Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
On a rainy February afternoon in 2009, Sam Fitzpatrick was crushed to death when a boulder more than 1.5 metres in diameter tumbled downhill through his worksite near Toba Inlet, B.C., striking his head as he drilled rock.
He died almost instantly. He was 24.
Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
B.C. Transportation Minister Mary Polak says documents obtained by Global News detailing concerns about ice falling from the Port Mann bridge just weeks before ice fell from the Port Mann Bridge prove the province did its due diligence in asking contractor Kiewit-Flatiron for evidence the structure would be safe.
Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
This has been a rough couple of years for Kiewit Corp’s west-coast bridges.
In the past year, two ambitious bridges it’s working on – one in California, the other in Washington – have become mired in concerns about design and structural integrity.
Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
TORONTO – The city is cautioning its staff not to compare National Household Survey information with data from the long-form census.
“Because of the change from a mandatory to a voluntary sample, the NHS may under-report the number of people belonging to certain subgroups,” reads a briefing note being sent out to key staff members who would normally work closely with this kind of demographic information.
Leslie Young and Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
Engineers at a B.C. Crown corporation raised concerns about snow and ice falling from cables on the Port Mann Bridge more than three years before a winter storm caused just that, sending sheets of ice onto drivers on the newly opened structure.
Anna Mehler Paperny and Leslie Young, Global News
Government agencies reliant on census information may not pay for its replacement, whose numbers are less reliable and more expensive.
Anna Mehler Paperny and Leslie Young, Global News
Not only are Canadians getting less reliable information as the National Household Survey replaces the long-form census, they also have to pay for information they used to get for free.
Jamie Sturgeon and Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
Big Ontario businesses banking on becoming eligible for tax credits in 2015 will have to wait a little longer.
Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
Omar Khadr stands a good chance of having at least two of his five terror convictions overturned. But that probably won’t get him out of prison any sooner.
Anna Mehler Paperny – Global News
Terror suspect Raed Jaser was under a deportation order almost a decade ago, after repeated refugee claims were rejected and he was denied his family’s route to citizenship because of multiple convictions he’d racked up since coming to Canada.
And in August of 2004, he stood in an Immigration and Refugee Board hearing, arguing he posed no threat and no flight risk despite accusations of working illegally under multiple aliases, and should be released until the government was ready to deport him – and had figured out where he ought to go.
