Unpublished Newswire
Canada’s grocery code of conduct is a set of rules and guidelines that seek to improve fair dealings in the industry, especially between big grocers and their suppliers. These suppliers include both farmers, as well as producers of various kinds of processed foods.Loblaw Cos. Ltd., one of two large grocers that had held out on agreeing to comply with the code of conduct, announced Thursday that they were ready to abide by the rules set out in the code if other retailers such as Walmart also came on board.
May 16, 2024 - 22:22 | Akrit Michael | The Globe and Mail
Joan Carlisle was just 19, a student at Mount Allison University in Sackville, N.B., when she attended a family wedding in Nova Scotia. A brash young man, whom she had never met, approached her father to ask if he could take her to a postwedding party. Her father agreed and a puzzled Joan went off to the party that changed her life.She quickly learned that her ardent pursuer was Arthur Irving, a smooth-talking oil-company salesman in his mid-20s, who was considered the most eligible bachelor in New Brunswick. He was one of three sons of K.C. Irving, the most powerful tycoon in the...
May 16, 2024 - 22:10 | Gordon Pitts | The Globe and Mail
Rykel Charleson, mother of deceased Dontay Lucas, and stepfather Mitchell Frank pleaded guilty to manslaughter in a case that has advocates wanting for answers for failures in the child protection system.
May 16, 2024 - 22:04 | | CBC News - Canada
The former wife of a man who admitted to killing four First Nations women testified in a Winnipeg superior court on Thursday, recalling the lurid details of their abusive relationship, including how he violently attacked and sexually assaulted her on numerous occasions.The 44-year-old Métis woman, whom The Globe and Mail is not naming because she is a survivor of sexual violence, told Court of King’s Bench Justice Glenn Joyal that she met Jeremy Skibicki in early 2018 at the Siloam Mission shelter for vulnerable people in the city. She said she had been struggling with a methamphetamine...
May 16, 2024 - 21:51 | Temur Durrani | The Globe and Mail
One of the largest wildfires burning in Western Canada is the Patry Creek fire, 25 kilometres north of Fort Nelson, B.C., which re-emerged May 2 after smouldering through the winter.It has now been measured at more than 700 square kilometres.Patry Creek is a so-called holdover fire, and wildfire officials in British Columbia have expressed concern that last year’s record fire season, along with continued drought conditions, will mean more such fires remain a threat.
May 16, 2024 - 21:40 | | The Globe and Mail
The mother and stepfather of six-year-old Dontay Lucas have been sentenced to 15 years each in prison by a B.C. Supreme Court judge.Mitchell Frank and Rykel Frank stood in shackles in a court in Port Alberni as they were sentenced for the death of the boy who was found in medical distress inside the home he shared with his mother in March 2018.Rykel Frank told the court before sentencing that she was under extreme stress at the time of his death and wasn’t emotionally up to the job of parenting, while Mitchell Frank said he had limited memory of what happened because of his alcohol abuse...
May 16, 2024 - 21:14 | | The Globe and Mail
