Family, friends to gather in Mayerthorpe to honour 4 RCMP killed in 2005
July 04, 2008 - 5:26 am
MAYERTHORPE, Alta. - Family, friends and hundreds of police are to gather from across Canada in Mayerthorpe, Alberta for the opening of a memorial park built by the community to honour four young RCMP gunned down in 2005. Prime Minister Stephen Harper is to take part in the ceremony which ...
10-day festival celebrating cowboy heritage kicks off in Calgary
July 04, 2008 - 11:58 pm
Calgarians are preparing to celebrate their western roots with the kickoff of the Calgary Stampede. For the next 10 days you could say it will be casual Friday every day, as Calgarians turn in their business suits for cowboy hats, boots and blue jeans. Stampede president George Brookman ...
University team to design ventilation to combat bioterror, chemical warfare
July 03, 2008 - 8:43 pm
SASKATOON - Researchers at the University of Saskatchewan are working on designing a ventilation system that could protect schools, hospitals, and other public buildings from chemical warfare and bioterrorist attacks. "Think of it as a complex fire alarm for industrial chemical spills, ...
Harper speaks of proud 'Quebecois nation' at Quebec City's 400th birthday bash
July 03, 2008 - 7:03 pm
QUEBEC - Prime Minister Stephen Harper praised Quebec City as the country's most beautiful city on Thursday as he and a slew of other dignitaries celebrated the historic town's 400th birthday. Harper, Premier Jean Charest, Gov. Gen. Michaelle Jean and French Prime Minister Francois Fillon ...
B.C. Environment Ministry says small amounts of glycol leaking into Thompson
July 03, 2008 - 6:27 pm
LYTTON, B.C. - A B.C. Environment Ministry official says one tank car from a CP Rail (TSX:CP) derailment near Lytton is leaking ethylene glycol. Rick Adams says the unit that's completely submerged has been seeping what he calls small amounts of the chemical into the Thompson River since ...
Canadian released from jail in Bulgaria, but not free, lawyer says
July 03, 2008 - 5:28 pm
TORONTO - A Canadian businessman jailed in Bulgaria for 13 years may have been released from custody, but that doesn't mean a "lawless and corrupt" government will allow Michael Kapoustin to be free, his lawyer said Thursday. "He's been so abused that we don't know what to believe ...
Controversial BC priest renounces Order of Canada after Morgentaler honoured
July 03, 2008 - 5:27 pm
COQUITLAM, B.C. - A B.C. priest who is renouncing his membership in the Order of Canada says it's worth facing questions about his own controversial past to protest the same honour being bestowed upon abortion rights champion Dr. Henry Morgentaler. Father Lucien Larre was named to the ...
Canada Family Action Coalition files request to revoke Morgentaler's Order
July 03, 2008 - 4:53 pm
TORONTO - The Canada Family Action Coalition says it has filed an official request to have the Governor General strip Henry Morgentaler of his membership to the Order of Canada. President Charles McVety says the abortion pioneer's conduct is unbecoming of a member of the Order of ...
Canada Post seals deal with Vancouver Olympic organizers
July 03, 2008 - 4:52 pm
VANCOUVER - Canada Post has signed, sealed and will deliver on a deal with the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games. More than half a billion stamps and related products will be produced for the Games under the terms of a $3-million supplier agreement the carrier has signed with Olympic ...
Ottawa awards contentious submarine contract to West Coast firm
July 03, 2008 - 4:52 pm
OTTAWA - The Conservative government has signed a hefty contract with a West Coast firm to refit Canada's four Victoria Class submarines. Public Works Minister Christian Paradis announced that the five-year contract worth $370 million has gone to Canadian Submarine Management ...
Khawaja discussed detonator with bomb plotter, trial hears
July 03, 2008 - 4:50 pm
OTTAWA - Momin Khawaja personally outlined the workings of an electronic detonation device to the British-based leader of a terrorist bomb plot, the Ottawa software designer's trial has heard. In a conversation recorded by the U.K. security service MI-5, Khawaja can be heard describing a ...
Quebec woman acquitted in shaken-baby case involving 10-month-old boy
July 03, 2008 - 4:45 pm
MONTREAL - A Quebec woman has been acquitted of assaulting a 10-month-old baby boy who suffered brain damage from being shaken. Quebec court Judge Jean-Pierre Bonin ruled there was reasonable doubt as to the guilt of Sandra Davidson, and that she should be acquitted. Expert witnesses on ...
Alberta landowners group given leave to appeal construction of power line
July 03, 2008 - 4:23 pm
RIMBEY, Alta. - A group of southern Alberta landowners has won the right to appeal a decision by the Alberta Energy and Utilities Board to approve a 130-kilometre long power transmission line between Lethbridge, Alta., and Great Falls, Mont. Justice Peter Martin says the landowners can ...
Access roads closed after Edmonton chemical plant storage well starts leaking
July 03, 2008 - 4:04 pm
FORT SASKATCHEWAN, Alta. - RCMP closed access roads at an Edmonton-area chemical plant after a storage well began leaking at a Dow Chemical facility. "One of the wellheads where we store the hydrocarbons was under some scheduled maintenance when the leak occurred," company spokesman ...
Belgian man says he acted out of love for 13-year-old Montreal girl
July 03, 2008 - 4:03 pm
MONTREAL - A Belgian man who has pleaded guilty to half a dozen sex-related charges involving a 13-year-old Montreal girl says he was driven by love. Vincent Raphael Duval, 32, testified at his pre-sentencing hearing Thursday he knew his actions were illegal but that he couldn't set aside ...
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