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E4 SATURDAY, MAY 26, 2012 BREAKING NEWS AT OTTAWACITIZEN.COM THE OTTAWA CITIZEN 'Bedroom Strangled to medium-security loses bid to be moved facility in Brockville Britannia to be site of new war memorial Must stay in maximum security, Ontario Court of Appeal rules don, was cut across the chest with a knife. Johnson's trial heard he inflicted the wound in an attempt to "crawl inside her to be safe or warm." He confessed to seven murders and another 11 sexual assaults. Brockville residents have to be relieved that Johnson won't be transferred to the city's mental-health centre, given their experience. In 1991, while at the Brockville facility, child killer Peter Woodcock murdered another psychiatric patient, stabbing and butchering him. The crime occurred on Woodcock's first escorted day pass in 35 years.

Ten years later, in September 2001, another man being treated at the Brockville facility, Paul Norman Delorme, sex- Court of Appeal rejected Johnson's latest request to leave the maximum security wing of Penetanguishene's mental-health centre, ruling that the now 64-year-old serial killer "continues to minimize the sexually deviant aspect of his offences." Johnson had appealed a ruling by the Ontario Review Board that denied him a transfer to the Brockville Mental Health Centre. He has been trying for more than a decade to win a transfer to the Brockville facility, which overlooks the St Lawrence River. Under Ontario's Mental ANDREW DUFFY Ontario's most prolific serial killer has lost his bid to be transferred to a medium-security psychiatric facility in Brockville. Known as "The Bedroom Russell Maurice Johnson was found not guilty by reason of insanity in the slayings of three women in southern Ontario in the 1970s. He later confessed to four murders which had been regarded as natural deaths by authorities because Johnson had cleaned the crime scenes so meticulously.

This week, the Ontario City waits NECO COCKBURN The city expects to soon hear results of its largest union's vote on a tentative deal that includes wage hikes of 1.91 per cent this year and next The city and the Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 503, which represents about 6,300 city work to hear results of CUPE vote on tentative deal ers, reached a tentative agreement last month after 20 days of talks. Their collective agreement expired Dec. 31. The tentative deal contains wage increases of 1.91 per cent in 2012 and 2013, according to a summary the union sent to members in ratification packages containing mail-in ballots that were to be returned Health Act, he is entitled to an annual review of his case. Held in Penetanguishene since 1978, Johnson has been diagnosed with a constellation of mental illnesses, including sexual sadism, necrophilia, voyeurism and an unspecified personality disorder.

Johnson, a body builder and factory stockroom clerk, terrorized women between London and Guelph from May 1969 to July 1977. He stalked his victims, then scaled apartment balconies once climbing 15-storeys to attack them in their beds. He strangled and raped his victims, but left most of the crime scenes in immaculate condition, once washing dishes he found in the sink. His final victim, 22-year-old Donna Veldbloom, of Lon before Monday. The deal also includes improvements to vacation as well as to overtime meal allowances, the summary states, and there are increases for mileage, tool allowances and summer student footwear allowances.

One new provision would give paramedics an annual Holidays A raXP MEXICO At the Villa del Palmar resort, a value of Rules available at JT civifization.camaya Russell Maurice Johnson lost a bid to transfer to a Brockville medium-security psychiatric facility. ually assaulted a seven-year-old girl in the washroom of a Tim Hortons. Delorme was on an escorted community pass at the time of the assault In 1989, Delorme was found not criminally responsible for the sexual assault of a 12-year-old girl in the washroom of an Ottawa community centre. Delorme pleaded guilty to assaulting the girl in Brockville and later was sentenced to an indefinite prison term as a dangerous offender. "respects the bargaining mandate approved by council." With the union vote expected to be finalized Monday, city spokesman Michael FitzPatrick expects Council will deal with the matter "as soon as practical thereafter." ncockburnottawacitizen.com Twitter.comNecoCockburn -V 'f The nation's capital is getting another memorial to honour Canada's fallen veterans, one of three military-related projects pegged for the area for which the federal government announced funding on Thursday.

The government said it will allocate up to $19,495 toward the construction of the Flanders Field Mosaic Memorial, along with $52,000 in support of two other area projects designed to pay respect to those who gave their hves for their country. The memorial, to commemorate Canadian men and women who have lost their lives in times of war, will be built in Britannia Park. Under the direction of an internationally known sculptor, students from Regina Public School will help create the walls, consisting of a porcelain mosaic of poppies on a mural background, covering approximately 156 square feet, the release said. The Carp Business Improvement Area will receive up to $50,000 to build a new West Carleton Cenotaph, and St. Paul's Anglican Church in Dunrobin will receive up to $2,000 to restore a commemorative cairn.

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