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<p> An extensive search is being conducted at a Windsor rail yard, after employees discovered a body part.</p> <p> According to police, workers at the Caron Avenue rail yard made the discovery Tuesday afternoon.</p> <p> A rail worker tells 麻豆影视 that the body part was a human hand.</p> <p> A forensics team is currently on the scene, and a coroner has been called-in.</p>
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<p> What if the United States annexed Windsor, much like Russia did to Crimea?</p> <p> Well Late Show host David Letterman posed the question to former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, Monday night on his show.</p> <p> Carter and Letterman discussed tactics taken by Russian President Vladimir Putin in the annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea. The pair also spoke about Carter’s stance on Russia’s invasion of Afghanistan in 1979.</p> <p> But before the segment ended, Letterman brought out the comedy chops and posed this “what if?” question.</p> <p> “If the United States decided they wanted Windsor, Ontario, which is just right across the river from Detroit. We went up there and sent our tanks in could we get away with that?” Letterman asked Carter.</p> <p> With a chuckle Carter said, “I doubt that the people in Windsor would approve”.</p> <p> </p>
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<p> On May 25th, 2013 my life changed forever. I was diagnosed with testicular cancer. We were six days away from heading out on our first family vacation to Disney World when I found a lump in my right testicle.</p> <p> It was about the size of a marble. I'd noticed my testicle had unexpectedly dropped as well - it felt like it wasn't attached as it was supposed to be.</p> <p> I went to my doctor's office in Wingham, who, following a series of expedited ultrasounds and blood tests was able to confirm the bad news. I indeed had testicular cancer. I had surgery to remove the cancerous testicle on June 3rd, 2013. By my surgery date - one month later - the tumour had doubled in size.</p> <p> Once the initial shock started to wear off the obvious concern was whether the cancer had spread. I wouldn't find out until the day of my surgery that it hadn't.</p> <p> I wouldn't need chemo or radiation, just a couple months of surgery, recovery and 10 years of monitoring at the London Regional Cancer Centre. It's where I go every two months for check ups - blood tests and x-rays to ensure that the cancer hasn't returned.</p> <p> The recurrence rates for testicular cancer patients are highest in the first two years after surgery. A team of specialists, led by Dr.Scott Ernst, look after southwestern Ontario's testicular cancer patients.</p> <p> Ernst, chief of medical oncology with the London Regional cancer program, says "It's relatively rare, but it is the commonest solid tumour cancer of young men. So we see several men with a new diagnosis here every month.”</p> <p> Between 900 and 1,000 Canadian men will get the news I got this year. Many will be much younger than me. The danger zone for developing testicular cancer is 19-35, but Patrick McAuliffe, the primary nurse in the testicular cancer unit at the London Health Sciences Centre, says he's seeing more high school aged patients than ever before.</p> <p> "My youngest is 15 in my clinic and imagine him going up to his mom saying, ‘You know, there’s something not right there.’ They’re very shy because they're at that age."</p> <p> McAuliffe has coined the phrases 'Testicle Tuesdays' and 'Touch it Thursdays' to encourage men to do regular self exams, just as women have been conditioned to check themselves for breast cancer.</p> <p> So what should men be looking for?</p> <ul> <li> A largely painless and persistent lump or hard spot in your testicle</li> <li> A feeling of heaviness or aching in the lower abdomen and/or scrotum</li> <li> A swollen testicle or feeling like your testicle has 'dropped'</li> </ul> <p> If cancer cells do not spread beyond the testicle the survival rate is 99 per cent, making testicular cancer one of the most curable cancers on the planet.</p> <p> But early detection is the difference between surgery and recovery - like me - or chemotherapy,radiation and radical lymph node removal surgery, which too many men have to endure either because they don't know what to look for or wait too long before seeing their doctor.</p> <p> Ernst say "It's a very important cancer to detect because it’s very treatable. It's really important for guys who notice a change to get it checked out. The sooner it's identified, usually the better the outcome."</p> <p> Coming up in part two: I'll introduce you to my testicular cancer support group as well as a 17-year-old testicular cancer survivor from London who nearly didn't make it.</p>
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<p> Amherstbrug is trying to get to the bottom of a growing debt that according to the CAO has now reached $44-million.</p> <p> An OPP investigation into the town’s books just wrapped up and found no criminal wrongdoing.</p> <p> Now, the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing has received the go-ahead to take another look.</p> <p> "I have expectation that the ministry is going to confirm much of what we've shared with council all along,” says CAO Mike Phipps. “There were some inconsistencies and unorthodox bookkeeping by what I’m accustomed to."</p> <p> Phipps made the recommendation for the ministry to perform what's called a financial management and practices review, after council requested an audit back in January.</p> <p> The town will pay up to $100,000 for the review, which will give the ministry unfettered access to councillors, town staff and financial records.</p> <p> The ministry will also look into the use of reserve funds, and how financial information is communicated to council.</p>
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<p> An arrest has been made in the shooting of two homes on Windsor’s east end.</p> <p> According to police, a 2004 silver Mazda, believed to be involved in the shooting in the 200 block of Belleview Avenue on Saturday was located Monday night in the 1200 block of Argyle Road.</p> <p> Officers report damage consistent with bullet holes was found on the vehicle.</p> <p> An 18-year-old man, who was found sitting in the car, was taken into custody. The vehicle was seized and police are now applying for a search warrant.</p> <p> Police say the 18-year-old is expected to be charged with forcible confinement after allegedly attempting to get a confession from a 16-year-old male about the shooting. Both were in the car earlier Monday.</p> <p> Officers say the 18-year-old was also trying to arrange payment in relation to damages sustained to the vehicle.</p> <p> Police are expecting to speak with more witnesses Tuesday.</p> <p> The investigation is ongoing.</p>
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<p> Windsor police are on the lookout for two suspects, following the knife point robbery of a pizza delivery guy.</p> <p> Officers were called out to the 500 block of Pitt Street West for a report of a robbery at 1:15 a.m. Tuesday.</p> <p> A Domino’s driver was making a delivery earlier when he was approached by two men.</p> <p> One of the pair pulled out a knife.The driver turned over a pizza and the suspects ran heading north on Bruce Avenue.</p> <p> One suspect is described as white, 25-years-old, 5'8" tall with a medium build, wearing a red and orange hooded sweatshirt.</p> <p> The description of the other suspect is also white, 22-years-old, 5'8" inches tall with a very skinny build, wearing a dark coloured hooded sweatshirt.</p> <p> Anyone with information is asked to call police or Crime Stoppers.</p>
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<p> The City of Windsor and the Chevrolet Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix has renewed their partnership for the 2014 circuit.</p> <p> As a result of the partnership, Canadians can soon be purchase a ticket-transportation package through the city. The package includes one seat in the Canadian section of the Grandstand and a round-trip Transit Windsor ticket.</p> <p> Single day tickets range between $56 and $76.</p> <p> “The City of Windsor is proud to support the Chevrolet Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix again this year,” said Mayor Eddie Francis. “I encourage everyone to pack the Canadian Grandstand section, and to that end, we are pleased to offer ticket and transportation packages to what has become one of the most anticipated events of the summer.”</p> <p> The Grand Prix is scheduled for May 30.</p>
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<p> Windsor police is looking for the public’s help in identifying a fraud suspect.</p> <p> According to police, a man contacted his credit card company after his wallet went missing, only to be informed that his card had been used at several locations.</p> <p> The man reached out to police on March 6 to file a complaint about the fraudulent credit card use.</p> <p> Police released a photo of the suspect leaving an RBC branch after allegedly obtaining a cash advance on the credit card from the ATM.</p> <p> Anyone with information is asked to call police or Crime Stoppers.</p>
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<p> TORONTO - Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau has announced he will publish a personal memoir.</p> <p> In a press release, publisher HarperCollins Canada called the book -- which will be published in English and French -- "candid."</p> <p> The autobiography will cover the 42-year-old's childhood at 24 Sussex Drive through to his McGill University days and his current political career.</p> <p> According to the release, the book will also boast "anecdotes, personal reflections and never-before-seen photographs" from Trudeau's personal collection.</p> <p> The memoir is set to be released this fall.</p> <p> All proceeds will be donated to the domestic programs of the Canadian Red Cross Society.</p>
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<p> TORONTO - CAA kicked off its annual Ontario's Worst Roads campaign today calling on the government to fix the roads that have been damaged by the harsh winter weather of the past few months.</p> <p> The auto club, which represents more than 1.9 million members, says the fluctuating freeze-thaw cycle of the past winter has littered the roads with dangerous crater-sized potholes.</p> <p> Faye Lyons of CAA South Central Ontario says the group is calling on all levels of government to make improving transportation infrastructure a priority.</p> <p> The CAA is also urging the Ontario government to permanently dedicate a portion of the revenue collected from gas taxes to fixing roads, bridges and highways in the province.</p> <p> The group's Worst Roads campaign allows people to choose the province's worst road by voting on their <a href="http://www.worstroads.ca">website</a> before April 25.</p> <p> CAA will then present the Top 10 Worst Roads in Ontario to the government along with the group's recommendations.</p>
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<p> There are plenty of email scams out there, from the grandparent scam to the computer virus scam, but there's a new twist to one of the ways fraudsters are trying to take your money.</p> <p> Norfolk County OPP say one of the scams making the rounds again involves an email from an alleged hitman hired to kill the recipient.</p> <p> Police were alerted to the latest scam after receiving a call from a concerned Waterford, Ont. resident who had received an email purported to be from a hitman.</p> <p> Const. Ed Sanchuk says "Obviously the resident was quite upset, in shock and in disbelief. And,as a result of looking further into the email, it was determined that the sender was asking for $7,000 in a money transfer service."</p> <p> The email reportedly details that a close family member or friend hired them and that their job is to assassinate the recipient. It goes on to say that the receiver of the email is being watched and not to contact the police under any circumstances.</p> <p> A large quantity of funds is then requested in order to cancel the assassination, and the sender indicates that the funds are to be sent through the use of a money transfer service and at no time should anything be said to anyone.</p> <p> Sanchuk said in a statement "These scam emails are generally sent to a large number of people in the hope that one or more will respond and be drawn further into the scam. If you receive one of these messages, you should not reply or respond to the scammers in any way. As well as the direct attempts to extort money, the scammers may also try to obtain personal information from a victim so that they can steal his or her identity."</p> <p> If you have received an email of this nature you are asked to contact your local police service and the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre at 1-888-495-8501 or <a href="http://www.antifraudcentre.ca">http://www.antifraudcentre.ca</a>.</p> <p> The website also has examples of this and other email scams dating back to 2008.</p>
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<p> St. Thomas police are warning of the dangers of the explosive brew after traces of Molotov cocktails were found outside a vacant school.</p> <p> Investigators say sometime over the last week someone has been experimenting with Molotov cocktails behind the former St. Gabriel’s School on Parish Street.</p> <p> Police are warning that Molotov cocktails are extremely dangerous and could be fatal if thrown at people or houses.</p> <p> Molotov cocktails are bottles filled with a flammable substance with a soaked cloth stuffed in the top that is lit before the bottle is thrown, causing a fireball.</p> <p> Residents in the area are asked to keep an eye on the school in the hopes of putting an end to this dangerous behaviour.</p> <p> Anyone with information about this incident or who has witnessed similar incidents are being asked to contact the St. Thomas Police Service.</p>
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<p> TORONTO -- Public health advocates say many private clinics in Ontario are misleading patients and unlawfully billing them for medically unnecessary services.</p> <p> The Ontario Health Coalition says a significant number of clinics they contacted were charging patients extra fees on top of billing the Ontario Health Insurance Plan for necessary procedures.</p> <p> It says one clinic was charging patients $50 "administrative fees" for such things as a snack and patient records.</p> <p> The group says such fees were more common among cataract clinics, which were charging patients for medically unnecessary tests and procedures when they came in for needed surgery.</p> <p> They say clinics are manipulating patients, who are confused about what they need and what they don't need.</p> <p> The coalition says the government must crack down on such user charges which are more widespread than ever.</p> <p> Health Minister Deb Matthews says she'll look into any unethical practices to protect Ontario's single-tier public health-care system.</p> <p> She says patients can call the government if they're being charged for services covered by OHIP.</p>
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<p> TORONTO - Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne has moved the chairs around in her cabinet following the resignation of Municipal Affairs and Housing Minister Linda Jeffrey.</p> <p> Two backbenchers have been elevated to cabinet, while three others have changed jobs.</p> <p> Bill Mauro of Thunder Bay takes over Jeffrey's portfolio, while Oakville's Kevin Flynn talks over labour from Yasir Naqvi.</p> <p> Naqvi takes over community safety and correctional services from Madeleine Meilleur, who becomes Ontario's first francophone attorney general.</p> <p> Her predecessor John Gerretsen, who has said he won't run for re-election, is minister without portfolio and chairman of cabinet -- taking over from Jeffrey.</p> <p> Jeffrey announced earlier Tuesday that she's leaving provincial politics to run for mayor of Brampton.</p>
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<p> TORONTO - CAA kicked off its annual Ontario's Worst Roads campaign today calling on the government to fix the roads that have been damaged by the harsh winter weather of the past few months.</p> <p> The auto club, which represents more than 1.9 million members, says the fluctuating freeze-thaw cycle of the past winter has littered the roads with dangerous crater-sized potholes.</p> <p> Faye Lyons of CAA South Central Ontario says the group is calling on all levels of government to make improving transportation infrastructure a priority.</p> <p> The CAA is also urging the Ontario government to permanently dedicate a portion of the revenue collected from gas taxes to fixing roads, bridges and highways in the province.</p> <p> The group's Worst Roads campaign allows people to choose the province's worst road by voting on their <a href="http://www.worstroads.ca">website</a> before April 25.</p> <p> CAA will then present the Top 10 Worst Roads in Ontario to the government along with the group's recommendations.</p>
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<p> A celebration is in order after Londoner Robert McPhail picked up his second big Lotto 6/49 win - one million dollars.</p> <p> The Ontario Lottery and Gaming Commission (OLG) says McPhail won the 'Guaranteed $1 Million Prize' from the March 19 draw.</p> <p> While picking up his prize McPhail said "I was in the drugstore picking up a newspaper and some chocolates for my wife when something told me to buy a ticket. I bought two LOTTO 6/49 tickets and one ended up being a big winner!”</p> <p> He reportedly discovered the win while checking his numbers against those in Thursday's newspaper and said he was in disbelief.</p> <p> But according to the OLG this isn't the first big prize win for McPhail, a retired father of two and grandfather of four.</p> <p> In 1992, he played LOTTO 6/49 with a group of seven others when they won a $571,157 jackpot.</p> <p> McPhail added “I always thought I would win again - I just didn’t know when. My family members keep rubbing me for good luck!”</p> <p> He has said he plans to take a trip to the United Kingdom with his wife and maybe take his grandchildren on a fishing trip.</p> <p> This winning ticket was purchased at a Shoppers Drug Mart on Adelaide Street in London.</p> <p> Of the 66 'Guaranteed $1 Million Prize Draws' to date, 30 of the winning tickets have been sold in Ontario.</p>
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<p> Along with record low temperatures this winter, the record for the longest skiing season is about to be broken in London</p> <p> And it is also one of the latest starts to the golf season.</p> <p> “Everybody is trying to rush the (spring) season, but it will get here when it gets here,” says Ted Shoebrook.</p> <p> Boler Mountain will have nine trails open on its east hill on Wednesday, prolonging the season.</p> <p> Boler usually sees 85 to 90 operating days in a typical year, and this year the tally is 104 and counting. By the weekend, a record will be broken there.</p> <p> “Maybe we will see April skiing again this season. It's amazing - six months of skiing the last two seasons,” says Marty Thody.</p> <p> It’s a different story at Greenhills Golf Club and other courses, where there is still snow on the fairways.</p> <p> “This will be the latest we will ever open here. Typically, we are about mid-April, but this year, late April, possibly even early May," says Greenhills Matt Dominski.</p> <p> Meanwhile, farmers are also getting a late start.</p> <p> In some parts of northern Ontario, spring planting could be delayed a month.</p> <p> Producers at the Grain Farmers of Ontario conference say the later the seeds get in the ground, the higher the chance of impacting the bottom line.</p> <p> “Both corn and soybeans require every bit of heat and sunlight they can accumulate and that increases the yield. So if you're delayed till the end of May, it certainly cuts down on the yield potential of both of those crops. And, of course, lower yield, then lower income,” says Kevin Runnals of New Liskeard.</p> <p> Farmers in the southern Ontario aren’t feeling quite as panicked, but Craig Martin, of Waterloo, says the longer the cold stays, the more worried folks become.</p> <p> “The last few years we have had some early starts. We've come to kind of anticipate doing that. So as we get into April and we're still not turning wheels, there will be some rumblings in the countryside,” he says.</p> <p> Southern Ontario farmers typically plant within the first couple of weeks in April, but this year it could be well into May.</p>
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<p> TORONTO - A man and woman are facing more than 70 charges after police say numerous guns and other weapons were seized at a U.S.-Canada border crossing.</p> <p> The Canada Border Services Agency stopped a couple and their two children on March 16 as they crossed into Canada on the Rainbow Bridge in Niagara Falls, after getting a tip from Toronto police.</p> <p> Police say a search of the couple's van resulted in the seizure of six concealed handguns and a seventh handgun was found on the man.</p> <p> Also found in the van were two inert hand grenades, ammunition, over-capacity magazines and knives and the discovery of the hand grenades forced temporary closure of several lanes of the Rainbow Bridge.</p> <p> Police say another 34 firearms -- including 20 handguns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition -- were later seized in raids at the couple's home.</p> <p> Investigators also allege that five firearms smuggled into Canada by the accused were recovered at crime scenes in Toronto and Peel Region, including one used in an attempted murder.</p> <p> Donald Earl Hare, 44, and Amanda Brent, 43, both of Proton Station, Ont. (northwest of Orangeville) have been charged with 73 firearm and firearm-trafficking-related charges.</p> <p> They are scheduled to appear in a Toronto court on Tuesday.</p>
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<p> Middlesex OPP and the Oneida First Nation Police Service are looking for three suspects following an assault and vehicle fire.</p> <p> Officers were called to Bodkin Road on the Oneida First Nation on Saturday around 7:35 a.m.</p> <p> A man told police he was driving along Fairgrounds Road when he was confronted by three unknown males in a vehicle, described as a silver or grey, older-model Pontiac Montana-type minivan.</p> <p> The victim told police a confrontation ensued, where he was assaulted by one of the three men. He then left the scene to contact authorities.</p> <p> Upon returning to his vehicle, the victim found it located in a ditch engulfed in flames.</p> <p> The vehicle sustained serious damage, while the victim was treated and released at the scene with minor injuries.</p> <p> The three suspects are described as First Nations males in their twenties, all about 6' tall.</p> <p> The first suspect was last seen wearing dark clothing and a toque with a gold and black stripe, the second suspect had a slim build and was wearing dark clothing and the third suspect had his hair pulled back in a ponytail.</p> <p> Anyone with information is asked to call police or Crime Stoppers.</p>
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<p> While one city councillor in Sarnia wants to see the fence removed from an area of Centennial Park that’s been enclosed for almost a year, he faces some stiff opposition.</p> <p> “This is the people's park and the people want their park back,” says Coun. Dave Boushy.</p> <p> The fence stretches around a large area of the park to keep the public out because asbestos was found contaminating the soil in parts of the park.</p> <p> Sandra Kinart lost her husband to mesothelioma, which was caused by exposure to asbestos. She's frustrated to hear that some residents and Boushy would like to see parts of the fence taken down.</p> <p> “Do I want my grandkids playing in here? No I don't. Do I want anyone's child playing in here? No I don't,” she says.</p> <p> Kinart is not alone. Jean Simpson also lost her husband after he was exposed to asbestos. She also wants the fence to stay up until the park is properly cleaned.</p> <p> “It only takes one thread of asbestos, one little particle to cause asbestosis or mesothelioma.”</p> <p> The fence doesn’t just surround the playground, it also stretches around to the open space behind the playground, which is where all the summer festivals are held.</p> <p> Boushy is frustrated with the whole process, saying the price tag for the fence alone has come in at $700,000 and the almost $10 million price tag to clean up the park is too much.</p> <p> “Asbestos underground is not harmful. I think the fence should come down and declare the park as not harmful.”</p> <p> But Boushy does believe the fence should remain around the playground until it is properly investigated.</p> <p> The environment ministry, the medical officer of health and engineering staff from the city all believe the fence as it stands now should remain as is until the situation can be properly cleaned up.</p> <p> Engineering staff will provide council with an updated report Monday night, with a suggestion the park be cleaned up in phases.</p>
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<p> A snow squall watch has ended for many parts of the region.</p> <p> The watch remains in effect for:</p> <ul> <li> Parry Sound - Muskoka</li> <li> Newmarket - Georgina - Northern York Region</li> </ul> <p> Environment Canada says another Arctic cold front is moving in from the northwest. The cold front is generating flurries and a few embedded narrow and heavier bands of snow across Southern Ontario.</p> <p> Snowfall amounts of two to five centimetres are possible in the heaviest flurries, along with visibilities reduced to less than 250 metres.</p> <p> Motorists should be prepared for sudden low visibility in bursts of heavy snow, as well as accumulating snow on untreated roads. Hazardous winter driving conditions are quite possible.</p> <p> The cold front and snow bands will move east of the regions near Lake Huron by mid-afternoon, and will reach the Greater Toronto area later this afternoon, Environment Canada says.</p>
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<p> BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Buffalo Bills owner Ralph Wilson, who helped found the American Football League in 1960, died at his home on Tuesday afternoon. He was 95.</p> <p> Bills president Russ Brandon made the announcement at the NFL winter meetings in Orlando.</p> <p> Wilson was the founder and sole owner of the Bills after establishing the team with the upstart AFL in 1960. He played a key role in the league's merger with the NFL. He was inducted into the Football Hall of Fame in 2009.</p> <p> Wilson died at his home in Grosse Pointe Shores, Mich., around 1:40 p.m., said Mary Mazur, spokeswoman for the Wayne County medical examiner's office.</p> <p> He had been receiving in-home hospice care.</p> <p> "No one loves this game more than Ralph Wilson," Brandon said in a statement. "It's very tough. What he's meant to the entire organization. He's our leader, our mentor our friend. How he loves his players and loved our community. Special guy. They just don't make them like Ralph Wilson."</p> <p> Wilson had been in failing health for several years after having hip surgery in 2011. Though he spent much of his time at his home suburban Detroit, he was well enough to attend the Hall of Fame induction weekends over the past few years.</p> <p> After regularly attending Bills home games since founding the franchise, Wilson had not been to a game since attending one in 2010.</p> <p> Wilson established a reputation as being the "conscience" of the NFL for his loyalty to fans and the several stands he took against franchise relocation.</p> <p> "He didn't let anyone pull anything off in him. He was very forceful," New Orleans Saints owner Tom Benson said.</p> <p> "Mr. Wilson was a visionary and pioneer of professional football," added Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank. "We have lost a founding member of the NFL family, but Ralph's lasting impact on the NFL will forever be felt."</p>
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<p> Police have charged a 34-year-old man with break and enter and aggravated assault after a violent attack in Oro-Medonte Thursday.</p> <p> Police arrested the suspect Friday afternoon in downtown Barrie.</p> <p> OPP were called to a home along Barrie Terrace 鈥� just north of Barrie’s city limits along the waterfront, at about 8 a.m. Thursday.</p> <p> Ian Malcolm, the 67-year-old man who lives in the home, tells 麻豆影视 he was attacked by a man at his front door and then he blacked out. He says his wife triggered a security alarm, and the attacker fled the home. </p> <p> Malcolm was treated in hospital and now has stitches holding his bruised cheeks together.</p> <p> OPP Sgt. Peter Leon tells 麻豆影视 the suspect remains in custody. They are not releasing any more details about the suspect.</p>
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<p> Barrie Police say they believe a claim about a robbery outside a downtown restaurant was a hoax.</p> <p> Police say the woman called them on March 8 when she was visiting the city, claiming she had been pushed to the ground by a man outside a restaurant, and robbed. Police say the woman claimed the man took jewelry and cash worth $130,000.</p> <p> She gave police a description, and about 10 officers, including a canine officer and a tactical officer, launched a search in the area. They didn’t find anyone.</p> <p> Since then, Barrie Police investigators have been following the case.</p> <p> After reviewing surveillance video from the restaurant, police now say there was no robbery.</p> <p> The woman was arrested March 19 and charged with public mischief and fraud over $5,000.</p> <p> She has a court date in April.</p>
