's plans to remain in Canada didn't work

Immigrant marriage fraudster finally deported
By Robert Sibley, Postmedia News February 14, 2012

“It’s not something I would have wished for,” Lainie Towell says of the eventual deportation of her ex-husband Fode Mohamed Soumah. “This was the man I married and I thought we would build a life together. But it was worth it if this outcome is going to change the system to help others.”
Photograph by: Pat McGrath, Ottawa Citizen

OTTAWA — It is one of the unsavoury secrets of Canada’s immigration system. Each year hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Canadian women and men marry foreigners and agree to act as sponsors for them in Canada, only to find themselves abandoned once that spouse is in the country.

This past weekend, however, one of those marriage fraudsters got his just desserts thanks to a spouse who refused to be a victim. Lainie Towell’s ex-husband, Fode Mohamed Soumah, was by all accounts deported back to his native country of Guinea in West Africa.

Murillo now wants to get a donor cornea transplant in hopes of stopping the pain and improving her sight.

Iris implants threaten vision
CBC News Posted: Jan 17, 2012 7:29 AM ET Last Updated: Jan 17, 2012 10:32 PM ET
Canadian Beatriz Murillo, left, went to Panama for silicone iris implants that changed her eye colour from brown to green. Since then, she’s had two glaucoma surgeries and a cornea transplant, and can now only see vague shapes and colours. (Courtesy of Beatriz Murillo)

Using surgical implants to change eye colour can rob people of their vision, some Canadian eye specialists warn.

Cosmetic iris implants are not available in Canada or the U.S., but some Canadian doctors have had to treat patients who went outside North America for the procedure and developed serious problems.

Beatriz Murillo, 36, travelled from Toronto to a clinic in Panama, where she paid $8,000 to have a silicone disc placed on top of her irises to lighten the colour from brown to green.

Seven-year-old Sophie Fitzpatrick was found dead in her Chelsea home on Saturday, Oct. 22, 2011. Courtesy The Low Down to Hull and Back News.

Quebec woman accused of killing daughter dies
Updated: Thu Jan. 12 2012 10:28:48 AM
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Police have confirmed a Chelsea, Que. woman facing a first-degree murder charge for the death of her seven-year-old daughter has died.