Disciplinary action against two Calgary Police Service officers in the fatal shooting of a man in a northeast Calgary motel room ten years ago will be withdrawn. The reasons cited in a letter to Anthony Heffernan’s family for dropping the allegations against the officers included the length of time that has passed since the incident…
The Federal Court of Appeal has denied an application for another stay order to delay a cull of about 400 ostriches at a British Columbia farm that was hit by an outbreak of avian influenza, removing a legal block against the slaughter proceeding. Katie Pasitney, the spokesperson for Universal Ostrich Farms, said Friday’s ruling means an interim stay granted…
With the cost of housing higher in big cities, some Albertans are looking to smaller communities in order to have better quality of living. With that in mind, officials in a town southwest of Edmonton say a new project is just the beginning of the community’s growth. “The whole region is booming, people are moving…
More than three and a half years after six people were killed in one of the deadliest workplace incidents in Ottawa’s history — a 2022 explosion at an Ottawa tank truck manufacturing facility — Ottawa police have laid criminal charges against the company’s owner, Neil Greene. The 54-year-old is facing six counts of criminal negligence causing the deaths of Eastway Tank,…
A year and a half after residents were forced out of their affordable housing complex near downtown Kelowna, B.C., the roughly 80 residents received news this week they will never return to the building again. “I was a little caught off-guard to hear that there was a new building intended for Wilson-Hadgraft Place and Pathways,”…
One child has been killed and six other children were injured after a vehicle drove into a daycare in Richmond Hill, Ont., on Wednesday, police say. Police say the child who died was a one and a half-year-old boy. He was pronounced dead in hospital. Of the six other children hurt, one is in hospital with…
Backlash against a new Harry Potter-themed attraction in Stanley Park has one Park Board commissioner looking into cancelling the contract. “I have learned a great deal in the last five days about the linkage of the Harry Potter franchise with J.K. Rowling and I am very surprised at what I’ve learned and I was not…
Electric vehicle manufacturer LION says it’s looking into what happened after the heating system on one of its buses caught fire. Five children and a driver managed to exit the bus unharmed. Source link
After a few days’ break due to rain, Korey Peters is back harvesting his crops. “Two-thirds done wheat,” he told Global News Thursday, adding that amounts to roughly 25 per cent of the total harvest at Herbsigwil Farms in Randolph, Man. “You never really know until you start harvesting,” Peters said. “We thought our wheat…
The union representing airport screeners in Calgary is reporting its members have hit a “breaking point,” leading the federal authority overseeing security screening to weigh in that their concerns must be taken seriously. Screening officers working at the Calgary International Airport, represented by Unifor Local 2002, have filed thousands of complaints in the past 17 months, said Harold…
