Anna Mehler Paperny – Global News
Alberta Energy Minister Ken Hughes has been getting a rough ride lately over his pipeline safety review.
Commissioned in July, 2012, completed in December and made public the following August, the 54-page report compared Alberta’s pipeline regulations to those of other jurisdictions. Turns out they stack up well.
It did not, however, look at whether those rules are being followed and enforced.
Nor did it look at any actual pipeline incidents.
Anna Mehler Paperny – Global News
Canadians outside Quebec say they oppose that province’s proposed Charter of Values – but that doesn’t mean they’re comfortable with all religious symbols in the public sphere: More than two-thirds of respondents to an Angus-Reid poll released Wednesday would ban kirpans; almost as many would prohibit public servants from wearing burqas.
Anna Mehler Paperny – Global News
Michael Sona told “several” friends he was involved in making misleading calls directing Guelph voters to nonexistent polling stations in the May, 2011 election, court documents allege.
Anna Mehler Paperny and Patrick Cain – Global News
Syria’s protracted conflict reached a dubious milestone Tuesday: The number of Syrians who’ve fled the country thanks to 30 months of violence has passed the 2-million mark.
Anna Mehler Paperny – Global News
Montreal, Maine and Atlantic, the company whose train derailed and exploded in a fiery, fatal inferno in Lac Megantic last month, is in a “controversy” with its insurer on what, exactly, the company can claim in the wake of that crash.
Anna Mehler Paperny – Global News
While the fate of TransCanada’s embattled Keystone XL remains uncertain 70-odd months into its quest to link Alberta’s oilsands with the Gulf of Mexico, another Canadian company’s lesser-known, less-scrutinized pipeline project is on track to make it there first.
And the Alberta government is weighing whether it wants in.
Anna Mehler Paperny and Jamie Sturgeon – Global News
To get a sense of just how central a role the company formerly known as RIM plays in Waterloo’s civic psyche, you could start at the city’s homepage: The first image that greets you is a coterie of glossy Blackberrys (Z10s, in case you’re wondering).
Anna Mehler Paperny and Nick Logan – Global News
TORONTO – Prime Minister Stephen Harper says Ottawa may need to play a role in regulating exotic pet stores in the wake of the deaths of two boys asphyxiated by a python while they slept.
Anna Mehler Paperny and Leslie Young – Global News
Thousands of barrels of bitumen have been oozing to the surface of a remote operation for months and the oil giant responsible doesn’t know when it’s going to stop.
By Mairin Prentiss, Anna Mehler Paperny, Julia Wong and Nick Logan – Global News
HALIFAX AND TORONTO – The four-metre python that killed Connor and Noah Barthe was sleeping right beside them, says a friend of the snake’s owner.
a business of misfits 