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<p> Public health advocates say many private clinics in Ontario are misleading patients and unlawfully billing them for medically unnecessary services.</p> <p> The Ontario Health Coalition says a significant number of clinics they contacted were charging patients extra fees on top of billing the Ontario Health Insurance Plan for necessary procedures.</p> <p> It says one clinic was charging patients $50 "administrative fees" for such things as a snack and patient records.</p> <p> The group says such fees were more common among cataract clinics, which were charging patients for medically unnecessary tests and procedures when they came in for needed surgery.</p> <p> They say clinics are manipulating patients, who are confused about what they need and what they don't need.</p> <p> The coalition says the government must crack down on such user charges which are more widespread than ever.</p>
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<p> A Mississauga man was charged with racing after going almost double the speed limit through Caledon yesterday.</p> <p> Caledon OPP say an officer clocked a black Kia heading north on Highway 10 at 112 kilometers per hour in a 60-km/h zone.</p> <p> The 25-year-old Mississauga man has been charged with racing a motor vehicle.</p> <p> His car was impounded for seven days because of the stunt-driving charge.</p>
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<p> CAA kicked off its annual Ontario's Worst Roads campaign today calling on the government to fix the roads that have been damaged by the harsh winter weather.</p> <p> The auto club, which represents more than 1.9 million members, says the fluctuating freeze-thaw cycle has littered the roads with crater-sized potholes.</p> <p> Faye Lyons of CAA South Central Ontario says the group is calling on all levels of government to make improving transportation infrastructure a priority. The CAA is also urging the Ontario government to permanently dedicate a portion of the revenue collected from gas taxes to fixing roads, bridges and highways in the province.</p> <p> The group's Worst Roads campaign allows people to choose the province's worst road by voting at www.worstroads.ca before April 25.</p> <p> CAA will then present the Top 10 Worst Roads in Ontario to the government along with the group's recommendations.</p> <p> People are also urged to give feedback on traffic congestion, poor timing of traffic signals, confusing road signs and pedestrian and cycling safety.</p> <p> Lyons says Ontario has been collecting a gas tax for decades and it's time for a dedicated fund to help pay for repairs to roads and bridges.</p> <p> She says the provincial excise gas tax currently costs motorists 14.7 cents on every litre of gas and diesel and generated about $3.1 billion in 2012-2013.</p> <p> At the same time, she says, the estimated annual cost for repairs to Ontario's roads, bridges and highways is pegged at about $3.8 billion a year.</p> <p> “This harsh winter has played havoc on our roads and our cars,” said Lyons. “Pothole-ridden streets put your safety at risk and cause damage to our vehicles.”</p>
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<p> There are plenty of email scams out there, from the grandparent scam to the computer virus scam, but there's a new twist to one of the ways fraudsters are trying to take your money.</p> <p> Norfolk County OPP say one of the scams making the rounds again involves an email from an alleged hitman hired to kill the recipient.</p> <p> Police were alerted to the latest scam after receiving a call from a concerned Waterford, Ont. resident who had received an email purported to be from a hitman.</p> <p> Const. Ed Sanchuk says "Obviously the resident was quite upset, in shock and in disbelief. And,as a result of looking further into the email, it was determined that the sender was asking for $7,000 in a money transfer service."</p> <p> The email reportedly details that a close family member or friend hired them and that their job is to assassinate the recipient. It goes on to say that the receiver of the email is being watched and not to contact the police under any circumstances.</p> <p> A large quantity of funds is then requested in order to cancel the assassination, and the sender indicates that the funds are to be sent through the use of a money transfer service and at no time should anything be said to anyone.</p> <p> Sanchuk said in a statement "These scam emails are generally sent to a large number of people in the hope that one or more will respond and be drawn further into the scam. If you receive one of these messages, you should not reply or respond to the scammers in any way. As well as the direct attempts to extort money, the scammers may also try to obtain personal information from a victim so that they can steal his or her identity."</p> <p> If you have received an email of this nature you are asked to contact your local police service and the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre at 1-888-495-8501 or <a href="http://www.antifraudcentre.ca">http://www.antifraudcentre.ca</a>.</p> <p> The website also has examples of this and other email scams dating back to 2008.</p>
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<p> Five people were injured at Casino Rama Monday, March 24, 2014 when construction plywood fell and struck them.</p> <p> The plywood was being used as part of construction work being done at the casino.</p> <p> The plywood was part of a freestanding piece when it came loose around 3 p.m. Monday afternoon and fell to the ground.</p> <p> Five people were taken to hospital, four have since been released.</p> <p> A spokesperson for Casino Rama says one person remains in hospital with a broken bone.</p> <p> The Ministry of Labour has been called in to investigate.</p>
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<p> A mother whose son was killed in Barrie last May is pleading for more information that might help explain how he died. </p> <p> Police say they are no closer to knowing exactly what happened that May morning. Jake Surerus’s body was found along Grove Street. All police can say right now is that he was dragged by a vehicle and died after hitting a light pole. After 10 months of investigating, police say they have hit a wall of silence.</p> <p> “We don't know exactly what happened. We know that Jake received a phone call. We know that Jake left his residence. And we know that Jake was found dead at the corner of Grove Street and Davidson Street,” says Det. Const. Sarah Firth with the Barrie Police Service.</p> <p> Today Barrie police posted a $50,000-dollar reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for his death. Police say Surerus met someone near the scene in the early morning hours of May 23. Why or what happened is still unclear.</p> <p> Police say he was involved with people from the Toronto area, but that hasn’t brought them any closer to answers. Today, Surerus's mother made a plea for people to come forward.</p> <p> “Please come forward and share whatever you know,” says Anna Milligan. “Please help us to know what happened in the last hours of his life. Nothing will bring him back but it will make a difference.”</p> <p> Surerus's cell phone records show he received a call from someone in the Toronto area the morning he died. Police want to speak with that person or anyone else who may have any information on what happened.</p> <p> Police think the $50,000 reward is enough to get people to come forward. Posters will now be put up all around the city in hopes that people start to talk.</p>
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<p> WINNIPEG -- A Winnipeg police officer is facing several charges including sex assault and extortion.</p> <p> Police say they began an investigation into an officer's conduct in June.</p> <p> It's alleged the officer committed the crimes on and off duty.</p> <p> Const. Remi Van Den Driessche, who is 39, is charged with breach of trust, criminal harassment, sex assault and extortion.</p> <p> The eight-year veteran was released on a promise to appear and has been put on administrative leave pending a review.</p> <p> Police did not give any other details.</p>
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<p> Officers asked for the public’s help in locating a suspect wanted in connection with an aggravated assault case from October 2013.</p> <p> Winnipeg police said Dwight John Stevenson, 23, is wanted on outstanding warrants, including failing to attend court and failing to comply with conditions of a recognizance.</p> <p> Anyone with information on his location is asked to call officers at 204-986-6668 or Crime Stoppers at 204-786-8477.</p>
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<p> OTTAWA -- A portable hard drive containing personal information on more than half a million people who took out student loans was left unsecured for extended periods and lacked password protection and encryption, says the federal privacy czar.</p> <p> Employees handling the device were not aware of the sensitivity of the information it contained, concludes the report from interim privacy commissioner Chantal Bernier.</p> <p> Human Resources and Skills Development Canada acknowledged last year the drive held data on 583,000 Canada Student Loans Program borrowers from 2000 to 2006.</p> <p> The missing files included student names, social insurance numbers, dates of birth, contact information and loan balances, as well as the personal contact information of 250 department employees.</p> <p> Bernier's report, tabled in Parliament, says a gap between policies and practices at the department -- now known as Employment and Social Development Canada -- led to weaknesses in information management, physical security controls and employee awareness.</p> <p> The commissioner found that department employees violated sections of the federal Privacy Act related to the use, disposal and disclosure of personal information.</p> <p> Information security cannot be assured by having policies on paper -- they must be put into practice every day, Bernier said.</p> <p> The department has begun implementing her recommendations, she added. "We hope this investigation will prompt other federal departments and private-sector organizations to review their own privacy policies and practices."</p> <p> The privacy commissioner's office opened its investigation in January last year after the department reported that the hard drive had been missing for two months. Officials did not know whether it was a case of human error or ill intent.</p> <p> Bernier's report came Tuesday as a Federal Court judge certified a class-action lawsuit filed by some of the students, who are seeking damages for breach of privacy and breach of contract.</p> <p> The students allege they were exposed to a greater risk of identity theft and are owed compensation for time and frustration associated with changing credit cards, getting credit reports and dealing with student loan information.</p> <p> The hard drive has never been recovered and there is evidence it may have been stolen, said lawyer Ted Charney, who called the judge's decision significant.</p> <p> "In our digital age there are just so many breaches now," he said in an interview. "It's just an endless chain of breaches by the governments and by large corporations and we're all trying to come to grips with how these types of breaches should be compensated."</p> <p> Bernier said Tuesday the department assures her there is no evidence of fraudulent use of the sensitive information.</p> <p> Staff of the department's student loans program had used the one-terabyte hard drive to make a backup copy of program information stored in the central computer to ensure its preservation when that data was being transferred between networked drives, her report says.</p> <p> Bernier recommended:</p> <p> -- Severely restricting the use of portable storage devices and introducing system software which blocks unauthorized use of such devices on desktop computers;</p> <p> -- Periodically examining portable storage devices to ensure they are being used solely for legitimate reasons;</p> <p> -- Reviewing holdings, disposing of transitory records and classifying remaining records at the appropriate security level;</p> <p> -- Mandatory training on personal privacy protection and testing every two years.</p> <p> The commissioner plans to follow up in a year to gauge the department's progress.</p> <p> The vast majority of federal data breaches last year were not reported to the privacy commissioner, said Charmaine Borg, the NDP digital issues critic.</p> <p> "Government departments tend not to divulge data breaches to the commissioner, or to the people affected by the breach," she said.</p> <p> "We need a system that requires people to be notified when their data has been breached. Canadians deserve to know when their personal data has been lost by the government."</p>
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<p> Keen-eyed officers nabbed a robbery suspect after recognizing the man while they were on the scene of an unrelated call.</p> <p> Detectives with the major crimes unit had been investigating a robbery that occurred March 22, 2014 at a gas bar in the 1300 block of McPhillips Street.</p> <p> A man had robbed a female clerk of an undisclosed amount around of cash around 4:40 a.m. before fleeing.</p> <p> On March 25, 2014, officers responded to a residence on Langside Street and, while at the home, police recognized a man as being the suspect of the gas bar robbery.</p> <p> Harold Mace, 33, has been charged with robbery and failing to comply with a probation order, said police.</p> <p> He remains in custody.</p>
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<p> ARLINGTON, Wash. -- A scientist working for the government had warned 15 years ago about the potential for a catastrophic landslide in the fishing village where the collapse of a rain-soaked hillside over the weekend killed at least 14 people and left scores missing.</p> <p> As rescue workers slogged through the muck and rain in search of victims Tuesday, word of the 1999 report raised questions about why residents were allowed to build homes on the hill and whether officials had taken proper precautions.</p> <p> "I knew it would fail catastrophically in a large magnitude event," though not when it would happen, said Daniel Miller, a geomorphologist who was hired by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to do the study. "I was not surprised."</p> <p> Patricia Graesser, a spokeswoman for the Army Corps in Seattle, said it appears that the report was intended not as a risk assessment, but as a feasibility study for ecosystem restoration.</p> <p> Asked whether the agency should have done anything with the information, she said: "We don't have jurisdiction to do anything. We don't do zoning. That's a local responsibility."</p> <p> Snohomish County officials and authorities in the devastated village of Oso said that they were not aware of the study but that residents and town officials knew the risks of living in the area.</p> <p> In fact, the area has long been known as the "Hazel Landslide" because of landslides over the past half-century. The last severe one before Saturday's disaster was in 2006.</p> <p> "A slide of this magnitude is very difficult to predict," county Public Works Director Steve Thomsen told The Seattle Times, which first reported on Miller's analysis. "There was no indication, no indication at all."</p> <p> No landslide warnings for the area were issued before the disaster, which came after weeks of heavy rain. The rushing wall of quicksand-like mud, trees and other debris flattened about two dozen homes and critically injured several people.</p> <p> "One of the things this tragedy should teach us is the need to get better information about geologic hazards out to the general public," said David Montgomery, a geomorphologist with the University of Washington in Seattle. "Where are the potentially unstable slopes? How big a risk do they pose? And what should be done to let homeowners know about that?"</p> <p> Meanwhile, searchers continued to pick through the debris, warning they were likely to find more bodies. Authorities were working off a list of 176 people unaccounted for, though some names were believed to be duplicates.</p> <p> The threat of flash floods or another landslide loomed over the rescuers.</p> <p> Near the southern perimeter of the slide, volunteers from a logging crew gathered to help move debris with chainsaws, excavators and other heavy equipment.</p> <p> Gene Karger said he could see six orange flags in the debris field, marking bodies they would be pulling out. Karger, a logger most of his life, said it was the first time he was involved in this kind of rescue work.</p> <p> "You see parts of their bodies sticking out of the mud. It's real hard. It's that bad," Karger said. "There are people out there we know."</p> <p> In his report, Miller said that the soil on the steep slope lacked any binding agent that would make it more secure, and that the underlying layers of silt and sand could give way in a "large catastrophic failure."</p> <p> But he also cautioned: "I currently have no basis for estimating the probable rate or timing of future landslide activity."</p> <p> In an interview Tuesday, Miller noted there are hundreds of similar landslides in Washington state each year, and this particular river valley has had three very large slides in the last three decades.</p> <p> Predicting landslides is difficult, so much so that damage from them is excluded from private insurance policies, according to a study published by the U.S. Geological Survey in 2012. One challenge is estimating the probability of a slide in any particular place.</p> <p> One of the authors of the USGS report, Jonathan Godt, a research scientist with the agency in Colorado, said landslides don't get that much attention because they often happen in places where they don't hit anything.</p> <p> But with Americans building homes deeper into the wilderness, he said, "there are more people in the way."</p> <p> Le reported from Seattle. Associated Press writers Jason Dearen in San Francisco and P. Solomon Banda in Darrington, Wash., as well as photographer Elaine Thompson in Oso, Wash., contributed to this report. Researcher Rhonda Shafner contributed from New York.</p>
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<p> Winnipeg police are concerned for the well-being of Tyrus Mann, 14.</p> <p> Officers said he was last seen in the North End on March 23.</p> <p> Mann was last seen wearing black pants, a black jacket and a black hat.</p> <p> Anyone with information on his location is asked to contact Winnipeg police at 204-986-6250.</p>
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<p> A pedestrian remains in hospital in stable but guarded condition after a collision Tuesday morning in the Murray Industrial Park area of Winnipeg.</p> <p> Police and emergency crews responded around 8 a.m. in the 600 block of Moray Street for the crash.</p> <p> "Speed and manner of driving are being considered contributing factors," said police.</p> <p> The car ended up on a snowbank after the crash near Saulteaux Crescent.</p> <p> The driver is listed in stable condition.</p> <p> Anyone with information on the collision is asked to contact investigators at 204-986-6271.</p>
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<p> The City of Winnipeg will compensate all homeowners with frozen pipes back to December 1.</p> <p> At a special meeting of the mayor's executive policy committee, councillors voted to pay for all thawing claims up to $305, including work done by private contractors.</p> <p> Until now, the city was only waiving fees for work done on or after February 28.</p> <p> Finance Chair Russ Wyatt said the thawing price tag will likely go higher than $200,000.</p> <p> Mayor Sam Katz said the city could file a disaster financial assistance claim with the province and Ottawa to cover the costs associated with the frozen pipe crisis.</p>
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<p> Winnipeg police confirm the body of an adult male was found in a bus shack on Maryland Street around 5:30 Tuesday morning.</p> <p> The man's identity has not been released.</p> <p> Winnipeg police continue to investigate and an autopsy is pending.</p>
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<p> It took just 2 1/2 minutes for a combination of human and technical mistakes to turn a passenger and supply flight into a remote Arctic community from routine to calamitous.</p> <p> A Transportation Safety Board report into the crash of First Air Flight 6560 blames an undetected autopilot change, a faulty compass reading and disagreement between the pilots about whether to abort the landing.</p> <p> "This accident was the product of a complex series of events, all of them lining up together," lead investigator Brian MacDonald said Tuesday as the report was released. "But what ultimately tied all these things together was that as the flight progressed each pilot developed a different understanding of the situation and they were unable to reconcile that difference."</p> <p> The crash at the Resolute airport Aug. 20, 2011, killed eight passengers and four crew members. Three passengers miraculously survived.</p> <p> In cool, technical language the board's report provides a second-by-second breakdown of what probably happened in the cockpit as the pilots crashed the Boeing 737 into a hillside more than a kilometre from the runway.</p> <p> Problems began because on-board compasses were incorrectly adjusted by 17 degrees. That error was compounded when the captain turned into the final approach and unwittingly changed the operational mode of the plane's autopilot. Busy with the landing checklist, in weather obscured by cloud, mist and light rain, neither he nor the co-pilot picked up the change.</p> <p> "This incongruency would have negatively affected the pilots' situational awareness and increased their workload as they attempted to understand and resolve this ambiguity," the report says.</p> <p> Within seconds after that final turn, co-pilot David Hare realized the plane was off course and repeatedly told the pilot, reminding him about the large hill to the right of the runway. Pilot Blair Rutherford replied that the autopilot was working fine.</p> <p> Puzzled as to why the plane's navigational instruments weren't lining up with ground-based systems, Hare asked if they'd done something wrong. Five seconds later, he suggested they pull up and go around for another approach.</p> <p> Rutherford, fully focused on landing the plane and on figuring out why his instruments were giving confusing readings, refused.</p> <p> "It is likely that the captain did not fully comprehend information that indicated that his original plan was no longer viable," says the report.</p> <p> Less than 10 seconds after first suggesting they pull up, Hare asked again, pointing out that the plane wasn't configured for a landing so close to the landing strip. The report suggests Rutherford is likely to have understood the remark as a request to prepared the plane for landing.</p> <p> Cockpit communication had broken down.</p> <p> "The captain's mental model was likely that the approach and landing could be salvaged, and the (co-pilot's) mental model was almost certainly that there was significant risk to the safety of flight and that a go-around was required. These divergent mental models compromised the pilots' ability to communicate and work together."</p> <p> Four seconds after his second request to pull up, Hare asked Rutherford to bank to the left. Their navigational confusion was evident when Hare confused the shoreline of a small lake with the seashore.</p> <p> Just under a minute after that, Hare said: "Blair, I don't like this."</p> <p> Almost immediately after, the plane's ground position systems began to sound alarms. About 160 seconds after making the final turn, Rutherford tried to pull up and go around.</p> <p> "There was insufficient altitude and time to execute the manoeuvre and avoid collision with terrain."</p> <p> The plane smashed into the hill and broke into three main pieces. Debris was strewn around the tundra.</p> <p> Resolute residents and soldiers from a military exercise that happened to be underway nearby rushed to the scene to try to pull survivors from the flaming wreckage.</p> <p> Within minutes, rescue crews and fire trucks were dispatched. Coast Guard and military helicopters arrived on the scene. Those not rescuing survivors or recovering casualties worked frantically to douse a fire from a fuel leak.</p> <p> Military medical teams and equipment that had arrived shortly before the crash were pressed into service. The injured were stabilized in a field hospital and flown to Iqaluit.</p> <p> The board has recommended that First Air revise its procedures to ensure pilots can communicate clearly and directly. It also said the carrier should be clearer about what types of compasses are to be used in which situations.</p> <p> The report said First Air has taken those actions, including a new rule that any crew member can order a go-around simply by saying "Go around."</p> <p> Several lawsuits have been filed over the disaster. The suits cast partial blame on the Canadian Forces, which had taken control over the small airport on the day of the crash.</p> <p> The transportation board said the military's presence was not a contributing factor in the crash.</p> <p> The military had established a temporary air traffic control tower to guide in all planes. The airport was normally an uncontrolled airspace and pilots navigated themselves onto the runway.</p> <p> The suits claim the military did not have enough people on duty to handle the air traffic and those working the tower were not briefed or properly trained to navigate civilian planes.</p> <p> None of the allegations has been proven in court. Statements of defence were not immediately available.</p> <p> The chartered plane was on a regular run from Yellowknife to Resolute. There were scientists on the plane along with staff heading back to work at a local inn and the inn owner's two young granddaughters. There was also a load of food.</p>
