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Facebook speeding boast leads to conviction
Last Updated: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 | 3:59 PM ET

A 19-year-old man from a Toronto suburb has pleaded guilty to careless driving after boasting on Facebook that he drove 100 kilometres an hour over the speed limit on a residential street.

Vladimir Rigenco was banned from driving for six months and sentenced to 12 months' probation after entering his plea Aug. 5, York Regional Police said in a statement released Tuesday.

York police were approached by an American man on April 9 who informed them of a post made on a Facebook group in which Rigenco described how he drove his 2006 BMW M5S in excess of 100 km/h over the speed limit on Apple Blossom Drive in Vaughan, just north of Toronto.

According to the police release, several of those who follow the BMW 5 Series Facebook group "lambasted" him and "proved themselves responsible by not encouraging the suspect's behaviour."

Police investigated the case and arrested Rigenco on April 16 and charged him with careless driving.

As part of his sentence, Rigenco also has to complete a remedial driving course and pay a $1,000 fine.


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By David Pugliese, The Ottawa Citizen
November 17, 2009

OTTAWA — Future Canadian soldiers could be wearing new uniforms designed to provide camouflage on the streets of our largest cities.

The Defence Department will know by March what designs might work for what is being called a Canadian Urban Environment Pattern.

Those designs are to be based on the "unique requirements" of the urban settings of Vancouver, Montreal and Toronto, according to an outline of the project being co-ordinated by scientists at Defence Research and Development Canada in Suffield, Alta.

Ottawa, the nerve centre of government and the military, was left off the list because it doesn't rate as a major metropolitan centre.

"We're not trying to slight any city in the country," explained Scott Duncan, head of the soldier and systems protection group at DRDC Suffield. "We chose the three largest urban centres to have baseline data in this early development project."

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