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City councillors received an earful of criticism over the proposed site for a permanent emergency shelter in downtown Regina. Business owners in the area were adamant that the proposed location would negatively affect them. “Placing individuals with serious addiction and mental health issues in an industrial zone without direct access to these services not only…
Police maintained a cordon Sunday around the Kingston encampment where two people were killed and a third critically injured three days earlier, as local advocates called for the encampment’s residents to be allowed to access their belongings. Some residents of the encampment were sleeping on the ground outside the police barricade, community volunteer Michelle Schwarz told…
Authorities in Italy have captured a Canadian fugitive who fled a sexual assault conviction in Nova Scotia. In a statement issued Monday, the Public Prosecution Service of Nova Scotia said Bassam Al-Rawi was returned to Canada on Sept. 5 to serve the remainder of a two-year sentence. The former taxi driver had been arrested in…
One long-time user of Metro Vancouver’s HandyDART transit service says she hopes mediated talks that began Sunday can bring about the end of a work stoppage that has halted most service for the past six days. About 600 employees of the door-to-door service for people unable to navigate the conventional transit system have been on strike since…
The province of Manitoba is extraordinarily well represented this month at the Toronto International Film Festival. Officially, the province lays claim to seven films at the festival, which opened Thursday: four features and three shorts, all with Manitoba connections. Never before in the 49-year history of the festival have so many Manitoba-made films been presented. Bear…
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…
In a surprising move, Cameron Ortis — the former RCMP intelligence official found guilty late last year of leaking secret information to police targets — has declined release on bail, according to his lawyer. Ortis was sentenced earlier this year to 14 years behind bars, minus time served. He was granted bail in April pending appeal but…
After years of delays, a Canadian man’s lawsuit accusing the federal government of contributing to his detention and torture abroad is finally going before a court this fall. But before the case can proceed, a judge needs to decide if intelligence officials can testify behind closed doors. Abousfian Abdelrazik was arrested during a 2003 visit to…
For a few short days, it looked like the two main parties in the New Brunswick election were offering voters a clear choice. The Progressive Conservatives under Blaine Higgs were selling their sound fiscal management — a record that, after six years of budget surpluses, would allow them to cut the provincial sales tax if re-elected….
WARNING: This story contains disturbing details. The province is ready to begin the search of a Winnipeg-area landfill in October for the remains of two women who were victims of a serial killer, Manitoba’s premier said Thursday. At an unrelated news conference, Wab Kinew said the province is “on track” to start the search this fall…