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<p> THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- With no sign of Russia abandoning the Crimean Peninsula, President Barack Obama said Tuesday he's concerned that Moscow will move deeper into Ukraine and warned Russian President Vladimir Putin that the international community is prepared to impose punishing sanctions against his country's economy.</p> <p> Obama stood fast on his insistence that Crimea remains a part of Ukraine, even as the fledgling Ukrainian government in Kyiv ordered its troops to pull back from the disputed territory. He dismissed Russia as a "regional power" that was acting from a position of weakness.</p> <p> "We're not recognizing what is happening in Crimea," Obama said at his first news conference since Russia moved to annex Crimea after a referendum 10 days ago. Obama rejected "the notion that a referendum sloppily organized over the course of two weeks" would "somehow be a valid process."</p> <p> Obama said that while the Russia's military controls Crimea, its acquisition of the Black Sea peninsula is "not a done deal" without international recognition. But he also said, "It would be dishonest to suggest there is a simple solution to what has already taken place in Crimea."</p> <p> "We also are concerned about further encroachment by Russia into Ukraine," Obama said, as he took questions in a joint appearance with his host, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte.</p> <p> "I think that will be a bad choice for President Putin to make," Obama said. "But ultimately he is the president of Russia, and he's the one who's going to be making that decision."</p> <p> Obama was pursuing efforts to pressure Russia out of its aggressive pose as world leaders met for an international Nuclear Security Summit. But to the east, the Russian annexation of Crimea was beginning to take root and Moscow shrugged off Obama's drive to leave Putin in the cold.</p> <p> Rutte said he could not envision the crisis over Ukraine ending in a military conflict. "I don't think that is likely. I don't think anybody wants it," the Dutch prime minister said as he stood next to Obama.</p> <p> Rutte added that the West retains the option to impose more sanctions on Russia if the standoff escalates, and he said that "these sanctions would hit Russia very badly."</p> <p> "And obviously, you can never guarantee that the people in Europe, in Canada, in the U.S. would not be hurt," the prime minister said. "But obviously, we will make sure that we will design these sanctions in such a way that they will have maximum impact on the Russian economy and not on the European, the Canadian, the Japanese or the American economy."</p> <p> Obama also said he was concerned about Russia's troop build-up along the Ukrainian border. "We oppose what appears to be an effort at intimidation," Obama said. "But Russia has a right legally to have its troops on its own soil."</p> <p> Asked whether in hindsight he agrees with Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney's assessment that Russia is the United States' top geopolitical foe, Obama said he is more concerned about a nuclear bomb in Manhattan than he is about Russia's actions threatening national security.</p> <p> "America's got a whole lot of challenges," Obama said. "Russia is a regional power that is threatening some of its immediate neighbours, not out of strength but out of weakness."</p> <p> The U.S. and some of its closest allies cut Russia out indefinitely from an exclusive coalition of leading industrial nations and cancelled a summer summit Russia was to host in its Olympic village of Sochi. Obama also sought to win backing from other foreign leaders in hopes of ostracizing or even shaming Putin into reversing his acquisition of Crimea and backing away from any designs he might have on other Eastern Europe territory.</p> <p> In a strongly worded joint statement, the United States, France, Canada, Britain, Germany, Italy and Japan denounced a referendum in Crimea to secede from Ukraine and Russia's ensuing annexation. In so doing, the seven leaders also effectively excluded Russia from what had been a two-decade-old coalition known as the Group of Eight.</p> <p> "This clear violation of international law is a serious challenge to the rule of law around the world and should be a concern for all nations," the declaration said.</p> <p> Still, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov shrugged off the international gestures.</p> <p> "The G-8 is an informal club," he said. "It has no membership tickets, and it can't purge anyone by definition."</p> <p> In an addition to his public schedule, Obama sat down with Putin ally President Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan. As Obama and Nazarbayev wrapped up their meeting, the White House released a joint statement from Obama and Nazarbayev that did not address the Ukraine situation, but focused instead on bilateral co-operation on nuclear security -- the theme of concurrent summit serving as the official purpose for Obama's visit to the Netherlands.</p> <p> Obama praised action at the summit, including new commitments by Japan, Italy and Belgium to reduce their stocks of nuclear materials. He said the next summit, in 2016, will be held in the U.S.</p> <p> Later Tuesday, Obama met with Prince Mohamed bin Zayed, crown prince of Abu Dhabi, the richest emirate in the United Arab Emirates federation. He was also scheduled to meet jointly with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and South Korean President Park Geun-hye.</p> <p> Both those meetings centred less on Ukraine and more on regional tensions in the Middle East and northern Asia. The visit with the crown prince served as precursor to Obama's on Friday visit to Saudi Arabia, where he will meet with King Abdullah to address Arab anxieties over the Syrian civil war and U.S. nuclear talks with Iran, a Saudi rival in the region.</p> <p> The meeting with Park and Abe brings together two U.S. Asian allies who have been quarreling over rekindled memories of Japan's aggression in World War II. It will be the first meeting between the two Asian leaders since they took office more than a year ago.</p>
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<p> TORONTO -- Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne has moved the chairs around in her cabinet following the resignation of Municipal Affairs and Housing Minister Linda Jeffrey.</p> <p> Two backbenchers have been elevated to cabinet, while three others have changed jobs.</p> <p> Bill Mauro of Thunder Bay takes over Jeffrey's portfolio, while Oakville's Kevin Flynn talks over labour from Yasir Naqvi.</p> <p> Naqvi takes over community safety and correctional services from Madeleine Meilleur, who becomes Ontario's first francophone attorney general.</p> <p> Her predecessor John Gerretsen, who has said he won't run for re-election, is minister without portfolio and chairman of cabinet -- taking over from Jeffrey.</p> <p> Jeffrey announced earlier Tuesday that she's leaving provincial politics to run for mayor of Brampton.</p> <p> She said she was troubled by the spending controversies surrounding current Mayor Susan Fennell, which include a sky-high salary and the approval of hundreds of millions of dollars for projects that weren't completed or started.</p> <p> But the provincial Liberals have spending scandals of their own, including pulling the plug on two unpopular gas plants, which will cost taxpayers up to $1 billion.</p> <p> Jeffrey stood by the cancellation of the plants, despite the extraordinary cost that will likely become political cannon fodder.</p> <p> "It was a difficult decision, but I'm focused on what's happening in Brampton," she said.</p> <p> "Right now, I see some very troubling things that are being discovered on a daily, weekly basis. I think respect for taxpayers is an extraordinarily important quality and I plan to bring that to the job."</p> <p> Wynne has six months to call a byelection in Jeffrey's riding of Brampton-Springdale, unless there's a general election.</p> <p> She noted that Jeffrey was the first woman elected to represent Brampton in provincial politics.</p> <p> "I will personally miss Linda," Wynne said in a statement. "She is a woman of integrity and honesty and I wish her all the very best in her next endeavours."</p> <p> Jeffrey said she's been lobbied to run for mayor of Brampton over the past year, with former Progressive Conservative premier Bill Davis -- who represented his hometown in the legislature -- being one of the most vocal proponents.</p> <p> But she said she's only been considering it seriously since January.</p> <p> Jeffrey, who was first elected in the Liberal sweep of 2003, has also held the portfolios of natural resources, labour and minister responsible for seniors.</p> <p> She was also the point person when it came to fielding questions about whether troubled Toronto Mayor Rob Ford should step aside after he confessed to smoking crack cocaine.</p> <p> Jeffrey is the latest Liberal to announce that she's calling it quits since Wynne took the top job just over a year ago.</p> <p> Laurel Broten quit last July, following her cabinet colleagues Margarett Best, Dwight Duncan, Greg Sorbara, Chris Bentley and former premier Dalton McGuinty. Backbencher Kim Craitor also stepped down.</p> <p> Joining the exodus are Gerretsen, Government Services Minister John Milloy, former cabinet ministers Rick Bartolucci, Harinder Takhar and Donna Cansfield, as well as MPP Phil McNeely, who have all said they don't plan to run again.</p>
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<p> NEWMARKET, Ont. -- A father who narrowly survived a purported home invasion in which his wife was fatally shot in the head testified Tuesday about the elaborate web of deceit his daughter had spun in the years before the attack.</p> <p> Glancing impassively at his daughter in the prisoner's dock, Hann Pan described how she had soaked her parents for thousands of dollars while lying about attending school or work and where she was living.</p> <p> Among the lies, court heard, were a fake university diploma, a bogus hospital volunteer job, phoney part-time work at a department store complete with a fake pay stub, and the fiction that she was rooming with an acquaintance.</p> <p> Jennifer Pan, 27, her high school sweetheart Daniel Wong, 28, and three others are each charged with first-degree murder in the November 2010 death of her 53-year-old mother, Bieh Ha Pan.</p> <p> According to the prosecution, she had promised to pay $5,000 for each parent killed from her share of her inheritance.</p> <p> Crown lawyer Michelle Rumble elicited that the Pans, who owned their home outright, would have left an estate worth about $1 million at the time of the killing.</p> <p> Their son and daughter stood to inherit the money equally, something his wife had often discussed with their daughter, Pan told the court.</p> <p> Pan, 60, a tool and die maker, said he often wanted to query his daughter about her studies but his wife would intercede, arguing the young woman was already a grown up.</p> <p> "Let her be herself. Too much interference will not be good," Pan said his wife told him.</p> <p> The web of lies finally unravelled in 2009, when the suspicious father noted his daughter had no uniform or key-card for the Toronto hospital she said she was volunteering at.</p> <p> "I was frustrated and I was concerned that something was not right," Pan told jurors through a Vietnamese interpreter.</p> <p> When he drove her to the hospital, she bolted and disappeared.</p> <p> The following morning, after the friend she was apparently rooming with said she was not staying there, Pan came home and confessed:</p> <p> "Jennifer said that she lied. She did not work at the hospital. Had not graduated from university. My daughter said she was currently living with her boyfriend, Daniel Wong," Pan testified.</p> <p> "I was very upset."</p> <p> The angry father ordered his daughter to sever her relationship with Wong and return to school. She apparently agreed.</p> <p> "He had covered for my daughter to stay out of school for the last four years," Pan explained.</p> <p> Pan was shot in the face during the attack at the family home in Markham, Ont., but survived. His wife was killed by two shots to the head -- one at point-blank range.</p> <p> The prosecution alleges that what happened was a deliberate hit orchestrated by their daughter, because her parents had thwarted her relationship with Wong.</p> <p> In the months before the attack, Han discovered his daughter was still in contact with Wong, and gave her an ultimatum: Cut ties with him or leave the family forever.</p> <p> Again, the daughter said she would stay home and not have contact with her boyfriend.</p> <p> Also charged with Pan and Wong in Ontario Superior Court are Eric Carty, Lenford Crawford and David Mylvaganam.</p> <p> Before she was fatally shot, Pan's mother repeatedly begged the intruders not to harm her daughter, the Crown alleges.</p> <p> Pan's home-invasion story fell apart when it became clear her father would live, court has heard.</p>
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<p> BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Buffalo Bills owner Ralph Wilson, who helped found the American Football League in 1960, died at his home on Tuesday afternoon. He was 95.</p> <p> Bills president Russ Brandon made the announcement at the NFL winter meetings in Orlando.</p> <p> Wilson was the founder and sole owner of the Bills after establishing the team with the upstart AFL in 1960. He played a key role in the league's merger with the NFL. He was inducted into the Football Hall of Fame in 2009.</p> <p> Wilson died at his home in Grosse Pointe Shores, Mich., around 1:40 p.m., said Mary Mazur, spokeswoman for the Wayne County medical examiner's office.</p> <p> He had been receiving in-home hospice care.</p> <p> "No one loves this game more than Ralph Wilson," Brandon said in a statement. "It's very tough. What he's meant to the entire organization. He's our leader, our mentor our friend. How he loves his players and loved our community. Special guy. They just don't make them like Ralph Wilson."</p> <p> Wilson had been in failing health for several years after having hip surgery in 2011. Though he spent much of his time at his home suburban Detroit, he was well enough to attend the Hall of Fame induction weekends over the past few years.</p> <p> After regularly attending Bills home games since founding the franchise, Wilson had not been to a game since attending one in 2010.</p> <p> Wilson established a reputation as being the "conscience" of the NFL for his loyalty to fans and the several stands he took against franchise relocation.</p> <p> "He didn't let anyone pull anything off in him. He was very forceful," New Orleans Saints owner Tom Benson said.</p> <p> "Mr. Wilson was a visionary and pioneer of professional football," added Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank. "We have lost a founding member of the NFL family, but Ralph's lasting impact on the NFL will forever be felt."</p>
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<p> A three-alarm blaze that broke out at a townhouse in the west end of Toronto is now under control.</p> <p> Dozens of firefighters attended to a fire that started around 12:15 p.m. at 13 Lippincott St. E., in the Jane Street and Weston Road area.</p> <ul> <li> <a href="http://toronto.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=313196&playlistId=1.1745235&binId=1.815892&playlistPageNum=1">Watch extended video of the fire </a></li> </ul> <p> According to Toronto Fire, a family of six lived in the unit where the blaze started.</p> <p> A 20-year-old man in the family was transported to hospital with burns to his feet. There have been no reports of life-threatening injuries so far.</p> <p> When firefighters arrived on scene, thick black smoke was pouring from the third flood, Toronto Fire Services spokesperson Mike Strapko told CTV Toronto.</p> <p> It quickly spread to four adjoining units, which share a common attic. Eighteen fire trucks and at least 80 firefighters were on scene by 12:30 p.m.</p> <p> Strapko said at one point, firefighters had to be pulled out from the building because the ceiling began to fall.</p> <p> Weston Road is closed in both directions from Clouston Avenue to Denison Road as crews work to control the fire.</p> <p> A TTC bus is on stand-by in the area to house anyone temporarily displaced by the blaze.</p>
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<p> Toronto Maple Leafs goalie James Reimer called the behaviour of some angry Twitter fans "disappointing" after his wife became the target of an online attack following his team's fifth straight loss over the weekend.</p> <p> <a href="http://www.ctvnews.ca/sports/fifth-straight-loss-as-leafs-fall-to-devils-3-2-1.1742733">The Leafs fell to the New Jersey Devils </a>3-2 on Sunday, and some fans took to Twitter to vent their frustration with both the team's losing streak and Reimer’s goaltending performance.</p> <p> The goalie's wife, April, became the target presumably because her husband does not have a Twitter account. Some of the tweets were lighthearted, while others were quite offensive in nature.</p> <p> "There's a lot of great fans out there and unfortunately a few of the obnoxious ones... sometimes their voice gets heard," <a href="http://toronto.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=313098&playlistId=1.1745107&binId=1.815892&playlistPageNum=1">Reimer told the media </a>after Tuesday morning practice.</p> <p> However, he said the experience had a positive side: "For every unfortunate tweet, I think there was 10 or 20 people sticking up for her or me."</p> <p> On Sunday night, his wife tweeted her gratitude: "Thankfully the voices of many drown out the voices of a few. Thank you if you wrote me a kind tweet :)"</p> <p> Reimer was pulled from the net 22 minutes into the Sunday night game against the New Jersey Devils after allowing three goals out of 10 shots.</p> <p> He's has been filling in as the Leafs goaltender while <a href="http://toronto.ctvnews.ca/bernier-s-status-unclear-as-struggling-leafs-prepare-to-face-blues-1.1745436">Jonathan Bernier has been out with a groin injury</a>.</p> <p> The Leafs are barely hanging onto a playoff spot with goaltending and other factors at play.</p> <p> </p> [ <a href="https://storify.com/CTVToronto/fans-attack-james-reimer-s-wife-on-twitter">View the story "Fans attack James Reimer's wife on Twitter " on Storify</a>]
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<p> TORONTO -- Jonathan Bernier did almost everything he usually does when he's the Toronto Maple Leafs' starting goaltender. He manned the home net at Air Canada Centre, was first off the ice and did not speak following the morning skate.</p> <p> Signs pointed to Bernier returning from a five-game absence with a groin injury to face the St. Louis Blues, though he left the ice quickly and then coach Randy Carlyle did not confirm that Tuesday morning. Carlyle said he hadn't yet got an update from the team's medical staff but didn't rule out the possibility of Bernier starting.</p> <p> "Everything's possible," Carlyle said.</p> <p> James Reimer and third goaltender Drew MacIntyre split time on the ice before coming off together. If Bernier is ready, MacIntyre figures to be sent back to the AHL's Toronto Marlies later Tuesday.</p> <p> Seeing Bernier go through the motions of a starter, MacIntyre seemed to sense "this cup of coffee" in the NHL was coming to an end soon.</p> <p> But Bernier did leave the ice quickly after stretching near the blue line. Usually, Toronto's starter takes shots from defencemen after that.</p> <p> If Reimer starts, it would be his sixth straight. He was pulled Sunday night after giving up three goals to the New Jersey Devils and replaced by MacIntyre, who stopped all 14 shots he faced.</p> <p> Defenceman Paul Ranger took part in the morning skate, his first since suffering a neck injury last week. His status was not clear, though if he played the Leafs would most likely go back to 11 forwards and seven defencemen.</p> <p> Ryan Miller is set to start in goal for the Blues, two days after backup Brian Elliott shut out the Pittsburgh Penguins. Miller is 31-15-3 with a 2.46 goals-against average and .922 save percentage in his career against the Leafs.</p>
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<p> The Canadian Automobile Association South Central Ontario has launched its annual Worst Roads campaign, letting residents vote for which local roads are most in need of repair.</p> <p> The City of Toronto repaired an average of 237,000 potholes per year, according to the most recent data available on <a href="http://www.toronto.ca/311/knowledgebase/70/101000040270.html">its website</a>. But an unusually cold winter wreaked havoc on southern Ontario roads, so seasonal damage is predicted to be worse than average.</p> <p> The extreme fluctuations in temperature have highlighted the importance of maintaining the province's road network," CAA's Faye Lyons said at a news conference Tuesday morning.</p> <p> "That is why we are calling on all users across Ontario to participate in CAA's Worst Roads campaign, and tell us what roads and highways are in desperate need of repair."</p> <p> Over the course of four weeks, drivers can enter their nominations and <a href="http://caaworstroads.com/home/index/9">vote online</a>, and they'll be entered to win a daily prize of a $50 gas card and the grand prize of gas for a year.</p> <p> Lyons said CAA is also interested in pedestrians' and cyclists' experiences with traffic congestion, bad traffic signal timing and confusing road signs.</p> <p> Following the campaign, Lyons said CAA will compile a Top 10 list that will be shared with government officials across Ontario.</p> <p> "With significant impacts to our roads after this winter, the cost of fixing roads and bridges for municipalities is likely to soar," Lyons said, adding that Ontario's road and bridge repair bill has been estimated at $3.8 billion a year.</p> <p> Ontario's Worst Roads in 2013</p> <p> <a href="http://toronto.ctvnews.ca/toronto-s-dufferin-street-worst-road-in-ontario-caa-survey-1.1330337">Last year</a>, Toronto's Dufferin Street was voted the worst road in Ontario. Four of the Top 10 'worst roads' were in Toronto.</p> <p> 1. Dufferin Street (Toronto)</p> <p> 2. Burlington Street East (Hamilton)</p> <p> 3. Finch Avenue West (Toronto)</p> <p> 4. Kraft Creek Road (Timmins)</p> <p> 5. Bayview Avenue (Toronto)</p> <p> 6. Lawrence Avenue East (Toronto)</p> <p> 7. Wharncliffe Road South (London)</p> <p> 8. Bouvier Road (Clarence-Rockland)</p> <p> 9. Carling Avenue (Ottawa)</p> <p> 10. Stanley Avenue (Niagara Falls)</p> <p> Do you know of a road in need of repair? Add your nomination to the comments section below, or tweet us (@CTVToronto) with photos or VINE videos.</p>
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<p> TORONTO -- Toronto FC manager Ryan Nelsen fears Brazilian midfielder Jackson could face a suspension for an off-the-ball incident on the weekend.</p> <p> Jackson was yellow-carded in the 50th minute for an apparent elbow as players jostled in the buildup to a free kick in Saturday's 1-0 win over D.C. United.</p> <p> Nelsen says the league is looking into the incident and suspects a ban may be coming.</p> <p> The TFC manager says D.C. United midfielder Davy Arnaud provoked the Brazilian, while acknowledging his player should not have retaliated.</p> <p> Toronto travels to Utah this weekend to play Real Salt Lake.</p>
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<p> The doors of city council's executive committee are open to the public today for a special meeting on the proposed expansion of Toronto's Island airport.</p> <p> The 13-member committee is hearing from dozens of concerned residents on the costs and benefits of extending the runways at <a href="https://www.torontoport.com/airport.aspx">Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport</a> (BBTCA) by 200 metres at each end to make room for passenger jets.</p> <p> After everyone has spoken, the committee will debate and vote on a staff report that would allow the city to negotiate with <a href="https://www.torontoport.com/home.aspx">Toronto Port Authority</a> (TPA) and <a href="http://www.tc.gc.ca/">Transport Canada</a>.</p> <p> Jet-powered planes are currently banned at the airport, but the city, TPA and Transport Canada are considering amending an agreement signed in 1983 to allow the use of Bombardier CS200 jets.</p> <p> If council agrees to go forward with the proposal, city staff will negotiate several conditions 鈥� including passenger volume and times of flights 鈥� before formally amending the agreement.</p> <p> City representatives say the <a href="https://www.flyporter.com/Flight?culture=en-CA">Porter Airlines</a>' extension proposal will not be considered until they're assured concerns of noise, traffic, curfew hours and environmental risks have been addressed.</p> <p> Porter has said that runway expansions would allow the airline to increase its services, which have grown from 26,000 passengers in 2006 to 2.3 million passengers in 2013.</p> <p> Last year, the airline signed a multi-billion-dollar deal to purchase up to 30 jets from Bombardier contingent on the runway expansion.</p> <p> Porter has argued that without extending the runways by 200 metres at each end, the island airport can only accommodate small turboprop engine planes.</p> <p> In January, Toronto Port Authority CEO Geoffrey Wilson told CTV Toronto that airplane noise restrictions would not change despite the expansion, and if a jet couldn’t meet the strict guidelines, it would not be permitted to fly.</p> <p> Nightly curfews would remain firmly set between 11 p.m. and 6:45 a.m., he said.</p> <p> Expanding the airport would also reduce boat movements, according to a statement issued Monday from public transportation advocacy group Transport Action Ontario.</p> <p> High-velocity blasts off the larger planes may be unsafe for small boats using the harbour, the statement said.</p> <p> The expansion might also impede development of large buildings in the Toronto Port Lands area.</p> <p> "In the worst case, introduction of jets at BBTCA could significantly curtail developments in the Port Lands worth billions of dollars,” the statement said.</p> <p> Mayor and deputy mayor supportive of expansion</p> <p> On Monday, <a href="http://toronto.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=312658&playlistId=1.1743361&binId=1.815892&playlistPageNum=1">Toronto Mayor Rob Ford</a> told CP24 that he would support the expansion.</p> <p> "I'm going to fight as hard as I can to get this through council," Ford said outside of his office at city hall.</p> <p> Ford said the expansion would create hundreds of jobs and bring in millions of dollars to the city's economy.</p> <p> Earlier on Monday, Deputy Mayor Norm Kelly weighed in on the costs and benefits of allowing jets to fly in and out of Toronto's island airport.</p> <p> The economic benefits of expanding BBTCA to make room for more flights and larger planes are "obvious to most people," Kelly told CP24.</p> <p> However, Kelly said he’s aware of the serious concerns expressed by members of the community, which will be addressed at Tuesday's meeting.</p> <p> “I take those concerns seriously," he said.</p> <p> With files from CTVNews.ca's Mariam Matti</p>
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<p> TORONTO -- Municipal Affairs and Housing Minister Linda Jeffrey is leaving provincial politics to run for mayor of Brampton, Ont., prompting another cabinet shuffle.</p> <p> Jeffrey said she was troubled by the spending controversies surrounding the current Mayor Susan Fennell, which include a sky-high salary and the approval of hundreds of millions of dollars for projects that weren't completed or started.</p> <p> But the provincial Liberals have spending scandals of their own, including pulling the plug on two unpopular gas plants, which will cost taxpayers up to $1 billion.</p> <p> Jeffrey stood by the cancellation of the plants, despite the extraordinary cost that will likely become political cannon fodder.</p> <p> "It was a difficult decision, but I'm focused on what's happening in Brampton," she said Tuesday.</p> <p> "Right now, I see some very troubling things that are being discovered on a daily, weekly basis. I think respect for taxpayers is an extraordinarily important quality and I plan to bring that to the job."</p> <p> Premier Kathleen Wynne is expected to announce her new cabinet Tuesday afternoon. She has six months to call a byelection in Jeffrey's riding of Brampton-Springdale, unless there's a general election.</p> <p> She noted that Jeffrey was the first woman elected to represent Brampton in provincial politics.</p> <p> "I will personally miss Linda," Wynne said in a statement. "She is a woman of integrity and honesty and I wish her all the very best in her next endeavours."</p> <p> Jeffrey said she's been lobbied to run for mayor of Brampton over the past year, with former Progressive Conservative premier Bill Davis -- who represented his hometown in the legislature -- being one of the most vocal proponent.</p> <p> But she said she's only been considering it seriously since January.</p> <p> Jeffrey, who was first elected in the Liberal sweep of 2003, has also held the portfolios of natural resources, labour and minister responsible for seniors.</p> <p> She was also the point person when it came to fielding questions about whether troubled Toronto Mayor Rob Ford should step aside after he confessed to smoking crack cocaine.</p> <p> Jeffrey is the latest Liberal to announce that she's calling it quits since Wynne took the top job just over a year ago.</p> <p> Laurel Broten quit last July, following her cabinet colleagues Margarett Best, Dwight Duncan, Greg Sorbara, Chris Bentley and former premier Dalton McGuinty. Backbencher Kim Craitor also stepped down.</p> <p> Joining the exodus are Government Services Minister John Milloy, Attorney General John Gerretsen, former cabinet ministers Rick Bartolucci, Harinder Takhar and Donna Cansfield, as well as MPP Phil McNeely, who have all said they don't plan to run for re-election.</p>
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<p> A new head coach and a new general manager will be joining the Saskatoon Blades next season.</p> <p> The team announced Tuesday that coach Dave Struch and long-serving general manager Lorne Molleken will not be returning for the 2014-15 season.</p> <p> “The Saskatoon Blades are embarking on a course that will change the face of the franchise,” a statement from the team said. “Lorne Molleken and the team have agreed to part ways and the contract for head coach Dave Struch is not being renewed.”</p> <p> Struch took over the Blades’ head coaching job this season after Molleken, who was previously both general manager and coach, gave up his coaching duties.</p> <p> The Blades finished third-last in the Western Hockey League with a 16-51-2-3 record this season under Struch.</p> <p> Struch, a former player with the Blades and former pro in Europe, was the squad’s assistant coach under Molleken for seven years before he earned the top spot this summer.</p> <p> Molleken coached the Blades for four seasons between 1991 and 1995 before pursuing short coaching stints with various American Hockey League and NHL teams, including the Chicago Blackhawks, San Jose Sharks and Pittsburgh Penguins.</p> <p> He rejoined the Blades as coach and general manager in the 2004-05 season.</p> <p> Molleken still had two years remaining on a three-year contract with the Blades.</p> <p> The Blades parted ways with assistant general manager Jarrod Brodsky earlier this season and assistant coach Curtis Leschyshyn announced a few weeks ago he’d be leaving the team to coach the Saskatoon Blazers, a Midget AAA squad.</p> <p> The team will host a press conference Tuesday at 1:30 p.m.</p>
