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A Canadian woman who is allegedly a neo-Nazi received a decision in her favor when Manitoba Family and Children Services returned her two children to her and dropped their pursuit to permanently remove them from her home.

The deal would involve having the seven-year-old girl and two-year-old boy slowly integrated back into the home, first on weekends and eventually back to full-time care.

The development came after the mother — who cannot be named to protect the identity of the children — recently separated from her husband, an admitted white supremacist who has made a series of disturbing online posts in recent months.

“He’s a bigot. And I have no tolerance for bigotry or ignorance,” the woman told the Free Press in an interview yesterday.

Calling herself a “white nationalist … but not a neo-Nazi skinhead,” the woman said she would abide by whatever conditions CFS wishes in order to regain custody of her children.

In Devil’s Lake, Canada, authorities believe two men and a 5 year old boy may have drowned after setting out to go fishing. A search is still underway.

DEVIL’S LAKE, Alta. - The families of three missing Edmontonians - one a five-year-old boy - wait by the shoreline of Devil’s Lake as divers continue to search the water.

Hunor LaRose, 5, his father Zsolt Voros, 40, and family friend Kyle Digout, 25, have been missing since Monday.

The three had left for a fishing trip in Morinville on Sunday. Concerned family members contacted the RCMP in Morinville on Wednesday. The RCMP did not find anything around Morinville Lake. The family then suggested that the trio might have gone to Devil’s Lake in search of better fishing and deeper waters. A van and boat trailer were found there.

It’s Home Alone Part 6. Talk about “mommy brain” — a mom and dad hopped on a flight to Winnepeg, Canada, and oops! They forgot their toddler in Vancouver.

“We had 10 minutes before boarding,” [father, Jun Parreno] said. “We were running for the gate.”

Parreno thought his son, J.M., was with his wife and the boy’s grandparents, who were running ahead of him. Meanwhile, they thought he had the 23-month-old.

The family members were sitting in separate sections of the plane, and had no idea their son was wandering around Vancouver airport alone between the security checkpoint and the gates.

A father in Canada is battling the Children’s Aid Society there who took his son into protective custody in order to give the child chemotherapy for his leukemia. The problem? Neither the boy or his family want the treatment.

A judge earlier ruled the boy is not capable of understanding the implications of refusing chemotherapy.

Two of Canada’s top pediatric oncologists have said he will die without the aggressive treatment.

The deeply spiritual youngster, who likes dancing, singing and writing stories, is to be released from hospital tomorrow after his treatment is finished, his father said. It is unclear if the CAS intends to place him in foster care or release him to his family.

Hey, don’t look at us, we don’t look for these pit bull stories on purpose. If someone has a “pug mauling child” story they want to send our way, feel free.

A boy has undergone three hours of surgery and required more than 100 stitches to close bite wounds inflicted by a pit bull.

Sean Bajwa, 11, was playing at the playground at Cedar Hills elementary at about 4:30 p.m. Sunday when a pair of pit bull dogs came charging at him and at least one of them pounced.

Jordan Slezak, 20, who lives near the school, was chatting with his mom when suddenly they heard the boy screaming. Looking out of his house to see a dog tugging at Bajwa’s leg, Slezak grabbed a bat, leapt over the fence in his bare feet and beat the pit bull back. Slezak had to crack the dog twice over the head before it let go of the child.

VoIP, or “Voice Over Internet Protocol”, is becoming a popular alternative to land based phones. But what’s buried in the fine print is something most VoIP customers don’t think about — the way 911 emergency calls are handled differently than the phone company.

Sylvia Luck called 911 on Tuesday night using a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) phone — which routes calls through the Internet — after her nephew, Elijah, appeared to be in medical distress, his left hand and leg quivering. An ambulance arrived more than 30 minutes later, and only after a neighbour called 911 from a land line.

Alison George, a spokeswoman for Comwave Telecom Inc., the VoIP provider for the Luck family, said its call centre heeded Ms. Luck’s plea and sent an ambulance to the address on file. Unfortunately, it was the family’s former address in suburban Toronto.

Internet-based phone services do not relay the caller’s location. When a land line is used, emergency services can see the person’s name, address and phone number.

Chalk this up as another reason to bank cord blood. A couple in British Columbia are trying to have a baby for pretty much only one reason — to collect the stem cells from the infant’s umbilical cord blood to help their 8-year-old son battle leukemia. We get it — we’re certainly not going to pretend that we know the lengths we would go through to save our child. But you have to admit it’s an odd way to begin a parent/child bond.

A Port Coquitlam, B.C., couple is hoping to battle their eight-year-old son’s leukemia by having a so-called saviour baby, even though they admit their chances of success are slim.

