| Halifax fire deals with radiation scare, but says no evidence of leak at port Posted: 13 Mar 2014 11:22 PM PDT  HALIFAX - Firefighters responded to a radiation scare aboard a ship at the port of Halifax on Thursday night, but later determined there was no leak of radioactive material. A city news release says firefighters received a call shortly before 10 p.m. after four steel cylinders fell about six metres from inside a container at one of the city's terminals, landing in a contained area of the ship. The Halifax regional fire department said there were no injuries and no one was contaminated at the terminal in Fairview Cove in the city's north end. Initially, division commander Corey Beals said the department thought it was dealing with "some sort of radiological leak" but about 90 minutes later fire officials said there wasn't a leak.
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| Feds, B.C., Port Metro Vancouver announce plan to end trucker strike Posted: 13 Mar 2014 10:38 PM PDT  VANCOUVER - The federal and B.C. governments and Port Metro Vancouver have announced a 14-point plan to resolve an ongoing strike by container-truck drivers they say has severely impacted the national economy. Federal Transport Minister Lisa Raitt, B.C. Transportation Minister Todd Stone and port president and CEO Robin Silvester said the plan released Thursday night will ensure drivers will be paid fair compensation, reduce wait times at container terminals and create an industry oversight committee. But it was unclear how the truckers would respond to the plan, with one union, Unifor-Vancouver Container Truckers' Association, stating in an email that it was reviewing its contents. We're hearing it all third hand," added Manny Dosange, spokesman for the United Truckers Association, which represents 1,000 non-unionized owner-operators.
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| Redford's bad day:caucus turmoil, office chaos, accusation of tantrums, abuse Posted: 13 Mar 2014 05:06 PM PDT  EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Alison Redford was a leader under siege Thursday, facing caucus turmoil, a dysfunctional office and an accusation that she is an abusive bully, prone to tantrums and fits of rage. It's the latest chapter in what has become Redford's nightmarish narrative of sagging support amid revelations of lavish spending on herself and her inner circle. On Wednesday, she tried to stem the caucus revolt by agreeing to pay back $45,000 she and her aide, Brad Stables, spent to fly to South Africa for Nelson Mandela's funeral. That was not enough, however, to stop Calgary backbencher Len Webber from quitting caucus Thursday to sit as an Independent.
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| Mayoral candidate Olivia Chow won’t be forced to run on Rob Ford’s terms Posted: 13 Mar 2014 01:37 PM PDT  Toronto mayoral hopeful Olivia Chow formally launched her campaign on Thursday in a downtown church, just blocks from where she grew up as a child. It was an apt location, not for its religious connotations, but for its connection to … Continue reading →
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| Canada will offer $220M to prop up Ukraine's finances though IMF: Baird Posted: 13 Mar 2014 02:35 PM PDT  OTTAWA - Canada will contribute $220 million to an international effort to bail out the government of Ukraine, Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird said Thursday. But beyond some rhetorical condemnation, Baird was non-committal on any concrete steps that might be directed outside Ukraine's border to counter Russia's growing military build-up and its weekend referendum in Crimea. "Restoring economic stability in that country is a priority for both Canada and of our international partners during this important transition period towards a Euro-Atlantic future for Ukraine," he said. Baird said Canada is prepared to work with the European Union, the United States and the International Monetary Fund to help Ukraine, saying it seems to have enough money to keep afloat for a few months.
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| Lev Tahor members being sought by Guatemalan officials Posted: 13 Mar 2014 02:04 AM PDT  CBC's the fifth estate has learned that the Guatemalan Interior Ministry in coordination with Interpol are trying to identify and locate Lev Tahor members who arrived in Guatemala on March 4th.
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| Is Alberta Premier Alison Redford’s job on the line? Posted: 13 Mar 2014 09:14 AM PDT  It wasn't too long ago that Alberta Premier Alison Redford earned the full confidence of her party's faithful. At a Progressive Conservative leadership review last November, she got 77 per cent support. But in politics things change quickly. On Wednesday, … Continue reading →
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| Robert Dziekanski Taser death: Officer fails to quash perjury charge Posted: 13 Mar 2014 01:48 PM PDT  A B.C. Supreme court justice has denied Cst. Kwesi Millington's application to dismiss a perjury charge alleging he lied about the death of Robert Dziekanski to the Braidwood Inquiry.
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| New panel appointed for long-delayed investigation into judge's nude photos Posted: 13 Mar 2014 08:19 AM PDT  OTTAWA - A long-delayed inquiry into a Manitoba judge whose nude photos ended up on the Internet may soon restart. The Canadian Judicial Council has appointed a new committee to oversee the inquiry into Lori Douglas. The new appointees include François Rolland, chief justice of the Superior Court of Quebec, and replace members who resigned en masse after Douglas's lawyer complained they had shown bias.
