TORONTO, Aug. 30 /CNW Telbec/ – Drs. Kathleen Dooling and Michael Rachlis, the two co-authors of a new review of the evidence and events surrounding Insite – Vancouver’s supervised drug consumption public health facility – say the federal government “should drop its last-ditch Supreme Court appeal that would allow the government to permanently close this [...]

KJ Mullins-Burlington: An Ontario man was crushed to death by a steel coil last week on the job in Burlington. On Friday a worker, 40, was removing metal ties that encircled a steel coil weighing about 13,000 pounds. For some reason, not yet determined by investigators, the steel coil came to rest on top of [...]

KJ Mullins: Are Canadians being put in danger every day by trains that whiz by? That is the warning that the Transportation Safety Board of Canada may be saying after a report on a 2009 accident near Dugald, Manitoba. In the final report the TBS found that there are tens of thousands of faulty railroad [...]

TORONTO, Aug. 24 /CNW/ – Employers with temporary foreign workers (TFW) in Canada now face greater government scrutiny, greater penalties for certain regulation violations, and shorter work permits due to new regulations imposed by the Canadian government, says Egan LLP.  Egan LLP is a business immigration law firm allied with Ernst & Young. “Businesses in [...]

KJ Mullins: The Commodity Weather Group, LLC has released its latest forecast for winter 2010-2011 for its energy clients Monday morning. This year is expected to be the warmest winter since 2006-2007 for those areas but the West and North may be colder. That’s good news for those in the U.S. when it comes to [...]

KJ Mullins: The Anishinabek leadership in the Northern Superior region were not notified by the Canadian government when over a thousand artifacts, estimated to be 9,000 years old, were excavated and shipped to Lakehead University. The excavation is being hailed as one of the biggest finds in Ontario history. The dig behind the McKenzie Inn [...]

KJ Mullins: Ten windows at the Oshawa courthouse were smashed by a man running along the south side of the building with a hammer. It is estimated that the damage is $130,000. The suspect is a white male,  about 6’ tall, wearing a distinctive blue jacket with a white collar and white striping down the [...]

KJ Mullins: Groups are speaking out about the arrival of the Tamil refugees in Canada are both side of the issue. There is concern that terrorists and smugglers are mixed in with victims of violence from Sri Lanka. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is encouraged that Canada is recieving and providing assistance [...]