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Police were called at approximately 11:45 pm by Stephens to escort his girlfriend from his property. When officers arrived, Stephens was in a separate hallway in the house away from where the incident occurred and she was pronounced dead at the scene. There were 5 other people at the house."Me and her, we had an argument. Glass was being broke, so I called the police to escort her out,"
"They said 'freeze' and the next thing I know I heard (gunshots)," Stephens said.
The expansion involves twinning, or building, 610 miles of new pipeline along the existing 715-mile route between Edmonton in Alberta and Burnaby, British Columbia, a suburban community just outside Vancouver.Many Canadian residents are outraged and have tried to block the expansion, some even chained themselves to fencing around a test site to prevent the company from conducting tests in British Columbia. Kinder Morgan responded by suing protesters and claiming the dirty looks they gave Kinder Morgan employees constitute "assault":
Mr. Kaplan had argued the defendants conspired against Kinder Morgan, employing social media and telephone networks to harm the oil company and pipeline builder Trans Mountain as they seek to nearly triple capacity by expanding a route under Burnaby Mountain.Opponents of the pipeline latched onto this ridiculous legal argument and the "assault" faces went viral under the #KMFace hashtag. Jump below the fold to see some of the reactions.
He entered into evidence photographs of protesters wearing facial expressions he said demonstrate anger and violence.
"One of the things I will argue is that is not only intimidation, but that is actually an assault," he said on Wednesday.
Comment: People spend more on healthcare in the US than in any other developed nation, yet the system is painfully inadequate. In terms of life expectancy, the US ranks 26th out of 34 in the OECD member countries. The cost of childbirth is one of the most expensive in the world, yet infant mortality is higher than in many other developed countries. Healthcare in the US is now a complete travesty as the system is designed to benefit the insurance industry while sucking the life and financial resources out of most Americans.
Hospitals all over America are wildly inflating medical bills