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Thousands of Canadiansprotest war in Iraq

TORONTO — Thousands of anti-warprotesters took their message of peaceto the streets of Canadian cities Satur-day, joining countless others world-wide marking the third anniversary ofthe U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.

In Toronto, police estimated around1,000 protesters, including students,trade unionists and religious groups,assembled in front of a downtowncourthouse across from the U.S. con-sulate for the country’s largest anti-warrally. The demonstrators also called onCanada to withdraw its 2,200 troopsfrom Afghanistan.

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War in Iraq enters 4thyear with more deaths

BAGHDAD — Nearly 1,500 Ameri-can and Iraqi soldiers Sunday soughtto root out insurgents from farmingvillages an hour’s drive north of thecapital, and at least 35 people died inrebel and sectarian violence country-wide.

Iraqi politicians still had not formeda government more than three monthsafter landmark elections for the coun-try’s first permanent post-invasion par-liament, but they announced an agree-ment on naming a Security Council todeal with key matters while negotia-tions proceed.

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BY VINCENT BALLEXPOSITOR STAFF / BRANTFORD

Acity man was fatally shot by po-lice Saturday night, one hour af-ter he killed his eight-year-old

son during a horrific domestic dispute.Jared Andrew Osidacz was due to

celebrate his ninth birthday nextmonth.

“He was killed by his father,” hiss h a k e n m o t h e r , J u l i e O s i d a c z(Craven), told The Expositor Sundaynight. “I just can’t talk about this now. Ijust can’t do it.”

The man shot and killed by city police has been identified by theprovince’s Special Investigations Unitas Jared’s father, Andrew Osidacz, 41.

Jared was one of three peoplestabbed at a Courtland Drive home inthe city’s northend shortly after 7 p.m.Saturday.

An eight-year-old girl and a womanwere also sent to hospital with injuriesafter being attacked by the man, policesaid.

The woman is in Hamilton GeneralHospital with non-life threatening in-juries. The young girl is in BrantfordGeneral Hospital, also with non-life-threatening injuries, Insp. Scott Eastosaid Sunday.

Police have not released their namesor their relationship to Andrew Osidacz. A television report identifiedthem as Osidacz’s girlfriend and herdaughter.

SOME DETAILS SKETCHY

Andrew Osidacz was shot at a homeon Cecil Avenue shortly after 8 p.m.Saturday following a confrontation,then rushed to hospital where he waspronounced dead.

Few details of the shooting havebeen released, largely because of theSIU investigation. The SIU is a civilianagency that investigates circumstancesinvolving police and civilians whichhave resulted in serious injury, sexualassault or death.

It is investigating the circumstancessurrounding Andrew Osidacz’s death.

Jared’s homicide is the city’s secondof 2006, coming just four days after thefirst one last Tuesday. It also came thesame day as the funeral for Tuesday’svictim, Fallon Mason, a 23-year-oldsingle mother of two young children.

Saturday’s shocking night of violencebegan when police were called to atownhouse at 4 Courtland Dr. sometime after 7 p.m. on Saturday. Theyfound three people — a young boy, ayoung girl and a woman — who hadbeen stabbed.

At one point, there were as many aseight police cars, three ambulancesand a fire truck at the scene, a quietstreet with attractive, two-storey town-houses north of Fairview Drive, nearWest Street.

On Sunday, a large hole could be

seen smashed in on 4 Courtland’sgarage door, with a maroon ToyotaCorolla parked in front, surrounded byyellow police tape.

One neighbour, who wouldn’t pro-vide his name, said he was watchingtelevision when he heard three bigbangs the night before.

He looked out the window to see thestreet blocked with police cruisers. Upuntil that time, he wasn’t aware of any-thing unusual on the street.

The street is usually pretty quiet, theman said.

Other neighbours approached by TheExpositor on Sunday morning also re-ported seeing a lot of police cruisersbut were unaware of what had hap-pened.

They said a woman lived there witha couple of young children but couldn’tprovide any names.

PHOTOGRAPHER FOLLOWED CRUISERS

Expositor photographer Brian Thomp-son, who went to the scene Saturdaynight after spotting police in the area,said officers were busy searching thearea around the townhouse with flash-lights when suddenly several officersjumped into their cruiser and sped off.

Police rushed two kilometres west toa home at 18 Cecil Ave., where the sus-pect from the stabbings had been locat-ed.

In a statement released Sunday, theSIU said city police officers went to Ce-cil Avenue as part of the investigationinto a domestic dispute on CourtlandDrive that had resulted in the death ofan eight-year-old boy.

Two officers entered the home andwere involved in a confrontation with a41-year-old man, resulting in shots be-ing fired. The man was struck and tak-e n t o h o s p i t a l , w h e r e h e w a s pronounced dead, the SIU statementsaid.

‘He was killedby his father’

Man fatally shot by police after killing his 8-year-old son

Paramedics put an unidentifiedperson into an ambulance infront of a house at 18 CecilAve. Saturday night at about8:20 p.m., after police shot amurder suspect during aconfrontation inside the home.The man, later identified asAndrew Osidacz, 41, died inhospital. The province’s SpecialInvestigations Unit isinvestigating the shooting.

Photos by Brian Thompson, Expositor Staff

This townhouse at 4 Courtland Dr. was the scene of a multiplestabbing Saturday of a woman and two children, resulting in thedeath of an 8-year-old boy.

Woman and girl also injured inknife attack in northend home

An Expositor first-birthdayannouncement from 1998 forJared Osidacz, who was killedSaturday.

Here’s a chronology of Saturday’s homicide of an 8-year-old boy and city po-lice’s shooting of his father:

� Saturday, just after 7 p.m., city police are called to a townhouse at 4 Court-land Dr. and discover there has been a multiple stabbing.� The victims are a woman and two children. � Rescue workers are seen providing first aid to someone on the lawn in frontof the townhouse.� Police are seen searching the area with flashlights. About 8 p.m. severalcruisers speed away from the scene.� Several police officers then arrive at 18 Cecil Dr., about two kilometres tothe west.� A sobbing, distraught woman is put in a cruiser asking police to go to hos-pital.� Sunday morning, city police say one of the children stabbed on CourtlandDrive has died.� Police also say the suspect in the Courtland Drive stabbing was later locat-ed at a Cecil Drive residence, where he was shot by police.� The man later died in hospital, sparking the province’s Special Investiga-tions Unit to be called in. The SIU investigates police shootings.

CHRONOLOGY OF A MURDER

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Protesters gathered at the U.S. Consulate in Toronto onSaturday to protest the war in Iraq.