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<p> TORONTO -- When skating star Elvis Stojko performs in "Chicago, the Musical" in Toronto this week, in the audience will be the person who first inspired his journey: his ailing dad, a classically trained tenor who taught him how to sing.</p> <p> Stojko says the 78-year-old has the onset of Alzheimer's disease and suffered a heart attack last year, but he'll be at the Princess of Wales Theatre on Wednesday to see his son -- a three-time world champion figure skater -- in his professional acting debut.</p> <p> "At least he'll have a chance to see that and be a part of it, which is really exciting for me because it was him that I started (singing) with when I was a kid and now I'm able to be on this stage," Stojko said in an interview on Tuesday.</p> <p> "I'm just lucky that he's still here and he's able to watch."</p> <p> Stojko plays manipulative lawyer Billy Flynn in the 1920s-era show that Mirvish Productions is running from Wednesday through Sunday.</p> <p> The two-time Olympic silver medallist from Richmond Hill, Ont., said he used Broadway "as a warmup" before coming to Toronto, doing "a two-week intensive rehearsal" and then eight nights of performances with the regular New York cast in the role last week.</p> <p> He learned some of the nuances of the character -- who's been played by many stars, including Richard Gere in the 2002 Oscar-winning film -- from Broadway cast member Brent Barrett.</p> <p> "I didn't want to play Richard Gere playing Billy Flynn or Billy Zane playing Billy Flynn," said Stojko. "I needed to find myself in that darker side of the character."</p> <p> Audience members who saw Stojko perform the role on Broadway included American figure skating Olympic gold medallist Sarah Hughes, who attended with one of the producers.</p> <p> "I wasn't nervous that they were there, but the first night was pretty intense," said Stojko, who lives in Mexico. "I was standing in the back where I walk up the stage, and boom -- the lights hit and I have to be on, like full energy, I have to take that stage, and my heart was pounding really hard and I was just focused on lines and flow and all of this.</p> <p> "Once I got up there and hit the pose and went through, I started to settle in each scene."</p> <p> "I remember Sarah, after the first show, she was just like, 'Oh my God, how did you know the lines? I didn't know you could sing!"' he added.</p> <p> "It was really cool because it was a chance for me to share with people another side of myself."</p> <p> In Toronto, Stojko will perform with the touring cast, which includes Bianca Marroquin as Roxie Hart, a housewife and nightclub dancer who kills her lover when he threatens to leave her. Terra C. MacLeod plays her cellmate, Velma Kelly, and Carol Woods plays Matron (Mama) Morton.</p> <p> "It feels good. My old stomping grounds. I used to live about 20 minutes north of here," he said in a downtown hotel restaurant.</p> <p> "It's great to be able to come home and do this."</p> <p> After all, home is where Stojko developed a passion for singing from his Toronto-based father, who belted out tunes in the Slovenian church they attended and around the house.</p> <p> Stojko went on to perform in annual plays at his private school and took singing lessons from soprano Denise Daniels. That led to his role as Vince Fontaine in a 2004 production of "Grease" in Toronto and Hamilton, and his own album release in 2009.</p> <p> "I don't have as much experience as some of the people who've been (in 'Chicago')," said the seven-time Canadian national figure skating champion, who has retired from the amateur level but still occasionally performs on ice.</p> <p> "But one thing I do have is the fact that I learn quickly, a good work ethic and I have a good ear for music."</p> <p> Stojko -- who also races go-karts -- said his wife, mother, racing coach, mechanic and skating friends also plan to see him perform in the show this week.</p> <p> And once it's all over, he'd like to do it again later in the year in Toronto and New York.</p> <p> "I'd like to do that and obviously other projects too," said Stojko. "But to really play this character and really settle in would be even nicer ... and then that learning experience I could take anywhere, whether it be film or TV."</p>
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<p> Over an extraordinary 17 days and nights, until the moment Malaysia's prime minister stepped to a lectern to deliver investigators' sobering new findings, the fate of vanished Flight 370 hung on morbid conjecture and fragile hope.</p> <p> Many previous tragedies have transfixed us by revealing their power in cruel detail. But the disappearance of the Beijing-bound Boeing 777 without warning or explanation captivated imaginations around the world in no small part because of the near vacuum of firm information or solid leads.</p> <p> Nothing solid, that is, until late Monday night, when Prime Minister Najib Razak announced that an analysis of the plane's last-known signals to a satellite showed that it went down somewhere in the desolate waters of the southern Indian Ocean -- and that all on board perished.</p> <p> It was a turning point of sorts in one of the most perplexing mysteries of modern times. Najib's statement offered some resolution -- the plane has surely crashed -- but little else. No one has found the plane, or the passengers, or the answer to why all this happened in the first place. And solving those riddles involves a search that looms dauntingly across a vast expanse of unforgiving ocean at the bottom of the earth.</p> <p> The puzzle of Flight 370 has been complicated by a frustrating lack of hard facts since it vanished on a night flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8. Who could say what might have happened in the cockpit or the cabin -- or who or what was responsible? Who knew where the plane had gone -- up or down, north or south -- or what had become of its 239 passengers and crew?</p> <p> Hungry for answers, officials and investigators, relatives and reporters focused their questions fruitlessly on the two Iranian passengers who boarded the plane with stolen passports; then on the oil slicks in the Gulf of Thailand; then on the rumours that a Uighur passenger might have harboured anti-Chinese motives; then on the pilot's home flight simulator.</p> <p> The reluctance of Malaysian officials to reveal what they knew and sometimes to offer conflicting information only seemed to feed the doubts, even after many of the nefarious scenarios suggested early on were dismissed. And with limited evidence and not even a bit of confirmed wreckage, everyone from experts on aviation and terrorism to armchair travellers was left to speculate.</p> <p> It may have been hard to take rocker Courtney Love seriously when she posted a photo on Facebook showing an oil slick off the coast of Malaysia and suggested that it revealed the location of the missing plane. But when a fake news story showed up online supposedly quoting Sarah Palin as saying she believed the plane had flown directly to heaven, its plausibility hinged not on the former Alaska governor, but on the fact that just about anybody could and seemingly did have an opinion on the flight's fate.</p> <p> That's probably because most people felt connected to it and, therefore, invested in it. As Australia's opposition leader Bill Shorten put it, "There is something about a plane disappearing which links all the citizens of the globe. These people who disappeared on this flight could be any of us."</p> <p> While many of the theories presented were well-informed speculation based on deep experience and thoughtful analysis, they all had one flaw or another, and could not dispel the void. With so little to go on, families of those aboard grasped at the clouds of uncertainty, which allowed them to maintain a sense, however shaky, that that the plane might possibly be found intact, their relatives found alive.</p> <p> "Dearest love, I hope you are able to get some rest where you are, and that they are feeding you," Sarah Bajc wrote last week in a Facebook post to her boyfriend, Philip Wood, a native of Texas who was on board. "Any chance they include a glass of wine with dinner?"</p> <p> It was one of a heartbreaking string of love notes she sent out into the electronic ether, as she clung to the hope that her partner was still alive. A few days later: "Hi baby, It has been a lazy Sunday here. I cannot imagine what you must be going through." Later still: "Good morning baby, how are you holding up? I'm doing my best to bring you hope and courage to continue the fight."</p> <p> And fight the families did -- for any scrap of information that might reveal their loved ones' fate. Gut-wrenching grief, frustration and, eventually, rage bubbled over among some of the family members, who accused the Malaysian government of withholding information. Before a news briefing in Kuala Lumpur, two Chinese relatives of passengers held up a banner demanding the truth.</p> <p> "I want to see my son!" one of the women cried, before being carried away by security as she wept and screamed.</p> <p> And then, at last, came a break -- or at least, what seemed like one. On March 20, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott stunned the world when he stood up during what had been a routine session of parliament, slipped on his glasses and began to read from a statement:</p> <p> "New and credible information has come to light in relation to the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in the southern Indian Ocean," he began. "The Australian Maritime Safety Authority has received information based on satellite imagery of objects possibly related to the search."</p> <p> The objects -- two blurry, whitish blobs captured in a satellite image -- were located in a patch of the Indian Ocean, near absolutely nothing. The closest major body of land was Australia's west coast, 2,500 kilometres (1,550 miles) away.</p> <p> The hunt was on in earnest. Military planes from Australia, the U.S. and New Zealand had already been searching the area and more planes from China and Japan were sent to help, while an Australian navy supply ship, the HMAS Success, scoured the waters, some of the roughest and remotest in the world.</p> <p> More potential clues began popping up: A civil aircraft taking part in the search on Saturday spotted several small objects floating in the water, including a wooden pallet surrounded by straps. Could it have been from the aircraft? Malaysia Airlines confirmed the flight did, indeed, have wooden pallets on board. But pallets are also commonly used in the shipping industry. A New Zealand military aircraft tried to find the objects for closer inspection, but found only clumps of seaweed.</p> <p> The sense that searchers were getting close grew when more satellite data emerged; China announced it had captured a large object within the search zone on one of its satellites, and France said it had satellite data that may have identified debris from the missing plane.</p> <p> More objects of potential interest were spotted by the search planes crisscrossing the skies: a grey or green circular object and an orange rectangular object. A white, square object glimpsed through a break in the clouds.</p> <p> The U.S. sent a Towed Pinger Locator to the region in case a debris field was found, in the hopes it could locate the plane's so-called black box. An Australian navy support vessel, the Ocean Shield, equipped with acoustic detection equipment, was also moving into the search zone.</p> <p> But except for analysts' fresh conclusion based on satellite data that the flight had gone down, there are still no hard answers. And finding the jet remains far from a certainty.</p> <p> For Bajc, the woman who has all along refused to give up hope that her boyfriend is still alive, Malaysia's fatalist announcement offered little resolution.</p> <p> "I need closure to be certain but cannot keep on with public efforts against all odds," she wrote in an email. "I STILL feel his presence, so perhaps it was his soul all along."</p> <p> Associated Press writer Aritz Parra in Beijing contributed to this report.</p>
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<p> THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- With no sign of Russia abandoning the Crimean Peninsula, President Barack Obama said Tuesday he's concerned that Moscow will move deeper into Ukraine and warned Russian President Vladimir Putin that the international community is prepared to impose punishing sanctions against his country's economy.</p> <p> Obama stood fast on his insistence that Crimea remains a part of Ukraine, even as the fledgling Ukrainian government in Kyiv ordered its troops to pull back from the disputed territory. He dismissed Russia as a "regional power" that was acting from a position of weakness.</p> <p> "We're not recognizing what is happening in Crimea," Obama said at his first news conference since Russia moved to annex Crimea after a referendum 10 days ago. Obama rejected "the notion that a referendum sloppily organized over the course of two weeks" would "somehow be a valid process."</p> <p> Obama said that while the Russia's military controls Crimea, its acquisition of the Black Sea peninsula is "not a done deal" without international recognition. But he also said, "It would be dishonest to suggest there is a simple solution to what has already taken place in Crimea."</p> <p> "We also are concerned about further encroachment by Russia into Ukraine," Obama said, as he took questions in a joint appearance with his host, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte.</p> <p> "I think that will be a bad choice for President Putin to make," Obama said. "But ultimately he is the president of Russia, and he's the one who's going to be making that decision."</p> <p> Obama was pursuing efforts to pressure Russia out of its aggressive pose as world leaders met for an international Nuclear Security Summit. But to the east, the Russian annexation of Crimea was beginning to take root and Moscow shrugged off Obama's drive to leave Putin in the cold.</p> <p> Rutte said he could not envision the crisis over Ukraine ending in a military conflict. "I don't think that is likely. I don't think anybody wants it," the Dutch prime minister said as he stood next to Obama.</p> <p> Rutte added that the West retains the option to impose more sanctions on Russia if the standoff escalates, and he said that "these sanctions would hit Russia very badly."</p> <p> "And obviously, you can never guarantee that the people in Europe, in Canada, in the U.S. would not be hurt," the prime minister said. "But obviously, we will make sure that we will design these sanctions in such a way that they will have maximum impact on the Russian economy and not on the European, the Canadian, the Japanese or the American economy."</p> <p> Obama also said he was concerned about Russia's troop build-up along the Ukrainian border. "We oppose what appears to be an effort at intimidation," Obama said. "But Russia has a right legally to have its troops on its own soil."</p> <p> Asked whether in hindsight he agrees with Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney's assessment that Russia is the United States' top geopolitical foe, Obama said he is more concerned about a nuclear bomb in Manhattan than he is about Russia's actions threatening national security.</p> <p> "America's got a whole lot of challenges," Obama said. "Russia is a regional power that is threatening some of its immediate neighbours, not out of strength but out of weakness."</p> <p> The U.S. and some of its closest allies cut Russia out indefinitely from an exclusive coalition of leading industrial nations and cancelled a summer summit Russia was to host in its Olympic village of Sochi. Obama also sought to win backing from other foreign leaders in hopes of ostracizing or even shaming Putin into reversing his acquisition of Crimea and backing away from any designs he might have on other Eastern Europe territory.</p> <p> In a strongly worded joint statement, the United States, France, Canada, Britain, Germany, Italy and Japan denounced a referendum in Crimea to secede from Ukraine and Russia's ensuing annexation. In so doing, the seven leaders also effectively excluded Russia from what had been a two-decade-old coalition known as the Group of Eight.</p> <p> "This clear violation of international law is a serious challenge to the rule of law around the world and should be a concern for all nations," the declaration said.</p> <p> Still, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov shrugged off the international gestures.</p> <p> "The G-8 is an informal club," he said. "It has no membership tickets, and it can't purge anyone by definition."</p> <p> In an addition to his public schedule, Obama sat down with Putin ally President Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan. As Obama and Nazarbayev wrapped up their meeting, the White House released a joint statement from Obama and Nazarbayev that did not address the Ukraine situation, but focused instead on bilateral co-operation on nuclear security -- the theme of concurrent summit serving as the official purpose for Obama's visit to the Netherlands.</p> <p> Obama praised action at the summit, including new commitments by Japan, Italy and Belgium to reduce their stocks of nuclear materials. He said the next summit, in 2016, will be held in the U.S.</p> <p> Later Tuesday, Obama met with Prince Mohamed bin Zayed, crown prince of Abu Dhabi, the richest emirate in the United Arab Emirates federation. He was also scheduled to meet jointly with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and South Korean President Park Geun-hye.</p> <p> Both those meetings centred less on Ukraine and more on regional tensions in the Middle East and northern Asia. The visit with the crown prince served as precursor to Obama's on Friday visit to Saudi Arabia, where he will meet with King Abdullah to address Arab anxieties over the Syrian civil war and U.S. nuclear talks with Iran, a Saudi rival in the region.</p> <p> The meeting with Park and Abe brings together two U.S. Asian allies who have been quarreling over rekindled memories of Japan's aggression in World War II. It will be the first meeting between the two Asian leaders since they took office more than a year ago.</p>
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<p> ARLINGTON, Wash. -- A scientist working for the government had warned 15 years ago about the potential for a catastrophic landslide in the fishing village where the collapse of a rain-soaked hillside over the weekend killed at least 14 people and left scores missing.</p> <p> As rescue workers slogged through the muck and rain in search of victims Tuesday, word of the 1999 report raised questions about why residents were allowed to build homes on the hill and whether officials had taken proper precautions.</p> <p> "I knew it would fail catastrophically in a large magnitude event," though not when it would happen, said Daniel Miller, a geomorphologist who was hired by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to do the study. "I was not surprised."</p> <p> Patricia Graesser, a spokeswoman for the Army Corps in Seattle, said it appears that the report was intended not as a risk assessment, but as a feasibility study for ecosystem restoration.</p> <p> Asked whether the agency should have done anything with the information, she said: "We don't have jurisdiction to do anything. We don't do zoning. That's a local responsibility."</p> <p> Snohomish County officials and authorities in the devastated village of Oso said that they were not aware of the study but that residents and town officials knew the risks of living in the area.</p> <p> In fact, the area has long been known as the "Hazel Landslide" because of landslides over the past half-century. The last severe one before Saturday's disaster was in 2006.</p> <p> "A slide of this magnitude is very difficult to predict," county Public Works Director Steve Thomsen told The Seattle Times, which first reported on Miller's analysis. "There was no indication, no indication at all."</p> <p> No landslide warnings for the area were issued before the disaster, which came after weeks of heavy rain. The rushing wall of quicksand-like mud, trees and other debris flattened about two dozen homes and critically injured several people.</p> <p> "One of the things this tragedy should teach us is the need to get better information about geologic hazards out to the general public," said David Montgomery, a geomorphologist with the University of Washington in Seattle. "Where are the potentially unstable slopes? How big a risk do they pose? And what should be done to let homeowners know about that?"</p> <p> Meanwhile, searchers continued to pick through the debris, warning they were likely to find more bodies. Authorities were working off a list of 176 people unaccounted for, though some names were believed to be duplicates.</p> <p> The threat of flash floods or another landslide loomed over the rescuers.</p> <p> Near the southern perimeter of the slide, volunteers from a logging crew gathered to help move debris with chainsaws, excavators and other heavy equipment.</p> <p> Gene Karger said he could see six orange flags in the debris field, marking bodies they would be pulling out. Karger, a logger most of his life, said it was the first time he was involved in this kind of rescue work.</p> <p> "You see parts of their bodies sticking out of the mud. It's real hard. It's that bad," Karger said. "There are people out there we know."</p> <p> In his report, Miller said that the soil on the steep slope lacked any binding agent that would make it more secure, and that the underlying layers of silt and sand could give way in a "large catastrophic failure."</p> <p> But he also cautioned: "I currently have no basis for estimating the probable rate or timing of future landslide activity."</p> <p> In an interview Tuesday, Miller noted there are hundreds of similar landslides in Washington state each year, and this particular river valley has had three very large slides in the last three decades.</p> <p> Predicting landslides is difficult, so much so that damage from them is excluded from private insurance policies, according to a study published by the U.S. Geological Survey in 2012. One challenge is estimating the probability of a slide in any particular place.</p> <p> One of the authors of the USGS report, Jonathan Godt, a research scientist with the agency in Colorado, said landslides don't get that much attention because they often happen in places where they don't hit anything.</p> <p> But with Americans building homes deeper into the wilderness, he said, "there are more people in the way."</p> <p> Le reported from Seattle. Associated Press writers Jason Dearen in San Francisco and P. Solomon Banda in Darrington, Wash., as well as photographer Elaine Thompson in Oso, Wash., contributed to this report. Researcher Rhonda Shafner contributed from New York.</p>
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<p> THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- The Conservative government intends to respect the Supreme Court's decision to deny Marc Nadon the chance to occupy the vacant Quebec seat on the high court bench, says Prime Minister Stephen Harper.</p> <p> But the government is still reviewing the decision about Nadon's eligibility, which Harper admitted Tuesday left him "very surprised."</p> <p> "What I can tell you is this: we're obviously going to respect the decision," Harper told a news conference following the conclusion of the two-day Nuclear Security Summit in The Hague.</p> <p> "We'll respect not just the letter of the decision. We will respect the spirit of the decision as well."</p> <p> The Supreme Court concluded that Nadon, a semi-retired Federal Court of Appeal judge, does not meet the specific eligibility requirements for a Quebec seat on the bench as spelled out in the Supreme Court Act.</p> <p> The high court also says the government needs a constitutional amendment to change the criteria for judges on the top court.</p> <p> The government expected the Supreme Court to find in its favour, because the possibility of a rejection had been characterized by the experts it consulted as "very hypothetical."</p> <p> "We had commissioned expert opinion on it which was completely contrary to the decision," Harper said.</p> <p> "But, look, that said, that's the decision. We're still examining the decision. We haven't taken a decision on who the candidate will be. We haven't even taken a decision on taking a decision on the process."</p> <p> On Monday, Justice Minister Peter MacKay told the House of Commons there are a number of qualified Quebec candidates who could be appointed to the Supreme Court. But he stopped short of ruling Nadon out entirely.</p> <p> That left opposition MPs expressing concern that the government would continue to push for Nadon's appointment.</p> <p> When the government originally sought a legal opinion last summer on Nadon's eligibility, it asked retired Supreme Court judge Ian Binnie two questions: whether Nadon was eligible as a Federal Court judge and, if he was not, whether he could simply be readmitted to the Quebec bar for a day to become eligible.</p> <p> Binnie opined that Nadon was eligible for appointment as a member of the Federal Court of Appeal, then declined to answer the second question.</p> <p> Binnie wrote that "any hypothesis that requires of a person who starts the week as a Federal Court judge to rejoin the Quebec bar mid-week for a day or two in order to 'qualify' for appointment to the Supreme Court by the end of the week makes no sense."</p> <p> "Such a two-step expedient," Binnie added, "is neither required nor compatible with the dignity of the office being filled, in my opinion."</p>
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<p> MONTREAL -- Quebec provincial police are confirming they have wrapped up their investigation into the deadly train disaster in Lac-Megantic last summer.</p> <p> The crash and explosion killed 47 people and destroyed a large swath of the downtown area.</p> <p> The runaway train belonging to the Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway rolled into town carrying volatile crude oil, derailed and exploded in the wee hours of July 6.</p> <p> Police spokeswoman Aurelie Guindon says the investigation was officially completed on Saturday and the case is now in the hands of the province's director of criminal and penal prosecutions.</p> <p> Neither the Crown nor police would discuss the results of the probe.</p> <p> Police said last summer their investigation would focus on the possibility of criminal negligence.</p> <p> A spokesman for the Crown's office said the file is in the hands of a team of prosecutors, who have been working with police since the beginning.</p> <p> Crown spokesman Jean-Pascal Boucher said his office will leave it to the prosecutors to review the file and that there is no timetable for potential charges.</p>
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<p> Toronto Maple Leafs goalie James Reimer called the behaviour of some angry Twitter fans "disappointing" after his wife became the target of an online attack following his team's fifth straight loss over the weekend.</p> <p> <a href="http://www.ctvnews.ca/sports/fifth-straight-loss-as-leafs-fall-to-devils-3-2-1.1742733">The Leafs fell to the New Jersey Devils </a>3-2 on Sunday, and some fans took to Twitter to vent their frustration with both the team's losing streak and Reimer’s goaltending performance.</p> <p> The goalie's wife, April, became the target presumably because her husband does not have a Twitter account. Some of the tweets were lighthearted, while others were quite offensive in nature.</p> <p> "There's a lot of great fans out there and unfortunately a few of the obnoxious ones... sometimes their voice gets heard," <a href="http://toronto.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=313098&playlistId=1.1745107&binId=1.815892&playlistPageNum=1">Reimer told the media </a>after Tuesday morning practice.</p> <p> However, he said the experience had a positive side: "For every unfortunate tweet, I think there was 10 or 20 people sticking up for her or me."</p> <p> On Sunday night, his wife tweeted her gratitude: "Thankfully the voices of many drown out the voices of a few. Thank you if you wrote me a kind tweet :)"</p> <p> Reimer was pulled from the net 22 minutes into the Sunday night game against the New Jersey Devils after allowing three goals out of 10 shots.</p> <p> He's has been filling in as the Leafs goaltender while <a href="http://toronto.ctvnews.ca/bernier-s-status-unclear-as-struggling-leafs-prepare-to-face-blues-1.1745436">Jonathan Bernier has been out with a groin injury</a>.</p> <p> The Leafs are barely hanging onto a playoff spot with goaltending and other factors at play.</p> <p> </p> [ <a href="https://storify.com/CTVToronto/fans-attack-james-reimer-s-wife-on-twitter">View the story "Fans attack James Reimer's wife on Twitter " on Storify</a>]
