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As first reported by Stephen Hui in Vancouver’s Georgia Straight, Oppal has a cameo in the new film by Uwe Boll, a director who, with credits like Postal, Blubberella and House of the Dead to his credit, is billed as the world’s worst filmmaker.
His new film is called The Bailout, and it concerns a New Yorker (played by Prison Break‘s Dominic Purcell) who loses everything in the 2008 financial crisis and then goes absolutely postal on investment bankers in a series of targeted killings.
As Metro Vancouver tells it, Oppal is to appear as a stockbroker who gets shot by the film’s main character. He’ll be playing alongside Bruce Langereis, president of Vancouver’s prominent Delta Lands Development Ltd.
All of this would seem pretty innocuous if Oppal weren’t also the lead commissioner of the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry, which is investigating the events surrounding a series of murders carried out by serial killer Robert Pickton on prostitutes working Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.

See the full article from “Canada.com (blog)”

It’s okay; we understand. Comics are strange, and it’s all compounded by the indie-ness. Let’s make it easy for you. Here are all the general-public big deals, who will probably have a documentary made about them down the line and, even more importantly, who are Canadian. Palookaville creator Seth is synonymous with Canadian alternative comics, if you need someone wise on what this scene is “all about.” Likewise, Chester Brown is in attendance, most famous for his Canadian history know-how in Louis Riel and his Canadian prostitute know-how in Paying For It. DJ hero Kid Koala will be playing a show in conjunction with his new graphic novel, Space Cadet, on May 3 and 4 at 918 Bathurst, if for any reason you need b-roll of comic folks “getting funky.” Good luck.

See the full article from “A.V. Club DC”

Adrien Brody gets top marks for his riveting turn in Detachment.
Detachment’s a lot like a car accident: it’s horrifying, but you can’t take your eyes off it.
Adrien Brody plays Henry, a substitute teacher whose profession – moving from classroom to classroom – perfectly suits his personal difficulty making connections.
But women have no problem attaching themselves to him. A colleague (Christina Hendricks, nothing like her Mad Men persona) appreciates his teaching gifts; an artistically inclined student falls in love; and the teenage street prostitute he shelters (charismatic relative newcomer Sami Gayle) wants more than he thinks he can give.
In the meantime, his students are angry, and the teachers – including Lucy Liu as a guidance counsellor who loses it, William Petersen, Blythe Danner and James Caan, given to superb rants – desperate.

See the full article from “NOW Magazine”

In the spring of 2007, Sampson, battling a crack-cocaine addiction that was interfering in her ability to properly care for Katelynn, entered into an informal agreement with the two accused. Fearful of losing Katelynn to the Children’s Aid Society, Sampson instead turned her daughter over to her supposed friends, Irving and Johnson, who agreed to care for the child in their Toronto apartment.
What was initially intended as a temporary arrangement became permanent in June 2008, when a court granted custody of Katelynn to Irving, a repeat offender and prostitute who also struggled with a crack-cocaine addiction. The judge’s decision generated furious controversy in the wake of the seven-year-old’s death; the case also sparked questions about the oversight role of child protective services. The court heard that Irving reached out to children’s services for help on multiple occasions, only to rebuff their assistance when it came.

See the full article from “Canada.com”

In the spring of 2007, Sampson, battling a crack-cocaine addiction that was interfering in her ability to properly care for Katelynn, entered into an informal agreement with the two accused. Fearful of losing Katelynn to the Children’s Aid Society, Sampson instead turned her daughter over to her supposed friends, Irving and Johnson, who agreed to care for the child in their Toronto apartment.
What was initially intended as a temporary arrangement became permanent in June 2008, when a court granted custody of Katelynn to Irving, a repeat offender and prostitute who also struggled with a crack-cocaine addiction. The judge’s decision generated furious controversy in the wake of the seven-year-old’s death; the case also sparked questions about the oversight role of child protective services. The court heard that Irving reached out to children’s services for help on multiple occasions, only to rebuff their assistance when it came.

