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Officials too quick to blame COVID-19 for deaths at Montreal care home: witness
MONTREAL - An auxiliary nurse told a coroner's inquest today that health authorities were too quick to blame COVID-19 for deaths in a Montreal-area long-term care home when some of them were in fact c...
Sep 14, 2021
B.C. not effectively overseeing safety of dams: auditor general
VICTORIA - British Columbia's auditor general says the provincial government has not effectively overseen the safety of the 1,900 dams it regulates. In a news release, Michael Pickup says the Ministry...
Sep 14, 2021
Series of tight election races across Canada could be determined by postal votes
OTTAWA - People voting by mail could play a crucial role in deciding the outcome of the Sept. 20 federal election. Postal votes could dictate which party wins in a series of closely fought ridings whe...
Sep 14, 2021
O'Toole mum on how many immigrants he would bring, promises tougher border measures
OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole is promising to speed up processing of family reunification and skilled workers' immigration applications without saying whether he would maintain the Liberal...
Sep 14, 2021
O'Toole makes pitch to working parents with Tories' 'flexible' child-care plan
RUSSELL, Ont. - Erin O'Toole repeated his plan on Tuesday to scrap Liberal child-care deals signed with provinces in favour of a refundable tax credit, saying the Conservative approach will give a big...
Sep 14, 2021
Kamloops RCMP officer assaulted after mental health arrest
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops RCMP say a mental health arrest led to the assault of a police officer Monday (Sept. 13) by a Kamloops man.Officers attended an address on the 200-block of Victoria Street to appre...
Sep 14, 2021
RCMP handing out tickets for unsafe driving in Williams Lake work area Tuesday
WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - B.C. Highway Patrol members are teaming up with Telus and the Work Zone Safety Alliance (WZSA) to enforce driving safety in work zones - with tickets being handed out Tuesday (Se...
Sep 14, 2021
Desmond inquiry: focus of hearings shifts to examination of domestic violence
PORT HAWKESBURY, N.S. - A Nova Scotia inquiry investigating why a former soldier killed his family and himself in 2017 turned its attention today to the issue of domestic violence. The executive direc...
Sep 14, 2021
Decision on future of E&N Rail given 18 months after Snaw-Naw-As appeal rejected
NANAIMO - The E&N Trail rail lines running through Snaw-Naw-As First Nation will remain property of the government, at least for now.On Tuesday, Sept. 14, the BC Court of Appeal announced they uph...
Sep 14, 2021
N.S. family who perished in trailer fire were busy and boisterous: neighbour
AMHERST, N.S. - A mother, father and four children who perished in a fire inside their vacation trailer are being recalled as an active, boisterous family by a friend who rented them the Amherst, N.S....
Sep 14, 2021
