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The boy cut down from a balcony of the Bromley Square apartment building. (Google Street View)

A 10-year-old boy is dead after falling from the 28th-floor balcony of a Calgary highrise.

Emergency crews who were called to 123 10th Ave. S.W. at about 2:15 p.farrago. MT on Tuesday institute the stripling’s body in the parking lot of the Bromley Square room edifice.

It’s believed the fall was accidental, said police who are investigating.

“We’ve been tending to the parents, who are obviously very distraught,” related Insp. Darren Cave, who added that counsellors are also helping witnesses. “They’ve experienced something rather traumatic as accurately.”

Cave said the boy’session chief was at the exhibition when police arrived, under which circumstances the father arrived a short proper time later.

Justin MacIntyre, who moved into the building a month ago, said he was moreover shaken to footprint out onto his balcony on the 26th get the better of, what one. overlooks the parking lot.

“It’s a shock,” he said.

Duty Insp. Steve Ellefson said the male child was last seen reading onward the balcony.

Senior RCMP members own complained about Commissioner William Elliott to some of the highest levels of government on couple separate occasions in the ended week. (Pawel Dwulit/Canadian Press)The federal government is investigating allegations by older Mounties that RCMP Commissioner William Elliott is abusive and insulting, Public Safety Minister Vic Toews said Tuesday.

“Some comments have come to my attention fairly recently and we are doing some calculus to take care whether these concerns are merited,” he said.

Toews related the complaints are “essentially an internal matter in the RCMP, on the contrary united that concerns me because of the drive firmly together the RCMP require generally throughout the country.”

This is a stressful time in the place of the force, which is implementing sweeping reforms, he said.

CBC News reported Monday that as many for the reason that 10 senior members of the drive, including deputy commissioners Tim Killam and Raf Souccar, be delivered of complained to Toews and to the Prime Minister’s Office well-nigh Elliott’s conduct.

Behaviour at issue

The officers consider accused Elliott of being verbally vituperative, closed-minded, magisterial and insulting. One complaint described an enraged Elliott throwing papers at each officer.

Elliott, the first civilian to lead the Mounties, was appointed by Prime Minister Stephen Harper in July 2007.

Veteran journalist Paul Palango, who has written extensively with respect to the RCMP, says Elliott’s inhuman estimation has been apparent considering his appointment.

“From the unoccupied time he took from one side to the other, [he] was reducing assistant commissioners and deputy commissioners to tears,” he told CBC News. “Some wanted to leave the force. Some did farewell the legion because of his condition of mind and his behaviour.”

Last year, Elliott attended a $44,000 course in Arizona that dealt with behavioural barriers to issue, the CBC’s Alison Crawford reported.

He subsequently acknowledged to employees in a memo that he learned his actions be possible to formerly require negative impacts.

Whether it’s warranted, there’s in no degree doubt the staff protest against the commissioner’s behaviour is unprecedented. The RCMP normally keep their problems securely private.

“The fact that they have broken ranks not above that which is effectively a paramilitary organization shows that, I think, there are more deep fissures,” Rob Gordon, director of the school of criminology at Simon Fraser University, told CBC News.

Friends expose up a Facebook group in memory of Dean Duchenne, who died subsequent a lightning clash viewed like he was working onward each Alberta ranch. (Facebook)

A South African man working on in any degree agricultural commutation in southern Alberta has died after being hit by lightning.

Dean Duchenne, 22, was struck July 22 at a ranch northwest of Stavely, said RCMP on Tuesday. He and one more worker were repairing a fence when they got caught in a storm, according to reports.

A co-worker performed CPR upon the body Duchenne until difficulty crews arrived. He was taken to the High River Hospital before reality transferred to the Foothills hospital in Calgary.

Duchenne died the next morning.

His lineage and the South African Embassy are formation arrangements to transport his body back to his native country.

Friends set up a Facebook group to share their memories of Duchenne.

“Dean you were always the guy cracking up a sally and being the the vital spark of any party or situation,” wrote Claire Trent. “Seeing your guys photos of your time overseas show excellent memories … Rest in peace. I know you are going to exist missed by means of many people!”

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A pipeline carrying oil to Sarnia, Ont., has leaked more than three million litres of oil into a creek in southwestern Michigan, impacting birds and wildlife.

The pipe belongs to Calgary-based Enbridge Inc., and carries unripe oil from Griffith, Ind., to Sarnia.

The leak in the row, known since the Lakehead System, occurred Monday morning approach the company’s Marshall, Mich., pumping business near Battle Creek, Enbridge has confirmed.

At least 19,500 barrels of oil spilled into the fast-flowing creek, which flows into the Kalamazoo River.

“We know that leak has had a major impulse on rabble in that common and forward the environment and on wildlife,” said Enbridge spokeswoman Gina Jordan.

“Our crews are currently working on containment using booms and oil skimmers and vacuum trucks.”

Jordan said the company is working closely with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

“There are confirmed reports of fowl of the air’s impacted by the oil … we’re also working with Focus Wildlife, a reinvestiture contractor who is on site and they are setting up a decontamination and handling site against any feigned wildlife,” said Jordan.

Enbridge does not notwithstanding know which caused the pipe to crevice, Jordan said.

“We’re true abundant focused on the cleanup of the spill, in that place will have being a thorough investigation of the incident,” she related.

The Chevrolet Volt is expected to sell for $41,000 US no greater degree of than will be eligible toward a treaty conduct lessen. (J. Scott Applewhite/Associated Press)

General Motors Co. says its Chevrolet Volt electric car will require to be paid $41,000 US while it goes in succession demand in the United States in November.

The price is on the eve $8,000 more than its closest emulating, the all-electric Nissan Leaf.

The Volt is not expected to go on sale in Canada until July of 2011.

GM will also offer a $350-per-month let deal that’s about equal to the Leaf’s.

Both cars are eligible for a U.S.-government federal tax belief that will cut their prices through $7,500.

The Volt runs on battery potentate but has a small gas engine to make electricity one time the battery runs down.

An all-electric Nissan Leaf is displayed in May in Tennessee. The Leaf will barter for less than the Chevrolet Volt. (Mark Humphrey/Associated Press)The four-door sedan can press up to 40 miles without interruption a fully charged battery.

The Leaf can go up to 100 miles on a lade only doesn’t have a gas engine.

It goes on sale in December.

GM says the Volt is a better importance, because it eliminates worries about running without of power.

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