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A 19-year-old man, Ethan Gladu, has been sentenced to ten years for randomly stabbing and killing 46-year-old Ukrainian refugee Ivan Rubanik in a brutal, senseless attack on a Toronto street. The stabbing, captured on security footage, followed a threatening encounter on a bus — Gladu was asked to leave, then later followed Rubanik, fatally stabbing him in the shoulder. Rubanik’s widow honored his memory with a poem, while his family and community grapple with the shock and grief. Prosecutors pushed for a harsher sentence to protect public safety, but the defense argued for rehabilitation, citing Gladu’s cognitive struggles, addiction, and lack of support. The judge, acknowledging Gladu’s lack of intent to kill, sentenced him to ten years — a term meant to balance justice with the complexities of his troubled past.

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