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Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. woman arrested in arson attack on Canada’s only gender-reassignment clinic is former patientInitially the clinic's importance to the trans community prompted police to consider it as a possible motive You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account woman has been arrested for carrying out an arson attack on the Montreal surgical clinic that is the only place in Canada providing the most complex forms of gender reassignment surgery Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience was detained Monday by RCMP officers in Kelowna She will face charges stemming from a fire in early May at the Centre métropolitain de chirurgie in Montreal The blaze started when an assailant burst through a backdoor opened by a staff member and ran up into a surgical suite with an incendiary device Sprinklers dowsed the flames before firefighters arrived but the blaze still caused $700,000 in damage Get a dash of perspective along with the trending news of the day in a very readable format By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc The next issue of NP Posted will soon be in your inbox Interested in more newsletters? Police were considered the possibility the attack was a hate crime because of the clinic’s specialty in gender reassignment surgery (or gender affirming surgery as is the preferred term) as well as other plastic and bariatric procedures While a trans person might be able to get cosmetic or upper body surgeries elsewhere in Canada the private Montreal clinic is the only one in the country that performs the most complicated genital surgeries police confirmed they did not consider it a hate crime “Jayne expressed strong dissatisfaction with having had her surgery a few months after having had her surgery; however I am not aware of any negative surgical outcomes,” said Morgane Oger chair of the Trans Alliance Society in Vancouver “Jayne was extremely happy to have had the surgery when I picked her up from the airport afterwards,” Oger said adding that was a feeling that continued for “some time afterward.” adding she last spoke with her days before her arrest In the years before and immediately after the procedure well-meaning person” and a dedicated cyclist who made her living fixing bikes in Vancouver easy-going person with all the same struggles that trans persons have.” But Facebook posts from Heideck’s account and by self-professed friends suggest she started to spiral into mental illness It has not been proved that Heideck committed the violent act there is not justification for the violence this could have been.” No one was injured in the fire but there were staff and patients in the building which is meeting patients one by one to discuss whether procedures need to be rescheduled transmission or republication strictly prohibited This website uses cookies to personalize your content (including ads), and allows us to analyze our traffic. 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By continuing to use our site, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy You can manage saved articles in your account Figures from the European statistics office, suggesting that prices fell 0.6% in January on the previous year, the biggest drop since the depths of recession in 2009, prompted warnings that radical action by the European Central Bank may have come too late to shore up the eurozone’s flagging recovery growth slowed sharply in the final quarter as weak business spending and a growing trade deficit offset strong consumer spending almost half the 5% rate of the third quarter Economists had expected that growth in the world’s biggest economy would slow in the final three months of the year with the consensus forecast for 3% expansion The GDP figures combined with worries about the eurozone to push shares down on Wall Street “The slowdown was bigger than expected and feeds into fears that a strong dollar an international slowdown and slowing investment in the US oil industry will take a toll on US growth,” said Jasper Lawler Economists also noted pressures on the US and wider global economy from worries about the stability of the eurozone after Greek anti-austerity party Syriza took power in the country that first sparked the eurozone debt crisis “Escalating tensions with Russia and the potential for another flare-up of the euro area debt crisis following the anti-austerity Syriza party’s success in the Greek elections remain key risks to the global economic outlook,” said Chris Williamson chief economist at the data company Markit which publishes surveys on economies around the world But he highlighted that consumer confidence remained strong in the US and that in Europe there was also a potential boost for business and consumer confidence from the ECB’s announcement that it is to begin pumping €1.1tn of extra money into the economy through quantitative easing (QE) The bank’s chief, Mario Draghi, has said he will begin the money-printing programme in March in a move to tackle deflation and prevent the fragile eurozone economy from grinding to a halt as slumping prices encourage businesses and consumers to put off spending The move appeared to be vindicated on Friday by news that deflation was sharper than expected in January The 0.6% annual drop in consumer prices across the single currency bloc matched a record fall set in July 2009 It follows annual deflation of 0.2% in December and was worse than the forecast of a 0.5% fall in a Reuters poll of economists which strips out the effect of falling oil prices fuelling fears that the ECB’s bond-buying programme may not be enough to stave off a downward spiral in prices The figures, an early “flash” estimate from the European statistics office which excludes the effect of volatile items such as food edging down to 0.5% this month from 0.7% in December “Today’s inflation numbers fully vindicate the ECB’s decision to embark on QE QE will not raise inflation in the coming months the energy component will keep headline inflation well below zero in the months ahead But the key number to watch in the coming months is core inflation Any further falls may raise concerns that QE has come too late to stave off deflation,” said Teunis Brosens at ING Financial Markets The ECB aims to keep inflation at just under 2% and Draghi has said the money-printing programme would continue “until we see a sustained adjustment in the path of inflation” Separate numbers showed a marginal improvement in the eurozone labour market in December defying economists’ expectations for it to hold at November’s 11.5% rate said the unexpected drop in unemployment “serves to tentatively end a period of stagnation that had persisted for the latter half of 2014” But he also highlighted that much of the improvement reflected a sharp drop in typically volatile Italian data while survey indicators of hiring intentions have been improving they still point to only tepid job creation over the first half of 2015,” he added said unemployment was lowest in Germany (4.8%) and Austria (4.9%) and highest in Greece (25.8% in the most recently available figures This article has been amended after a correction to official figures was issued by Eurostat Estimated core inflation – the rate excluding energy