| TransCanada gas pipeline that burst in Manitoba was 50 years old Posted: 27 Jan 2014 12:38 PM PST  A natural gas pipeline that burst over the weekend, leaving 4,000 residents of southern Manitoba without heat for days, was 50 years old but believed to be in good condition, a TransCanada Corporation official said in a public briefing on … Continue reading →
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| Quebec seniors' fire: 14 dead and 18 missing as of Monday Posted: 27 Jan 2014 03:04 PM PST  L'ISLE-VERTE, Que. - The official death toll from a fire that roared through a seniors' residence last week climbed to 14 on Monday as emergency workers continued to comb through the rubble. Quebec provincial police also said 18 people were still missing and presumed dead. The work has been slow and painstaking, with workers being given periodic breaks as they brave bitterly cold temperatures and strong winds in L'Isle-Verte in eastern Quebec.
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| Tories announce federal budget to come Feb. 11, well into Winter Olympics Posted: 27 Jan 2014 03:23 PM PST  OTTAWA - If there was any doubt the upcoming federal budget would be a low-key affair, the Harper Conservatives erased it Monday by announcing plans to deliver their new spending plan during the Winter Olympics. Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said he'll table the budget on Feb. 11, when many Canadians are likely to be focused on Sochi and hoping for gold-medal performances from their would-be Olympic heroes. New Democrat Leader Tom Mulcair quickly accused the Conservatives of seeking to avoid public scrutiny of what he predicted would be a no-news, austerity-driven budget, bereft of plans or programs to help create jobs. "People need help now and the Conservatives should be acting now," Mulcair said.
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| Ontario will hike $10.25 minimum wage retroactively to 2010, when it was frozen Posted: 27 Jan 2014 02:19 PM PST  TORONTO - Ontario's Liberal government will move quickly to retroactively raise the $10.25 an hour minimum wage, which has been frozen for four years, sources said Monday.
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| Stephen Harper, ex-Premier of China used in State of the Union anti-Keystone ad Posted: 27 Jan 2014 01:45 PM PST  Canada will get some mentions during the U.S. coverage of President Barack Obama's State of the Union address on Tuesday evening.
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| Mayors balk at public referendum to pay for Vancouver transit expansion Posted: 27 Jan 2014 01:53 PM PST  B.C. Premier Christy Clark is signalling she might be ready to back away from a nasty confrontation with Metro Vancouver mayors over her government's plan to hold a referendum on transit funding. The province plans to tag a regional referendum … Continue reading →
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| Mulcair vows to fight to keep home mail delivery Posted: 27 Jan 2014 10:00 AM PST  NDP Leader Tom Mulcair says his party will fight Canada Post's plan to end home mail delivery in the House of Commons this week. His comments come as Parliament resumes after a six-week break.
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| Refunds issued for Rob Ford speech event after mayor got stuck in elevator Posted: 27 Jan 2014 01:20 PM PST  Rob Ford was on his way to speak to the Economic Club of Canada last week when he got stuck in a freight elevator — with no cell phone service — for 45 minutes. Economic Club president Rhiannon Traill — who was stuck in the elevator with Ford and several other event organizers — said the refunds were an apology for the wait guests had to endure. Ford was not involved in the club's decision to issue refunds. The group had taken the freight elevator to "avoid all the traffic" in the lobby of the hotel where Ford's lunch-hour speech was being held.
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| Canadian tourist found fatally stabbed in Hollywood, Fla Posted: 27 Jan 2014 10:15 PM PST HOLLYWOOD, Fla. - A suspect in the death of a Canadian man in South Florida has reportedly turned himself in to police. An arrest warrant had been issued for Twane Dobard after the body of 58-year-old Domenico Perruccio was found early Sunday on a sidewalk in Hollywood, Florida. Police spokesman Lt. Osvaldo Perez said the victim had been stabbed during "some sort of scuffle" and that the death was ruled a homicide. Perruccio's hometown was not immediately known.  |
| CBSA to share Canadians’ travel data with other federal departments Posted: 27 Jan 2014 02:56 PM PST  If you believe we're already living in the post-privacy era, this piece of news won't surprise you. The Toronto Star reports that it has learned Ottawa plans to share personal information gleaned under the new Canada-U.S. border data exchange program …
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| Multi-vehicle pileup shuts down part of Quebec highway amid blowing snow Posted: 27 Jan 2014 02:25 PM PST  MONTREAL - Blowing snow and strong winds caused an estimated 150 traffic accidents in Quebec on Monday, with at least two deaths attributed to the blustery conditions. Part of a major Quebec highway was shut down after a multi-vehicle smash-up that left seven people seriously injured and many others stranded. And in Saint-Georges, about 100 kilometres southeast of Quebec City, a woman was killed in a head-on collision with a truck. Visibility was reduced to zero in some places as snow was blown around by strong winds.
