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A New Brunswick man accused of kidnapping a woman has said he knew her previously, contrary to the woman’s testimony that she had no idea who he was.

The woman, who cannot be named, said she was abducted at knifepoint on February 26 2010 in the parking lot of a mall by Romeo Cormier, 63, held captive in his house for a month and repeatedly sexually assaulted.

 The weekend of celebration took a turn for the worse as nine people died in a span of forty-eight hours in Quebec's highways.

A Surete du Quebec spokesperson says many of the crashes may have been caused by drunk drivers.

A twenty-three-year-old man died on Friday after a head-on crash in Trois Rivieres. On the same night, a speeding accident in St. Pamphile killed an eighteen-year-old driver. An accident involving a motorcyle and a separate crash between a scooter and a taxi also took place that night.

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An after-action review of the Toronto police and associated police forces actions during the G20 protests last year has found the police were unprepared and overwhelmed by the scope and intensity of what they faced.

The report, which was posted yesterday afternoon on the Toronto police website, was written by unidentified senior Toronto officers, as well as civilians who reviewed footage of the event.

It points out a number of critical weaknesses in the police strategy.

Residents of several West-Island municipalities will have to forgo watering their lawns until further notice. Municipal officials announced a complete watering ban on Tuesday. 

The affected boroughs are Pierrefonds-Roxboro, Île Bizard, Ste. Geneviève and Dollard des Ormeaux. These municipalities rely on the city of Montreal water filtration plant on Rivière des Prairies. However, according to Pierrefonds-Roxboro spokesperson Johanne Palladini, this filtration plant is currently under some stress. The plant is undergoing a major expansion that has temporarily reduced its capacity.

In northwestern Russia a passenger plane crashed late Monday night on a highway just short of a runway where fog lights had failed to turn on. The crash killed 44 people, only eight survived.

The RusAir plane was on its way from Moscow to the city of Petrozavodsk when it made a crash landing two kilometers before the runway, breaking apart and lighting on fire. At the moment it is unclear if the plane attempted to land on the road, or weather it just fell there.

Petrozavodsk is near the Finnish border 640 kilometers from Moscow.