Unpublished Newswire
A previously secret consultant’s report into Surrey’s transition from the RCMP to a new municipal police force appears to back the mayor’s claim that the transition will pose significant and continuing extra costs for taxpayers in the B.C. city because so many extra officers will need to be hired.The report, commissioned by the provincial government, was only available to Surrey city councillors last year if they signed nondisclosure statements promising not to discuss it publicly.The provincial government is imposing the change on the city over the objections of Surrey’s current mayor...
April 24, 2024 - 21:00 | Frances Bula | The Globe and Mail
Krystal Janicki's unique bond with the cephalopods was filmed by underwater cinematographer Maxwel Hohh and featured in the National Geographic series Secrets of the Octopus.
April 24, 2024 - 20:57 | Lasia Kretzel | Global News - Canada
Including this month’s five-figure penalty, the company was also fined $32,000 in 2022 for violating wastewater discharge regulations.
April 24, 2024 - 20:53 | Doyle Potenteau | Global News - Canada
The B.C. woman convicted of killing Reena Virk described the TV series dramatizing the notorious 1997 murder as disrespectful to the victim and her family.
April 24, 2024 - 20:46 | | CTV News - Canada
A Toronto police officer who witnessed her partner get run over by a car says she will co-operate with an external investigation that was called after a judge criticized the testimony she and two others gave at the trial of Umar Zameer.Mr. Zameer was acquitted last weekend by a jury that rejected the Crown’s argument that he had deliberately hit Constable Jeffrey Northrup in an underground parking garage in 2021. In her instructions to jurors, Ontario Superior Court Justice Anne Molloy cautioned them to consider whether the three police witnesses colluded in a common narrative. After the...
April 24, 2024 - 20:34 | Colin Freeze | The Globe and Mail
After winning the 100-metre final at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, now remembered as “the dirtiest race in history,” Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson failed his drug test and was stripped of his gold medal. He later admitted to steroid use and has lived in ignominy since. In her new book World’s Fastest Man*: The Incredible Life of Ben Johnson, author Mary Ormsby raises serious questions about the science, procedures and prejudices that led to Johnson’s disqualification. This is the second of three excerpts: Tomorrow, ‘I’d do it again’.The doping case against Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson seemed...
April 24, 2024 - 20:17 | Mary Ormsby | The Globe and Mail
