Margaret Thatcher confusion: Cher is not dead (and neither is Teri Hatcher)
Source: The Globe & Mail
Toronto :: Canada | updated 2013-04-08 12:54:06 -0700 | disasters-news
Story But since apostrophes and spaces cannot be used in a hashtag, there was immediate confusion over exactly who had died. Instead of reading the hashtag as Now Thatcher's Dead, many Twitter subscribers misread the trend as Now That Cher's...
Canadian Leading Charge Against Obama's Drone War
Source: Disinfo.com
Toronto :: Canada | updated 2013-04-08 11:56:19 -0700 | disasters-news
Jameel Jaffer, a staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union, is a Canadian citizen who got his start working on Wall Street for a firm that represented equities traders...But he also warns that countries including Canada should pay close...
Pipe bomb detonated at Gold Coast car yard
Source: The Daily Telegraph
Sydney :: Canada | updated 2013-04-07 20:32:02 -0700 | disasters-news
Monday. "It was described as a home-made device in a length of steel piping," police told AAP. A 100m cordon was put around the car yard and the bomb squad had safely detonated the device by 11am. Police say they...
Montreal awards pothole-repair contract to firms with alleged crime links
Source: Toronto Star
Quebec :: Canada | updated 2013-04-07 15:14:17 -0700 | disasters-news
In the streets and cafes of this city, everyone agrees the companies some with alleged links to organized crime have been the scourge of the past decade, rigging bids and fixing prices on municipal infrastructure jobs with the help of...
Campaign seeks to honour veteran maimed by FLQ bomb
Source: Delhi News-Record
Montreal :: Canada | updated 2013-04-06 18:10:03 -0700 | disasters-news
A former Montrealer has started a campaign to recognize a Second World War veteran maimed by an FLQ bomb. On May 17, 1963, Walter Leja was nearly killed while trying to defuse a bomb in a mailbox in a wealthy...
Six Hells Angels plead guilty to murder charges
Source: Delhi News-Record
Montreal :: Canada | updated 2013-04-06 10:55:14 -0700 | disasters-news
Six people with Hells Angels ties were given sentences ranging from 18 months to three years on Friday after they pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit murder during the province's biker wars. Mario Brouillette, 40, Claude Giguere, 51, Sylvain Thiffault,...
Suspects in Vancouver slaying of gangster Sandip Duhre also charged in Toronto murder
Source: Vancouver Sun
Ottawa :: Canada | updated 2013-04-05 18:46:57 -0700 | disasters-news
Two men charged in a high-profile Toronto murder are also suspects in the brazen Vancouver shooting of gangster Sandip Duhre in January 2012. Vancouver police investigators have been building a case against Rabih (Robby) Alkhalil and Dean Wiwchar for the...
Alberta mom who drowned sons set for deportation
Source: Delhi News-Record
Edmonton :: Canada | updated 2013-04-05 19:29:41 -0700 | disasters-news
A federal tribunal has ruled an Alberta mom will remain in custody until deportation to Australia Monday after serving 10 months at the Alberta Hospital for the 2010 drowning deaths of her two young boys. In a hearing held Friday...
Saskatoon police bomb squad called after grenade spotted near busy street
Source: Star Phoenix
Saskatoon :: Canada | updated 2013-04-05 09:36:42 -0700 | disasters-news
Saskatoon police's explosive disposal unit was called to Confederation Drive Friday morning to dispose of what was believed to be a grenade. Around 9 a.m., police responded to the 700 block of Confederation Drive, after someone spotted with appeared to...
One dead after daycare shooting in Quebec
Source: Delhi News-Record
Ottawa :: Canada | updated 2013-04-05 17:35:13 -0700 | disasters-news
A person is dead after shots rang out Friday morning in a family daycare in Gatineau, Que., across the river from Ottawa. A man entered the home on 225 Gamelin St., close to the Hull hospital, and opened fire on...
Seniors advocate calls for government fire safety funding after fatal Langley blaze
Source: Vancouver Sun
Vancouver :: Canada | updated 2013-04-05 00:51:33 -0700 | disasters-news
A seniors advocate is calling on the provincial government to follow Ontario's lead and provide millions of dollars in funding to retrofit older buildings with sprinklers. The appeal follows the death of an 80-year-old man Wednesday in a fire at...
“We'll Kill the Dollar!”
Source: Canadian Free Press
Toronto :: Canada | updated 2013-04-04 18:30:30 -0700 | disasters-news
From Doug Hagmann of Canada Free Press comes a chilling account of what's in store for us if we continue to ignore the bare-faced warnings of the central power base.. Some might be surprised to learn that the fate of...
Guilty verdict for Vancouver man who said he was too drunk to remember rioting
Source: The Globe & Mail
Toronto :: Canada | updated 2013-04-05 04:38:36 -0700 | disasters-news
Daniel Bitonti Vancouver The Globe and Mail Published Thursday, Apr. 04 2013, 6:42 PM EDT Last updated Thursday, Apr. 04 2013, 7:19 PM EDT A Vancouver man on Thursday became the first person to be found guilty for participating in the...
Woman charged in torture, murder of disabled man
Source: Delhi News-Record
Toronto :: Canada | updated 2013-04-04 12:11:51 -0700 | disasters-news
A 39-year-old woman has been charged in the brutal killing of a disabled man who was tortured and mutilated last summer, police say. Police responded to Jimmie Simpson Park on Aug. 24, 2012, and found the body of George Fawell...
EI reforms get 40% Atlantic Canadian support: poll
Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Toronto :: Canada | updated 2013-04-04 07:15:48 -0700 | disasters-news
Protesters blocked a street in Tracadie-Sheila, N.B., in February. A new poll shows a majority of Atlantic Canadians oppose the Employment Insurance reforms. (Marie-Claude Frenette/Radio-Canada) A strong minority of Atlantic Canadians support recent changes made to employment insurance,...
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