Oct. 25, 2013 – Global News
What’s the difference between Oakville and Mississauga gas plants, scrapped mid-campaign 2011, and Scarborough light-rail transit, scrapped mid-campaign 2013?
This time, the province isn’t on the hook for the costs of the last-minute switch: Toronto is. And we still don’t know how much that’ll be.
Oct. 16, 2013 – Global News
Ontario’s coroner renewed calls for mandatory side guards on trucks Wednesday, hours after a 25-year-old woman was crushed almost to death beneath the wheels of a truck in downtown Toronto.
Oct. 11, 2013 – Global News
Ottawa could face a legal showdown with some of Vancouver’s hardest-core addicts as they’re cut off from government-supplied heroin doctors say is their only viable treatment option.
Oct. 8, 2013 – Global News
Concerned for Canadians’ privacy online amid mushrooming revelations into U.S. cyber-spying, Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart approached the watchdog overseeing Canada’s electronic espionage agency and offered to help him.
Sept. 30, 2013 – Global News
Journalists have a right to see search warrants in the VIA Rail terror plot, a judge has ruled, coming to almost the opposite conclusion regarding wiretaps as a judge making the same call in the Project Traveller case.
Sept. 27, 2013 – Global News
A series of spills in northern Alberta is still oozing bitumen more than five months after the leaks began. And with no end in sight, Alberta’s Environment Ministry has taken what it says is an unprecedented step, asking Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. to partially drain an oil-soaked water body before it freezes this winter and traps a bitumen gash underneath it.
Anna Mehler Paperny – Global News
The short answer is yes. Kinda: Health Canada has approved funding for medically administered heroin for 16 addicts – and only these 16 – under its Special Access Program. The program’s designed to provide nonmarketed drugs to people suffering from “serious or life-threatening conditions when conventional therapies have failed, are unsuitable, or unavailable.”
It has since been slammed by Health Minister Rona Ambrose on the grounds that its decision contradicts Conservative government policy.
Anna Mehler Paperny – Global News
The level train crossing where a fatal collision sheared the front off a bus, killed six people and injured 34 others was flagged as a safety hazard more than a decade ago. In the years since, a plan to separate vehicle traffic was scrapped, even as the roadway got much, much busier.
Anna Mehler Paperny and Rebecca Lindell – Global News
TORONTO and OTTAWA – Just when you thought the national fulmination over the National Household Survey was over, Canadians will choose once again how to count themselves.
Or rather, their federal representatives will.
Anna Mehler Paperny – Global News
Warrants with wiretaps can be kept from the public, an Ontario judge has ruled.
That means a slew of search warrants connected to Toronto Police’s Project Traveller raids will be kept redacted for now, despite efforts from several media organizations – Global News included – to have them released.
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