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Missing Hamilton father Tim Bosma found dead, remains burned: police
Hamilton Police say that missing Ancaster, Ont. father Tim Bosma has been found dead. Police said the remains of Bosma were found burned.
Bosma, 32, went missing on May 6 after he went on a test drive with two men interested in buying his black Dodge Ram truck.
Hamilton Police Chief Glenn De Caire did not indicate in a short statement to the media where Bosma’s body was found or what the cause of death was.
“A number of searches have taken place and human remains have been located,” he said. “We are convinced by the totality of the evidence, that these are the remains of Tim Bosma. The evidence indicates that the remains have been burned.
“This investigation is long from over,” he said. “We require more time to work as we pursue those that are responsible for Tim’s death.” (Family handout)
‘He took off like a shot’: Hamilton gym manager recalls day she sprinted after teenage vandal — and caught him
It is not easy running in black dress shoes.
Especially when it is January and the sidewalks are a slushy mess, and especially when you are 36-years-old and wearing dress pants in addition to dress shoes, and not merely out for a casual jog but sprinting, flat-out, like Florence Griffith Joyner, circa 1988, in hot pursuit of a teenager with the physique of a high school football player who had just kicked in a glass door at the fitness club where you work as the manager.
And being a responsible manager, as Lindsay Geddes at the Lime Ridge Mall GoodLife fitness club in Hamilton most definitely is, there simply wasn’t time to fret about footwear choices. There was only time to either stay put or take action on that January day in 2012. Ms. Geddes, a once-upon-a-time high school soccer star, with shoulder length blond hair and a Dad who was a cop, isn’t your sit tight and call 911 type.
“He was a bigger boy, a lot taller than I am,” Ms. Geddes tells me. “I came out of the gym and said, ‘Hey, you kicked our door in.’ And he started to walk away. Then he bolted.”
He took off like a shot.
“I thought, you know what, that’s just not right — you need to take responsibility for what you did — and so I followed him,” Ms. Geddes says. “I was on a mission. I could have run all day.” (Glenn Lowson for the National Post)
How a team of conservationists poisoned a pond full of black-market fish to save a threatened salamander population
Chris Firth-Eagland, head of the Hamilton Conservation Authority, was alone on a midnight walk near an inauspicious pond in a protected oasis when he stumbled upon a group of men with spotlights, fishing nets and enormous plastic bags, caught in the act of harvesting carp from the water.
It was, he realized instantly, the solution to a distressing mystery: how the sensitive, protected, public pond and another one nearby – two of the few remaining homes for an endangered species of salamander – had become so infested with invasive carp that the rare amphibians had all but disappeared, especially since the pond had no connection to any stream.
To Mr. Firth-Eagland, it was now clear: someone was stocking the pond as a black market breeding pool in a commercial fishing operation, with the koi carp likely being sold either as ornamental fish stock or as food to restaurants.
Outraged, he confronted the men, chasing them off into the night with his walking stick.
Discovering the source of the conservation disaster was the easy part. Trying to bring the Jefferson salamanders back to two of its few remaining homes required more ingenuity. It led the conservation authority to break its own rules; it poisoned both ponds. (Wikimedia Commons)
Gay porn movie interrupts morning news broadcast at Hamilton TV station
Viewers watching a TV station in Hamilton, Ont., Friday morning noticed the newscasters onscreen were wearing less clothing than normal.
At 9:30 a.m., the CHCH broadcast was replaced with a few minutes of hardcore gay pornography instead of the news, prompting outrage from many viewers and a slew of apologies from the station.
“We have been doing a lot of apologizing this morning,” said Mike Katrycz, the vice-president of news at CHCH.
Escape from L.A.: On the set of The Black Marks with Kurt Russell and Jay Baruchel
It’s three weeks into filming The Black Marks, a heist film written and directed by Jonathan Sobol. Today, the cast and crew are at the Ancaster Fairgrounds in Hamilton, Ont., shooting the scene that introduces Crunch (Kurt Russell), a third-rate daredevil and art thief who is looking worn from a stint in jail; his dubious love interest, Lola (Katheryn Winnick); and his sidekick, Francie (Jay Baruchel). Photos: Darren Calabrese/National Post
Speed traps: 25 cities to have your radar up in
Windsor is the second-worst city in all of the U.S. and Canada for speed traps, according to the National Motorists Association.
Earlier this week, the U.S.-based organization released a list of the 25 North American communities with the highest number of reported speed trap locations over the past two years.
Windsor was ranked No. 2, topped only by Livonia, Michigan. Orlando, Las Vegas and Denver took third, fourth and fifth place, respectively. (Photo: Dan Janisse/The Windsor Star)
Forget the Man In White: A look at Canada’s other (alleged) sports thefts
Accusations the Toronto Blue Jays profited from the nefariousness of a Man In White positioned in the outfield are not the first leveled against the franchise, nor are they even the most entertaining of the maple-dipped allegations of theft in Canadian sports. (Photo: Peter J. Thompson/National Post)
N.Z. students immortalize school in Google Earth with giant penis
New Zealand students have put their school on the map by etching giant phallic symbols onto its playing fields with weedkiller, in a prank immortalized on Google Earth.
While the stunt took place more than two years ago, its effects coincided with satellites taking photographs of Hamilton for Google Earth, meaning web users cop an eyeful whenever they view Fairfield College.
Local resident David McQuoid told the Waikato Times he was online searching for a property when he came across the crude etchings, some of which measure almost 15 metres long.
“At first I thought it was a large piece of art work,” he told the newspaper.
