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Duty Insp. Carl Cartright said that there is “absolutely no danger to the public at all.”

“This is not a random attack; these individuals knew each other,” he said of the triple stabbing.

Police were called to the home at 53 Simcoe St. at 2:30 p.m. Postmedia has learned that MacKinnon was hospitalized this past weekend for mental health reasons but was then released.

Denis Bruneau lives across the street from the Baglow home. He said that on the weekend there was yelling coming from the house. Bruneau later saw bed sheets, pillows and a few boxes on the front lawn and police officers taking Baglow’s handcuffed stepson away in a patrol car.

MacKinnon was taken to hospital after that police call. Bruneau then saw Baglow’s stepson again Wednesday sitting on the front steps of the home.

Neighbour Dave St. James said MacKinnon lived with Baglow periodically. St. James also heard Baglow and his stepson arguing last weekend.

MacKinnon is the son of Baglow’s late partner Marianne MacKinnon, who died from pancreatic cancer in 2006 at the age of 48. Marianne and Baglow, both union activists, met in the Yukon. Danny MacKinnon’s Facebook profile still lists his current city as Whitehorse. According to his profile, he attended college at the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology in Calgary and went to high school at Glebe Collegiate Institute in Ottawa.

John Baglow, aka Dr. Dawg.

Baglow has written numerous political and current affairs opinion pieces for the National Post and has been published in the pages of the Citizen. Baglow is also a well-known blogger who goes by the moniker Dr. Dawg. Last year, a Superior Court justice found Baglow had been defamed on a Conservative message board but that the comment, which attacked Baglow’s support of Omar Khadr, was fair comment in the context of the contentious political blogosphere.

Central district detectives were investigating Thursday’s stabbings. In a release early Thursday, police said charges were “pending” in the case.

With files from Aidan Cox

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