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Organizations seeking city dollars shouldn’t be allowed to use taxpayer money to hire public relations firms to help sell requests for new money to the community, city politicians say. The London Police Services Board paid the high-profile PR firm Navigator $104,000 to make the unprecedented $672-million budget more palatable to the public and, ultimately, politicians. The information was…
The driver charged with killing NHL player Johnny Gaudreau and his brother Matthew as they bicycled on a rural road had a blood-alcohol level of .087, above the .08 legal limit in New Jersey, a prosecutor said Friday. Gaudreau, 31, and brother Matthew, 29, were killed in Carneys Point, N.J., on Aug. 29, the evening…
Come together for the children’s sake. That was the blunt message the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal gave the federal government and First Nations organizations as the latest hearing in a complex, 17-year-old human rights complaint concluded Thursday in Ottawa. “I believe that the collective work of everyone has moved Canada in the right direction,” said…
Conservationists are sounding the alarm over dwindling old-growth forests on an island off British Columbia’s South Coast — and a new report backs up their concerns. B.C.’s Forest Practices Board says without improvements to how forests on Quadra Island are managed, the remaining old growth there may not survive. The board’s investigation started after the…
The Ottawa police secretly wiretapped five of its Somali officers and their family members for months, never laid any charges, and refuses to tell them why, alleges a $2.5-million lawsuit filed by the officers. In the suit against the Ottawa Police Services Board, filed last year and reported now for the first time exclusively by CBC, the officers…
A Halifax man serving time for manslaughter has lost his parole privileges for repeatedly breaching the conditions of his release. Carvel Clayton, 28, was released on full parole in April of last year, partway through his eight-year sentence for killing Shakur Jeffries. Jeffries was found shot to death in a parking lot on Washmill Lake…
The Gwich’in Tribal Council is redoing its election for grand chief, despite a committee determining alleged violations in the recent election to be “unfounded.” The election held on Aug. 19 saw Frederick Blake Jr., also known as Sonny Blake, defeat incumbent Ken Kyikavichik with 604 votes to Kyikavichik’s 515, according to preliminary results. The next day, Kyikavichik…
RCMP say officers were greeted by a man holding a bow and arrow when they responded to a “threats and firearm” complaint in P.E.I.’s Kings County. The 34-year-old man was arrested and faces several charges. Police were called to a house early Friday morning and arrived at around 1:50 a.m., according to a news release on…
