Mother can't understand beating of son in wheelchair in Australia
March 10, 2010 - 11:53 pm
WINNIPEG - Shellan Proden couldn't bring herself to watch the grainy surveillance video of two young men who brutally attacked her son, forced him out of his wheelchair and pummelled him. "I haven't watched that video and I don't think I will," Proden said Wednesday from her home in ...


Victoria cops face assault charge but audit finds use of force dropped after Dziekanski death
March 10, 2010 - 10:50 pm
VICTORIA, B.C. - Victoria's police chief says departments across Canada likely experienced a Taser-use chill after the October 2007 incident in Vancouver that resulted in the death of Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski. Chief Jamie Graham was reacting to a B.C. government audit of his ...


After troubled past, GG says Haiti -Dominican now offer a lesson in co-operation
March 10, 2010 - 10:49 pm
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic - Despite their troubled and sometimes cruel history as neighbours, Gov. Gen. Michaelle Jean said the recent Haitian earthquake appears to have brought it closer to the next-door Dominican Republic. Jean applauded the co-operation between those countries ...


Sask premier sorry if people offended by use of 9-11 image in fundraiser poster
March 10, 2010 - 9:19 pm
REGINA - Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall says he's sorry if anyone was offended by a fundraising poster that shows the World Trade Center on fire during the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. The image with flames exploding from one tower and a thick plume of black smoke rising from the other ...


NEB proposes changes to many recommendations in JRP's Mackenzie report
March 10, 2010 - 9:18 pm
CALGARY - The National Energy Board has proposed changes to many of the recommendations a federally appointed panel made for the Mackenzie Gas Project in the Northwest Territories. The federal energy regulator could tweak 85 of the 176 recommendations contained in the Joint Review Panel's ...


Paralympic torch in Vancouver as excitement builds ahead of Games
March 10, 2010 - 9:16 pm
VANCOUVER, B.C. - The Paralympic torch relay lit up a small pocket of Vancouver on Wednesday as it made its first stop in the host city, where fresh memories of the Winter Olympics are fuelling excitement for their sequel. It was less than two weeks ago that the Olympic flame was ...


Mans pleads guilty of attempting to carjack Saskatchewan politician's vehicle
March 10, 2010 - 8:54 pm
REGINA - A Saskatchewan man has pleaded guilty to trying to carjack the vehicle belonging to a member of the provincial legislature. Clayton Friday, who is 45, admitted in provincial court Tuesday that he tried to steal Saskatchewan Party MLA Lyle Stewart's car last October. Stewart had ...


Manitoba hotel workers to be trained to spot, report child sexual exploitation
March 10, 2010 - 8:53 pm
WINNIPEG - Hotel workers in Manitoba are becoming the latest eyes and ears in the fight against child sexual abuse and exploitation. Employees at hotels across the province will soon be trained to spot and report anyone they think is taking sexual advantage of a vulnerable child. The ...


Police say Alberta prison escapee was caught passing fake U.S. bills
March 10, 2010 - 8:52 pm
SURREY, B.C. - An escapee from Bowden prison in Alberta now faces charges in Surrey, B.C., over allegations he was passing out fake American money. Nathan Paolinelli escaped Nov. 16, last year and a month later a man with a similar description was seen using counterfeit American cash in a ...


Sask premier says teen daughter is again behind wheel of car - legally
March 10, 2010 - 8:52 pm
REGINA - Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall says his daughter is on the road - and this time it's legal. Wall told rural municipal leaders at their annual convention that Megan got her driver's licence last November. Controversy erupted in March 2008 when Wall told the same group that he ...


Saskatchewan rural leaders told to wait until next year for money promises
March 10, 2010 - 8:52 pm
REGINA - Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall has told a meeting of rural politicians that his government won't be able to keep key promises this year. Wall, who was speaking at a Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities conference in Regina, says the province has to make some difficult ...


Even Tories want Jaffer, Guergis to clear the air on bad behaviour
March 10, 2010 - 8:34 pm
OTTAWA - Rahim Jaffer and Helena Guergis have become the poster couple for political entitlement, under attack not just by opposition critics but by prominent members of their own Conservative party. Jaffer, a former MP and one-time chair of the Conservatives's national caucus, was under ...


Alberta Chamber of Resources says Alberta to change wetlands plan
March 10, 2010 - 8:01 pm
EDMONTON - A group representing oilsands and other resource companies says it has convinced the Alberta government to change a plan that would force corporations to spend big money to restore wetlands ruined by mining projects. Conservationists say if the statement by the Alberta Chamber ...


Greenpeace gives Alberta premier photos of ducks in oilsands tailings pond
March 10, 2010 - 8:00 pm
EDMONTON - Greenpeace activist Mike Hudema marched up the steps of the Alberta legislature Wednesday to present Premier Ed Stelmach with pictures of ducks killed in an oilsands tailings pond. One of the premier's aides met the activist just inside the front door of the legislature and took ...


Former logger and small-town politician charged in Ontario cop's killing
March 10, 2010 - 7:58 pm
A retired logger and one-time politician was charged Wednesday with shooting and killing a provincial police officer and trying to kill another in a gunfight on a rural Ontario road. Const. Vu Pham, a 15-year veteran of the Ontario provincial police force and a married father of three ...


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