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Stop automatically disclosing suicide attempts, privacy czar tells cops

April 14, 2014May 4, 2014amp Leave a comment

April 14, 2014 – By Anna Mehler Paperny  Global News

Stop sharing information on individuals’ suicide attempts with other police forces unless the people in question pose a danger to others, Ontario’s Privacy Commissioner is telling police.

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Nomination news: CJF and CAJ

April 8, 2014May 4, 2014amp Leave a comment

Global News got a couple of exciting accolades this week – a pair of nods from the Canadian Association of Journalists for Crude Awakening and Remembrance Day, and a nomination for globalnews.ca as a whole for Canadian Journalism Foundation’s Excellence in Journalism Award.

Toronto election: Why Scarborough transit debate isn’t a done deal

March 14, 2014May 4, 2014amp Leave a comment

March 14, 2014 – By Anna Mehler Paperny  Global News

It didn’t take long for Toronto’s mayoral candidates to reprise that most debated of transit issues: Scarborough’s magic morphing light rail/subway.

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What’s behind Ontario’s job-market woes (hint: not the recession)

March 14, 2014May 4, 2014amp Leave a comment

March 14, 2014 – By Anna Mehler Paperny  Global News

Ontario’s labour dysfunction is more than a recessionary ripple effect, a new paper finds: It’s been more than a decade in the making.

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Alberta regulator rejects CNRL request to steam at active spill site

March 10, 2014May 4, 2014amp Leave a comment

March 10, 2014 – By Anna Mehler Paperny  Global News

Alberta’s Energy Regulator has rejected Canadian Natural Resources Limited’s request to start steam operations amid a series of spills that have been oozing bitumen nonstop since last May.

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CNRL wants to start high-pressure steaming near active spill site

March 5, 2014May 4, 2014amp Leave a comment

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March 5, 2014 – By Anna Mehler Paperny  Global News

The company whose northern Alberta spills have been oozing bitumen for 10 months nonstop has asked the province to let it start high-pressure steam operations less than a kilometre away from one of the spill areas.

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Would tougher NCR rules keep Vince Li from reoffending?

February 28, 2014May 4, 2014amp Leave a comment

Feb. 28, 2014 – By Anna Mehler Paperny  Global News

The federal government seized on the news this week that Vince Li, who beheaded a man on a Greyhound bus six years ago, has been granted unescorted trips outside the forensic psychiatric hospital where he’s been in custody.

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How safe is your wastewater? Environment Canada won’t tell you

February 26, 2014May 4, 2014amp Leave a comment

Feb. 26, 2014 – By Anna Mehler Paperny  Global News

Is your community’s wastewater treatment safe? The federal government won’t say.

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We asked what CBC paid for the Olympics. Here’s what we got back:

February 4, 2014May 4, 2014amp Leave a comment

Feb. 4, 2014 – By Anna Mehler Paperny  Global News

How much is Canada’s public broadcaster paying for the Olympics?

That information is not for public consumption.

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Ontario’s new minimum wage: A 75-cent raise?

January 27, 2014May 4, 2014amp Leave a comment

Jan. 27, 2014 – By Anna Mehler Paperny  Global News

Ontario could tie its minimum wage retroactively to four years of inflation and still leave the province’s lowest-paid workers well below the poverty line.

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