Canadian gymnastics coach faces sex case
SARNIA, Ontario — The director of Canada’s national women’s gymnastics team was charged Friday with sexual offenses by police in Sarnia, Ontario.
Dave Brubaker, who coached the Canadian national team at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics, was charged with one count of invitation to sexual touching, three counts of sexual interference, three counts of sexual exploitation and three counts of sexual assault.
Gymnastics Canada placed Brubaker on administrative leave. Catholic media on Saturday that journalists perform a mission that is among the most “fundamental” to democratic societies.
But he reminded them to provide precise, complete and correct information and not to provide one-sided reports.
The pope said: “You shouldn’t fall into the ‘sins of communication:’ disinformation, or giving just one side, calumny that is sensationalized, or defamation, looking for things that are old news and have been dealt with and bringing them to light today.”
He called those actions a “grave sin that hurts the heart of the journalist and hurts others.” is still granting permits to more than a dozen people who hunted in that country to claim their prized ivory tusks.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded permits to 16 people in 10 states who requested them between January 2016 and as recently as October, according to Friends of Animals, a nonprofit environmental group that obtained documents through a Freedom of Information Act request. The first permit awarded this year came four days after President Donald Trump’s inauguration, and the last came shortly before a controversial proposal in November to lift the ban against trophy imports from Zimbabwe.
A public uproar over Fish and Wildlife’s lifting of the ban prompted Trump to put the decision on hold pending a review.
A Fish and Wildlife Service employee said the permits were granted because the elephants had been hunted in Zimbabwe before the agency issued a finding in 2014 that the country’s management of its elephant herd was insufficient. A ban went into effect the following year.