Anna Mehler Paperny – Global News
RCMP officers searching the Fort McMurray apartment where Hanad Mohamed was staying before his arrest seized four cell phones and a micro SD card, newlyunsealed court documents show.
Opponents prepare to implement crime bill under fire for lack of evidence
Anna Mehler Paperny – Global News
The experts who’ve argued so vehemently against Ottawa’s bill cracking down on the most mentally ill offenders are preparing to implement it, even though the federal government hasn’t been able to produce any evidence indicating it’s necessary.
Toronto’s Board of Health wants a supervised injection site. The province doesn’t. Now what?
Anna Mehler Paperny – Global News
Toronto’s board of health became Ontario’s first governing body to endorse supervised injection sites this week, but the momentum may stop there: The province isn’t interested.
Long-form census gone, ‘data wonks’ plan to fill gaps on their own
Anna Mehler Paperny – Global News
Amid consternation over a defunct census and leeriness towards its less reliable replacement, a group of cities has banded together to build a database of their own.
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Railway owners in Lac Megantic explosion had brakes fail before
Leslie Young, Anna Mehler Paperny and Aalia Adam – Global News
The dozens of oil-laden rail cars barrelling downhill to Lac Mégantic this past weekend sparked a hellish inferno and unprecedented devastation. But that wasn’t Montreal Maine & Atlantic’s first runaway train.
Lac Megantic: How safe is transporting oil by rail?
Anna Mehler Paperny – Global News
The petroleum car explosion that set Lac Mégantic aflame and killed at least five people has also thrust oil transport into the spotlight.
Toronto ditches National Household Survey for historical comparisons
Anna Mehler Paperny – Global News
Statistics Canada’s National Household Survey is too unreliable to compare with previous long-form censuses, Toronto has decided.
Canada’s biggest city won’t use the new survey to inform historic trendlines unless Statistics Canada provides better technical information that puts planners more at ease.
Toronto, like other cities and a multitude of government and private organizations, relies on data from the long-form census to get a sense of where the community’s going.
At least, it used to.
Interview: Natural Resources Minister talks pipeline safety
Anna Mehler Paperny – Global News
Joe Oliver says relax.
Canadians should rest assured the country’s 800,00-kilometre pipeline network is safe, he says, and Ottawa’s making it safer. The Natural Resources Ministerannounced measures Wednesday to keep energy companies on the hook for their environmental damage.
Feds aim to calm public fears over pipeline safety
Anna Mehler Paperny and Leslie Young – Global News
Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver says new rules for pipeline companies make a safe system safer and the companies more accountable.
But even as he touted tougher penalties and expectations of corporate transparency, he said there’s no need for the National Energy Board to beef up enforcement or publish its own investigation and inspection reports.
Alberta government failed to act on flood prevention report
Anna Mehler Paperny – Global News
Strategies to prevent another devastating Albertan deluge sat on the provincial government’s desk for more than half-a-dozen years.
And the now-retired MLA behind that report got more attention for it this week than he ever had.
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