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What’s the Latest: 90-year-old veteran selling poppies says he was ‘harassed’ by Montreal metro security
A 90-year-old Canadian Forces veteran, Carl Andersen, encountered issues with security officers while selling poppies at Vendôme metro station in Montreal. The Société de transport de Montréal (STM) security questioned his permission to solicit donations, but later indicated they would “tolerate” his presence after he stated he had been doing it for 20 years.
Carl Andersen, a veteran who has sold poppies at Vendôme metro station for 20 years, reported being questioned by security officers from the Société de transport de Montréal (STM) regarding his permission to solicit donations. The STM stated that while Mr. Andersen can continue his efforts, he must adhere to traffic flow and civic conduct rules.
Carl Andersen, a 90-year-old veteran, reported that he was “harassed” by Société de transport de Montréal (STM) security guards while selling poppies at Vendôme metro station, a practice he has conducted for two decades. The STM clarified that while soliciting donations is allowed outside the paid zone, they instructed Andersen to comply with traffic flow and civic conduct rules, indicating that his presence would be “tolerated” as long as he did not actively solicit customers.
What remains unclear — It is unknown whether the Société de transport de Montréal’s stance on soliciting donations has officially changed or if further guidance will be issued regarding such activities in the metro.
90-year-old veteran alleges harassment by security while selling poppies in Montreal metro
A 90-year-old Canadian Forces veteran, Carl Andersen, has reported being “harassed” by security guards while selling poppies at Montreal’s Vendôme metro station. Andersen, who volunteers each November to raise funds for the Royal Canadian Legion, claimed that two security officers from the Société de transport de Montréal (STM) questioned his right to sell poppies during a recent incident.
Andersen recounted his experience, stating, “I said, I’ve been doing it for 20 years, I’ve never had to ask permission. [The officer] said, ‘well, we’re trying to get rid of people asking for money in the subway.’” This incident marks the first time Andersen has faced such scrutiny in his two decades of collecting donations.
After discussing the matter with their supervisors, the officers indicated they would “tolerate” his presence. Andersen expressed discomfort with the language used, stating, “I felt a little harassed. The thing is, I didn’t like the word ‘tolerate,’ which meant that they could change that toleration at any moment.”
In response to the incident, STM spokesperson Amelie Regis clarified the agency’s policy: “If Mr. Andersen does not solicit customers, but rather waits for customers to come to him and it is considered a donation, there should not be a problem, as long as he complies with the other rules concerning traffic flow, civic conduct, etc.”
Despite the recent incident, Andersen has continued his volunteer work unhindered, with commuters reportedly happy to see him. He remains dedicated to his charitable efforts, stating, “There are veterans that are in real need, and for them, this is why we do it.” Andersen aims to continue his role supporting the Royal Canadian Legion until he turns 100.
October 12, 2024
6:18 am
‘Cheer up, you caught the bad guy,’ says killer Virginia McCullough as she is arrested for murdering her parents
A woman who murdered her parents “in cold blood” before hiding them in makeshift tombs for four years told officers to “cheer up, you caught the bad guy” as she was arrested in her home.
Virginia McCullough, 36, poisoned her father John McCullough, 70, with prescription medication and fatally stabbed her mother Lois McCullough, 71, shortly afterwards in 2019.
She ran up large debts on credit cards in her parents’ names and after their deaths, she continued to spend their pensions until she was finally caught in 2023.
In body-worn video footage released by police, a handcuffed – and eerily calm – McCullough told officers: “I did know that this would kind of come eventually.
“It’s proper that I serve my punishment.”
She said she had slipped something into her father’s drink then put his body under a bed on the ground floor, and put her mother’s body in an upstairs wardrobe.
McCullough, having been arrested on suspicion of double murder, told an officer: “Cheer up, at least you’ve caught the bad guy.”
She added: “I know I don’t seem 100% evil.”
At the police station, she told officers where a kitchen knife was, which she described as a “murder weapon”, and a hammer which she said “will still have blood on it”.
McCullough, of Pump Hill, Chelmsford, Essex, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday with a minimum term of 36 years at Chelmsford Crown Court, after she admitted to their murders between 17 and 20 June 2019 at an earlier hearing at the same court.
Chelmsford Crown Court heard how she hid their bodies in makeshift tombs at the family home in Great Baddow in Essex, then told persistent lies to cover her tracks.
The court heard she cancelled family arrangements and frequently told doctors and relatives her parents were unwell, on holiday or away on lengthy trips.
But concerns over Mr and Mrs McCullough’s welfare were raised in September 2023 by a GP at their registered practice, and Essex County Council’s safeguarding team referred these to police.
The GP had not seen the couple for some time and said Mr McCullough had failed to collect medication and attend scheduled appointments. It was found McCullough had frequently cancelled appointments, using a range of excuses to explain her father’s absence.
Police said a missing persons investigation was initially launched and McCullough lied to officers, claiming her parents were travelling and would be returning in October.
It became a murder investigation, and when officers forced entry to the house in Pump Hill on September 15 2023, McCullough confessed that her parents’ bodies were in the house and that she had killed them.
Nicola Rice, a specialist prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service, said: “McCullough callously and viciously killed both of her parents before concealing their bodies in makeshift tombs within their home address.
“She spent the next four years manipulating and lying to family members, medical staff, financial institutions, and the police, spending her parents’ money and accruing large debts in their name.”
She added: “This was a truly disturbing case, which has left behind it a trail of devastation, and I can only hope that the sentence passed today will help those who loved and cared for Lois and John begin to heal.”
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November 23, 2024
8:25 am
Defense alliance NATO chief Mark Rutte has met US President-elect Donald Trump to discuss global security issues, according to a NATO spokesperson.
The meeting took place in Palm Beach, Florida.
During his first term as US president, 2017-2020, Trump pushed for European NATO countries to spend more on defense and described the alliance’s cost-sharing as unfair to the US.
Rutte took over as NATO chief from Norwegian Jens Stoltenberg in November.
Before taking office in January, Trump has nominated Pete Hegseth for the post of defense secretary, which has raised eyebrows among many allies.
Hegseth, 44, has served as an infantry captain in Iraq and Afghanistan, but has no senior military or government officer experience.
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Multiple missiles were fired in an airstrike towards a densely populated part of Lebanon’s capital early on Saturday.
The huge airstrike targeted Beirut’s Basta neighbourhood, and no prior warnings were given by the Israeli military. The largely residential area was struck last month.
At least one violent explosion was heard across the city, Reuters witnesses said, and plumes of smoke could be seen. Scenes of massive destruction at the site were shared online, including a massive crater in the ground.
“Beirut, the capital, woke up to a horrific massacre, as the Israeli enemy’s air force completely destroyed an eight-story residential building with five missiles on Al-Mamoun Street in Basta,” the state-run National News Agency reported.
The health ministry put the initial death toll at four, with 23 wounded. The number is expected to climb in the coming hours as search and rescue efforts continue.
It came after a long day of Israeli airstrikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs, which have been non-stop since last week.
The cross-border fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group escalated into a full-blown war in mid-September.
Israel has bombed southern Lebanon, Beirut’s southern suburbs and the eastern Beqaa region, and has sent ground troops across the border. Hezbollah has continued to fire rockets deeper into Israel.
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