| Ex-soldiers protest impending office veterans affairs office closures Posted: 28 Jan 2014 07:01 PM PST  OTTAWA - Veterans Affairs Minister Julian Fantino appeared to add insult to injury late Tuesday in firmly rejecting the pleas of ex-soldiers to halt the impending closure of eight of the department's regional offices. A scheduled meeting with a delegation of veterans, at least one from the Second World War, was abruptly cancelled and the group met with senior Conservatives, including MP Laurie Hawn and the minister's chief of staff. Just before veterans were set to hold a late evening news conference, Fantino met with them in a basement office on Parliament Hill to reinforce the message that the centres would close on schedule. Centres — in Kelowna, B.C., Saskatoon, Brandon, Man., Thunder Bay, Ont., Windsor, Ont., Sydney, N.S., Charlottetown and Corner Brook, N.L. — are slated to shut down Friday as part of a move to more online and remote services.
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| HSBC dumps small businesses for international profiles Posted: 28 Jan 2014 09:05 PM PST Banking giant HSBC is dumping some of its small business clients in favour of those with more internationally-oriented profiles.  |
| No First Nations on expert panel a problem, critics say Posted: 28 Jan 2014 08:30 PM PST  A panel of experts at a roundtable looking into Alberta's child intervention system is being criticized for lacking representation from some key players.
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| Seven threats Canadians could face at the Sochi Olympics Posted: 28 Jan 2014 11:29 AM PST  There is little more than a week before the launch of the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi Russia, and despite the bluster and excitement in Canada ahead of the massive event, the Canadian government has recommended residents reconsider their plans … Continue reading →
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| 17 dead and 15 others missing in fire at Quebec seniors' home Posted: 28 Jan 2014 03:00 PM PST  L'ISLE-VERTE, Que. - Firefighters and police officers, some on their hands and knees, braved bitter cold for yet another day to find more bodies in the rubble of a seniors' home that was engulfed in flames last week. Quebec provincial police said Tuesday that 17 people are now confirmed dead and 15 remain missing after the blaze that ravaged Residence du Havre in L'Isle-Verte in eastern Quebec early last Thursday. "We will keep going until all 32 people have been found," said Quebec provincial police Lt. Michel Brunet. Four people have been formally identified by the coroner's office so far.
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| Calgary breast milk bank success spurs countrywide orders Posted: 28 Jan 2014 09:57 AM PST  Calgary's human milk bank has become so successful it's now sending product to almost every neo-natal intensive care unit in the province and hospitals across the country.
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| Stephen Harper defends closures to veterans offices Posted: 28 Jan 2014 02:30 PM PST  Prime Minister Stephen Harper is playing down the impact of impending Veterans Affairs regional office closures, saying service centres will see more employees who will travel to meet veterans.
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| Canada announces symbolic measure against Ukrainian regime Posted: 28 Jan 2014 11:55 AM PST  They didn't go as far as some would have liked, but the Harper government is going to implement a minor measure against the Ukrainian regime for their actions against anti-government protesters. On Tuesday afternoon — just one day after an … Continue reading →
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| Christopher Falconer guilty in Amber Kirwan murder Posted: 28 Jan 2014 12:37 PM PST  Christopher Alexander Falconer has been found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of Amber Kirwan, ending a case that has gripped Nova Scotia since the teenager's disappearance and the subsequent investigation into her slaying.
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| N.S. drunk driver who killed two in crash arrested days after prison release Posted: 28 Jan 2014 02:44 PM PST  Just what do you do about an incorrigible homicidal booze hound who won't promise never to drink and drive, despite several years in prison to think about it? That conundrum is being played out in Halifax this week, where police … Continue reading →
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| Wynne says new rules for an Ontario Pension Plan will be unveiled this spring Posted: 28 Jan 2014 01:58 PM PST  TORONTO - Plans for an Ontario Pension Plan will be unveiled by the minority Liberal government this spring, ahead of a widely expected provincial election, Premier Kathleen Wynne announced Tuesday.
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| Apparently some SMU football players didn’t get the message of last fall’s rape-chant flap Posted: 28 Jan 2014 01:19 PM PST  I guess when St. Mary's University was riven with controversy over the so-called "rape chant" during frosh week at the Halifax school last fall, the football team was too busy practising to notice. Whatever the reason, some members of St. … Continue reading →
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| Murder charges laid in deaths of Ontario man and his mother, killed three years apart Posted: 28 Jan 2014 02:37 PM PST  The bizarre deaths of three family members in the same home over the course of four years took a large step closer toward resolution on Tuesday when police in Mississauga, Ont., announced arrests in connection to two of the deaths … Continue reading →
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| Treatment of Egyptian-Canadian journalist held in Cairo takes turn for worse Posted: 28 Jan 2014 12:07 PM PST  The family of an Egyptian-Canadian journalist imprisoned in Cairo worried the man was being drawn into the crosshairs of the country's tumultuous political situation as his treatment behind bars took a sudden turn for the worse. Mohamed Fahmy marked a month behind bars with no charge on Tuesday as he continued to face allegations of using unlicensed equipment and broadcasting false news while working for satellite news broadcaster Al Jazeera English. Despite assurances from Canadian officials that his basic needs would be met, his family said his prison conditions had abruptly regressed. "It's just shocking that there is no advance in the case at all, and there is no one that is providing any help," Fahmy's brother Sherif said in an interview.
