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Did you know that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle — the famed author of Sherlock Holmes — was once tasked to solve a real life crime? The case involved a savage murder, stolen jewelry, an international manhunt, and a wily maidservant who went to her grave knowing far more about the killing than she had revealed…But I’m getting ahead of myself. So let’s get our pipes and funny hats and start from the beginning.The murdahAt 82 years old, and living in one of the wealthy neighborhoods of Glasgow (West Princes Street), Marion Gilchrist had a quiet life. She lived alone, but for her hired help, a maid named Helen Lambie.On December 21st, 1908, Lambie left Gilchrist alone “to fetch the evening newspaper.” Just after 7:00 PM someone came into Gilchrist’s house, attacked, and beat the elderly woman to death.According to Lambie, she returned from her errand in time to hear a noise in the house then see a man rushing down the stairs. She then found her employer dead on the dining room floor. Papers in the house were “ransacked.” Money lying in plain sight was untouched, as was a substantial jewelry collection.The only thing missing was a diamond brooch.Lambie alerted the authorities. A doctor identified a chair leg as the murder weapon. There was no sign of forced entry.Befuddled and corrupt police just wanted a suspectGiven the lack of forced entry, police assumed Gilchrist had known the attacker. Within 5 days, the authorities arrested a suspect: Oscar Slater. Lambie even identified him as the man she’d seen running out of the house that night.Slater, a 36-year-old Jewish man, was a bit of a traveler. He’d previously lived in New York, Paris, Brussels, and Glasgow. He and his wife had rented a flat near Gilchrist’s home.Being short on money, Slater had apparently pawned a brooch of his own earlier that month.The police found out about the pawned brooch when Slater tried to sell the slip for a ticket to America. They saw a suspect attempting to flee the country. However, Lambie was asked to identify the brooch in the pawnshop. She said it wasn’t the stolen item.The police were undeterred. Despite not being one, they suspected Slater of being a pimp since the man’s wife had worked at a music hall and was thought to “entertain men at home in [her husband’s] absence.” Oh and according to reports, they had stated:“All murders are committed by undesirables; Oscar Slater is an undesirable; therefore, Oscar Slater committed the Gilchrist murder.”(Dynamite logic, of course!)The game is afootSlater, too trusting the judicial system, waved extradition and came back to Glasgow to stand trial. Maybe he thought the evidence was lacking. Maybe he just thought innocence would win out. Either way, he was wrong.The Scottish court convicted and sentenced Slater to death in 1909. The verdict generated quite the public outcry. Thus, though scheduled for execution, Slater’s lawyer gathered signatures for a petition and successfully got his client’s sentence commuted – he was now sentenced to life in prison.The public outcry found its way to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s ears. And his Holmes-inspiring mind did not like what it heard.The science of deductionSo in 1909, the famed author began to re-examine the facts of the case, using some Sherlockian methods. And he noticed some glaring holes in the police’s case.The broach Slater had pawned belonged to a friend, a woman who testified to the fact. And some rumors surfaced that a few witnesses in the police’s case had been coached. This included their star witness, Lambie.This first examination spurred Doyle further. He interviewed new witnesses. He searched for additional evidence. (He even covered some of Slater’s legal fees). In 1912, Doyle published his findings in The Case of Oscar Slater. However, it wasn’t enough to garner a retrial. He lost hope and set it aside.Seven years later, the widow of a Glasgow police officer blew the thing wide open when she reached out to Doyle. She revealed that her husband had kept documents revealing withheld evidence hidden from the public. These documents contained evidence of suspects within Gilchrist’s family – suspects who apparently had powerful friends.Justice is served, far far too lateA journalist published a piece on the case, highlighting Doyle’s earlier work. At around this same time, Doyle also received a personal plea from Slater himself. The falsely accused man wanted Doyle to keep digging.So he did.Unfortunately, it took years before Slater was deemed innocent. He was not released from prison until 1927, nearly 20 years after the murder itself. His name was cleared.The real killer “remains unknown.” (sure he does, sure.)Get your magnifying glass and examine deeperWild, huh? Stinks that it took so long to prove Slater’s innocence, but at least it happened I guess. If you want to check out some longer reads on this one:Here’s a piece from the New York Times on the story that includes a brief review of Margalit Fox’s book on the subject via /r/books https://ift.tt/3rG0CgH

