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B.C. ballet school founder guilty of sex charges involving teenage student
B.C. ballet school founder guilty of sex charges
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito
The founder of a ballet school in Greater Victoria has been found guilty of two sexual offences over his relationship with a 15-year-old student.
David Beales was originally charged with sexual interference, sexual exploitation and making sexually explicit material available to the girl, but he was found not guilty of the third charge.
His British Columbia Supreme Court trial in Victoria heard Beales operated the Maple Leaf School of Russian Ballet, first meeting the girl when she was nine, and she idolized him as she dreamt of becoming a professional dancer.
The B.C. Supreme Court decision released this week says that when the girl's parents forbade her to return to the school, Beales suggested a scholarship arrangement in which she no longer had to pay tuition or attendance fees.
The girl told the court she became pregnant by Beales and had a miscarriage in the summer of 2020, before her Grade 11 year, and dropped out of school shortly afterwards.
In finding him guilty of the two charges, Justice Liliane Bantourakis ruled Beales was not a credible witnesses, while the girl's testimony was reliable and the Crown's evidence met the burden of proving the charges against the man.
The judge found Beales' control and influence over the girl, identified as E.R. in the decision, were enhanced by her vulnerability and isolation.
The ruling says he had significant control over the teen, at least until the school closed temporarily due to the COVID-19 pandemic in November 2020, but their sexual relationship lasted until 2022.
"He was, as she described, the keeper of the information for her future career and she idolized him, thinking of him as above other people. E.R.'s dream of being a professional dancer and the role Mr. Beales played relative to that dream are significant."
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 15, 2026.
Copyright 2026, The Canadian Press. All rights reserved.
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B.C.'s Eby says proposed Indigenous land transfer legislation is about saving money
B.C.'s Eby says land transfer proposal saves money
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ethan Cairns
British Columbia NDP Leader David Eby is defending draft plans by his previous government to limit the compensation of forest companies when land is transferred to First Nations.
Confidential documents published in the Northern Beat, an online publication, say Eby's government was planning to transfer about 400 parcels of Crown land to First Nations, while limiting compensation for companies with timber rights on the land.
Eby says the transfers reflect existing treaties and other commitments under the process of reconciliation, some of them dating back decades, and the proposed legislation was about reducing costs for taxpayers.
The documents say the current law requires the government to compensate forestry firms but "given ongoing fiscal constraints" that would create substantial barriers to completing land returns.
A spokesperson for the Eby campaign says the draft legislation would limit compensation, and if less than five per cent of the existing logging rights were transferred, those holders would not receive any compensation at all.
The briefing notes, dated Sept. 10, were revealed just days before the provincial election on Oct. 24.
The New Democrat platform doesn't mention the plans, while forest companies needed to sign non-disclosure agreements if they wanted to see them.
Eby says those types of agreements are standard practice, and he rejected suggestions of secrecy.
A spokesperson for the campaign says cabinet approved engagement with stakeholders in July but the proposal was draft, not final legislation.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 15, 2026.
By Wolfgang Depner | Copyright 2026, The Canadian Press. All rights reserved.
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No release of toxicology results in deadly crash involving Saskatchewan Roughrider
No release of toxicology report in Rider crash
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Kayle Neis
RCMP says the province's coroners service won't be releasing toxicology results from a deadly crash that involved Saskatchewan Roughrider Jayden Dalke.
Mounties say details contained in that report are considered personal health information.
Dalke, 30, from Leduc, Alta., and Bhishma Rajyaguru, 22, from Regina died earlier this summer on Highway 11 near the town of Lumsden.
RCMP has said Dalke was driving on the wrong side of a divided highway — with alcohol and cannabis in his SUV — when his vehicle slammed into the car Rajyaguru was driving.
They also said that a half-hour before the crash, northwest of Regina, the linebacker's SUV left a gas station with unpaid fuel.
Mounties say findings from a recent collision reconstruction analysis has confirmed those details.
"Further information disclosure will be limited as there will be no court process," RCMP said in a news release Thursday. "Investigators will never have the opportunity to speak with either vehicle occupant to find out what happened on July 18."
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 15, 2026.
By Jeremy Simes | Copyright 2026, The Canadian Press. All rights reserved.
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