Vancouver police say 3 unprovoked stranger assaults took place in 1 day - Global News

The Vancouver Police Department (VPD) is looking for assistance in identifying the suspects in three separate unprovoked stranger assaults that all happened on Thursday, Oct. 15. A 73-year-old woman was the victim of the first assault, which occurred at Victory Square on Hastings at around 6:10 a.m.

A 24-year-old man has been charged after allegedly sexually assualting two students after posing as one at a Scarborough school. Toronto police were called to the area of Danforth Avenue and Birchmount Road on Oct. 9 for reports of a sexual assault.

A Guelph Police Service patch can be seen on an officer's shoulder. (CityNews file photo) Police in Guelph are investigating after reports a woman was woken up in her bedroom by a stranger pulling off her blanket.

On Monday, Albertans vote on whether to stay in Canada or hold another binding referendum on quitting Canada. If the vote goes as polls suggest, a majority of Albertans will mark an X to stay in Confederation, and Premier Danielle Smith has said if that’s so, she expects everyone to accept it and move on. Leaders of the independence movement contest that. And political watchers are divided about whether separation — previously a fringe sentiment — will now be a prominent, permanent feature of Alberta’s political landscape, as in Quebec. Julian Castro-Rea, a political-science professor at the University of Alberta who studies the separation debates in Quebec and Alberta, believes as long as Alberta feels alienated from the Canadian capital — feeling that Ottawa benefits from Alberta’s resource economy without giving back — the movement will have fuel. “Even if the referendum is lost, the westernization will still be around, because it’s kind of a way which, traditionally, Albertans have related to the rest of Canada,” says Castro-Rea, who believes western alienation may remain indefinitely. Story continues below advertisement