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MANDEL: Journalism student's killer sentenced to less than 4 more years in prison

James Galinato sentenced to 10 years in prison for manslaughter, but with credit has 44 months to serve

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May 21, 2025 Columnists

MANDEL: No justice for victims of deadly Lake Ontario boat crash, family says

We’ll never really know who was really behind the wheel of a deadly boat crash on Lake Ontario — but we know this: No one will be held accountable.

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May 20, 2025 Columnists

Family decries that no one is being held responsible for the May 2022 capsizing after a day and night of partying on Lake Ontario.

MANDEL: Hockey Canada sex assault trial moves to judge alone after jury concerns

But will the move hurt or help the the five accused – all members of Hockey Canada's 2018 winning world junior hockey team

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May 16, 2025 Ontario

Michael McLeod, left, and, top to bottom, Cal Foote, Dillon Dube, Carter Hart and Alex Formenton enter the London courthouse on April 22, 2025. (Derek Ruttan/The London Free Press)

MANDEL: Tow-truck warrior who intimidated lawyer loses appeal of sentence

Qalid Abderezak sentenced in 2022 to 12 years after guilty plea, less about five years for pretrial custody

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May 16, 2025 Columnists

MANDEL: Teen daughter bravely faces killer dad at sentencing for mom's murder

Girl's mom Tracy Iannuccilli was brutally murdered in homeless shelter by partner Kenneth Bellamy in 2023

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May 14, 2025 Columnists

MANDEL: Wife killer wants a chance at parole after just 10 years

Hansel Duarte Quintela used a kitchen knife to stab his wife eight times, waited hours before calling 911 and eventually pleaded guilty to second-degree murder.

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May 13, 2025 Opinion

MANDEL: Oshawa thoracic surgeon loses licence over creepy crime in Beach

What a crime against the cancer patients he could have saved.

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May 9, 2025 Columnists

Armen Parajian was stripped of his licence to practise medicine by the College of Physicians and Surgeons Discipline Tribunal.

MANDEL: Mistrial threat disrupts Michael Thompson's sex assault trial

Under cross-examination, the City Councillor was accused of wanting to 'get into the pants' of a third woman, who is not a complainant

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May 8, 2025 Toronto & GTA

Councillor Michael Thompson is pictured at Toronto City Hall on Jan. 23, 2019.

MANDEL: Toronto councillor denies sexually assaulting 2 cottage guests

Councillor Michael Thompson remembered the exact moment when his world came crashing down, a memory that had him breaking down on the witness stand for the first time.

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May 7, 2025 Columnists

MANDEL: Councillor Michael Thompson takes stand at his sex assault trial

Finally, long-time Toronto Councillor Michael Thompson took the stand to begin his side of the story that has branded him a lecherous man who sexually assaulted two women after luring them to a friend’s Muskoka cottage during the Canada Day long weekend in 2022.

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May 7, 2025 Columnists