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<p> Students who only smoke marijuana do better at school than classmates who smoke just tobacco, or who smoke both tobacco and pot, says a new study, which tracked substance use among teens over 30 years.</p> <p> Researchers from the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health analyzed data from a survey administered to nearly 39,000 Ontario students between 1981 and 2011. The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health asked students in Grades 7, 9 and 11 about their tobacco and marijuana use, and their academic performance.</p> <p> The study found that marijuana-only users did better at school than their counterparts who smoked only cigarettes or who smoked both cigarettes and marijuana. However, the findings reflect the fact that fewer students smoke tobacco today compared to 30 years ago, and those that do make up a very “marginalized, vulnerable” population, says lead study author Michael Chaiton, assistant professor in epidemiology and public health policy.</p> <p> About 92 per cent of tobacco users also use marijuana, the study found. However, only 25 per cent of marijuana uses also smoke tobacco.</p> <p> “It’s better relatively,” Chaiton says of marijuana-only users’ academic performance.</p> <p> Marijuana users don’t outperform non-users, Chaiton says.</p> <p> “Now there is a distinction between marijuana use and co-use with other substances, and it’s an indication of the changing social norms. So it’s not an absolute that they do better; it’s that social norms have changed and the population of people who use marijuana are more like the general population.”</p> <p> The study was published in the March edition of the Journal of School Health.</p> <p> In the 1980s, when the study began, there was less marijuana use among students. And those who did smoke pot also smoked tobacco. At the time, pot use among tobacco smokers was very low.</p> <p> Thirty years later, that had switched, the researchers found. As tobacco use declined, marijuana use shot up. And among the remaining tobacco users, marijuana use is now very high.</p> <p> One reason for the statistical switch, Chaiton says, is the effectiveness of anti-tobacco messaging in recent years.</p> <p> “The population of youth smokers right now is one that is a fairly marginalized population, quite a vulnerable population, so they are at high rates of cannabis use but also of other drugs and other behaviours,” Chaiton says. “So the change in trends is that this is a social phenomenon. This is not that tobacco is causing this, it is something that has changed socially in the role of tobacco in society.”</p> <p> Now that marijuana smoking has become more of a social norm, Chaiton says, programs aimed at keeping youth from risky behaviours such as drug abuse must take into account two factors: that more students now smoke marijuana compared to 30 years ago, and that students who smoke tobacco are more likely to use marijuana or other drugs and engage in at-risk behaviours such as vandalism and theft.</p> <p> As marijuana use becomes more prevalent and socially acceptable, Chaiton says, the focus must turn to developing programs for youth that properly educate them on the risks.</p> <p> Tobacco and marijuana are “similar drugs in many different ways,” Chaiton notes, and “people dramatically underestimate the risks associated with cannabis use, particularly among youth.”</p> <p> “I would argue that we need to start talking about them in the same way and start addressing them in the same types of interventions,” he says, particularly given the growing public discussions about decriminalizing or legalizing marijuana.</p> <p> “If we do legalize or change the regulations in dramatic ways, that does change the social environment again and that can, as we’ve seen a number of times, cause big shifts in youth and we could see another big shift in marijuana use among youth.”</p>
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<p> It took just 2 1/2 minutes for a combination of human and technical mistakes to turn a passenger and supply flight into a remote Arctic community from routine to calamitous.</p> <p> A Transportation Safety Board report into the crash of First Air Flight 6560 blames an undetected autopilot change, a faulty compass reading and disagreement between the pilots about whether to abort the landing.</p> <p> "This accident was the product of a complex series of events, all of them lining up together," lead investigator Brian MacDonald said Tuesday as the report was released. "But what ultimately tied all these things together was that as the flight progressed each pilot developed a different understanding of the situation and they were unable to reconcile that difference."</p> <p> The crash at the Resolute airport Aug. 20, 2011, killed eight passengers and four crew members. Three passengers miraculously survived.</p> <p> In cool, technical language the board's report provides a second-by-second breakdown of what probably happened in the cockpit as the pilots crashed the Boeing 737 into a hillside more than a kilometre from the runway.</p> <p> Problems began because on-board compasses were incorrectly adjusted by 17 degrees. That error was compounded when the captain turned into the final approach and unwittingly changed the operational mode of the plane's autopilot. Busy with the landing checklist, in weather obscured by cloud, mist and light rain, neither he nor the co-pilot picked up the change.</p> <p> "This incongruency would have negatively affected the pilots' situational awareness and increased their workload as they attempted to understand and resolve this ambiguity," the report says.</p> <p> Within seconds after that final turn, co-pilot David Hare realized the plane was off course and repeatedly told the pilot, reminding him about the large hill to the right of the runway. Pilot Blair Rutherford replied that the autopilot was working fine.</p> <p> Puzzled as to why the plane's navigational instruments weren't lining up with ground-based systems, Hare asked if they'd done something wrong. Five seconds later, he suggested they pull up and go around for another approach.</p> <p> Rutherford, fully focused on landing the plane and on figuring out why his instruments were giving confusing readings, refused.</p> <p> "It is likely that the captain did not fully comprehend information that indicated that his original plan was no longer viable," says the report.</p> <p> Less than 10 seconds after first suggesting they pull up, Hare asked again, pointing out that the plane wasn't configured for a landing so close to the landing strip. The report suggests Rutherford is likely to have understood the remark as a request to prepared the plane for landing.</p> <p> Cockpit communication had broken down.</p> <p> "The captain's mental model was likely that the approach and landing could be salvaged, and the (co-pilot's) mental model was almost certainly that there was significant risk to the safety of flight and that a go-around was required. These divergent mental models compromised the pilots' ability to communicate and work together."</p> <p> Four seconds after his second request to pull up, Hare asked Rutherford to bank to the left. Their navigational confusion was evident when Hare confused the shoreline of a small lake with the seashore.</p> <p> Just under a minute after that, Hare said: "Blair, I don't like this."</p> <p> Almost immediately after, the plane's ground position systems began to sound alarms. About 160 seconds after making the final turn, Rutherford tried to pull up and go around.</p> <p> "There was insufficient altitude and time to execute the manoeuvre and avoid collision with terrain."</p> <p> The plane smashed into the hill and broke into three main pieces. Debris was strewn around the tundra.</p> <p> Resolute residents and soldiers from a military exercise that happened to be underway nearby rushed to the scene to try to pull survivors from the flaming wreckage.</p> <p> Within minutes, rescue crews and fire trucks were dispatched. Coast Guard and military helicopters arrived on the scene. Those not rescuing survivors or recovering casualties worked frantically to douse a fire from a fuel leak.</p> <p> Military medical teams and equipment that had arrived shortly before the crash were pressed into service. The injured were stabilized in a field hospital and flown to Iqaluit.</p> <p> The board has recommended that First Air revise its procedures to ensure pilots can communicate clearly and directly. It also said the carrier should be clearer about what types of compasses are to be used in which situations.</p> <p> The report said First Air has taken those actions, including a new rule that any crew member can order a go-around simply by saying "Go around."</p> <p> Several lawsuits have been filed over the disaster. The suits cast partial blame on the Canadian Forces, which had taken control over the small airport on the day of the crash.</p> <p> The transportation board said the military's presence was not a contributing factor in the crash.</p> <p> The military had established a temporary air traffic control tower to guide in all planes. The airport was normally an uncontrolled airspace and pilots navigated themselves onto the runway.</p> <p> The suits claim the military did not have enough people on duty to handle the air traffic and those working the tower were not briefed or properly trained to navigate civilian planes.</p> <p> None of the allegations has been proven in court. Statements of defence were not immediately available.</p> <p> The chartered plane was on a regular run from Yellowknife to Resolute. There were scientists on the plane along with staff heading back to work at a local inn and the inn owner's two young granddaughters. There was also a load of food.</p>
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<p> LOS ANGELES -- A man accused of saying he is married to Taylor Swift and threatening to harm her family was ordered Tuesday to stay away from the Grammy-winning singer for three years.</p> <p> Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Carol Boas Goodson granted Swift a restraining order against Timothy Sweet.</p> <p> Court filings by Swift state that Sweet has sent messages threatening to harm the entertainer's family or anyone who interferes with his perceived relationship with her. The singer wrote in a sworn declaration that she fears for her safety in public and at home.</p> <p> "Mr. Sweet's course of conduct, including threats to harm my family, are seriously alarming and harassing and are extremely distressing to me and my family," Swift wrote in a sworn declaration filed March 3.</p> <p> Sweet has also gone to the singer's homes in Beverly Hills and Nashville, the filings state.</p> <p> Sweet did not attend Tuesday's hearing and did not respond to the singer's restraining order petition, which included several online messages that were attributed to Sweet.</p> <p> "Dearest Taylor, I'll kill any man who gets in the way of our marriage," one of the messages stated, according to the filing.</p> <p> Sweet has not been charged in Los Angeles with making threats, court records show.</p> <p> The restraining order covers Swift's parents, her homes and places where she works in Los Angeles and Nashville.</p>
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<p> The number of surgeries performed at the Pasqua Hospital is expected to return to normal next Monday after dozens of procedures were postponed due to sterilization issues.</p> <p> The announcement comes after two U.S.-based consultants reviewed the sterilization process to determine why rust-coloured stains were appearing in surgical instrument packs at the Regina hospital.</p> <p> The stains are mainly linked to the level of moisture in the steam used to sterilize the surgical tools, said Regina Qu’Appelle Health Region president and CEO Keith Dewar.</p> <p> “The wetness of the steam is the fundamental issue here,” Dewar said at a news conference Tuesday.</p> <p> “Steam is steam, you would think, but there is actually a moisture content in steam and if it gets below a certain amount it actually does provide an opportunity for some of the dissolved solids in the steam to actually sit in the packs a bit longer and thus, stay there when it dries to become a stain.”</p> <p> The consultants made several recommendations that will be implemented within the next two weeks, Dewar said.</p> <p> Currently, the Pasqua Hospital is operating at around 80 per cent surgical capacity. A total of 177 surgeries and 34 procedures have been postponed since the service disruption began late last month.</p>
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<p> It took just 2 1/2 minutes for a combination of human and technical mistakes to turn a passenger and supply flight into a remote Arctic community from routine to calamitous.</p> <p> A Transportation Safety Board report into the crash of First Air Flight 6560 blames an undetected autopilot change, a faulty compass reading and disagreement between the pilots about whether to abort the landing.</p> <p> "This accident was the product of a complex series of events, all of them lining up together," lead investigator Brian MacDonald said Tuesday as the report was released. "But what ultimately tied all these things together was that as the flight progressed each pilot developed a different understanding of the situation and they were unable to reconcile that difference."</p> <p> The crash at the Resolute airport Aug. 20, 2011, killed eight passengers and four crew members. Three passengers miraculously survived.</p> <p> In cool, technical language the board's report provides a second-by-second breakdown of what probably happened in the cockpit as the pilots crashed the Boeing 737 into a hillside more than a kilometre from the runway.</p> <p> Problems began because on-board compasses were incorrectly adjusted by 17 degrees. That error was compounded when the captain turned into the final approach and unwittingly changed the operational mode of the plane's autopilot. Busy with the landing checklist, in weather obscured by cloud, mist and light rain, neither he nor the co-pilot picked up the change.</p> <p> "This incongruency would have negatively affected the pilots' situational awareness and increased their workload as they attempted to understand and resolve this ambiguity," the report says.</p> <p> Within seconds after that final turn, co-pilot David Hare realized the plane was off course and repeatedly told the pilot, reminding him about the large hill to the right of the runway. Pilot Blair Rutherford replied that the autopilot was working fine.</p> <p> Puzzled as to why the plane's navigational instruments weren't lining up with ground-based systems, Hare asked if they'd done something wrong. Five seconds later, he suggested they pull up and go around for another approach.</p> <p> Rutherford, fully focused on landing the plane and on figuring out why his instruments were giving confusing readings, refused.</p> <p> "It is likely that the captain did not fully comprehend information that indicated that his original plan was no longer viable," says the report.</p> <p> Less than 10 seconds after first suggesting they pull up, Hare asked again, pointing out that the plane wasn't configured for a landing so close to the landing strip. The report suggests Rutherford is likely to have understood the remark as a request to prepared the plane for landing.</p> <p> Cockpit communication had broken down.</p> <p> "The captain's mental model was likely that the approach and landing could be salvaged, and the (co-pilot's) mental model was almost certainly that there was significant risk to the safety of flight and that a go-around was required. These divergent mental models compromised the pilots' ability to communicate and work together."</p> <p> Four seconds after his second request to pull up, Hare asked Rutherford to bank to the left. Their navigational confusion was evident when Hare confused the shoreline of a small lake with the seashore.</p> <p> Just under a minute after that, Hare said: "Blair, I don't like this."</p> <p> Almost immediately after, the plane's ground position systems began to sound alarms. About 160 seconds after making the final turn, Rutherford tried to pull up and go around.</p> <p> "There was insufficient altitude and time to execute the manoeuvre and avoid collision with terrain."</p> <p> The plane smashed into the hill and broke into three main pieces. Debris was strewn around the tundra.</p> <p> Resolute residents and soldiers from a military exercise that happened to be underway nearby rushed to the scene to try to pull survivors from the flaming wreckage.</p> <p> Within minutes, rescue crews and fire trucks were dispatched. Coast Guard and military helicopters arrived on the scene. Those not rescuing survivors or recovering casualties worked frantically to douse a fire from a fuel leak.</p> <p> Military medical teams and equipment that had arrived shortly before the crash were pressed into service. The injured were stabilized in a field hospital and flown to Iqaluit.</p> <p> The board has recommended that First Air revise its procedures to ensure pilots can communicate clearly and directly. It also said the carrier should be clearer about what types of compasses are to be used in which situations.</p> <p> The report said First Air has taken those actions, including a new rule that any crew member can order a go-around simply by saying "Go around."</p> <p> Several lawsuits have been filed over the disaster. The suits cast partial blame on the Canadian Forces, which had taken control over the small airport on the day of the crash.</p> <p> The transportation board said the military's presence was not a contributing factor in the crash.</p> <p> The military had established a temporary air traffic control tower to guide in all planes. The airport was normally an uncontrolled airspace and pilots navigated themselves onto the runway.</p> <p> The suits claim the military did not have enough people on duty to handle the air traffic and those working the tower were not briefed or properly trained to navigate civilian planes.</p> <p> None of the allegations has been proven in court. Statements of defence were not immediately available.</p> <p> The chartered plane was on a regular run from Yellowknife to Resolute. There were scientists on the plane along with staff heading back to work at a local inn and the inn owner's two young granddaughters. There was also a load of food.</p>
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<p> Over an extraordinary 17 days and nights, until the moment Malaysia's prime minister stepped to a lectern to deliver investigators' sobering new findings, the fate of vanished Flight 370 hung on morbid conjecture and fragile hope.</p> <p> Many previous tragedies have transfixed us by revealing their power in cruel detail. But the disappearance of the Beijing-bound Boeing 777 without warning or explanation captivated imaginations around the world in no small part because of the near vacuum of firm information or solid leads.</p> <p> Nothing solid, that is, until late Monday night, when Prime Minister Najib Razak announced that an analysis of the plane's last-known signals to a satellite showed that it went down somewhere in the desolate waters of the southern Indian Ocean -- and that all on board perished.</p> <p> It was a turning point of sorts in one of the most perplexing mysteries of modern times. Najib's statement offered some resolution -- the plane has surely crashed -- but little else. No one has found the plane, or the passengers, or the answer to why all this happened in the first place. And solving those riddles involves a search that looms dauntingly across a vast expanse of unforgiving ocean at the bottom of the earth.</p> <p> The puzzle of Flight 370 has been complicated by a frustrating lack of hard facts since it vanished on a night flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8. Who could say what might have happened in the cockpit or the cabin -- or who or what was responsible? Who knew where the plane had gone -- up or down, north or south -- or what had become of its 239 passengers and crew?</p> <p> Hungry for answers, officials and investigators, relatives and reporters focused their questions fruitlessly on the two Iranian passengers who boarded the plane with stolen passports; then on the oil slicks in the Gulf of Thailand; then on the rumours that a Uighur passenger might have harboured anti-Chinese motives; then on the pilot's home flight simulator.</p> <p> The reluctance of Malaysian officials to reveal what they knew and sometimes to offer conflicting information only seemed to feed the doubts, even after many of the nefarious scenarios suggested early on were dismissed. And with limited evidence and not even a bit of confirmed wreckage, everyone from experts on aviation and terrorism to armchair travellers was left to speculate.</p> <p> It may have been hard to take rocker Courtney Love seriously when she posted a photo on Facebook showing an oil slick off the coast of Malaysia and suggested that it revealed the location of the missing plane. But when a fake news story showed up online supposedly quoting Sarah Palin as saying she believed the plane had flown directly to heaven, its plausibility hinged not on the former Alaska governor, but on the fact that just about anybody could and seemingly did have an opinion on the flight's fate.</p> <p> That's probably because most people felt connected to it and, therefore, invested in it. As Australia's opposition leader Bill Shorten put it, "There is something about a plane disappearing which links all the citizens of the globe. These people who disappeared on this flight could be any of us."</p> <p> While many of the theories presented were well-informed speculation based on deep experience and thoughtful analysis, they all had one flaw or another, and could not dispel the void. With so little to go on, families of those aboard grasped at the clouds of uncertainty, which allowed them to maintain a sense, however shaky, that that the plane might possibly be found intact, their relatives found alive.</p> <p> "Dearest love, I hope you are able to get some rest where you are, and that they are feeding you," Sarah Bajc wrote last week in a Facebook post to her boyfriend, Philip Wood, a native of Texas who was on board. "Any chance they include a glass of wine with dinner?"</p> <p> It was one of a heartbreaking string of love notes she sent out into the electronic ether, as she clung to the hope that her partner was still alive. A few days later: "Hi baby, It has been a lazy Sunday here. I cannot imagine what you must be going through." Later still: "Good morning baby, how are you holding up? I'm doing my best to bring you hope and courage to continue the fight."</p> <p> And fight the families did -- for any scrap of information that might reveal their loved ones' fate. Gut-wrenching grief, frustration and, eventually, rage bubbled over among some of the family members, who accused the Malaysian government of withholding information. Before a news briefing in Kuala Lumpur, two Chinese relatives of passengers held up a banner demanding the truth.</p> <p> "I want to see my son!" one of the women cried, before being carried away by security as she wept and screamed.</p> <p> And then, at last, came a break -- or at least, what seemed like one. On March 20, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott stunned the world when he stood up during what had been a routine session of parliament, slipped on his glasses and began to read from a statement:</p> <p> "New and credible information has come to light in relation to the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in the southern Indian Ocean," he began. "The Australian Maritime Safety Authority has received information based on satellite imagery of objects possibly related to the search."</p> <p> The objects -- two blurry, whitish blobs captured in a satellite image -- were located in a patch of the Indian Ocean, near absolutely nothing. The closest major body of land was Australia's west coast, 2,500 kilometres (1,550 miles) away.</p> <p> The hunt was on in earnest. Military planes from Australia, the U.S. and New Zealand had already been searching the area and more planes from China and Japan were sent to help, while an Australian navy supply ship, the HMAS Success, scoured the waters, some of the roughest and remotest in the world.</p> <p> More potential clues began popping up: A civil aircraft taking part in the search on Saturday spotted several small objects floating in the water, including a wooden pallet surrounded by straps. Could it have been from the aircraft? Malaysia Airlines confirmed the flight did, indeed, have wooden pallets on board. But pallets are also commonly used in the shipping industry. A New Zealand military aircraft tried to find the objects for closer inspection, but found only clumps of seaweed.</p> <p> The sense that searchers were getting close grew when more satellite data emerged; China announced it had captured a large object within the search zone on one of its satellites, and France said it had satellite data that may have identified debris from the missing plane.</p> <p> More objects of potential interest were spotted by the search planes crisscrossing the skies: a grey or green circular object and an orange rectangular object. A white, square object glimpsed through a break in the clouds.</p> <p> The U.S. sent a Towed Pinger Locator to the region in case a debris field was found, in the hopes it could locate the plane's so-called black box. An Australian navy support vessel, the Ocean Shield, equipped with acoustic detection equipment, was also moving into the search zone.</p> <p> But except for analysts' fresh conclusion based on satellite data that the flight had gone down, there are still no hard answers. And finding the jet remains far from a certainty.</p> <p> For Bajc, the woman who has all along refused to give up hope that her boyfriend is still alive, Malaysia's fatalist announcement offered little resolution.</p> <p> "I need closure to be certain but cannot keep on with public efforts against all odds," she wrote in an email. "I STILL feel his presence, so perhaps it was his soul all along."</p> <p> Associated Press writer Aritz Parra in Beijing contributed to this report.</p>
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<p> The search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 will be remembered as one of the most difficult and complicated endeavours in aviation history.</p> <p> Finding pieces of a Boeing 777 in a large, remote area of the Indian Ocean is a daunting task even for the most experienced search crews. Vague information about the crash site and terrible weather are making matters worse. </p> <p> On Monday, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak announced that new analysis of satellite data showed the plane went down somewhere in the southern Indian Ocean, about 2,500 kilometres west of Perth, Australia.</p> <p> The latest search area has been narrowed down to about 1.6 million square kilometres, but that hasn’t been very helpful to crews trying to locate the plane’s flight recorder data boxes.</p> <p> "We're not searching for a needle in a haystack," Air Marshal Mark Binskin, Australia's deputy defence chief, said Tuesday. "We're still trying to define where the haystack is."</p> <p> The search involves ships and planes from six countries, including Australia, U.S., and China.</p> <p> Doug Wallace, the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Ocean Science and Technology, said crews may only have a couple of weeks left to locate the so-called black boxes, which could have landed on the ocean floor.</p> <p> After 30 days in water, the boxes usually stop sending out signals that can be picked up by sonar equipment, Wallace, an oceanographer at Dalhousie University, <a href="http://www.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=312910&playlistId=1.1744610&binId=1.810401&playlistPageNum=1">told CTV’s Canada AM Tuesday. </a></p> <p> The lack of “solid information” on where the plane went down is making things more difficult, Wallace said. </p> <p> “The wreckage would drift with the currents and the wind, maybe on the order of four to five kilometres a day or more,” he said. “(Debris) might be hundreds to even thousands of kilometres away now from where the wreckage may be lying on the sea floor.”</p> <p> Advanced underwater vehicles are available to search for wreckage at the bottom of the ocean, Wallace said, but they are very slow and usually need a power recharge after one or two days.</p> <p> “Looking for the wreckage on the sea floor has to be very well planned and it could take years,” he said.</p> <p> Erik vanSebille, an oceanographer at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, told The Associated Press that ocean currents can spread items in the water hundreds of kilometres apart within weeks.</p> <p> "It's like one giant pinball machine out there," he said.</p> <p> With files from The Associated Press </p>
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<p> Students who only smoke marijuana do better at school than classmates who smoke just tobacco, or who smoke both tobacco and pot, says a new study, which tracked substance use among teens over 30 years.</p> <p> Researchers from the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health analyzed data from a survey administered to nearly 39,000 Ontario students between 1981 and 2011. The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health asked students in Grades 7, 9 and 11 about their tobacco and marijuana use, and their academic performance.</p> <p> The study found that marijuana-only users did better at school than their counterparts who smoked only cigarettes or who smoked both cigarettes and marijuana. However, the findings reflect the fact that fewer students smoke tobacco today compared to 30 years ago, and those that do make up a very “marginalized, vulnerable” population, says lead study author Michael Chaiton, assistant professor in epidemiology and public health policy.</p> <p> About 92 per cent of tobacco users also use marijuana, the study found. However, only 25 per cent of marijuana uses also smoke tobacco.</p> <p> “It’s better relatively,” Chaiton says of marijuana-only users’ academic performance.</p> <p> Marijuana users don’t outperform non-users, Chaiton says.</p> <p> “Now there is a distinction between marijuana use and co-use with other substances, and it’s an indication of the changing social norms. So it’s not an absolute that they do better; it’s that social norms have changed and the population of people who use marijuana are more like the general population.”</p> <p> The study was published in the March edition of the Journal of School Health.</p> <p> In the 1980s, when the study began, there was less marijuana use among students. And those who did smoke pot also smoked tobacco. At the time, pot use among tobacco smokers was very low.</p> <p> Thirty years later, that had switched, the researchers found. As tobacco use declined, marijuana use shot up. And among the remaining tobacco users, marijuana use is now very high.</p> <p> One reason for the statistical switch, Chaiton says, is the effectiveness of anti-tobacco messaging in recent years.</p> <p> “The population of youth smokers right now is one that is a fairly marginalized population, quite a vulnerable population, so they are at high rates of cannabis use but also of other drugs and other behaviours,” Chaiton says. “So the change in trends is that this is a social phenomenon. This is not that tobacco is causing this, it is something that has changed socially in the role of tobacco in society.”</p> <p> Now that marijuana smoking has become more of a social norm, Chaiton says, programs aimed at keeping youth from risky behaviours such as drug abuse must take into account two factors: that more students now smoke marijuana compared to 30 years ago, and that students who smoke tobacco are more likely to use marijuana or other drugs and engage in at-risk behaviours such as vandalism and theft.</p> <p> As marijuana use becomes more prevalent and socially acceptable, Chaiton says, the focus must turn to developing programs for youth that properly educate them on the risks.</p> <p> Tobacco and marijuana are “similar drugs in many different ways,” Chaiton notes, and “people dramatically underestimate the risks associated with cannabis use, particularly among youth.”</p> <p> “I would argue that we need to start talking about them in the same way and start addressing them in the same types of interventions,” he says, particularly given the growing public discussions about decriminalizing or legalizing marijuana.</p> <p> “If we do legalize or change the regulations in dramatic ways, that does change the social environment again and that can, as we’ve seen a number of times, cause big shifts in youth and we could see another big shift in marijuana use among youth.”</p>