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| PQ's Marois and Peladeau play down Quebec independence during campaign Posted: 13 Mar 2014 04:14 PM PDT  MONTREAL - Pauline Marois steered her campaign away from the theme of independence Thursday, a sudden shift that followed her introduction of star candidate Pierre Karl Peladeau and musings about a post-secession Quebec. The Parti Quebecois leader's tempered approach came after poll results suggested the pro-Canada Liberals had gained ground in the Quebec City area at the expense of the third-place Coalition party. The survey, taken after Peladeau was named a PQ candidate, appeared to show that federalists in the region had begun to rally under the Liberal banner with hope of avoiding a referendum. The PQ's tactical change was apparent Thursday when Peladeau, one of Canada's most-powerful media moguls, suddenly refused to answer questions about Quebec sovereignty or any future vote on independence.
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| 3 suicides in Maskwacis, Alta., in a week prompt calls for hotline Posted: 13 Mar 2014 08:59 AM PDT  Some members of the First Nation community of Maskwacis say they will push for 24-hour suicide hotline following the suicides of three women last week.
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| Quebec hotel apologizes to aboriginal guests for charging extra for hotel rooms Posted: 13 Mar 2014 11:23 AM PDT A Lac-St-Jean, Que., area hotel is apologizing after charging a group of aboriginal youth nearly 50 per cent more than the standard rate for a room.  |
| International auto theft ring busted in Alberta, Quebec Posted: 13 Mar 2014 10:14 AM PDT  Alberta police have busted an international auto theft ring responsible for the theft of more than 100 high-end trucks, SUVs, and luxury sedans worth more than $3 million from Quebec motorists.
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| New Brunswick hardest hit as winter storm slams Atlantic Canada Posted: 13 Mar 2014 09:33 AM PDT  The Maritimes are being slammed by the late-season storm that pushed through southern Ontario and Quebec yesterday, with New Brunswick on the receiving end of a virtual 'freight-train' of heavy snow that stretched as far back as Lake Ontario.
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| Spending by major non-profit helping Vancouver’s homeless, addicts under scrutiny Posted: 13 Mar 2014 11:52 AM PDT  The Portland Hotel Society, the biggest non-profit player in Vancouver's drug- and poverty-stricken Downtown Eastside, has come under a microscope over its spending. The organization behind harm-reduction initiatives such as the Insite supervised drug-injection site, a crack-pipe vending machine and … Continue reading →
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| Canadian doctor holds her own at Senate subcommittee on socialized medicine Posted: 13 Mar 2014 08:23 AM PDT  A Toronto doctor called to Washington this week to provide a U.S. subcommittee with insight into alternative forms of health care ended up sparring with a Republican Senator has he painted Canada's public system as a death sentence. And it's … Continue reading →
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| PQ candidate steps down over anti-Islam Facebook post Posted: 13 Mar 2014 10:35 AM PDT  Welcome to election campaigns in the era of social media. It looks like the Journal de Montreal is Facebook stalking all the candidates in the Quebec election. Earlier this week, they spotted a post by PQ candidate Jean Carrière. Carrière, … Continue reading →
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| Hadrien or Hadrian? Trudeau shares newest baby photo Posted: 13 Mar 2014 11:31 AM PDT  Hadrian or Hadrien, Justin Trudeau is certainly looking like himself again after taking a few weeks off to enjoy his newest family addition, baby Hadrien … Continue reading →
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| Floating hotel draws workers to NW Canada boom town Posted: 13 Mar 2014 10:27 AM PDT  By Julie Gordon VANCOUVER (Reuters) - Hundreds of construction workers in booming northern British Columbia will take up residence this week in unique digs on board a cruise ferry revamped into a floating luxury hotel. The aging ship will help relieve a housing shortage in one busy Canadian port town already bursting ahead of a promised energy boom that could last more than a decade. The Silja Festival - a Baltic ferry made over as the Delta Spirit Lodge - will spend at least a year docked outside Kitimat, British Columbia, where it will provide housing for about 600 workers in town for Rio Tinto Alcan's $3.3 billion smelter-upgrade project, which is expected to wrap up in 2015. After that, the ship's owners hope more contracts will float their way as major energy companies like Chevron Corp, Petronas and Royal Dutch Shell push ahead with proposed liquefied natural gas export (LNG) projects along Canada's Pacific coast.
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| British Columbia wants changes in Columbia River pact with U.S Posted: 13 Mar 2014 03:08 PM PDT By Nicole Mordant VANCOUVER (Reuters) - The Canadian province of British Columbia said on Thursday it wants to keep a 50-year-old Canada-U.S. pact on Columbia River flood control and power generation in place, but it urged the federal government to push for what it called improvements. The announcement of the Pacific Coast province's stance on renewing the Columbia River Treaty, which has been in effect since 1964, came three months after the agencies leading a U.S. review of the pact recommended that Washington continue the agreement, but that it reduce the payments it makes to Canada under the treaty. The Columbia River, one of North America's largest rivers by volume, has its headwaters in the Canadian Rockies and flows 2,000 km (1,250 miles) through British Columbia, Washington and Oregon before emptying into the Pacific Ocean. Under the treaty, four dams were built in the Pacific Northwest: three in southeastern British Columbia and one in Montana.  |
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