Canadian soldier found dead at undisclosed Middle Eastern base
July 05, 2008 - 5:14 am
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - A Canadian soldier was found dead in the sleeping area of a Middle Eastern military base. The death of Cpl. Brendan Anthony Downey, a military policeman based in Dundurn, Sask., had been declared non-combat-related even before investigators arrived at the ...
Liberal MP Garth Turner under fire for blasting 'separatist losers' in Quebec
July 04, 2008 - 11:56 pm
OTTAWA - Liberal MP Garth Turner has come under fire for blasting Quebec sovereigntists on his blog as "balkanizing separatist losers." Turner, who represents the Toronto-area riding of Halton, wrote a blog on Thursday praising Liberal Leader Stephane Dion's plan to defend his ...
Hit-and-run driver stole knapsack before dragging boy 600 metres: Hamilton police
July 04, 2008 - 11:35 pm
HAMILTON - Hamilton police say a driver who ran over a 17-year-old boy also stopped and stole a knapsack before zooming off, dragging the boy under the vehicle for about 600 metres. Police say the boy was cycling around 3:40 a.m. on Thursday in Hamilton with a friend when the car knocked ...
Lytton, B.C. mayor says railways must use best technology to prevent derailments
July 04, 2008 - 11:27 pm
The mayor of Lytton, B.C., says residents are still concerned even though CP Rail officials have assured them all efforts are made to prevent accidents like a recent derailment of a rail cars containing chemicals. Chris O'Connor was commenting after four CP Rail (TSX:CP) tank cars jumped ...
Stephane Dion heads to heart of cowboy country to push new green strategy
July 04, 2008 - 10:47 pm
CALGARY - Federal Liberal Leader Stephane Dion rode into the heart of cowboy country Friday to lasso support for his green plan in a province that snorts at any whiff of the old national energy program. The policy brought in by the Trudeau Liberals in the early 1980s is still despised by ...
Thick smoke from Sask. forest fires forces hundreds more to flee homes
July 04, 2008 - 9:53 pm
REGINA - Hundreds more people were expected to flee their homes on the weekend because of heavy, billowing smoke from several forest fires in northern Saskatchewan. Provincial officials said late Friday afternoon that another 250 people were immediately being taken out of the northeastern ...
RCMP make biggest-ever drug bust in Okanagan; nab civilian Mountie employee
July 04, 2008 - 9:52 pm
PENTICTON, B.C. - The Mounties say they've made the biggest-ever drug bust in B.C.'s southern Okanagan Valley, and one of the people arrested is a civilian employee of the RCMP detachment in Penticton. Police say they raided two homes in the city and found about 2.5 kilograms of cocaine, ...
Mayerthorpe memorial marks event that was 'a monstrous insult to all that is good?
July 04, 2008 - 8:07 pm
MAYERTHORPE, Alta. - Family and friends of four murdered Mounties wept and watched silently in awe as the people of a small rural Alberta farm town unveiled life-sized bronze statues of their loved ones Friday. Gleaming under a bright prairie sun, the statues stand in a circle back to ...
Plotters discussed bomb targets right after Khawaja visit, trial is told
July 04, 2008 - 8:05 pm
OTTAWA - Two key players in a British bomb plot discussed targets for their attacks immediately after Ottawa software designer Momin Khawaja visited them in the U.K. four years ago, Khawaja's terrorism trial has heard. In a conversation surreptitiously recorded by British investigators, ...
Harper defamation suit meant to intimidate, muzzle opposition, Liberals say
July 04, 2008 - 7:08 pm
OTTAWA - Stephen Harper is escalating his lawsuit against federal Liberals in a bid to muzzle legitimate criticism about his role in the Cadman affair, the Liberal party says. The charge is part of the Liberals' legal counter-punch, filed Friday in response to the prime minister's recent ...
Ontario won't be testing samples taken from suspected drug-impaired drivers
July 04, 2008 - 7:06 pm
TORONTO - Ontario won't immediately be testing blood, urine or saliva samples taken from motorists suspected of driving while high, which critics warn is stripping police of important new powers that would help them stop impaired drivers. The government-run centre responsible for the ...
TD Securities taking $96M hit on mispricing blamed on individual in London
July 04, 2008 - 7:05 pm
TORONTO - Toronto-Dominion Bank (TSX:TD) disclosed Friday a $96-million loss caused by "incorrectly priced" financial investments at its operations in London. Canada's second-biggest bank by assets said the employee involved at its TD Securities arm "is no longer with the company" and the ...
Police say multi-vehicle pileup northeast of Quebec City has claimed one life
July 04, 2008 - 7:03 pm
RIMOUSKI, Que. - Police say at least one person has died in a multi-vehicle pileup involving two trucks and four cars northeast of Quebec City. An official at a regional hospital says 10 people ended up at the facility and four of them were transported there by ambulance. But only two were ...
N.S. owed hundred of millions in resource royalties, says government source
July 04, 2008 - 7:00 pm
HALIFAX - The final report by a panel examining Nova Scotia's crown share dispute with Ottawa has determined the province is owed hundreds of millions of dollars from the decades-old offshore resources agreement, a government source said Friday. "It's says very clearly that crown share ...
500 dead ducks could cost Syncrude $1M if Alberta goes ahead with charges
July 04, 2008 - 6:13 pm
EDMONTON - The Alberta government has wrapped up an investigation into how 500 ducks died in the toxic sludge of an oilsands tailings pond last spring. "The probe is complete. We've compiled all the evidence," Alberta Environment spokesman Josh Stewart told The Canadian Press on Friday. ...
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