The Canadian Press WOODSTOCK, Ont. — The Tori Stafford case is back before the courts today. The Grade 3 student was abducted as she left her Woodstock, Ontario school on April 8th, 2009. Terri-Lynne McClintic and Michael Rafferty were charged more than one month later and Tori’s remains were found in a field. Last year, [...]
ROBERT MATAS AND SUNNY DHILLON For visitors to Whistler during the 2010 Winter Olympics, the blue-eyed huskies that took tourists on sleds into the wilderness were icons of Canada. For those who work with those dogs, the animals are much more than a livelihood, they are close companions. When news broke Monday of the mass [...]
Three TTC drivers who were spotted texting while behind the wheel have been fired, The Toronto Star reports. However, the Toronto Transit Commission has not confirmed the report. Last week, CityNews ran photos of two of those drivers, both of whom were operating buses. “We strictly forbid the use of cell phones, whether it’s talking or [...]
VANCOUVER — Did you stop what you were doing at 10 a.m. Wednesday to “drop, cover and hold on”? If you did, you joined more than 440,000 British Columbians who registered to be part of the ShakeOut B.C. earthquake drill. About half of those participating were students at the 800 schools that registered for the [...]
The Canadian Border Services Agency and the RCMP’s federal drug enforcement squad have charged five people in connection with what they’re calling the largest seizure yet of the date-rape drug ketamine. Charges were laid after CBSA officers came across “a suspicious shipment” on board a container ship from Hong Kong on Dec. 7. When they [...]
LETHBRIDGE—The owners of a funeral home in southern Alberta are accused of fraud and cutting off a deceased’s finger in order to remove a ring. Police say they received a complaint from the provincial board that regulates funeral services about the Cornerstone Funeral Home in Lethbridge. Officers say an investigation indicates the home used cremation [...]
The provincial government has agreed to an environmental assessment to electrify the rail link that will connect Union Station to Pearson airport. The news came shortly after Metrolinx’s board of directors endorsed a plan to convert the diesel-powered Lakeshore and Georgetown GO lines, starting with the air-rail link, into an electric system. Electrifying GO’s two [...]
OTTAWA — If the Conservatives take another swing at scrapping taxpayer subsidies for political parties, they have the support of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. On Wednesday, the taxpayers group called for an end to such subsides, which amount to about $2 per vote each year as cast in the last election — or about $27 [...]
Jason Fekete and Kelly Cryderman, CALGARY — A sombre-looking Alberta Tory caucus gathered in Calgary on Wednesday — a day after Premier Ed Stelmach announced he will resign — to debate a controversial provincial budget and the direction of the party. Progressive Conservative MLAs made their way downtown for the first of two days of [...]
Senate reform? In his interview last week with Peter Mansbridge, Prime Minister Stephen Harper brushed it aside. The man who once excoriated Canada’s upper house for its superannuated cronyism — something he no longer does, having now made enough partisan appointments of his own — said this instead: “I’m committed to making only incremental changes [...]