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AMA Starts at 7:00pm EST!Edit: Okay – let’s do thisEdit 2: Well that’s it for now. Thank you everyone for the thoughtful questions, I did my best to answer thoroughly and thoughtfully. I know this group is apolitical and I sincerely thank you for having me tonight – I’m looking forward to continue supporting your movement and taking Adam Vaughan to task on housing policy. If anybody would like to discuss the housing crisis with me, I’m all ears and always available at [amanda.rosenstock@greenparty.ca](mailto:amanda.rosenstock@greenparty.ca). I’ll try to reply to some more questions in the morning. Goodnight and thanks for the discourse!Hi everyone!As a long time fan and supporter of this movement, I’m excited to take a break from hitting the phones to be here tonight! There’s A LOT I’d like to say in this post about the affordability crisis but I’ll try to hold back and save it for the Q+A. The housing crisis in Canada has gotten out of hand and I’m ready to challenge our elected officials on their inactions so far.My position is simple: housing is a human right, and we must immediately enact policy that reflects this. As a Green I’m fighting for Ecological, Social, and Economic justice. The housing crisis bridges all 3 and it’s making people feel hopeless. We’re not here to listen to why I’m a Green though, we’re here to talk housing, which is compounding inequality in Canada at record rates.You want solutions? I’ve got some actionable ideas to get the discussion started:Aggressive policy-driven commitments to prioritize single-family homes as primary residencesBringing back tax incentives that will help developers build more purpose-built rentalsProvide sustainable capital investments for supportive housing to end chronic homelessnessImmediate creation and enforcement of effective AML regulations in the Canadian Housing MarketI have plenty more, from deconstructing the bidding process in home sales to zoning bylaw enhancements, but those aren’t up to the government of Canada. This crisis falls on all levels of government working together and I will continue to advocate for strong federal policy which will enable success at the other levels.We need to ditch the populism and start putting people-first in politics because our system is cracking along party lines, and Canadians will once again be left to pick up the tab.We can get this done, Canada. And it starts with open, respectful, and honest political discourse like this. AMA!Additional Links:Support my campaign: https://ift.tt/36Xeycs me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ajrosenstockOne of my recent articles on affordable housing: https://ift.tt/3y2n7ig GPC website to volunteer with us: https://www.sfygpc.ca/ via /r/canadahousing https://ift.tt/3wWAJdA

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Before you read the headline and attempt to downvote me to oblivion, consider a few things:The federal government has released guidance for vaccinated individuals, basically saying it’s safe to do whatever you want without masks. They say to consider continuing to wear a mask if you’re immunocompromised or have underlying conditions.Everywhere in the world with comparable vaccine procurement (notice how I said procurement and not rates, looking at you 🇺🇸) has far less restrictions than us. Step 3 is a good start, but we are still far more restricted than people in BC, Alberta, Europe, and the US.We have one of the highest vaccine rates in the world! 80% of our eligible population has one shot, we’re closing in on 60% with 2!! (We probably have already hit it tbh, I haven’t looked at these numbers in a while)When your entire population (that could be harmed) by covid has the option to get two shots, that’s the best the government can do. “You can lead the horse to the water, but you can’t make him drink”. Anti-vaxxers are going to be stupid, we can’t force them to get a shot.Catching covid when you’re fully vaccinated isn’t a big deal. The CDC tracks breakthrough cases (in 48 states) of C19 in the US. As of July 6th, there were 5186 breakthrough cases that led to hospitalization or death after being fully vaccinated. The number of people fully vaccinated in the US is 157 million. This math yields a 0.003% chance of dying or being hospitalized from C19 after vaccination.To conclude, I want to clarify something: COVID-19 is a serious disease. There’s a reason why the WHO declared it a global pandemic. If you haven’t already, go get vaccinated. I am double vaccinated myself.But now that a majority of our eligible population is double vaccinated, it’s time to relax a bit about covid. It’s dangerous to unvaccinated people, yes. But if you’re vaccinated, you are safe. We can safely reopen, we can safely loosen way more restrictions than we already have. I hope for some of you, this helps – I just want to return to normal 🙂EDIT: I’m seeing a lot of downvotes (as expected), and I’d love to hear why. I think the discussion about covid anxiety and Ontario’s level of restrictions has become somewhat taboo, if you lean too far either way you’re often easily labelled. If this post offended you, or you felt the need to downvote it, please let me know why 🤝 Id love to talk about it with you👍 via /r/ontario https://ift.tt/3eJucgf

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Long time lurker here, I just wanted to share my story and let you guys know that imo the grass is definitely greener on the other side. It took us 21 months before we became homeowners after moving from ontario.My girlfriend and I are civil engineers and live in Wisconsin, USA. We moved here after I lost my job in ontario in 2019. Wisconsin is a beautiful place but it definitely wouldn’t have been either of ours first choice 😅We kind of moved here on a whim tbh but it’s nice here, the people are nice, the weather and terrain feel like northern ontario. It doesn’t feel too far away from home except the people are alot more conservative and love their guns. I am a visible minority and I really do not feel unsafe ever. I’ve had two interactions with the cops both for speeding and they were both professional.The visa process was extremely easy, I have a TN visa and it allows me to live and work and invest in the US. It took my girlfriend about 3 weeks to find a job with comparable pay and benefits.I had another job on the table but this one in the US would pay me 40% more if you converted in $cad. My cost of living is definitely less then half of what it would be in ontario if we still lived there.We have a 1200 sqft 2 bed 2 bath in an upstairs condo/townhouse style apartment with a garage and naturey views with tons of birds and wildlife that we pay $1079 for. We just closed on a 3bed/2bath for just over 300k.If you’re young, have a degree that’s compatible with nafta, it’s definitely worth considering moving down here (or up here in my case). If you have a decent job, you’re going to have good healthcare coverage, it’s more confusing that in Canada but it’s nots as Draconian as people make it out to be. There are alot more incentives and opportunities in the US then in Canada imo. There’s real industry not just a speculative housing bubble…I’m sorry if it sounds like I am bragging but Canada’s housing is not sustainable and heavily manipulated imo. This can’t last and there’s a whole generation mission out on housing.. politicians don’t want to address it and eventually more and more people are going to do what I did … Leave.TLDR: girlfriend and I moved to the US and within 2 years we became homeowners via /r/canadahousing https://ift.tt/3yJqKJY

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