Manitoba family deserves more money to pay lawyer for ER death inquest: judge
THE CANADIAN PRESS
9 Feb, 2010 0 0
WINNIPEG - A Manitoba judge has backed funding demands from the family of a homeless man who died after a 34-hour wait in a Winnipeg hospital emergency room.
Justice Ray Wyant says Brian Sinclair's relatives deserve to have a well-paid lawyer to represent them at an upcoming inquest into Sinclai
Union rep calls for safety changes to help workers survive next chopper crash
THE CANADIAN PRESS
9 Feb, 2010 0 0
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - A spokesman for the union representing most offshore oil workers in Newfoundland fears there will be another helicopter crash at some point.
Brian Murphy, vice-president of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union, says he wants members to have the best chance to surv
'Rough days ahead' says Belleville, Ont., mayor of Williams' arrest
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9 Feb, 2010 0 0
BELLEVILLE, Ont. - The mayor of Belleville, Ont., says it's "going to be some rough days ahead" for the city and region in the wake of the arrest of an air force colonel.
Col. Russell Williams has been arrested and charged in the deaths of two women and in the sexual assaults of two others.
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Man arrested after barricading himself in Longueuil, Que. apartment
THE CANADIAN PRESS
9 Feb, 2010 0 0
LONGUEUIL, Que. - About 50 people in Longueuil, Que., driven from their homes when a man barricaded himself in an apartment are back in their residences.
The incident began at about midnight when a woman told police her ex-husband was depressed, aggressive, drunk and possibly armed. The man init
Canadian IOC member Dick Pound calls doped athletes 'sociopathic cheats?
Steve Mertl, THE CANADIAN PRESS
9 Feb, 2010 0 0
VANCOUVER, B.C. - Athletes who use performance-enhancing substances to get an edge on their competition are "sociopathic cheats" who deserve to be exposed and punished, says Dick Pound, a Canadian member of the International Olympic Committee.
Pound, a founder and former chairman of the Montreal
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