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• Conservative government ponders options after Supreme Court rejects Nadon
• Freewill Shakespeare Festival moves indoors for one year
• Odds of getting a lost cellphone returned? Not much better than 50/50: study
• B.C. government orders striking port truckers back to work, but will they obey?
• Spring snowstorm bears down on Atlantic Canada
• New U.S. report warns of more delays and affordability issues with F-35 jet
• With Washington landslide toll mounting, a look at Canada’s own history of deadly slides
• Russia places entry ban on 13 Canadian officials
• NDP under fire for using parliament resources for partisan ends
• Man falls ill after visit to western Africa; placed in hospital isolation
• 'I am a journalist' Canadian jailed in Cairo yells out during trial
• Canadian governments Pinocchios at budget time, study says
• Medical marijuana trucks a hijack target, police chief says
• Marineland school trip cancelled after complaint from Hamilton mom
• Rob Ford documents suggest widening crack video investigation
• Report suggests hospital wait times cost Canadians over $1 billion
• Harper endorses controversial Rob Anders for Calgary Signal Hill nomination
• Canadian private health insurers paying out less in benefits than premiums collected: study
• German skier becomes the latest victim of B.C. avalanches: Mounties
• Quebec police finish Lac-Megantic rail disaster probe

Conservative government ponders options after Supreme Court rejects Nadon Posted: 24 Mar 2014 03:04 PM PDT OTTAWA - There are a number of qualified Quebec candidates who could be appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada, Justice Minister Peter MacKay said Monday. But three days after the country's top court rejected Prime Minister Stephen Harper's latest appointee to the bench, the Conservative government is ignoring opposition demands that Justice Marc Nadon formally be ruled out of the running. The Supreme Court found last week that Nadon, a semi-retired Federal Court of Appeal judge, did not meet the specific eligibility requirements for a Quebec seat on the bench that are laid out in the Supreme Court Act.

Freewill Shakespeare Festival moves indoors for one year Posted: 24 Mar 2014 09:26 PM PDT The annual festival will take place at the Myer Horowitz Theatre this summer, instead of its usual home at Hawrelak Park.

Odds of getting a lost cellphone returned? Not much better than 50/50: study Posted: 24 Mar 2014 09:00 PM PDT Security software company Symantec dropped 10 phones each in Calgary, Halifax, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver and waited to see if they would be returned. Stefano Tiranardi, an information protection specialist with Symantec Canada, says he's disappointed by the results of the experiment.

B.C. government orders striking port truckers back to work, but will they obey? Posted: 24 Mar 2014 04:15 PM PDT We've now reached the push-comes-to-shove phase of the Vancouver port truckers' strike. The B.C. government tabled legislation Monday afternoon ordering unionized truckers back to work and imposing a 90-day cooling off period on the dispute, CKNW News reported. "The cooling … Continue reading →

Spring snowstorm bears down on Atlantic Canada Posted: 24 Mar 2014 05:15 PM PDT HALIFAX - A powerful storm is expected to dump heavy snow across Atlantic Canada on Wednesday.

New U.S. report warns of more delays and affordability issues with F-35 jet Posted: 24 Mar 2014 05:18 PM PDT OTTAWA - A new report in Washington is predicting more delays and possibly higher costs for the troubled F-35 jet fighter program. The U.S. Government Accountability Office, in a study released Monday, sounded the alarm about software development for the high-tech, radar-evading jet fighter. The manufacturer, Lockheed Martin, is supposed to come up with improved software that will allow the U.S. Air Force to begin using the F-35 in initial operations by July 2015, but the accountability office says that date is in question.

With Washington landslide toll mounting, a look at Canada’s own history of deadly slides Posted: 24 Mar 2014 02:19 PM PDT The toll of the dead and missing from the weekend landslide in Washington state continues to mount, reaching more than 100 Monday. Canada isn't immune from such natural disasters, though it's been a long time since a slide has killed … Continue reading →

Russia places entry ban on 13 Canadian officials Posted: 24 Mar 2014 03:05 PM PDT Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird says Russia's sanctions against 13 Canadian officials are a "badge of honour" for Prime Minister Stephen Harper and all of Canada. Russia's sanctions came as G7 leaders were preparing to meet in The Hague for an emergency meeting to discuss the situation in Ukraine.

NDP under fire for using parliament resources for partisan ends Posted: 24 Mar 2014 04:03 PM PDT OTTAWA - The NDP is coming under fire from all sides for using taxpayer-funded parliamentary resources for partisan purposes. But NDP Leader Tom Mulcair insists the party has respected all the rules and done nothing wrong. Government whip John Duncan says the all-party board of internal economy has alerted Elections Canada to bulk flyers sent by New Democrat MPs to voters during two byelections last November, using free parliamentary mailing privileges. Duncan says the board wants to ensure that the electoral watchdog is aware that the flyers might constitute a campaign expense in the Montreal riding of Bourassa and the Manitoba riding of Brandon-Souris.