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| Senior home search resumes Posted: 27 Jan 2014 06:53 AM PST  Crews in L'Isle-Verte search for dead in freezing cold, snowy conditions
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| Advocacy groups challenge Bell's data collection on wireless customers Posted: 27 Jan 2014 03:02 PM PST  Consumer groups are challenging Bell Canada's tracking of how its wireless customers use the web, what they watch on TV and their phone call patterns in order to deliver targeted online advertising. Bell is going beyond its role as a provider of telecom services, according to the Public Interest Advocacy Centre and the Consumers' Association of Canada. "What you're paying for is an uninterrupted telecom service, not for an ad-based service supported by behavioural targeting, which is the Facebook-Google model," lawyer John Lawford of the Public Interest Advocacy Centre said Monday. The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada said Monday that it has received more than 150 complaints about Bell's data collection.
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| Deadly pig virus could cost industry millions if allowed to spread, group warns Posted: 27 Jan 2014 01:16 PM PST  TORONTO - A deadly pig virus that has infected at least two Ontario farms could cost the Canadian pork industry tens of millions of dollars if it spreads across provincial borders, a group representing Ontario's hog farmers warned Monday. The first case, a farrow-to-finish farm in southwestern Ontario, was found last week — a discovery that heightened concern among the country's hog producers. It's all going to depend on where it goes from here," said Amy Cronin of Ontario Pork. "We estimate that if it were to spread past Ontario throughout Canada, within one year, it could cost $45 million to the Canadian pork industry."
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| Quebec mayor denies driving drunk, says he’s 'nothing like Rob Ford’ Posted: 27 Jan 2014 07:13 AM PST  Since when is "I'm not Rob Ford" an acceptable defence for the behaviour of a municipal politician? Maybe it always has been, or maybe it never was. But at least one Canadian mayor seems willing to give it a try. … Continue reading →
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| Protests against Canada Post's delivery cuts heat up at Parliament resumes Posted: 27 Jan 2014 08:50 AM PST  Thousands of Canada Post workers and supporters rallied against recently-announced reductions to mail delivery in Canadian cities this weekend, calling Prime Minister Stephen Harper a "job killer" and demanding answers as Parliament returns from holiday. More rallies are expected to … Continue reading →
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| First Nations, conservationists file lawsuit over protection of Yukon watershed Posted: 27 Jan 2014 09:03 PM PST  VANCOUVER - A coalition of First Nations and conservation groups is suing the Yukon government over its decision to open a vast region of the Canadian North to mining and industrial development. A lawsuit was filed Monday in Yukon Supreme Court by the Nacho Nyak Dun, the Tr'ondek Hwech'in, the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society Yukon and the Yukon Conservation Society. They say the plan released a week ago in Whitehorse violates the land-use planning provisions of a land claims agreement the territory signed with First Nations. "It's a lawsuit that nobody wanted to bring," said their lawyer Thomas Berger, who headed the landmark Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Commission in the territory almost 37 years ago.
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| Quebec may toughen sprinkler laws after deadly seniors' home fire Posted: 27 Jan 2014 02:39 PM PST  By Randall Palmer L'ISLE-VERTE, Quebec (Reuters) - Quebec might speed up introduction of tougher laws on installing sprinklers at seniors' residences after a fire that is believed to have killed 32 people, the Canadian province's health minister said on Monday. The three-story wooden home in L'Isle-Verte, a picturesque town about 230 km (143 miles) northeast of Quebec City, was only partially equipped with sprinklers, which are not obligatory at privately run Quebec residences in which some residents are mobile. A special committee of police, fire-prevention and building experts in Quebec started looking last year into how to tighten regulations on sprinklers in privately run seniors' homes. If it had been simple it would have been done (already)," Quebec Health Minister Rejean Hebert said at a news conference in the town after meeting survivors.
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| CN train derails in New Brunswick; no injuries reported Posted: 27 Jan 2014 04:34 AM PST (Reuters) - Canadian National Railway Co said on Monday that five cars on one of its freight trains derailed in the eastern Canadian province of New Brunswick, the second such incident this month. The cars derailed late Sunday evening in the village of Saint-Basile, New Brunswick. One car carried a load of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), CN spokesman Jim Feeny said in an email.  |
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