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<p> THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- The Conservative government intends to respect the Supreme Court's decision to deny Marc Nadon the chance to occupy the vacant Quebec seat on the high court bench, says Prime Minister Stephen Harper.</p> <p> But the government is still reviewing the decision about Nadon's eligibility, which Harper admitted Tuesday left him "very surprised."</p> <p> "What I can tell you is this: we're obviously going to respect the decision," Harper told a news conference following the conclusion of the two-day Nuclear Security Summit in The Hague.</p> <p> "We'll respect not just the letter of the decision. We will respect the spirit of the decision as well."</p> <p> The Supreme Court concluded that Nadon, a semi-retired Federal Court of Appeal judge, does not meet the specific eligibility requirements for a Quebec seat on the bench as spelled out in the Supreme Court Act.</p> <p> The high court also says the government needs a constitutional amendment to change the criteria for judges on the top court.</p> <p> The government expected the Supreme Court to find in its favour, because the possibility of a rejection had been characterized by the experts it consulted as "very hypothetical."</p> <p> "We had commissioned expert opinion on it which was completely contrary to the decision," Harper said.</p> <p> "But, look, that said, that's the decision. We're still examining the decision. We haven't taken a decision on who the candidate will be. We haven't even taken a decision on taking a decision on the process."</p> <p> On Monday, Justice Minister Peter MacKay told the House of Commons there are a number of qualified Quebec candidates who could be appointed to the Supreme Court. But he stopped short of ruling Nadon out entirely.</p> <p> That left opposition MPs expressing concern that the government would continue to push for Nadon's appointment.</p> <p> When the government originally sought a legal opinion last summer on Nadon's eligibility, it asked retired Supreme Court judge Ian Binnie two questions: whether Nadon was eligible as a Federal Court judge and, if he was not, whether he could simply be readmitted to the Quebec bar for a day to become eligible.</p> <p> Binnie opined that Nadon was eligible for appointment as a member of the Federal Court of Appeal, then declined to answer the second question.</p> <p> Binnie wrote that "any hypothesis that requires of a person who starts the week as a Federal Court judge to rejoin the Quebec bar mid-week for a day or two in order to 'qualify' for appointment to the Supreme Court by the end of the week makes no sense."</p> <p> "Such a two-step expedient," Binnie added, "is neither required nor compatible with the dignity of the office being filled, in my opinion."</p>
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<p> Maritime residents are bracing for a massive snowstorm that is expected to hit the region on Wednesday -- a chilly reminder that while the calendar says spring, winter has other plans.</p> <p> Halifax will likely see anywhere between 30 and 40 cm of snow on Wednesday, with gusting winds expected to get as high as 100 km/h around noon.</p> <p> Areas south of Halifax -- Lunenburg County, Queens County and Shelburne County -- could see as much as 50 cm of snow.</p> <p> AccuWeather meteorologist Bernie Rayno said the worst of the storm is expected to hit Wednesday afternoon and into the evening in parts of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island.</p> <p> “This is as bad as it gets and it will be a full-fledged blizzard,” Rayno told CTV’s News Channel in an interview from AccuWeather’s head offices in State College, Pa.</p> <p> Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil urged residents Tuesday to prepare for the storm and look out for their neighbours.</p> <p> “If there are people in your community 鈥� that are living alone or are elderly or needing some support, make sure you keep in touch with them to ensure that everyone weathers the storm,” he said.</p> <p> Prince Edward Island will see similar weather as Nova Scotia, with some places expecting to be blanketed with as much as 40 cm of snow.</p> <p> In New Brunswick, both Saint John and Moncton will see upwards of 40 cm of snow as well, with winds gusting as high as 90 km/h.</p> <p> “You’re going to have all kinds of blowing snows and this is the kind of storm that shuts things down, Rayno said.</p> <p> Further inland in Fredericton, the storm won’t be nearly as fierce, with only 10 cm of snow predicted for Wednesday.</p> <p> The storm will likely hit Newfoundland sometime Wednesday evening or early Thursday, hitting St. John’s with about 10 cm of snow. Winds, however, will be the biggest concern there, where gusts could get as high as 120 km/h Wednesday evening. Rayno said Cape Breton could see wind gusts of up to 135 km/h.</p> <p> Cindy Day, CTV Atlantic’s chief meteorologist, says this type of storm is called a “weather bomb” -- a rapidly intensifying low pressure system. Day wrote in a recent blog post that most weather bombs see a central pressure drop of 24 millibars (atmospheric pressure units) in less than 24 hours. She says computer models predicting this weather bomb shown a 40-millibar drop in less than 24 hours.</p> <p> Jean-Marc Couturier, an Environment Canada meteorologist, says the storm will be one of the strongest of the season, but added that it’s not unusual for the Maritimes to see a storm like this so late in March.</p> <p> "Definitely we'd still be looking at some potential storms along the Atlantic seaboard and throughout Atlantic Canada at this time of year," Couturier told The Canadian Press on Sunday. "We're not sure at this point if it would be the strongest system... that we've seen this winter, but it will be one of the strongest for sure."</p> <p> The harsh winter has forced some Maritime municipalities to spend more on snow removal than they budgeted for. According to a report from CTV Atlantic, the winter works department in Saint John, N.B., has already spent nearly two-thirds of the $5.8 million allotted for snow removal in 2014. Cape Breton, N.S., is predicting an overrun of nearly $500,000 due to the snow.</p> <p> Gordon Hayward, the manager of winter operations for Halifax, says this next storm will likely take the city over its $20 million annual budget for snow removal.</p> <p> “It’s more dollars added to a budget that’s already swelled,” Hayward told CTV Atlantic.</p> <p> With files from CTV Atlantic and The Canadian Press</p>
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<p> A portable computer hard drive containing the personal information of more than 500,000 student loan recipients was left unsecured for extended periods of time by government employees and was not protected by a password or encryption, Canada’s top privacy watchdog says.</p> <p> In a report tabled in Parliament on Tuesday, interim federal privacy commissioner Chantal Bernier detailed the various security procedures Employment and Social Development Canada failed to follow when dealing with the confidential information -- failures she said should serve as a lesson for every public sector department and agency.</p> <p> The report says the ESDC hard drive went missing in 2012. It contained the personal information -- including social insurance number, name, date of birth, home address, telephone number, loan amounts and balances -- of 583,000 Canada Student Loans Program borrowers from 2000 to 2006.</p> <p> The hard drive also included the gender, language and marital status for some borrowers, as well as information on about 250 ESDC employees.</p> <p> The ESDC subsequently reported the hard drive missing to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, and an investigation began in January 2013.</p> <p> The privacy commissioner’s report says that the ESDC has found no evidence that the personal information stored on the hard drive has been accessed or used for fraudulent purposes. But the results of that investigation show that numerous security procedures were not properly followed and that ESDC employees had contravened sections of the Privacy Act “related to the use, disposal and disclosure of personal information.</p> <p> “The report concludes that a gap between policies and practices at ESDC led to weaknesses in information management controls, physical security controls, and most importantly, the level of employee awareness of departmental policies and procedures,” a summary of the privacy commissioner’s report says.</p> <p> While ESDC policy required portable storage devices such as hard drives to be stored in a lockable filing cabinet when not in use, the report says that it was often left unsecured for extended periods of time. Even when it was stored in a filing cabinet, the report goes on to say, the cabinet was in an open cubicle and often not locked. The report says ESDC did not record the serial number of the hard drive and that “no specific employee was assigned responsibility for its custody.”</p> <p> ESDC also didn’t classify the hard drive as “a high-level threat to privacy,” and that neither “password protection nor encryption were implemented to protect the sensitive information on the portable hard drive.”</p> <p> The privacy commissioner’s investigation also revealed that ESDC did not track which employees used the device, or knew the exact contests of the portable drive at the time it went missing.</p> <p> EDSC staff lacked a “clear understanding of the information content on the hard drive," as well as “sufficient awareness about information stewardship, security responsibilities, IT controls and privacy threats, all areas covered by department policies,” the report says.</p> <p> “This incident should serve as a lesson for all organizations,” Bernier said in a summary of the investigation. “Protecting personal information cannot be ensured by having policies on paper. Policies must be put into practice each and every day and monitored regularly.”</p> <p> The report said that ESDC has accepted all of the privacy commissioner’s recommendations. They include:</p> <ul> <li> Severely restricting the use of portable storage devices and introducing computer software that blocks the use of any such devices on desktop computers without specific authorization;</li> <li> Periodically examining portable storage devices to make sure they are being used properly;</li> <li> Reviewing all materiel holdings, disposing of transitory records and classifying remaining records at the appropriate security level; and</li> <li> Mandatory employee training every two years on the protection of personal privacy</li> </ul> <p> The report also says the Office of the Privacy Commissioner will conduct a follow-up in one year to confirm ESDC’s progress in the implementation of the commissioner’s recommendations.</p>
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<p> A man says he was turned away from the U.S. because a police officer caught him smoking marijuana when he was 17, more than two decades ago.</p> <p> After years of travelling south without issue, the man says he was stopped at Pearson International Airport before boarding a plane for a business meeting earlier this month.</p> <p> The man, who wished to remain anonymous to protect his privacy, says he was pulled aside by Homeland Security and told he was convicted of narcotics possession.</p> <p> "I said, 'Pardon me? Narcotics possession? What are you talking about?'"</p> <p> He told <a href="http://toronto.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=312695&playlistId=1.1744069&binId=1.815892&playlistPageNum=1">CTV Toronto's Pat Foran</a> that 24 years earlier, he was caught smoking a joint of marijuana in an Oakville, Ont. park. He and a group of friends were given a fine, but didn't go to jail or face any other punishments.</p> <p> "My parents were involved, they were aware of the whole thing. I was a teenager," he said. Since the conviction, he's been travelling to the U.S. for work for years. No one had ever stopped him before.</p> <p> He told CTV Toronto he's devastated, and his business will suffer if he can't get back into the U.S.</p> <p> Though the man was shocked to be prevented from travelling, a Canadian immigration lawyer said he wasn't surprised. U.S. officials have been requesting more criminal information from Canadian authorities in the last few years, leading to more people being denied entry.</p> <p> "The protocols on the sharing of information between Canada and the United States since 9-11 have dramatically increased," immigration lawyer Joel Guberman told CTV Toronto.</p> <p> "All kinds of information that's in Canada's files is now in the U.S. files, and every day they go deeper and further back," he said.</p> <p> A conviction for theft, fraud or assault is also grounds for denial of entry.</p> <p> To be allowed back into the U.S., Canadians can apply for a waiver, but the process can take a year and must be applied for annually. The U.S. does not recognize Canadian pardons, Guberman said.</p> <p> "The best thing one can do is apply for a waiver early and unfortunately often."</p> <p> With files from CTV Toronto's Pat Foran</p>
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<p> TORONTO -- Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau has announced he will publish a personal memoir.</p> <p> In a press release, publisher HarperCollins Canada called the book -- which will be published in English and French -- "candid."</p> <p> The autobiography will cover the 42-year-old's childhood at 24 Sussex Drive through to his McGill University days and his current political career.</p> <p> According to the release, the book will also boast "anecdotes, personal reflections and never-before-seen photographs" from Trudeau's personal collection.</p> <p> The memoir is set to be released this fall.</p> <p> All proceeds will be donated to the domestic programs of the Canadian Red Cross Society.</p> <p> "I am pleased to have this opportunity to tell my life's story, particularly as a teacher, Member of Parliamant and father," Trudeau said in the release.</p> <p> "These experiences and the many people who have played a role in my life have all shaped my outlook on politics, public service and what it means to be Canadian. ... I look forward to sharing this journey with you."</p>
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<p> 12 days of cycling in grueling sub-zero temperatures, not enough to stop Clara’s Big Ride.</p> <p> Six-time Olympic medalist Clara Hughes arrived in Gananoque, Tuesday morning, to start the conversation about mental health.</p> <p> “It's appropriate for what we're doing and the message we're bringing about the struggle. So each day on the bike has been a struggle,” says Hughes.</p> <p> Hughes’ journey throughout eastern Ontario part of a 110 road trip to break down the stigma of mental health 鈥� part of the Bell Let’s Talk initiative.</p> <p> Hughes has been open about suffering from depression which she continues to seek help for today.</p> <p> “I can't fix it myself. I can't manage it myself. I need someone professional I can talk to,” she says.</p> <p> Along the way, Hughes is stopping in several communities and schools to spread her message that no one should suffer alone.</p> <p> With a report from CTV’s John Hua.</p> <p> </p>
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<p> Two additional cases of measles have been confirmed in Ottawa. Health officials say a child who was not immunized, and an immunized adult have come down with the measles. This brings the number of confirmed cases in Ottawa to 4.</p> <p> Measles is highly contagious, virtually anyone who is not immunized and comes in contact with the virus will become infected.</p> <p> Ottawa Public Health is asking anyone who was at the following locations during the specified time to contact their doctor.</p> <ul> <li> March 18, 2014, 9 a.m. 鈥� 6:30 p.m.: Businesses at 411 Legget Drive</li> <li> March 18, 2014, 1:15 p.m. 鈥� 3:30 p.m.: Subway Restaurant, 700 March Road</li> <li> March 20, 2014, 6 p.m. 鈥� 8:40 p.m.: Shoppers Drug Mart, 1300 Stittsville Main Street</li> <li> March 21, 2014, 6:30 a.m. 鈥� 10 a.m.: Nepean Sportsplex, 1701 Woodroffe Avenue</li> <li> March 21, 2014,11:30 a.m. 鈥� 2 p.m.: Quizno’s Restaurant, 4048 Carling Avenue</li> <li> March 21, 2014, 9 a.m. 鈥� 5:30 p.m.: Businesses at 411 Legget Drive</li> </ul> <p> OPH asks those who were present at the locations and times listed above to contact OPH at 613-580-6744 if you:</p> <ul> <li> Are unimmunized;</li> <li> Have a weakened immune system;</li> <li> Are pregnant or;</li> <li> Work in the health care or child care sector;</li> <li> Had a child under age 1 with you when you visited one of the above locations.</li> </ul> <p> Symptoms may include fever, cough and tiny white spots in the mouth. A red blotchy rash will appear on the face, then spreading to the body.</p> <p> If anyone suspects they have measles they should isolate themselves and avoid all contact with people who have not been immunized.</p>
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<p> A classmate who worked with Eric Leighton the day he died says he remembers hearing a buckling metal noise as Leighton cut into the barrel.</p> <p> 19-year-old Adam Soliman says he instinctively turned away when the barrel exploded.</p> <p> Leighton and Soliman were tasked with making an improvised BBQ out of a 55 gallon steel drum in their Mother Teresa High School shop class three years ago.</p> <p> Soliman today told a Coroner’s Inquest that a few days before the explosion; he had been told by his shop teacher to clean the barrel with the engine cleaning substance “kleen-flo”.</p> <p> An engineer with the ministry of labour also testified the engine cleaner was almost as volatile as gasoline.</p> <p> The explosion fractured Eric Leighton's skull. He died hours later in hospital.</p> <p> Soliman was knocked out by the explosion’s force, when asked if he saw what happened to Eric, he choked up and quietly said no.</p> <p> Shop teacher Scott Day is expected to testify later today.</p> <p> This inquest won't lay legal blame but the jury can make recommendations. The Leighton’s have a $400-thousand lawsuit pending against the Catholic School Board.</p>
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<p> Over an extraordinary 17 days and nights, until the moment Malaysia's prime minister stepped to a lectern to deliver investigators' sobering new findings, the fate of vanished Flight 370 hung on morbid conjecture and fragile hope.</p> <p> Many previous tragedies have transfixed us by revealing their power in cruel detail. But the disappearance of the Beijing-bound Boeing 777 without warning or explanation captivated imaginations around the world in no small part because of the near vacuum of firm information or solid leads.</p> <p> Nothing solid, that is, until late Monday night, when Prime Minister Najib Razak announced that an analysis of the plane's last-known signals to a satellite showed that it went down somewhere in the desolate waters of the southern Indian Ocean -- and that all on board perished.</p> <p> It was a turning point of sorts in one of the most perplexing mysteries of modern times. Najib's statement offered some resolution -- the plane has surely crashed -- but little else. No one has found the plane, or the passengers, or the answer to why all this happened in the first place. And solving those riddles involves a search that looms dauntingly across a vast expanse of unforgiving ocean at the bottom of the earth.</p> <p> The puzzle of Flight 370 has been complicated by a frustrating lack of hard facts since it vanished on a night flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8. Who could say what might have happened in the cockpit or the cabin -- or who or what was responsible? Who knew where the plane had gone -- up or down, north or south -- or what had become of its 239 passengers and crew?</p> <p> Hungry for answers, officials and investigators, relatives and reporters focused their questions fruitlessly on the two Iranian passengers who boarded the plane with stolen passports; then on the oil slicks in the Gulf of Thailand; then on the rumours that a Uighur passenger might have harboured anti-Chinese motives; then on the pilot's home flight simulator.</p> <p> The reluctance of Malaysian officials to reveal what they knew and sometimes to offer conflicting information only seemed to feed the doubts, even after many of the nefarious scenarios suggested early on were dismissed. And with limited evidence and not even a bit of confirmed wreckage, everyone from experts on aviation and terrorism to armchair travellers was left to speculate.</p> <p> It may have been hard to take rocker Courtney Love seriously when she posted a photo on Facebook showing an oil slick off the coast of Malaysia and suggested that it revealed the location of the missing plane. But when a fake news story showed up online supposedly quoting Sarah Palin as saying she believed the plane had flown directly to heaven, its plausibility hinged not on the former Alaska governor, but on the fact that just about anybody could and seemingly did have an opinion on the flight's fate.</p> <p> That's probably because most people felt connected to it and, therefore, invested in it. As Australia's opposition leader Bill Shorten put it, "There is something about a plane disappearing which links all the citizens of the globe. These people who disappeared on this flight could be any of us."</p> <p> While many of the theories presented were well-informed speculation based on deep experience and thoughtful analysis, they all had one flaw or another, and could not dispel the void. With so little to go on, families of those aboard grasped at the clouds of uncertainty, which allowed them to maintain a sense, however shaky, that that the plane might possibly be found intact, their relatives found alive.</p> <p> "Dearest love, I hope you are able to get some rest where you are, and that they are feeding you," Sarah Bajc wrote last week in a Facebook post to her boyfriend, Philip Wood, a native of Texas who was on board. "Any chance they include a glass of wine with dinner?"</p> <p> It was one of a heartbreaking string of love notes she sent out into the electronic ether, as she clung to the hope that her partner was still alive. A few days later: "Hi baby, It has been a lazy Sunday here. I cannot imagine what you must be going through." Later still: "Good morning baby, how are you holding up? I'm doing my best to bring you hope and courage to continue the fight."</p> <p> And fight the families did -- for any scrap of information that might reveal their loved ones' fate. Gut-wrenching grief, frustration and, eventually, rage bubbled over among some of the family members, who accused the Malaysian government of withholding information. Before a news briefing in Kuala Lumpur, two Chinese relatives of passengers held up a banner demanding the truth.</p> <p> "I want to see my son!" one of the women cried, before being carried away by security as she wept and screamed.</p> <p> And then, at last, came a break -- or at least, what seemed like one. On March 20, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott stunned the world when he stood up during what had been a routine session of parliament, slipped on his glasses and began to read from a statement:</p> <p> "New and credible information has come to light in relation to the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in the southern Indian Ocean," he began. "The Australian Maritime Safety Authority has received information based on satellite imagery of objects possibly related to the search."</p> <p> The objects -- two blurry, whitish blobs captured in a satellite image -- were located in a patch of the Indian Ocean, near absolutely nothing. The closest major body of land was Australia's west coast, 2,500 kilometres (1,550 miles) away.</p> <p> The hunt was on in earnest. Military planes from Australia, the U.S. and New Zealand had already been searching the area and more planes from China and Japan were sent to help, while an Australian navy supply ship, the HMAS Success, scoured the waters, some of the roughest and remotest in the world.</p> <p> More potential clues began popping up: A civil aircraft taking part in the search on Saturday spotted several small objects floating in the water, including a wooden pallet surrounded by straps. Could it have been from the aircraft? Malaysia Airlines confirmed the flight did, indeed, have wooden pallets on board. But pallets are also commonly used in the shipping industry. A New Zealand military aircraft tried to find the objects for closer inspection, but found only clumps of seaweed.</p> <p> The sense that searchers were getting close grew when more satellite data emerged; China announced it had captured a large object within the search zone on one of its satellites, and France said it had satellite data that may have identified debris from the missing plane.</p> <p> More objects of potential interest were spotted by the search planes crisscrossing the skies: a grey or green circular object and an orange rectangular object. A white, square object glimpsed through a break in the clouds.</p> <p> The U.S. sent a Towed Pinger Locator to the region in case a debris field was found, in the hopes it could locate the plane's so-called black box. An Australian navy support vessel, the Ocean Shield, equipped with acoustic detection equipment, was also moving into the search zone.</p> <p> But except for analysts' fresh conclusion based on satellite data that the flight had gone down, there are still no hard answers. And finding the jet remains far from a certainty.</p> <p> For Bajc, the woman who has all along refused to give up hope that her boyfriend is still alive, Malaysia's fatalist announcement offered little resolution.</p> <p> "I need closure to be certain but cannot keep on with public efforts against all odds," she wrote in an email. "I STILL feel his presence, so perhaps it was his soul all along."</p> <p> Associated Press writer Aritz Parra in Beijing contributed to this report.</p>
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<p> OC Transpo is fixing a problem with the fiberglass coating on roofs on some of its double-decker buses.</p> <p> OC Transpo stresses the problem is minor and doesn't affect passenger safety.</p> <p> In a statement to CTV Ottawa, OC Transpo stated, 'At no time did we ever lose a piece of metal off the roof of the bus", stated James Greet, Manager of Transit Fleet Maintenance.</p> <p> The statement says repair work on the buses is being completed during off peak hours and weekends</p> <p> Two double-decker buses were not available for service Monday because they were scheduled for warranty repairs.</p> <p> The cost of the repair is covered by the manufacturer, Alexander Dennis of Scotland, which is replacing the adhesive.</p> <p> The double-decker buses had problems with the ventilation system and condensation two years ago.</p>