Man falls ill after visit to western Africa; placed in hospital isolation Posted: 24 Mar 2014 03:50 PM PDT SASKATOON - Saskatchewan health officials say a man who recently travelled to western Africa is seriously ill in hospital and one of the possible diagnoses they are considering is Ebola hemorrhagic fever. "Viral hemorrhagic fever is a generic name for a number of rather exotic diseases that are found in Africa," Dr. Denise Werker, deputy chief medical health officer, said Monday. "In that class of diseases there is Ebola hemorrhagic fever, Lassa fever, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever and yellow fever that you would normally include in the viral hemorrhagic fevers." Marburg hemorrhagic fever is also included in that group.

'I am a journalist' Canadian jailed in Cairo yells out during trial Posted: 24 Mar 2014 01:55 PM PDT Shouting out from a metal cage, an Egyptian-Canadian journalist imprisoned in Cairo told a court Monday that he wasn't a member of an outlawed Islamist group the local government considers a terror organization. "I am a journalist. My only weapon is a camera and computer," Mohamed Fahmy yelled as the third session of his trial got underway. Fahmy's case was put over until March 31 after the cross-examination of witnesses from the prosecution, which claims the journalist and his colleagues produced footage which threatened national security.

Canadian governments Pinocchios at budget time, study says Posted: 24 Mar 2014 01:43 PM PDT When it comes to matching their budgets to actual spending, most Canadian governments are Pinocchios according to a study by the C.D. Howe Institute.

Medical marijuana trucks a hijack target, police chief says Posted: 24 Mar 2014 08:30 AM PDT A Southern Ontario police chief says he's worried about the possibility of criminals hijacking delivery trucks leaving Canada's new large-scale medicinal marijuana grow facilities.

Marineland school trip cancelled after complaint from Hamilton mom Posted: 24 Mar 2014 02:29 PM PDT Jennifer Jamieson, of Stoney Creek, Ont., has successfully petitioned Mountain View Elementary School not to go ahead with a field trip to the beleaguered Marineland amusement park — and she's hoping to convince the public school board to ban trips there altogether.

Rob Ford documents suggest widening crack video investigation Posted: 24 Mar 2014 03:14 PM PDT New police documents from the Project Brazen 2 investigation reveal suggestions of further allegations of extortion relating to the Rob Ford crack video.

Report suggests hospital wait times cost Canadians over $1 billion Posted: 24 Mar 2014 07:59 AM PDT A lot of Canadians saw Dr. Danielle Martin's smack-down of a U.S. Senate committee in Washington a couple of weeks ago. Video of it, showing the Toronto-based doctor defending the Canadian single-payer healthcare system and hospital wait times, has — … Continue reading →

Harper endorses controversial Rob Anders for Calgary Signal Hill nomination Posted: 24 Mar 2014 09:34 AM PDT They don't come anymore controversial than Conservative MP Rob Anders. This, of course, is the guy who was forced to apologize for saying that current NDP leader Thomas Mulcair partly "helped to hasten Jack Layton's death." He's the MP who … Continue reading →

Canadian private health insurers paying out less in benefits than premiums collected: study Posted: 24 Mar 2014 12:50 PM PDT You're probably familiar with those private health insurance ads on TV. The ones where a young woman is enjoying a hike when she suddenly trips on a stick and injures her knee, for example. The message is that life can go sideways unexpectedly and you need supplementary health insurance to cover that unforeseen tumble down a hiking trail.

German skier becomes the latest victim of B.C. avalanches: Mounties Posted: 24 Mar 2014 07:48 PM PDT REVELSTOKE, B.C. - Mounties in southeast British Columbia say a 45-year-old man from Germany is dead following an avalanche north of the community of Revelstoke. RCMP Staff Sgt. Kurt Grabinsky says the morning slide occurred in the backcountry and buried the heli-skier in as much as three metres of snow. Bystanders dug out the man, who received medical treatment at the scene, but Grabinsky says he died from his injuries. Grabinsky says the coroner is now investigating the incident.

Quebec police finish Lac-Megantic rail disaster probe Posted: 24 Mar 2014 11:07 AM PDT By Randall Palmer OTTAWA (Reuters) - Quebec police have concluded their investigation into last July's oil-by-rail disaster in the Quebec town of Lac-Megantic in which 47 people were killed, and have turned the file over to the public prosecutor's office, a police spokesman said Monday. "The investigators of the Surete du Quebec (police) have sent the investigation report to the director of criminal and penal prosecutions," spokesman Claude Denis said. Neither he nor the prosecutor's office would give details on what was in the report, or say whether, or when, criminal charges might be laid. The news agency QMI reported over the weekend that an unidentified police source said police were confident prosecutors would lay criminal negligence charges.

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