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34-year-old Shannon Johnson has been arrested after telling police officers that the reason her one-year-old son drowned in a bathtub several months ago is because she was busy playing a game on Facebook and left him to bathe unsupervised. According to the arrest affidavit for this incident—which you can find below—Johnson was playing a Facebook game called Cafe World as well as browsing her news feed and uploading videos during the time her son was in the bathtub. She apparently only checked in on him once over the course of a ten-minute period and justified it by saying that she felt "her son was preternaturally independent, and simply wanted to be alone."

One-Year-Old Boy Drowns in Bathtub As Mother Plays Games on Facebook

http://gizmodo.com/5734311/one+year+old-boy-drowns-in-bathtub-as-mother-plays-games-on-facebook
"He was walking along the street, his mother was not far behind, and these two males accosted him, very quickly physically assaulted him to the ground, took his iPhone," she said. Cops said the victim, who has an unidentified physical disability, was walking near Senator St. and Waterford Gate when the two youths confronted him, slammed him to the ground face first and stole his iPhone.

Teens rough up disabled boy, steal iPhone | Toronto & GTA | News | Toronto Sun

http://www.torontosun.com/news/torontoandgta/2010/11/05/15989506.html
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My son is gay « Nerdy Apple Bottom

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Students to take 22-minute CPR course | Toronto & GTA | News | Toronto Sun

TORONTO - Some GTA high school students will be given innovative training this month to help a person who stops breathing during a medical emergency.

San Francisco Bans Happy Meals

San Francisco has done the unthinkable. http://gizmodo.com/5680022/san-francisco-bans-happy-meals
City Councillor Mark Grimes and two Etobicoke women saved a woman about to leap off the Islington Ave. bridge and into traffic on the Gardiner Expressway during Friday night rush hour.

Councillor, two women save would-be suicide | Toronto & GTA | News | Toronto Sun

http://www.torontosun.com/news/torontoandgta/2010/10/30/15891696.html
This week in Stanton, Delaware, a 12-yo girl was confronted by a man driving a white van.

12-yo Girl Prevents Kidnapping By Pretending iPod Touch Is a Phone

http://gizmodo.com/5676840/12+yo-girl-prevents-kidnapping-by-pretending-ipod-touch-is-a-phone

Toronto Humane Society warns pets vulnerable at Halloween | Toronto & GTA | News | Toronto Sun

TORONTO - Ghosts, goblins, ghouls and gore - regardless of being fake - could lead to growls from pets at Halloween, the Toronto Humane Society warned Tuesday. While humans can spot the difference between dressed-up candy-callers, THS executive director Garth Jerome said pets do not revel in the costumes, decorations, loud noises and a constant flow of people at front doors.

Get tougher on smoking | Toronto & GTA | News | Toronto Sun

Anti-tobacco activists are calling for dramatic new measures, including smoking bans on bar and restaurant patios, licensing and limiting tobacco retailers, anti-smoking apartment leases, to butt out the dangerous habit. Ontario Health Promotion Minister Margarett Best says the province won't outlaw smoking in private apartment or condo units, but is prepared to look at the other recommendations made by the Tobacco Strategy Advisory Group in its report, Building On Our Gains, Taking Action Now: Ontario's Tobacco Control Strategy for 2011-2016. "We banned smoking in the common areas of all multi-unit housing.

Elderly driver causes $120K in damage | Toronto & GTA | News | Toronto Sun

TORONTO - An elderly driver went on a 120-metre path of destruction in a Scarborough parking lot Thursday afternoon, causing $120,000 in damage to eight vehicles but miraculously harming no one.

Black widow spider in Mississauga | Toronto & GTA | News | Toronto Sun

First Woodbridge, then Newmarket, and now, a black widow spider was spotted in Mississauga.