On Sunday, police officers drove to the residence of Heather Richard, a 32-year-old Winnipeg woman, in order to arrest her for robbery.
But the officers found the woman in a bathroom covered with blood, just a few seconds after she had given birth. One of the officers discovered a lifeless baby inside the toilet bowl and was able to reanimate it.
Richard, not knowing she was pregnant, had gone to the toilet because of stomach pains. She thought she had given birth to her intestines and was scared.
The baby suffered a cranial frature and is now in stable condition in the hospital.
Nathalie Blanchard, 29, had been on long-term sick leave for severe depression for over a year when the insurance payments stopped coming in.
When she called Manulife to inquire, the insurance company explained that they had seen pictures of her smiling in a bikini on the beach, on Facebook. On one of the pictures, she was having a good time at a Chippendales bar watching a male striptease.
1,700 guests, including Canadian Prime Minister Stepher Harper, gathered in Toronto for a military tribute. In the middle of the evening, smart phones started buzzing in a frenzy, announcing: “Lady Thatcher has passed away.”
Dimitri Sousas, Harper’s aide, was tasked with the preparation of an official statement. He immediately contacted Buckingham Palace and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who had no idea what Sousas was talking about. Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was alive and well, the Britons insisted.
It turns out the Lady Thatcher that had passed away was Transport Minister John Baird’s cat.
A Vancouver-area man has learned that if driving erratically in a clown suit is not enough to signal intoxication, then crashing into a police car certainly is. A police officer in suburban West Vancouver was searching for suspects when he spotted a man, later found to be wearing a brightly colored clown costume, driving at him on the wrong side of the road. The officer stopped his own car and turned on its emergency lights to warn the other driver, who nonetheless crashed head-on into the cruiser. There were no injuries. The 29-year-old man is facing charges including impaired driving. He “will have some explaining to do in court,” police said in a statement.
“A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It’s a proof. A proof is a proof. And when you have a good proof, it’s because it’s proven,” said Jean Chretien in an attempt to explain the necessary conditions for Canada to join the United States in the Irak war.
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