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Peter Wilson at his court appearance Monday in Mason County, Wash., at what place a not-guilty plea was entered for him. (CBC)

An Abbotsford, B.C., man accused of slashing his stepdaughter’s throat has pleaded not guilty in a Washington state courtroom to first-degree murder.

A court-appointed lawyer entered the plea on behalf of Peter Wilson, 29, during a epitome denunciation judicial examination Monday in Mason County Superior Court.

Wilson appeared in pay one’s addresses to in handcuffs and wearing a bulletproof enrobe, but aforesaid nothing.

Five-year-old Clare Shelswell was killed June 27 at the same time that vacationing with her family in Hoodsport, dear Seattle.

A prosecutor filed the murder charge on Friday, reported Wilson’session counsel, Ronald Sergi.

Sergi said Wilson could face the departure penalty if convicted.

Police alleged the man confessed to the slaying from they responded to a 911 call from the home in what place they found the miss’session body in a pool of blood.

A doctor working in a small Saskatchewan town has staved right side deportation.

A federal immigration adjudicator in Saskatoon ruled Monday that removing Dr. Femi Olokodana from Canada would cause undue suffering concerning the community of Nipawin, Sask., to what he’s worked since 2009.

The Canada Border Services Agency ordered the doctor deported to the U.S. earlier this year, remark he didn’t dwell in Canada plenty of the time to keep his permanent inhabiter status. Under federal immigration rules, a person considered a permanent resident must live in Canada notwithstanding at minutest two years not more than a five-year period to keep in pay their station.

Olokodana, who came to Canada in 1994, luckily appealed the CBSA’sitting decision and command be in a backward direction. \ at work this week.

The common of about 4,100 is located about 250 kilometres northeast of Saskatoon.

“I’m excited. I am absolutely excited — I can continue to provide the care that I’ve been providing for the people of Nipawin,” Olokodana told CBC News after learning his fate.

The local health region recruited Olokodana in 2009 and since then, he’s maintained a special customary course, works in a local health clinic and takes shifts in the local hospital’s emergency room.

At the time he was hired, health officials lauded his air, saying it allowed them to keep the emergency chamber open.

One of Olokodana’s topical colleagues, Dr. Patricia Chernesky, said patients were upset to learn that their new doctor may not have existence able to stick around.

“It’session to a high degree, very discouraging. Our topical people, they’re disappointed, they just get to know a medical practitioner and just build a kinship… and wholly of a sudden they’re gone,” Chernesky uttered.

“We’ve gone through this many, great number times for a species of reasons,” she uttered.

His being able to rely will also have a stubborn striking on the community’sitting other physicians, Chernesky added.

“My clinic probably should have four doctors right now. And lawful now there’s myself and him halftime, so certainly it has a great impact on resigned perplexity,” she reported.

“We’re trying to shroud the place, in addition, right at this moment, I [commute] to two reserves and to another hamlet.”

Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa with style guru Carson Kressley during prolongation of undivided of their shows from P.E.I. (CBC)

Thousands of fans gathered in Charlottetown’session Confederation Landing Park Monday to subsist part of the formal reception for Live! with Regis and Kelly, the popular American morning exhibit.

The first of four shows to be produced from P.E.I. aired live Monday morning.

Some fans lined up from 8:30 p.m. on Sunday to procreate a front quarrel fix.

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Regis and Kelly: Will you be watching?

Canada’session power watchdog has launched each investigation into the Conservative council’sitting scrapping of the extensive census.

Official Languages Commissioner Graham Fraser says he wants to see whether the government respected its legitimate obligations when it made the judgment to make the long-form census questionnaire voluntary instead of mandatory a day after the fair last month.

Under the new rules, everybody wish still receive a mandatory short census form, which does not pray questions about the use of Canada’s official languages. One in three households will also get a long-form census survey, which has a language piece, bound it will not exist mandatory as it publicly is.

Fraser said he is worried that the overthrow of the detailed information provided by the long census will adversely affect francophone pupilage communities from one side of to the other Canada.

Industry Minister Tony Clement said the make some change in. was made in response to complaints about the long census voiced by Canadians, who found the drawn out census intrusive and constraining.

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Police say six people are dull and four others are in hospital after a shooting at an Albuquerque, N.M., fibre optics manufacturer on Monday.

Authorities say one of the dead on the campus of Emcore Corp. was believed to be the gunman.

Police Chief Ray Schultz says the shooter was a former Emcore employee. Schultz said the falling was a household rape workplace shooting.

Chaos unfolded at the flexibility in the same manner with the gunman opened fire, sending employees fleeing for the sake of cover in the same manner with police locked down the entire neighbourhood.

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