See the full article from “Edmonton Journal”

Skye Soutar (left) is consoled by her mother Pam after leaving the funeral for seven-year-old Katelynn Sampson in Toronto on Tuesday August 12, 2008. Hundreds of mourners grieved at the funeral for a seven-year-old girl who was found dead in her caregiver’s apartment with savage injuries that shocked even hardened police officers.
TORONTO – The guardians of a Toronto girl have been sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 15 years after pleading guilty to second-degree murder in her death.
Seven-year-old Katelynn Sampson died in 2008 with 70 injuries found on her body, in a case that drew outrage.
Police say Warren Johnson, 50, and Donna Irving, 33, beat the girl for months until she went into septic shock.
It was later revealed a family court judge had granted custody of the child to Irving, despite her criminal convictions for prostitution, drugs and violence.

See the full article from “Huffington Post Canada”

In the spring of 2007, Sampson, battling a crack-cocaine addiction that was interfering in her ability to properly care for Katelynn, entered into an informal agreement with the two accused. Fearful of losing Katelynn to the Children’s Aid Society, Sampson instead turned her daughter over to her supposed friends, Irving and Johnson, who agreed to care for the child in their Toronto apartment.
What was initially intended as a temporary arrangement became permanent in June 2008, when a court granted custody of Katelynn to Irving, a repeat offender and prostitute who also struggled with a crack-cocaine addiction. The judge’s decision generated furious controversy in the wake of the seven-year-old’s death; the case also sparked questions about the oversight role of child protective services. The court heard that Irving reached out to children’s services for help on multiple occasions, only to rebuff their assistance when it came.

See the full article from “Regina Leader-Post”

… Hollywood is feeling especially lawsuit happy this week. Selena Gomez is being sued for plagarism, Jennifer Lopez is being sued by her former driver, Elton John is being sued over his lyrics, and — ripping a page straight out of her Gossip Girl script — Kelly Rutherford is being sued by the P.I. she hired to spy on her ex-hubby.
-This FunnyorDie skit just reminds me how much I miss The West Wing.
-Cozy: Reese Witherspoon and Jim Toth went on a double date with Kate Hudson and Matt Bellamy.
-I don’t know why I’m so hormotional today, but this Will Wheaton video made me a little bit teary.
-The main theme from today’s MTV Movie Awards noms: poo.
-You know it’s a weird day when Charlie Sheen accuses a strip club of damaging his reputation.

See the full article from “Dose.ca (blog)”

TORONTO, May 1, 2012 /CNW/ – His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales will visit Yonge Street Mission on Tuesday, May 22, 2012 to hear business leaders and young people discuss the barriers to employment at-risk youth can face.
The Prince of Wales will meet with top executives and at-risk youth as part of The Prince’s Charities Seeing is Believing Program. The program is designed to give business leaders a clearer understanding of how they can help create solutions to a range of social issues. Yonge Street Mission is one of the first two Canadian charities to be selected to participate as the program is expanded to
Canada
The young people involved in the visit came to the Mission for help in turning their lives around. They include 26-year-old Korey Griffiths, who was once involved with drug dealing and prostitution. Korey has just been offered an internship with Toronto Printing House, which was arranged by Janice O’Born, CEO of The Printing House Charitable Office.

See the full article from “Canada NewsWire (press release)”

… I don’t remember going back to my house at all,” testified Vacon.
Schertzer, 54; Steven Correia, 45; Ray Pollard, 48; Joseph Miched, 53; and Ned Maodus, 49, face various charges, laid in 2004, including attempting to obstruct justice, assault perjury and extortion between 1997 and 2002.
Earlier, former marijuana dealer Christopher Quigley, 46, alleged an angry Schertzer struck him in the face in 1998, demanding he reveal the whereabouts of drugs and money, before two other cops pummelled him for hours.
Schertzer and Correia seized $54,000 from Quigley’s mother’s bank safety deposit box, but only returned $22,850, asserted Quigley.
Schertzer also one occasion signalled his men to box in a taxi being carrying Montreal stripper Aida Fagundo and two drug mules on a Scarborough street in 1997, as they were trying to deliver five kilograms of cocaine, court has heard.

See the full article from “Toronto Sun”