Calgary - CBC News

A Calgary judge offered words of encouragement to a man heading to prison following a conviction for impaired driving that caused the death of a pedestrian.

Derek Nicholas Kwasney was handed a year in jail and a $106,000 fine for failing to pay taxes on money he embezzled from the resort. Those penalties come just weeks after he was sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison and a $669,000 fine for a fraud conviction.

Mary McEachern says Rotary Foundation Canada has repeatedly blocked her efforts to honour her husbands final wishes and redistribute his estate to various charities, not the Rotary alone.