Category Archives: Canada
Homeless B.C. Indigenous Nation buys land on Vancouver Island to build community
CAMPBELL RIVER, B.C. - Thomas Smith says his most vivid memory of living on British Columbia’s Turnour Island was watching families leave their homes. Five decades later, images of the exodus fr...
Oct 09, 2018
'Thought I was dead for sure': Worker recalls escape from Irving Oil explosion
SAINT JOHN, N.B. - First, Jonathan Wright heard a loud hissing. Then he was thrown to the ground and turned to see a wall of orange, as flames surrounded him and several other workers after a massive ...
Oct 09, 2018
Liberals told to build new benefits for ill, unemployed workers, docs show
OTTAWA - The Trudeau government has been given an ambitious plan for closing several gaps in the social-safety net for ill and unemployed Canadians that includes creating a new program to help those w...
Oct 09, 2018
Homeless B.C. Indigenous Nation buys land on Vancouver Island to build community
CAMPBELL RIVER, B.C. - Thomas Smith says his most vivid memory of living on British Columbia’s Turnour Island was watching families leave their homes. Five decades later, images of the exodus fr...
Oct 09, 2018
'Thought I was dead for sure': Worker recalls escape from Irving Oil explosion
SAINT JOHN, N.B. - First, Jonathan Wright heard a loud hissing. Then he was thrown to the ground and turned to see a wall of orange, as flames surrounded him and several other workers after a massive ...
Oct 09, 2018
Liberals told to build new benefits for ill, unemployed workers, docs show
OTTAWA - The Trudeau government has been given an ambitious plan for closing several gaps in the social-safety net for ill and unemployed Canadians that includes creating a new program to help those w...
Oct 09, 2018
Woodlands survivors begin receiving compensation from B.C. government
VANCOUVER - Survivors of abuse at a notorious school and psychiatric facility in New Westminster, B.C., have begun receiving compensation from the provincial government, after previously being left ou...
Oct 08, 2018
Woodlands survivors begin receiving compensation from B.C. government
VANCOUVER - Survivors of abuse at a notorious school and psychiatric facility in New Westminster, B.C., have begun receiving compensation from the provincial government, after previously being left ou...
Oct 08, 2018
Experts express concern about refinery safety in wake of Irving blast
Oil refineries and other large industrial operations that are surrounded by residential communities need to work harder to ensure safety and protect their own bottom lines, multiple experts say. A mas...
Oct 08, 2018
Experts express concern about refinery safety in wake of Irving blast
Oil refineries and other large industrial operations that are surrounded by residential communities need to work harder to ensure safety and protect their own bottom lines, multiple experts say. A mas...
Oct 08, 2018
