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Thursday May 17, 2012
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- Secret Service issues new guidelines after sex scandal - CANADA (Saturday, 28 April) - Embarrassed over a Colombia sex scandal, the U.S. Secret Service has released new conduct guidelines that forbid agents from visiting "non-reputable establishments" or bringing foreigners to their hotel rooms....
- Veteran peacekeeper takes charge of UN Syria mission - CANADA (Saturday, 28 April) - A veteran Norwegian peacekeeper headed to Damascus on Saturday to take charge of a UN mission overseeing a troubled truce, a day after a deadly suicide bombing fuelled skepticism over its prospects....
- Sawdust explosions nothing new for B.C. mills. - CANADA (Saturday, 28 April) - Five explosions since 2009 connected to sawdust at three different wood manufacturing plants in B.C. didn't cause any injuries. But this year, there have been two blasts that have killed four workers....
- Many receiving emergency flood assistance ineligible, federal probe finds - CANADA (Saturday, 28 April) - More than one in 10 people receiving emergency assistance due to flooding at Lake St. Martin First Nation in Manitoba were not evacuees from the reserve, the federal government acknowledged Friday....
- Toll rises to seven in fiery northern Alberta head-on - CANADA (Friday, 27 April) - A seventh person has now died after a fiery head-on crash Friday on Highway 63 near Boyle, Alta., RCMP say....
- Vancouver Province aces NNA award for series on aging population - CANADA (Friday, 27 April) - The Vancouver Province has won its second National Newspaper Award in the Special Project category for a thought-provoking series on the challenges facing British Columbia's aging population....
- Teachers Association initiates process to censure over Balsillie school - CANADA (Friday, 27 April) - The Canadian Association of University Teachers passed a motion Friday to initiate a process of censure against Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo for their involvement in the Balsillie School of International Affairs, which is a partnership among the two universities and RIM co-founder Jim Balsillie's Centre for...
- Three days from Alberta vote, cracks in Wildrose were showing - CANADA (Friday, 27 April) - Three days was all it took for the wheels to fall off the Wildrose party's bid for power in Alberta....
- Banking expert suspects Fantino bank documents are forgeries - CANADA (Friday, 27 April) - Bank documents that purport to show Caribbean bank accounts in the name of associate defence minister Julian Fantino have a number of problems, according to an American banking expert, which suggests the minister may be the victim of a forger....
- Cuts force Environment Canada to trim monitoring of emissions, water - CANADA (Friday, 27 April) - Federal budget cuts at Environment Canada have forced the agency to scale back its monitoring and oversight of a program designed to help the mining industry meet emission standards....
