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Two men accused of fatally shooting a passerby outside a downtown Toronto strip club just over two years ago were both equally culpable, court heard Wednesday.
Awet Zekarias, 24, and Edward Paredes, 25, have both pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder in the death of John O’Keefe, a 42-year-old father of a young boy.
O’Keefe was shot and killed in the early hours of Jan. 12, 2008, as he headed home from a downtown pub.
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According to police, the two accused were kicked out of the Brass Rail strip club on Yonge Street south of Bloor Street at about 1:30 a.m. At about the same time, O’Keefe left the nearby Duke of Gloucester pub, also on Yonge Street.
The two men are alleged to have returned to the strip club to exact their revenge on the security staff who booted them out.

See the full article from “CBC.ca”

John O’Keefe, a 42-year-old father, was heading home from a pub when he was struck by a bullet outside the Brass Rail strip club in the early hours of Jan. 12, 2008.
Edward Paredes, 24, and Awet Zekarias, 25, are charged with second-degree murder. The two are alleged to have had a confrontation with bouncers who had ejected them from the strip club just before the fatal shooting. Mr. O’Keefe merely happened to be walking along the sidewalk at the time.
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Mr. Paredes and Mr. Zekarias were seated at a table for two near the strip club’s stage and away from their group, Mr. Goody said, and began to behave inappropriately, drawing the attention of security staff. The club manager and a doorman asked them to leave but they refused, so they were “physically removed,” he said.

See the full article from “Globe and Mail”

Wendy Pederson, from the Carnegie Community action project, is seen with a group of demonstrators, on January 17, in Vancouver, British Columbia, to symbolically light the flame of the ‘Poverty Olympics’, a parody, in Downtown Eastside, called the poorest zipcode of Canada. The Winter Olympic countdown clock shows the number of days left to the start of the 2010 Games, in downtown Vancouver, on February 8. Canada is spending over two billion dollars on the Winter Olympics but just steps away from the venue for the opening ceremony sits one of the country’s most notorious slums where drug addiction and prostitution are rife.
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“I have to be a good judge of character,” said Jennifer Gravelle, who works as a prostitute. “I care about my safety. I just want to eventually get out of this area and get a good house.”

See the full article from “France24″