The Canadian Press GRANDE PRAIRIE, Alta.—RCMP in northwestern Alberta are praising two young kids for doing the right thing when they found a loaded handgun ditched by a shooting suspect. “The children were astute enough to not touch the weapon and immediately notified a parent,” Grande Prairie RCMP said in […]
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The Canadian PressDirk Meissner SAANICH, B.C.—The Douglas fir Andy MacKinnon leans against is 40 metres tall. It’s likely more than 500 years old and its fire-scarred trunk is almost two metres in diameter. In most other countries, the tree would be the largest in the land, noted MacKinnon, a forest […]
The Canadian Press REGINA—A report says giving two homeless men in Saskatchewan one-way bus tickets to British Columbia was within Social Services policy but the situation could have been better handled. The two men went together to an income assistance service centre in North Battleford in March to request the […]
The Associated Press MOSS POINT, Miss.—A mayor in a Mississippi city has decided not to banish a pet pig while its owner is on military duty in Iraq. The Sun Herald reported that Moss Point Mayor Billy Broomfield has saved the bacon, so to speak, of Patrick the pig. Patrick’s […]
The Canadian Press TORONTO—Ontarians won’t know what caused a critical bridge in northern Ontario to fail until the fall. The steel decking on the newly constructed Nipigon River Bridge lifted about 60 centimetres on Jan. 10, forcing a 24-hour closure that severed the Trans-Canada Highway link between the east and […]
The Canadian Press OTTAWA—Canada Post’s union is calling for a 30-day truce to allow the two sides to negotiate a new contract without a strike or lockout. The postal service has given notice that it will lock out the unionized employees starting Monday if there’s no deal. But the Canadian […]
The Associated PressMike Stobbe NEW YORK—Traffic deaths are down, but a new report shows fatalities on the road are still a bigger problem in the United States than in other affluent countries. The U.S. had by far the highest fatality rate for car crashes of the nearly 20 countries studied. […]
The Canadian Press OTTAWA—Canada Post is facing a potential labour disruption as of Monday. Here’s what you need to know if there’s a halt in postal services: •All packages and parcels are already in the system will be stuck there and no new packages or letters will be accepted. •Postal […]
By Jordan Press The Canadian Press OTTAWA—Canada Post’s largest union has rejected a proposal from the federal labour minister to undergo binding arbitration to avoid a potential work stoppage. But the threat of that work stoppage has been delayed—at least until Monday. Canada Post has extended its lockout notice to […]
The Canadian PressJordan Press OTTAWA—The federal Liberals could easily drop any mention of sex or gender from identity documents like passports immediately, notwithstanding concerns civil servants have expressed about the idea privately for more than a year, a senior official with the Canadian Human Rights Commission says. Marcella Daye, the […]
The Associated Press SARASOTA, Fla.—A Florida man who authorities say accidentally shot and killed his 14-year-old son at a shooting range is blaming himself—not the gun—for the death. Clayton Brumby, 64, told the Tampa Bay Times (http://bit.ly/29cvgnU ) a smoking hot shell casing went down the back of his shirt, […]
The Canadian PressCamille Bains VANCOUVER—A man accused of making false teeth from modelling clay said a petition filed against him by three dental regulatory organizations in British Columbia is cruel and unnecessary. Matthew Block said in a B.C. Supreme Court document filed by his girlfriend that he has already informed […]
