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Home > Tags > In the NewsCourtroom psychiatrist charged in sex assault
Dr. Aubrey Levin, a Calgary psychiatrist who has worked extensively with justice officials on criminal cases, has been charged with sexual assault. Police say a 36-year-old man, one of Levin’s long-term patients, alleges he was sexually assaulted repeatedly by Levin over a period of time. Levin, 71, has regularly testified in court cases as an [...]
Senior double-billed while waiting for placement
The family of a 99-year-old woman wants to know why she was double-billed while waiting for a long-term care bed…
Bureaucrat Admits Theft of $1.2 M from Ill and Vulnerable
The woman’s secret source of wealth was unearthed in a Toronto courtroom, as Biazar pleaded guilty to stealing more than $1.23-million from mentally ill, homeless and even dead people whose interests she was supposed to be protecting…
B.C. Public Guardian Accused of Abusing Rights
“The house had been ransacked,” the elderly B.C. woman told CBC News, her voice shaking…
Province Taking Knife to Long-term Care
A few nights ago, I discovered my 75-year-old father trying to eat his soup with a knife…
Dangerous Drugs Continue to be Prescribed to Seniors: CBC report
Risperdal, Seroquel, Zyprexa & Clozaril Doctors are continuing to prescribe drugs dangerous to seniors in spite of government warnings, a CBC News investigation reveals. More than two years ago, CBC News first reported that more than a million seniors were prescribed atypical antipsychotics. Atypical antipsychotics are specific kinds of antipsychotic drugs. They are considered by [...]
The Long Term Bed Crisis
At Alberta Hospital Edmonton, two hundred and forty six or more geriatric beds have been closed…
Deadly Scalding in Long Term Care Centre
It’s not easy to imagine Dianne Poff’s life. But the Saskatchewan woman’s death was especially unimaginable. In 1955, when she was nine months old, Ms. Poff contracted meningitis. She was never able to speak or move her limbs…
Suspect Charged in Theft of Elderly Woman’s Rings
Police arrested a 47-year-old man Friday morning in connection with the theft of rings from the fingers of an elderly woman in Vancouver General hospital…
Public Trustee Alberta theft
A provincial government trustee is accused of stealing an elderly hospitalized woman’s most valuable possession by swapping her $32,000 diamond for a nearly worthless cubic zirconium…
Financial Advisor Defrauds Clients, Mother
A man who stole $10,000 from his own mother and took hundreds of thousands from strangers was sentenced…
Convicted Thief Bryan Andrew Casavant Targets Elderly and Disabled
A Canada wide warrant has been issued fo Bryan Andrew Casavant, 46, who was convicted September 2006 for robbing and swindling elderly, physically disabled victims and cancer patients…
Victorian-era workhouses still thrive in modern Alberta
I would like to respond to Fred McMahon’s suggestion that the poor belong in the workhouse…
NorQuest College Honours Senior Student Flora L’Heureux
An Edmonton senior studying at a local college despite suffering personal setbacks including a stroke has been recognized for her efforts…