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<p> The blast that hit 18-year-old Eric Leighton in his shop class 3 years ago was so powerful he couldn't have survived it. A coroner's inquest into the death of the popular young hockey player is shedding new light on how and why he died. The photos at the inquest were graphic, the details sometimes too much for Eric Leighton’s mother. But this inquest is part of their healing process to understand what went wrong and hopefully prevent it from happening again. Sheri and Patrick Leighton came to this coroner’s inquest looking for answers to so many questions about that tragic day their son died.</p> <p> “We’ve been in left I the dark, that's the sole purpose of the inquest,” said Sheri Leighton as she headed into the Federal Court building on Sparks Street.</p> <p> For the first time, they are getting a detailed account of what happened inside the shop class at Mother Theresa High school 3 years ago. The inquest introduced graphic photos they've never seen before of the very spot Eric was fatally injured while making a BBQ from a 55 gallon drum.</p> <p> The impact of the explosion was so strong that according to the forensic pathologist who did the autopsy “it fractured the skull, including the base of the skull,” said Dr. Christopher Milroy.</p> <p> “The photos were hard to look at,” says Sheri Leighton, “the can looked like a coke can you could crush with your foot. That's the magnitude that my son took of a hit.”</p> <p> The grade 12 student was weeks away from graduating. He and a few other students were cutting into barrels that had been previously filled with peppermint oil when vapors inside the barrel exploded. Those vapors were from a highly volatile de-greaser that had been used to clean the inside of the barrel. </p> <p> William Hay is a fire and explosion investigator with the Ontario Fire Marshall’s Office. Hay testified that welding or cutting into a barrel or container is a violation under Ontario’s Fire code.</p> <p> "It was clear to us right from the outset that there existed legislation to prevent this type of incident from happening,” says Hay, “cutting into an enclosed barrel is against fire code and if you utilize a solvent inside a vessel, in this case a barrel, you need to test to make sure there is no volatility left inside.”</p> <p> Sixteen witnesses will be called over the course of the two week inquest, including Eric's shop teacher.</p> <p> "The hope is that by looking at what happened here,” says Robert Wadden, the counsel for the coroner, “the jury can make recommendations to prevent this type of thing in the future.”</p> <p> The Leightons says as hard as this inquest is, at least there is comfort in knowing their son died quickly.</p> <p> “It's a lot easier to know he didn't suffer because if he did i don't think I’d be standing here right now.”</p> <p> This inquest won't lay legal blame but the jury can make recommendations. The Leightons still have a $400-thousand lawsuit pending against the Catholic School Board. </p>
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<p> Yue Liu of Ottawa drowned last week at a beach resort in Varadero Cuba. His 7-year-old son, Connor, narrowly survived.</p> <p> Liu was playing in the ocean with his son last Wednesday when a strong wave overtook them and the two were caught in a current.</p> <p> Liu's wife Fanyan Bu, was at the hotel pool with their 9 year daughter Crystal.</p> <p> Witnesses say Liu managed to keep his son's head above water and was screaming for help.</p> <p> Another Canadian man on the beach, jumped in to save them.</p> <p> As his son was being rescued Liu said to him "I cannot save you anymore", those were his last words. When Liu was finally pulled from the water he could not be resuscitated.</p> <p> Ottawa's Chinese community is rallying to support the family with <a href="http://comefromchina.com/liuyue/">fundraising efforts</a>.</p> <p> Tonight at 6, CTV's Natalie Pierosara talks to Liu's widow.</p>
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<p> Ottawa Police have laid charges against a Carleton Place man following a child luring investigation.</p> <p> Police say the man contacted an officer posing as a young teenage girl on a social media site and made arrangements to meet her for a sexual encounter. He was arrested at the location.</p> <p> 36-year-old Collin Monette is charged with two counts of computer contact with a person under 16 years of age and two counts of computer contact with a person under 18 years of age for a sexual purpose.</p> <p> He’s scheduled to appear in court on Tuesday.</p>
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<p> E-cigarettes might be growing in popularity, especially among regular cigarette smokers. But a new study suggests that as a tool to help smokers quit, they may not be very effective.</p> <p> The study conducted by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco was a small one, looking at 949 smokers, including 88 smokers who reported they also had used e-cigarettes in the last month.</p> <p> Most of the smokers said they wanted to quit one day, either in the next six months or later. Those who used e-cigarettes were more likely to say they planned to quit, with only 5 per cent of e-cig users saying they didn't expect to ever quit, compared to 13 per cent of those who didn't use e-cigs.</p> <p> But when researchers asked the participants one year later whether they had successfully kicked smoking, the quit rates between the smokers and the e-cigarette users were not that different. After one year, 10.2 per cent of the e-cig smokers 鈥� eight smokers -- said they had quit smoking, compared to 13.8 per cent of the regular cigarette smokers.</p> <p> “You’ll hear lots of stories from people that say that e-cigarettes help them quit, but what we found was when we actually studied that systematically, we didn’t see a significant effect on cessation,” study co-author Dr. Pamela Ling told 麻豆影视.</p> <p> The study also found that women were more likely than men to use e-cigarettes. Younger adults under the age of 30, and people with less education were also more likely to use e-cigarettes.</p> <p> The authors acknowledge that with only 88 e-cigarette users in the study, their study was small. But they say their data add to the debate and back up previous studies that e-cigarettes don't help smokers quit.</p> <p> "I feel having some data is better than no data. And many of the claims about e-cigarettes are based on no data," said Ling.</p> <p> The authors add that there should be regulations to ban e-cigarette makers from claiming or suggesting that e-cigarettes are effective smoking cessation devices.</p> <p> Electronic cigarettes have become hugely popular in recent years, with surveys showing the number of people using the devices has skyrocketed in the last few years.</p> <p> Many enthusiasts say they like "vaping" on e-cigarettes, because it allows them to mimic the act of smoking in places where smoking isn't allowed, and they enjoy inhaling the flavoured "juice" inside the devices and exhaling the vapour.</p> <p> But public health officials have been less convinced about e-cigs, with many noting there have been few good studies on the safety of the devices, nor on whether they really help smokers to quit.</p> <p> In Canada, it's illegal to sell e-cigarettes with flavour cartridges 鈥� or "juice" 鈥� that contains nicotine unless a manufacturer applies to Health Canada for authorization. The federal agency says it has not approved any e-cigarettes, but nevertheless, it's not hard to find e-cigarette retailers in Canada selling nicotine-laced "juice."</p> <p> Melodie Tilson, the director of policy for the Non-Smokers' Rights Association worries that e-cigarettes are readily available everywhere, which could entice a new generation of smokers, particularly since it's not hard to get one's hands nicotine "juice."</p> <p> She says her group believes that e-cigarettes are vastly less harmful than cigarettes and have "great potential" to help smokers quit because “there’s no combustion, there’s no tobacco. But at the same time, we don’t know that they’re absolutely safe to use.”</p> <p> Tilson says she wants to see more studies conducted on the safety and effectiveness of e-cigarettes as smoking cessation aids.</p> <p> “We want to base policy on much more rigorous studies鈥nd other studies do show that e-cigarettes do help people quit, including one showing that e-cigarettes are at least as effective as nicotine patches,” she says.</p> <p> With a report from CTV medical specialist Avis Favaro and producer Elizabeth St. Philip</p>
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<p> It took just 2 1/2 minutes for a combination of human and technical mistakes to turn a passenger and supply flight into a remote Arctic community from routine to calamitous.</p> <p> A Transportation Safety Board report into the crash of First Air Flight 6560 blames an undetected autopilot change, a faulty compass reading and disagreement between the pilots about whether to abort the landing.</p> <p> "This accident was the product of a complex series of events, all of them lining up together," lead investigator Brian MacDonald said Tuesday as the report was released. "But what ultimately tied all these things together was that as the flight progressed each pilot developed a different understanding of the situation and they were unable to reconcile that difference."</p> <p> The crash at the Resolute airport Aug. 20, 2011, killed eight passengers and four crew members. Three passengers miraculously survived.</p> <p> In cool, technical language the board's report provides a second-by-second breakdown of what probably happened in the cockpit as the pilots crashed the Boeing 737 into a hillside more than a kilometre from the runway.</p> <p> Problems began because on-board compasses were incorrectly adjusted by 17 degrees. That error was compounded when the captain turned into the final approach and unwittingly changed the operational mode of the plane's autopilot. Busy with the landing checklist, in weather obscured by cloud, mist and light rain, neither he nor the co-pilot picked up the change.</p> <p> "This incongruency would have negatively affected the pilots' situational awareness and increased their workload as they attempted to understand and resolve this ambiguity," the report says.</p> <p> Within seconds after that final turn, co-pilot David Hare realized the plane was off course and repeatedly told the pilot, reminding him about the large hill to the right of the runway. Pilot Blair Rutherford replied that the autopilot was working fine.</p> <p> Puzzled as to why the plane's navigational instruments weren't lining up with ground-based systems, Hare asked if they'd done something wrong. Five seconds later, he suggested they pull up and go around for another approach.</p> <p> Rutherford, fully focused on landing the plane and on figuring out why his instruments were giving confusing readings, refused.</p> <p> "It is likely that the captain did not fully comprehend information that indicated that his original plan was no longer viable," says the report.</p> <p> Less than 10 seconds after first suggesting they pull up, Hare asked again, pointing out that the plane wasn't configured for a landing so close to the landing strip. The report suggests Rutherford is likely to have understood the remark as a request to prepared the plane for landing.</p> <p> Cockpit communication had broken down.</p> <p> "The captain's mental model was likely that the approach and landing could be salvaged, and the (co-pilot's) mental model was almost certainly that there was significant risk to the safety of flight and that a go-around was required. These divergent mental models compromised the pilots' ability to communicate and work together."</p> <p> Four seconds after his second request to pull up, Hare asked Rutherford to bank to the left. Their navigational confusion was evident when Hare confused the shoreline of a small lake with the seashore.</p> <p> Just under a minute after that, Hare said: "Blair, I don't like this."</p> <p> Almost immediately after, the plane's ground position systems began to sound alarms. About 160 seconds after making the final turn, Rutherford tried to pull up and go around.</p> <p> "There was insufficient altitude and time to execute the manoeuvre and avoid collision with terrain."</p> <p> The plane smashed into the hill and broke into three main pieces. Debris was strewn around the tundra.</p> <p> Resolute residents and soldiers from a military exercise that happened to be underway nearby rushed to the scene to try to pull survivors from the flaming wreckage.</p> <p> Within minutes, rescue crews and fire trucks were dispatched. Coast Guard and military helicopters arrived on the scene. Those not rescuing survivors or recovering casualties worked frantically to douse a fire from a fuel leak.</p> <p> Military medical teams and equipment that had arrived shortly before the crash were pressed into service. The injured were stabilized in a field hospital and flown to Iqaluit.</p> <p> The board has recommended that First Air revise its procedures to ensure pilots can communicate clearly and directly. It also said the carrier should be clearer about what types of compasses are to be used in which situations.</p> <p> The report said First Air has taken those actions, including a new rule that any crew member can order a go-around simply by saying "Go around."</p> <p> Several lawsuits have been filed over the disaster. The suits cast partial blame on the Canadian Forces, which had taken control over the small airport on the day of the crash.</p> <p> The transportation board said the military's presence was not a contributing factor in the crash.</p> <p> The military had established a temporary air traffic control tower to guide in all planes. The airport was normally an uncontrolled airspace and pilots navigated themselves onto the runway.</p> <p> The suits claim the military did not have enough people on duty to handle the air traffic and those working the tower were not briefed or properly trained to navigate civilian planes.</p> <p> None of the allegations has been proven in court. Statements of defence were not immediately available.</p> <p> The chartered plane was on a regular run from Yellowknife to Resolute. There were scientists on the plane along with staff heading back to work at a local inn and the inn owner's two young granddaughters. There was also a load of food.</p>
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<p> Liberal leader Philippe Couillard says he will publicly release his tax returns this week, and is calling on his rivals to do the same.</p> <p> Couillard will post the information about himself and his wife on the Liberal party's website before the leaders' debate on Thursday.</p> <p> "People have to know who is the person there, asking me to nominate him or her as premier of Quebec? What is their character? What is the life story? What is their personal situation?" said Couillard.</p> <p> "There are questions of transparency all around the world, not only in Quebec and I think this will become the norm."</p> <p> Premier Pauline Marois said Tuesday morning she would not follow suit because she has already been giving such information to the province's ethics commissioner for several years.</p> <p> "We have now a Commissaire d’ethique and I tabled all the information about my financial conditions, and that was exactly the same for my husband," said Marois.</p> <p> "I have full confidence in the Commissaire d’ethique."</p> <p> Marois also said demanding more information amounts to questioning the ethics of the Ethics Commissioner.</p> <p> The information published on the <a href="http://www.ced-qc.ca/en/index.shtml">Ethics Commissioners' website </a>includes information about the type of assets MNAs possess, but specific dollar amounts are removed.</p>
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<p> MONTREAL -- Quebec Premier Pauline Marois explained Tuesday why she thinks Saskatchewan's Brad Wall is "sneaky."</p> <p> Marois used Quebecois slang last week to describe her Prairie counterpart as a "sneaky person who always tries to trip her up."</p> <p> Asked about her remark, Marois said she caught Wall allegedly trying to relegate one of her recent labour proposals into the appendix of a joint document, rather than including it among the main arguments.</p> <p> "I have very good exchanges with all the premiers of the Canadian provinces when I'm at the Council of the Federation or another meeting," Marois told a news conference in Blainville, Que., north of Montreal.</p> <p> "But Mr. Wall really doesn't think the same way as I do and therefore sometimes he disagrees with me, so he tries to avoid keeping my proposals ... So, I defend my point of view. It's in this sense that he's sneaky."</p> <p> Marois called the Saskatchewan premier "un ratoureux, qui essaie toujours de me faire trebucher" in a conversation published Monday in Montreal La Presse.</p> <p> The Parti Quebecois leader made the comments as she campaigned ahead of the April 7 Quebec election.</p> <p> Wall responded to Marois's comment Monday by saying in French that he only ever tries to trip up Saskatchewan's official Opposition NDP.</p> <p> "We'll meet again at the Council of the Federation meetings, obviously pending what the people of Quebec say in the election," Wall said in English, referring to the electoral race in Quebec, where polls suggest Marois's PQ is trailing the Liberals.</p> <p> "We'll work at that table with all premiers, including Madame Marois -- if she's the premier."</p> <p> Marois also acknowledged Tuesday that the language barrier can sometimes pose a challenge for her at premiers' meetings, which are primarily conducted in English.</p> <p> "So, I have to be very attentive," said Marois, who struggles at times in English.</p> <p> "Even if I can't express myself perfectly (in English), I understand, and sometimes we touch on subtleties, but I am able to defend myself."</p>
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<p> A West Island man who was charged with harassing children is now accused of committing crimes 40 years ago.</p> <p> Howard Krupp was arrested again this week and charged with two counts of indecent assault allegedly committed between 1970 and 1976.</p> <p> He was released on bail with a promise to appear in April, however Krupp is also scheduled to be in court on Wednesday March 26 for proceedings related to an arrest in November.</p> <p> The Pierrefonds resident was first arrested in November 2013 and charged with stalking two children, by waiting for them at a bus stop in Kirkland and walking them home.</p> <p> He was released on condition he stay away from children, but one week later was arrested while sitting in a car near the school where his wife worked.</p> <p> In December Krupp's wife, a teacher at Hillcrest Academy in Laval, was placed on a leave of absence.</p> <p> Krupp has a criminal record; in 2000 he pleaded guilty to possessing 12,000 images of boys aged five to 12 on his computer, which at the time was touted as the biggest child pornography bust in Montreal.</p> <p> The one-time foster parent was given an 18-month sentence to be served in the community, and he later applied for and received a pardon.</p> <p> Since his November arrest police have been urging any other possible victims to come forward, and provide information either by calling 911 or calling the lead investigator at 514-280-2299.</p>
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<p> A man in his twenties was found dead in a bus shelter in Montreal on Tuesday.</p> <p> A bus driver on a route that went past the corner of Berri St. and Ontario St. noticed the man sitting slumped in the bus shelter and flagged down a police officer to report the incident.</p> <p> When the officer went to the shelter he found the man was dead for reasons that have yet to be determined.</p> <p> It's not known how long the man was in the shelter, but that area is not very far from the Ilot Voyageur bus terminal and UQAM.</p> <p> Police are investigating the area for any signs that indicate how the man died, but an autopsy will likely be needed to determine the reason for the death.</p>
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<p> With Montreal drivers who rely on the Turcot Interchange bracing for months of traffic headaches due to begin Monday, the city of Montreal says Transport Quebec has a communication problem.</p> <p> Two ramps from Highway 15 North -- to the 20 West and 720 East -- are scheduled to close on Monday March 31, 2014 and will stay closed until June.</p> <p> The provincial agency is recommending drivers take a 4 km detour, continuing north to Cote St. Luc Rd. and looping to the 15 South, then making the necessary connections on that side of the Interchange.</p> <p> NDG Borough mayor Russell Copeman said he was extremely frustrated to learn of the construction by reading a press release, especially due to other work taking part in the area that will also divert drivers to Cote St. Luc Rd.</p> <p> In recent weeks Transport Quebec has closed the St. Jacques St. entrance to the 720 East, and in the months to come will begin demolishing the St. Jacques St. bridge, meaning tens of thousands of drivers will have no choice but to go through Cote St. Luc Rd. to get to their destination.</p> <p> "Transport Quebec has to adjust their message. That the only message going out now [to get to] downtown is get off at Decarie and Cote Saint Luc," said Copeman.</p> <p> "We've got to ensure that Transport Quebec advises drivers that there are other alternates which I think make a great deal more sense in terms of efficiency than bringing you to the corner of Decarie and Cote St. Luc Rd."</p> <p> Copeman said it would make more sense for drivers from the South Shore to use the the Bonaventure Expressway instead.</p>
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<p> A Leger-Journal de Montreal poll is confirming the trend shown in the past week, with the PQ holding steady and the Liberals with a strong lead in the popular vote and a good chance of winning a majority government.</p> <p> The <a href="http://www.journaldemontreal.com/2014/03/24/le-virage-liberal-se-poursuit">poll of more than 3,600 Quebecers </a>shows 40 percent prefer the Liberal party, while 33 percent favour the Parti Quebecois. The CAQ and Quebec Solidaire are the choice of 15 and nine percent of the electorate, respectively.</p> <p> Those figures are in line with several polls published in the past week, all of which show the dominating lead the PQ had before calling the election has been reduced.</p> <ul> <li> Watch 麻豆影视 at Noon when Sebastien Dallaire of Leger provides his analysis of the poll</li> </ul> <p> Just ten days ago, a Leger poll had the PQ and Liberals tied at 37 percent.</p> <p> The regional breakdowns in the poll show that the Liberal lead in most of the province's individual ridings is enough to give the party a majority government if the vote were to be held today.</p> <p> PQ support strong in rural areas</p> <p> There are several regions where the PQ maintains an overall lead including the Laurentians, the Saguenay and Quebec's North Shore, long known as the heartland of PQ support, and the Gaspé and Lower St. Laurent. However support in those ridings alone is not enough to win the PQ a government, be it a majority or a minority.</p> <p> One analysis shows the PQ are right back where they were in 2012, with a good chance of winning 54 seats -- but has the Liberals in position to win 64 seats.</p> <p> Polling firm president Jean-Marc Leger said in a televised interview that the over the course of the three days the poll was conducted, support for the Liberal party was highest on Friday, but dropped slightly on Saturday and Sunday -- the same days the PQ were sounding alarms about a supposed influx of students from outside Quebec attempting to register to vote.</p> <p> On Sunday afternoon Elections Quebec discredited the PQ's claims, and said applications to register were actually lower than in the previous election campaign of 2012.</p> <p> Leger also said the poll shows the CAQ have no safe seats anywhere in the province.</p> <p> PQ supporters don't expect referendum</p> <p> The poll asked several other political questions and showed a remarkable split in the electorate.</p> <p> One question asked "If the PQ is elected to a majority government, do you believe it would hold a referendum on the sovereignty of Quebec?"</p> <p> Overall 47 percent said yes it would, while 36 percent said it would not, with 17 percent being uncertain.</p> <p> Liberal and CAQ supporters were the most likely to think the PQ would hold a referendum, with 77 and 56 saying the PQ would.</p> <p> The overwhelming majority of PQ supporters did not think their party would call a referendum. Only 17 percent of people who said they were voting PQ believed the party would take steps to push for the independence of Quebec.</p> <p> 30 percent of Quebec Solidaire supporters said they thought a PQ majority government would hold a referendum.</p> <p> The Leger poll surveyed 3,692 people online from March 21 to 23, 2014, and have a 1.9 percent margin of error 19 times out of 20.</p>
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<p> Westmount High School teachers and students have been very vocal in their opposition to the Charter of Values proposed by the Parti Quebecois, saying if the bill were ever implemented it would force many teachers and students to leave the school.</p> <p> Now the school has put together a video to teach Quebecers, especially the Parti Quebecois, about human rights and how they would be violated by the Charter.</p> <p> Students and teachers recite key sections of the Quebec Charter of Rights, the Canadian Charter of Rights, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Declaration of the Rights of the Child, and the Quebec Education Program implemented by then-education minister Pauline Marois in 1997.</p> <p> Online for only a few days the video has already drawn the ire of former <a href="http://blogues.journaldemontreal.com/gillesduceppe/politique/une-ecole-doit-elle-faire-de-la-politique/">Bloc Quebecois leader Gilles Duceppe</a>.</p> <p> He said that while individuals have the right to comment on an election, he does not think it is appropriate for any public institution to comment on a crucial plank of one party's electoral platform during the campaign.</p> <p> Westmount High School students have lesson for Charter of Values supporters</p>
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<p> Fire badly damaged a house in Montreal overnight.</p> <p> The building on Armand-Chaput Ave. near Eugene Couvrette St. in Riviere des Prairies caught fire around 4 a.m. and the family of four, woken up by smoke detectors, managed to escape without anyone being injured.</p> <p> About 50 firefighters rushed to the scene and were able to contain and control the flames, preventing them from spreading to nearby houses.</p> <p> However they were unable to stop the fire before it burned through much of the house.</p> <p> About an hour after the fire began the flames were extinguished, and it was obvious that the house had suffered extensive damage.</p> <p> Much of the roof was destroyed, with gaping holes exposing the charred frame of the attic and upper floors.</p> <p> Firefighters have determined the fire began in the chimney, which the family said was cleaned last autumn.</p> <p> The amount of damage is estimated at $150,000.</p>
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<p> It took just 2 1/2 minutes for a combination of human and technical mistakes to turn a passenger and supply flight into a remote Arctic community from routine to calamitous.</p> <p> A Transportation Safety Board report into the crash of First Air Flight 6560 blames an undetected autopilot change, a faulty compass reading and disagreement between the pilots about whether to abort the landing.</p> <p> "This accident was the product of a complex series of events, all of them lining up together," lead investigator Brian MacDonald said Tuesday as the report was released. "But what ultimately tied all these things together was that as the flight progressed each pilot developed a different understanding of the situation and they were unable to reconcile that difference."</p> <p> The crash at the Resolute airport Aug. 20, 2011, killed eight passengers and four crew members. Three passengers miraculously survived.</p> <p> In cool, technical language the board's report provides a second-by-second breakdown of what probably happened in the cockpit as the pilots crashed the Boeing 737 into a hillside more than a kilometre from the runway.</p> <p> Problems began because on-board compasses were incorrectly adjusted by 17 degrees. That error was compounded when the captain turned into the final approach and unwittingly changed the operational mode of the plane's autopilot. Busy with the landing checklist, in weather obscured by cloud, mist and light rain, neither he nor the co-pilot picked up the change.</p> <p> "This incongruency would have negatively affected the pilots' situational awareness and increased their workload as they attempted to understand and resolve this ambiguity," the report says.</p> <p> Within seconds after that final turn, co-pilot David Hare realized the plane was off course and repeatedly told the pilot, reminding him about the large hill to the right of the runway. Pilot Blair Rutherford replied that the autopilot was working fine.</p> <p> Puzzled as to why the plane's navigational instruments weren't lining up with ground-based systems, Hare asked if they'd done something wrong. Five seconds later, he suggested they pull up and go around for another approach.</p> <p> Rutherford, fully focused on landing the plane and on figuring out why his instruments were giving confusing readings, refused.</p> <p> "It is likely that the captain did not fully comprehend information that indicated that his original plan was no longer viable," says the report.</p> <p> Less than 10 seconds after first suggesting they pull up, Hare asked again, pointing out that the plane wasn't configured for a landing so close to the landing strip. The report suggests Rutherford is likely to have understood the remark as a request to prepared the plane for landing.</p> <p> Cockpit communication had broken down.</p> <p> "The captain's mental model was likely that the approach and landing could be salvaged, and the (co-pilot's) mental model was almost certainly that there was significant risk to the safety of flight and that a go-around was required. These divergent mental models compromised the pilots' ability to communicate and work together."</p> <p> Four seconds after his second request to pull up, Hare asked Rutherford to bank to the left. Their navigational confusion was evident when Hare confused the shoreline of a small lake with the seashore.</p> <p> Just under a minute after that, Hare said: "Blair, I don't like this."</p> <p> Almost immediately after, the plane's ground position systems began to sound alarms. About 160 seconds after making the final turn, Rutherford tried to pull up and go around.</p> <p> "There was insufficient altitude and time to execute the manoeuvre and avoid collision with terrain."</p> <p> The plane smashed into the hill and broke into three main pieces. Debris was strewn around the tundra.</p> <p> Resolute residents and soldiers from a military exercise that happened to be underway nearby rushed to the scene to try to pull survivors from the flaming wreckage.</p> <p> Within minutes, rescue crews and fire trucks were dispatched. Coast Guard and military helicopters arrived on the scene. Those not rescuing survivors or recovering casualties worked frantically to douse a fire from a fuel leak.</p> <p> Military medical teams and equipment that had arrived shortly before the crash were pressed into service. The injured were stabilized in a field hospital and flown to Iqaluit.</p> <p> The board has recommended that First Air revise its procedures to ensure pilots can communicate clearly and directly. It also said the carrier should be clearer about what types of compasses are to be used in which situations.</p> <p> The report said First Air has taken those actions, including a new rule that any crew member can order a go-around simply by saying "Go around."</p> <p> Several lawsuits have been filed over the disaster. The suits cast partial blame on the Canadian Forces, which had taken control over the small airport on the day of the crash.</p> <p> The transportation board said the military's presence was not a contributing factor in the crash.</p> <p> The military had established a temporary air traffic control tower to guide in all planes. The airport was normally an uncontrolled airspace and pilots navigated themselves onto the runway.</p> <p> The suits claim the military did not have enough people on duty to handle the air traffic and those working the tower were not briefed or properly trained to navigate civilian planes.</p> <p> None of the allegations has been proven in court. Statements of defence were not immediately available.</p> <p> The chartered plane was on a regular run from Yellowknife to Resolute. There were scientists on the plane along with staff heading back to work at a local inn and the inn owner's two young granddaughters. There was also a load of food.</p>
