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.
Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
When a Toronto imam approached authorities more than a year ago with concerns about Raed Jaser – arrested this week on allegations of terrorist conspiracy and plotting to attack a train – he went through a lawyer whose firm has become an unofficial bridge between Canadian law enforcement and the Muslim community.
By Anna Mehler Paperny, Jennifer Tryon, Kieron O’Dea, Mike Armstrong and Hannah James, Global News
TORONTO and MONTREAL – Mohammed Jaser was worried about his son.
Raed’s views were getting a little more radical, his preferred brand of Islam a little more rigid, his enthusiasm bordering on zealotry.
Anna Mehler Paperny, Catherine McDonald, Cindy Pom and Billy Shields, Global News
MARKHAM, TORONTO and MONTREAL – One of the two men accused of plotting a terrorist attack on a passenger train – the first al-Qaeda-assisted attack on Canada, police allege – already has multiple convictions against him.
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