“There are such things as miracles, so we are going to hope for that,” Pam Obadia told CBC Monday morning.

Pam and her husband Michael Obadia, both 47, are trying to have another child so they can use stem cells from the umbilical cord blood to help their son Ben beat leukemia.

The process is called pre-implantation genetic diagnosis and involves pre-screening embryos before the in vitro fertilization procedure to find one that matches their son’s tissue type.

Whoops!

Two-year-old Shaylyn Lejoure had a memorable driving experience on Wednesday morning.

About 11 a.m., the toddler drove the family car into a room at the Victoria Park Inn. No one was injured in the accident.

And it wasn’t even the first time Wednesday that someone drove into a Regina building: a woman in her 70s had hit a pub earlier in the morning.

A Bellingham Washington boy, around the age of 7 years old, went missing in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, while he and his family were on vacation. He disappeared on a beach where he was last seen on a concrete slab near the ocean waves. His parents desperately tried to find him in the ocean but saw nothing. The boy has ADHD and hope continues as rescuers continue to search.

The not knowing must be maddening for the parents.

TOFINO, B.C. — Searchers were out again this morning in a desperate attempt to find a seven-year-old boy who disappeared from a beach in Tofino, B.C., a day earlier.

William Pilkenton was last seen by his parents along the shore in the small coastal Vancouver Island community, where the family was on holiday.

The search area was expanded today, with police and search and rescue workers assisted by members of the public.

We could maybe see this as proper justice if it was a certainty the infant was stillborn, but as that fact is still up in the air, it really smacks that this chick got away with infanticide:

A New Brunswick woman who dismembered and burned the body of her newborn baby in a fire pit last year will not have to go to jail.

Instead, Becky Sue Morrow, 27, was sentenced in provincial court Friday to two concurrent 14-month conditional sentences to be served in the community. She pleaded guilty last June to burning her baby’s body in an effort to hide his birth…

According to police testimony last March, Morrow had given birth to her son while sitting on her bathroom toilet. She then wrapped him in a blanket and put him in a box.

The next day, she burned the box in a fire pit behind her house, police said.

It was never determined if the baby was still alive when it was put in the fire pit.

Three major brands of polycarbonate baby bottles sold in Canada — Gerber, Avent and Playtex — were tested by a Toronto environmental group and were found to leach the chemical BPA, especially when heated. The Playtex bottles leached the chemical whether heated or not. The true effects of BPA is still under debate, but we think everyone can agree that the less chemicals ingested by our kids, the better.

Tests conducted on three major brands of polycarbonate baby bottles sold in Canada found products from all the manufacturers leached detectable amounts of bisphenol A, a synthetic chemical that mimics the hormone estrogen and is a major component in many types of plastic.

The testing was conducted by Environmental Defence, a Toronto environmental group that issued its findings Thursday and is the first publicly available information on the seepage of BPA from polycarbonate baby bottles sold in the country.

The highest levels were found after the bottles were heated, which the group said was done to simulate the effects on the plastic of parents’ subjecting the containers to repeated high-temperature dish washing.

A father that graphically sexually abused his toddler daughter on the internet, was given only 4 years. Apparently, the suffering of a little girl just isn’t all that important in Canada.

He will only serve 20 more months for time served.

What a gross injustice!

TORONTO — A Canadian man who sexually abused his 4-year-old daughter live on the Internet so another man could watch was sentenced Thursday to four years in prison.

An undercover detective who played a key role in catching the 35-year-old man criticized the judge’s sentence as too lenient.

The father, whose name was not released to protect the identity of his daughter, was arrested in October 2006, just hours after he used a Webcam to expose his daughter to another man during a chat room conversation.

The father from St. Thomas, Ontario, pleaded guilty in October to seven criminal charges.

Some are saying that the car seat and airplane restraints are credited with saving this toddlers life, as the sole surviver of a plane crash:

GOLDEN, B.C. — A three-year-old girl is the sole survivor of a plane crash that killed two adults near Golden in southeastern B.C.

The Cessna 172 was heading to Edmonton and had just taken off from Golden when it went down early Sunday afternoon in the Blaeberry River area, 18 kilometres northwest of the town.

Jehovah’s Witness parents tried to deny their premature babies life saving blood transfusions after a few of them experienced seizures and other very serious complications, due to their religious convictions.

Fortunately, Canada protects children from parents in cases where their parents beliefs will put the children at grave risk.

VANCOUVER (CP) — The rights of children in need of potentially life-saving medical treatment should trump any rights of their parents, a lawyer argued Monday in a case involving blood transfusions given to four surviving sextuplets.