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| Cogeco CEO Louis Audet says Quebec's proposed values charter harmful to economy Posted: 28 Jan 2014 01:55 PM PST  MONTREAL - The head of cable and media company Cogeco Inc. has stepped into Quebec's political debate about a charter to promote secular values, saying it's scaring off immigrants.
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| Canada Post to implement improved mailboxes in transition from home delivery Posted: 28 Jan 2014 12:00 PM PST  Well, it looks as if the end of home mail delivery for the privileged one-third of Canadians who still have it is really happening, despite public protests and concerns about theft. Canada Post will announce in mid-February the first communities … Continue reading →
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| Muslim group demands apology from Harper, chief spokesman over comment Posted: 28 Jan 2014 10:05 AM PST  OTTAWA - A major Canadian Muslim group is demanding an apology from Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his chief spokesman for a comment it says linked the organization to a terrorist group. The National Council of Canadian Muslims has filed a notice of libel in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice that accuses Jason MacDonald of acting maliciously when he made the comment earlier this month. "Rather than responding to our legitimate concerns, the PMO's director of communications attacked us and attempted to smear our name by claiming NCCM had 'documented ties to a terrorist organization such as Hamas,'" Ihsaan Gardee, the council's executive director, told a news conference Tuesday. The libel notice is the first step in what could become a formal lawsuit.
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| Reporter sues Furlong for defamation in latest legal back-and-forth Posted: 28 Jan 2014 02:46 PM PST  VANCOUVER - The freelance journalist who wrote an article containing allegations that John Furlong abused students while teaching in northern British Columbia is now suing the former Vancouver Olympic CEO for defamation. Laura Robinson has filed a notice of claim, alleging Furlong defamed her in a series of comments to the media in the past year and a half, in which he cast himself as the target of a vindictive activist. Robinson's article, which was published in the Georgia Straight newspaper in September 2012, quoted several people who claimed they were physically and verbally abused while Furlong was a teacher in northern British Columbia in the late 1960s and early 1970s. They include his September 2012 news conference, when he said Robinson displayed a "shocking lack of diligence" and that the Georgia Straight didn't contact him before running the story, as well as a written statement the following week that repeated many of his criticisms of her.
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| Conservatives hold two byelections in provincial Manitoba ridings Posted: 28 Jan 2014 08:20 PM PST  WINNIPEG - Manitoba's Opposition Progressive Conservatives easily held onto two legislature seats in byelections Tuesday night, as the governing New Democrats saw their support drop sharply. With a few polls remaining late in the evening, Tory candidates in Morris and Arthur-Virden had secured well over 60 per cent of the vote. The NDP, which had finished a strong second in both seats in the 2011 provincial election, was struggling to get more than 10 per cent of the vote in both areas and had fallen to third place in Arthur-Virden, behind a surging Liberal party. Tory Leader Brian Pallister said the result was a strong rebuke of the government's decision last year to raise the provincial sales tax despite a 2011 election promise not to do so.
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| Shimon Peres, Hillary Clinton honour Edgar Bronfman at NY memorial Posted: 28 Jan 2014 08:09 PM PST NEW YORK, N.Y. - Hillary Clinton joined the family and friends of Edgar Bronfman on Tuesday to remember a Jewish leader whose vast whiskey fortune was eclipsed by a globally-connected personal force that helped Holocaust survivors win back what the Nazis stole. The Canadian-born Bronfman, who headed his family's Seagram's liquor empire and was the longtime president of the World Jewish Congress, died at his New York home in December at 84. Clinton said she arranged a 1996 meeting — on just a day's notice from Bronfman — between him and then U.S. President Bill Clinton. The encounter led to years of negotiations over Holocaust assets between Swiss banks, the World Jewish Congress and the U.S. government.  |
| Ruins of Quebec seniors' home scoured for clues on fatal blaze Posted: 28 Jan 2014 02:09 PM PST  By Mathieu Belanger L'ISLE-VERTE, Quebec (Reuters) - Canadian investigators sifted painstakingly through the charred ruins of a Quebec seniors' residence on Tuesday, seeking clues on what caused a massive blaze last week that authorities fear killed 32 people. For the first time since fire destroyed much of the wooden three-story building in the small town of L'Isle-Verte in the Eastern Canadian province of Quebec, media were allowed to take pictures of the work of the investigators from a distance.
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