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ABBOTSFORD, B.C. – The Correctional Service of Canada says Angel Jones, who was serving an indeterminate sentence in a British Columbia prison for biting a woman’s nose off, has died of natural causes at the age of 47.

Jones was declared a dangerous offender by an Ontario court in 2007 and jailed indefinitely for the crime, which the judge called an “evil act of stark horror” at the time.

The Correctional Service says in a statement that Jones was at the Pacific Institution Regional Treatment Centre in Abbotsford, B.C., and died in custody “of apparent natural causes.”

Jones was convicted of aggravated assault in 2004 after disfiguring his then girlfriend, whom he’d believed was seeing another man while he was in jail.

He claimed in court that the victim’s nose “popped off” and that it was weak from the woman’s diet.

A pair of forensic psychiatrists found that Jones was a narcissistic psychopath who was likely to violently or sexually reoffend, and the court declared him a dangerous offender in June 2007, imprisoning him indefinitely.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 6, 2024.

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A petting farm on Vancouver Island says it was forced to cull its entire flock of about 50 chickens and ducks when they contracted the highly infectious avian flu.

In the post to social media, Holly Hill Farm in Campbell River says it is “devastated,” noting each bird had a name, but it was forced to kill the flock “to prevent the spread and help protect food sources.”

It says Island Health has assured them the risk to their guests is “extremely low,” although recent visitors should monitor themselves for flu-like symptoms for 10 says after their visit to the farm.

A spokesman with Interior Health confirmed it had been made aware of the outbreak, saying its public health communicable team is monitoring the situation.

Dominic Abassi says the health authority has directly followed up with people and groups who visited the petting farm and has advised anyone who came into contact with the animals to monitor for symptoms — though he too noted that the risk of transmission to humans is very low.

The farm says the rest of its animals are safe but it will continue to monitor them to ensure they stay in good health.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has said it believes migratory birds are responsible for the outbreaks in small and commercial poultry flocks.

The agency reports there are currently 15 infected farms in the province, and the latest update as of Oct. 25 says more than six million birds have been culled in the province because of the outbreaks.

Holly Hill Farm says in its social media post that it had contacted both Island Health and the CFIA immediately, setting off the instruction to cull the animals.

“Our flock was humanely killed, and in accordance with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, it will only take about 14 days after the cleaning to have chickens and ducks again,” it says, though it noted the farm may not replace its flock.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 6, 2024.

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TORONTO – Ontario is set to go on a “charm offensive” in the United States in the coming weeks now that Donald Trump has won the presidential election.

Premier Doug Ford and Economic Development Minister Vic Fedeli said government representatives will head down south to protect jobs and promote trade.

“I call it a charm offensive to remind them that we need each other for both economies to grow,” Fedeli said Wednesday.

Trump has vowed to renegotiate the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement, which Ford said will be crucial to the province’s fortunes.

“We’re going to work with president-elect Trump as we did at the beginning of the administration and we just want to work and have a fair trade deal,” Ford said.

Fedeli is set to go to Washington, D.C., in December and again in January, followed by a tour of three states.

He said Ontario is the top trading partner to 17 states and second to 11 other states.

“And we have something that they’ll always want, and that’s our critical minerals and our energy,” he said.

Trump has also criticized electric vehicles and has mused about ripping up government subsidies, including the Inflation Reduction Act that President Joe Biden put in place in 2021.

Those deals helped lure automakers to build EV-related plants in the U.S. while Canada was forced to match those production tax credits in deals with Stellantis and Volkswagen, both of which are building EV battery plants in the province.

Ford said he’s not worried about it.

“I believe that’s going to be the way of the future: EV vehicles,” he said.

“We have a tremendous amount of investments involved in the sector, but we have the critical minerals that the U.S. needs.”

Ontario and the federal government have bet big in recent years on the electric vehicle market. Ford envisions an end-to-end manufacturing chain that sees critical minerals mined up north, then processed and brought south to be used to make EV batteries.

Ford said he spoke with Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland Tuesday night about protecting Ontario and Canadian jobs.

“We’re united with the federal government and we’re going to be united with all the premiers,” he said.

Ford dealt with the Trump administration for a few years after his Progressive Conservatives won the 2018 Ontario election. He said he visited Trump’s former trade guru, Robert Lighthizer, who was contemplating tariffs on Canadian goods. Ford said he told him not to do it.

But Trump and Lighthizer didn’t listen and put tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum.

“I went back and said (to Freeland): tariff everything,” Ford said.

Canada responded with tariffs on a laundry list of goods, which eventually forced Trump to back down on the steel and aluminum tariffs.

“This is about a Can-Am approach, a Canada-America approach, making sure that we’re doing the best thing to protect Canadian and Ontario jobs and American jobs,” Ford said. “We’re the closest allies in the world.”

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 6, 2024.

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