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<p> Wilde Horses </p> <p> - Budaj and the coaching staff for putting him in. Budaj has good numbers against Boston. Waite knew he had his goalie technically back recovered after poor play. Budaj was excellent including perfect in the shootout. He made the saves in the shootout look easy too.</p> <p> - Weaver was a horse. This was a game that if you are not committed then you would fail. Weaver time and time again took the Bruins dump in and knew he was going to get rocked but still went in first to make the play. He blocked shots all night. Bloody impressive player showing too that he will be ready for the playoffs. I like Tinordi. I think he is going to be a helluva pro but I hope he watched Weaver hold the blue line against the Bruins. It was textbook.</p> <p> - Brian Gionta is still a useful player. He can kill penalties and his defensive skills are excellent. Bergevin is in a tough spot here though because this is the role-changing contract and a player never gets that he can't get the same money as when that player was relied on for goals.</p> <p> - The penalty kill yet again. They work hard. They block shots. They have active sticks. They have Plekanec who is such a complete player. It took six power plays for Boston to finally break through.</p> <p> - Vanek because at one point, he stood in front of the net and two Bruins did what they could but Vanek hung in there. Vanek got a quality shot away. That's what you're looking for there - the commitment to stay where he has to stay despite the pain of the inevitable cross checks.</p> <p> - Emelin with his best game this season. He laid out an awesome hip check on Lucic and was a target all night for it. They could not back him down one bit. Took everything he got dealt at him and played with courage. He even took a cheap spear in the junk and kept hungry and his edge. He's a warrior. Imagine how good he could be if he ever got to be on his correct side. It would make such a difference to his instincts.</p> <p> - Galchenyuk because someone had to score in the shootout. Superb move and understood that he had to finish high.</p> <p> - Put pretty much everyone up here in the horse column.</p> <p> Wilde Goats </p> <p> - Rene Bourque. There was just too much violence and danger in this one for Bourque to feel comfortable to engage. He checked out pretty early. He can't not protect his brain. I get it.</p> <p> - I don't have the heart to put anyone else in this column. They beat a team who had won 12 straight. 12. In their own barn. This column stays empty except Bourque.</p> <p> </p> <p> Wilde Cards </p> <p> - There is only one sport in the world where you have to answer to a clean hit. In the NFL, there are a ton of massive hits. Hits so powerful that all the players of both teams gather around the fallen player and hope he wakes up. They don't look at the guy who delivered the hit and try to kill him in the NFL. They understood no matter how brutal that it is a part of the game. However, in the NHL with this BS code you can't level a clean hit without having to accept some stupid behaviour. Emelin's hit frankly was awesome. A bloody joy to watch that hit, but there comes Chara with his retribution charge. No other sport does this revenge action happen even remotely. Hate it. Just can't stand it.</p> <p> - It happened again only seconds later. Miller's hit on Weise was barely illegal. In fact, 99 times out of 100 nothing happens there but Weise lost an edge on a simple push from a glove. But there comes Moen to set himself back a long time again because he was clearly concussed - out on his feet after getting pummeled. This causes me sadness. So tired of players answering to these moments with their healthy lives, today AND tomorrow.</p> <p> - Early in this season Moen took his helmet off in a fight and the linesmen stepped in. Moen told me that they would step in if a helmet was taken off. We talked about it later again and he said that they would try to step in if anyone lost their helmet. Well, look at the fights. The refs totally suck at stepping in. They also are supposed to step in when a player looks hurt. Well, Moen was hurt right at the first punch in that fight with Miller and he suffered a second concussion 30 seconds later. Hey fellows in stripes --WAKE UP!! Players are suffering two concussions in one fight. It has to stop.</p> <p> - The winner was hockey in this one. What a thrilling game to watch and assess. If you brought it in this one then you can bring it every night. This one asked you to give your heart and your body. It asked you to be courageous. It asked you to concentrate every moment. A beauty. Wouldn't be surprised after this that the Habs are flat flat flat vs. Buffalo. They gave it their all and their bodies will be aching 20 hours later for sure.</p>
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<p> Two men face charges in connection with the death of Mary Anne May.</p> <p> May, a 55-year-old woman who lived in an apartment on Margaret Avenue in Kitchener, was last seen on Sept. 18, 2013.</p> <p> Her body was found two days later in Tyson Park, in northeast Kitchener.</p> <p> Waterloo Regional Police now say they’ve made two arrests in connection with her death.</p> <p> One is facing charges of second-degree murder and committing an indignity to a dead body, while the second will be charged with accessory to murder after the fact and 鈥� in an unrelated incident 鈥� carrying a concealed weapon.</p> <p> Both are adult men from Kitchener, and both will be formally charged Tuesday morning in a Kitchener court, at which time their names will be made public.</p> <p> Police say May knew both men.</p> <p> More to come.</p>
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<p> Email scams are nothing new, but a Waterford resident was recently on the receiving end of one that concerned him enough to call police.</p> <p> According to Norfolk County OPP, the resident received an email last week stating that a close friend or family member had hired the hit man to assassinate them.</p> <p> “Obviously the resident was quite upset, in shock and disbelief,” says Const. Ed Sanchuk.</p> <p> In addition, the email claimed that the assassination would only be cancelled if $7,000 was paid through a money transfer process 鈥� and it had to be done quietly.</p> <p> “The person that sent the email was stating not to tell anybody about it, not to call the police 鈥� because they were being watched,” says Sanchuk.</p> <p> Police continue to investigate the case.</p> <p> It’s not a new scam 鈥� Sanchuk says he’s heard about it happening as far back as 2008 鈥� but neither are other email scams which continue to find their way into Norfolk County inboxes.</p> <p> Two of the most common include the ‘scareware scam’, in which a program locks a user out of their computer after clicking on a link, and the ‘Microsoft scam’, in which a user takes remote access of a computer by calling via telephone and pretending to be a tech support worker.</p> <p> “It’s important for people to not provide any type of information, personal or financial, that may lead to identity theft issues down the road,” says Sanchuk.</p> <p> “Technology has advanced, and it’s great technology 鈥� but sometimes technology can be used against us.”</p> <p> OPP recommend that anyone coming into contact with these or other online scams report them to their local police and the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre.</p>
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<p> TORONTO -- Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne has moved the chairs around in her cabinet following the resignation of Municipal Affairs and Housing Minister Linda Jeffrey.</p> <p> Two backbenchers have been elevated to cabinet, while three others have changed jobs.</p> <p> Bill Mauro of Thunder Bay takes over Jeffrey's portfolio, while Oakville's Kevin Flynn talks over labour from Yasir Naqvi.</p> <p> Naqvi takes over community safety and correctional services from Madeleine Meilleur, who becomes Ontario's first francophone attorney general.</p> <p> Her predecessor John Gerretsen, who has said he won't run for re-election, is minister without portfolio and chairman of cabinet -- taking over from Jeffrey.</p> <p> Jeffrey announced earlier Tuesday that she's leaving provincial politics to run for mayor of Brampton.</p> <p> She said she was troubled by the spending controversies surrounding current Mayor Susan Fennell, which include a sky-high salary and the approval of hundreds of millions of dollars for projects that weren't completed or started.</p> <p> But the provincial Liberals have spending scandals of their own, including pulling the plug on two unpopular gas plants, which will cost taxpayers up to $1 billion.</p> <p> Jeffrey stood by the cancellation of the plants, despite the extraordinary cost that will likely become political cannon fodder.</p> <p> "It was a difficult decision, but I'm focused on what's happening in Brampton," she said.</p> <p> "Right now, I see some very troubling things that are being discovered on a daily, weekly basis. I think respect for taxpayers is an extraordinarily important quality and I plan to bring that to the job."</p> <p> Wynne has six months to call a byelection in Jeffrey's riding of Brampton-Springdale, unless there's a general election.</p> <p> She noted that Jeffrey was the first woman elected to represent Brampton in provincial politics.</p> <p> "I will personally miss Linda," Wynne said in a statement. "She is a woman of integrity and honesty and I wish her all the very best in her next endeavours."</p> <p> Jeffrey said she's been lobbied to run for mayor of Brampton over the past year, with former Progressive Conservative premier Bill Davis -- who represented his hometown in the legislature -- being one of the most vocal proponents.</p> <p> But she said she's only been considering it seriously since January.</p> <p> Jeffrey, who was first elected in the Liberal sweep of 2003, has also held the portfolios of natural resources, labour and minister responsible for seniors.</p> <p> She was also the point person when it came to fielding questions about whether troubled Toronto Mayor Rob Ford should step aside after he confessed to smoking crack cocaine.</p> <p> Jeffrey is the latest Liberal to announce that she's calling it quits since Wynne took the top job just over a year ago.</p> <p> Laurel Broten quit last July, following her cabinet colleagues Margarett Best, Dwight Duncan, Greg Sorbara, Chris Bentley and former premier Dalton McGuinty. Backbencher Kim Craitor also stepped down.</p> <p> Joining the exodus are Gerretsen, Government Services Minister John Milloy, former cabinet ministers Rick Bartolucci, Harinder Takhar and Donna Cansfield, as well as MPP Phil McNeely, who have all said they don't plan to run again.</p>
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<p> TORONTO -- BlackBerry is about to launch an update to its popular BlackBerry Messenger chat service that it hopes will rake in some extra coin.</p> <p> The Waterloo, Ont.-based technology firm is looking to generate revenue with its BBM app through sponsorships with brand names and by launching a new BBM Shop that deals in virtual goods.</p> <p> The plan delivers on a promise last year when it said BBM, which has grown to more than 85 million since the chat service became available to iPhones and Android devices, would become a money-making business.</p> <p> The company has no intentions to start charging most users for the app, opting instead for various other hooks to drive revenues, from selling enhanced emoticons known as "stickers" to the eventual launch of a secure payment platform.</p> <p> "At no point should monetization come at the expense of the user," said David Proulx, senior director of BBM Business Development at a meeting with reporters Tuesday.</p> <p> "Approaches we're taking all -- in their own way -- add incremental value to the BBM experience."</p> <p> The technology community was skeptical when BlackBerry first talked about plans to make the BBM service a viable business, but over the past few months chat applications have grabbed the attention of investors after Facebook purchased the competing service WhatsApp for US$19 billion.</p> <p> Now it's up to BlackBerry to generate money from its own service without alienating users.</p> <p> When an update to the BBM software is released "within the next week," the company will open the doors to a new virtual shop which will heavily promote a line of virtual stickers designed by various artists.</p> <p> While the "sticker" phenomenon has yet to truly catch on in North America, it's wildly popular in Asia where it has become an important form of communication online, Proulx said.</p> <p> Facebook's messaging service has its own line of large and colourful pictures that users can use to convey their emotions.</p> <p> BlackBerry hopes to expand stickers to include partners like World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. Companies will either share revenues from sales or pay BlackBerry to give out free stickers with its product on them, perhaps to help market a new movie or promote a soda.</p> <p> Further sponsorship deals will be made through an updated version of its BBM Channels service, which will allow users to follow their favourite companies or download sponsored apps that are catered to their specific interests, whether its music, sports or business.</p> <p> For corporate users, BlackBerry will launch BBM Protected this summer. Companies can purchase the enhanced level of encryption as part its enterprise services.</p> <p> In the longer term, BlackBerry hopes to turn BBM into a mobile financial services tool that will allow users to link their bank account to their phone for easier payments.</p> <p> While the company tested out a early version of the idea with BBM Money in Indonesia, Proulx said it will still be awhile before other parts of the world get to access similar technology.</p> <p> BlackBerry is scheduled to report its fourth-quarter and year-end financial results early Friday.</p>
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<p> TORONTO -- Public health advocates say many private clinics in Ontario are misleading patients and unlawfully billing them for medically unnecessary services.</p> <p> The Ontario Health Coalition says a significant number of clinics they contacted were charging patients extra fees on top of billing the Ontario Health Insurance Plan for necessary procedures.</p> <p> It says one clinic was charging patients $50 "administrative fees" for such things as a snack and patient records.</p> <p> The group says such fees were more common among cataract clinics, which were charging patients for medically unnecessary tests and procedures when they came in for needed surgery.</p> <p> They say clinics are manipulating patients, who are confused about what they need and what they don't need.</p> <p> The coalition says the government must crack down on such user charges which are more widespread than ever.</p> <p> Health Minister Deb Matthews says she'll look into any unethical practices to protect Ontario's single-tier public health-care system.</p> <p> She says patients can call the government if they're being charged for services covered by OHIP.</p>
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<p> Asked by parents to further study the health effects of Wi-Fi signals in schools, Waterloo Region District School Board trustees opted instead to continue to follow guidelines from public health authorities.</p> <p> A group of parents presented concerns over the technology to trustees Monday night.</p> <p> Discussing the issue, trustees said there was no scientific evidence to back up the concerns 鈥� and voted overwhelmingly in favour on maintaining the Wi-Fi status quo unless that situation changes.</p> <p> The parents had wanted trustees to form a committee to further study the issue.</p> <p> “We still don’t have an answer,” parent Stephanie Brathwaite said following the meeting.</p> <p> “They have just passed it along and essentially given the responsibility to somebody else.”</p> <p> Among trustees, Cindy Watson was the main voice calling for interim measures to “mitigate” any potential danger to students.</p> <p> “Until we have long-term scientific information that tells us it’s OK 鈥� we want to make sure we’re doing everything we possibly can to make sure that there isn’t a lot of exposure to Wi-Fi,” she said.</p> <p> Every elementary school in the WRDSB uses Wi-Fi technology to make Internet service available.</p> <p> Health Canada says there is no evidence that Wi-Fi signals are dangerous to the health of Canadians in general or young children in particular.</p>
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<p> Bearskin Airlines will no longer fly out of the Region of Waterloo International Airport.</p> <p> The airline announced Tuesday that it was ending its service between Waterloo Region and Ottawa effective April 1.</p> <p> Bearskin had previously flown from Waterloo Region to Montreal, but scaled that service back in 2011 in favour of the Ottawa route.</p> <p> In a press release, the company said passengers who had booked flights with Bearskin for April 1 or beyond can obtain a refund by calling the airline at 807-474-2624 or their travel agency.</p> <p> Also announced Tuesday was that Bearskin plans to leave the Ottawa International Airport entirely, affecting flights to Kapuskasing, North Bay, Sault Ste. Marie, Sudbury, Thunder Bay and Timmins.</p> <p> More to come.</p>
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<p> Aerosmith and Bryan Adams have been announced as the biggest names at Big Music Fest, which takes place in Kitchener this summer.</p> <p> A partial lineup for the three-day festival was revealed Tuesday.</p> <p> The event kicks off Friday, July 11, with what organizers called a Canada-wide “battle of the bands” competition.</p> <p> Acts taking the stage July 12 will include Bryan Adams, Styx, Collective Soul and Moist.</p> <p> Wrapping up the festival July 13 are musicians including Aerosmith, Slash, Big Wreck, Kim Mitchell and Pigeon Park.</p> <p> More acts are still to be announced, organizers say, along with information on parking and transportation options.</p>
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<p> BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Buffalo Bills owner Ralph Wilson, who helped found the American Football League in 1960, died at his home on Tuesday afternoon. He was 95.</p> <p> Bills president Russ Brandon made the announcement at the NFL winter meetings in Orlando.</p> <p> Wilson was the founder and sole owner of the Bills after establishing the team with the upstart AFL in 1960. He played a key role in the league's merger with the NFL. He was inducted into the Football Hall of Fame in 2009.</p> <p> Wilson died at his home in Grosse Pointe Shores, Mich., around 1:40 p.m., said Mary Mazur, spokeswoman for the Wayne County medical examiner's office.</p> <p> He had been receiving in-home hospice care.</p> <p> "No one loves this game more than Ralph Wilson," Brandon said in a statement. "It's very tough. What he's meant to the entire organization. He's our leader, our mentor our friend. How he loves his players and loved our community. Special guy. They just don't make them like Ralph Wilson."</p> <p> Wilson had been in failing health for several years after having hip surgery in 2011. Though he spent much of his time at his home suburban Detroit, he was well enough to attend the Hall of Fame induction weekends over the past few years.</p> <p> After regularly attending Bills home games since founding the franchise, Wilson had not been to a game since attending one in 2010.</p> <p> Wilson established a reputation as being the "conscience" of the NFL for his loyalty to fans and the several stands he took against franchise relocation.</p> <p> "He didn't let anyone pull anything off in him. He was very forceful," New Orleans Saints owner Tom Benson said.</p> <p> "Mr. Wilson was a visionary and pioneer of professional football," added Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank. "We have lost a founding member of the NFL family, but Ralph's lasting impact on the NFL will forever be felt."</p>
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<p> Saying three officers “clearly violated the trust” of the public with “degrading, mocking and disgusting behaviour,” a Waterloo Regional Police superintendent ruled Monday that all three should lose their jobs.</p> <p> Const. Jeff Vongkhamphou, Const. Timothy Green and Const. Graeme Kobayashi were all found guilty of deceit, discreditable conduct and other offences under the Police Services Act.</p> <p> Vongkhamphou’s sentence was an outright dismissal, while Green and Kobayashi were given one week to either resign from the service or be fired.</p> <p> Charges were first laid against Vongkhamphou in 2011, as a result of information that came to light during an unrelated investigation.</p> <p> Green and Kobayashi were charged later.</p> <p> All three were part of a BlackBerry Messenger group which discussed calls they performed and citizens they came into contact with 鈥� often in vulgar and mocking fashion.</p> <p> The hearing into their behaviour was told that the trio were also responsible for stealing nude and semi-nude photos, as well as sex toys, from homes they were called to.</p> <p> “They committed crimes or stood by while others did, they victimized the community and targeted marginalized persons and people under their protection, they targeted their own and then if that was not enough lied about their involvement, repeatedly,” Supt. Robert Gould concluded.</p> <p> “They have violated the public trust to such a degree that they are unworthy of that trust.”</p> <p> Defence lawyer David Butt says all three officers were disappointed by the sentence and plan to appeal 鈥� and in fact filed documents to that effect to the Ontario Civilian Police Commission shortly after the sentencing hearing.</p> <p> “It’s important in cases like this 鈥� for there to be a sober, orderly second look,” Butt tells 麻豆影视.</p> <p> That means they will remain employed by WRPS 鈥� on paid suspensions, as they have been since charges were first laid 鈥� until the appeal is dealt with.</p>
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<p> Edmonton police are working to implement a new text service connecting with 911 to give those who are deaf, deafened, hard-of-hearing and speech impaired (DHHSI) an opportunity to contact emergency services with their cell phone.</p> <p> The Text with 911 service isn’t expected to go live in Edmonton until later this year, however members of local DHHSI communities are encouraged to register with their wireless providers to ensure they have access when the service becomes available.</p> <p> “Our goal is a smooth roll out to the community with no interruptions to emergency services,” says Insp. Erik Johnson with the EPS Communications Branch in a press release. “We’re currently working with TELUS to implement the necessary infrastructure, and with our emergency services partners to train personnel on the new system.”</p> <p> Police say the Text with 911 service is a vast improvement over the emergency phone service currently available for the DHHSI community, however, the landline technology currently utilized will continue as an option to connect with 911.</p> <p> Over the past 3 ½ years, Edmonton’s 911 answering service has received 119 emergency calls from the DHHSI community.</p> <p> In the city, there are approximately 8,000 deaf and 188,000 hard-of-hearing individuals.</p>
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<p> The Edmonton Police Service is looking for tips from the public as they try to find a city woman, who has not been seen by her friends or family since Saturday.<br /> <br /> Police say 32-year-old Anina Hundsdoerfer was reported missing by her roommate on Sunday, March 23. She was last known to be at the office where she works, near 99 Avenue and 108 Street, as late as 3 p.m. on Saturday, March 22.<br /> <br /> Hundsdoerfer may be wearing a burgundy winter coat, dark form-fitting pants and glasses. She is described as Caucasian, approximately 178 cm (5’9”) tall, weighing about 160lbs, with brown shoulder-length hair and blue eyes. <br /> <br /> The woman's vehicle, a blue 2005 Toyota Echo with Alberta licence plate HUZ 936, has also been reported as missing.<br /> <br /> Investigators say there are no indications to suggest foul play, but there are concerns for Hundsdoerfer’s well-being.</p>
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<p> A 57-year-old man died Tuesday morning after his pickup truck collided head on with a semi-truck south of Grande Prairie.</p> <p> The crash happened around 7:45 a.m. at the intersection of Township Road 692 and Highway 40.</p> <p> The driver of the pickup died on scene, and the driver of the semi-truck was not hurt.</p> <p> After the initial collision, several other vehicles became involved, and three more people were transported to hospital with non life-threatening injuries.</p> <p> Police say there was blowing snow on the highway at the time, but they haven't confirmed whether that was a factor in the crash.</p> <p> Traffic on the highway is being diverted both northbound and southbound in order for a collision analyst to investigate.</p>
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<p> EDMONTON -- A study by the Alberta government says an aboriginal community downstream from the oilsands doesn't have higher overall cancer rates.</p> <p> The Alberta Health Services survey, which used data from 1992 to 2011, did find the prevalence of two kinds of cancer in Fort Chipewyan was higher than would be expected.</p> <p> James Talbot, chief medical health officer, says relatively high levels of cervical and bile duct cancer are most likely to be attributable to other factors than environmental contamination.</p> <p> "Overall, cancer rates in the region are what would be expected for the rest of Alberta," he said Monday when the survey was released.</p> <p> Leaders in Fort Chipewyan reacted to the report with suspicion. They said a statistical analysis of data that already existed doesn't fulfil their requests for a full-blown health study.</p> <p> "There's nothing (here) in regards to a comprehensive, independent study that we've been requesting, where government and industry have no participation in it," said Chief Allan Adam of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation.</p> <p> Chief Steve Courtoreille of the Mikisew Cree also dismissed the survey.</p> <p> "The government of Alberta has consistently downplayed the significance of cancer in my community," he said. "They have done that again today in their reports to the media that there is no reason for alarm of increased levels of cancers in my community."</p> <p> Potential health impacts on people living downstream of the oilsands are a common concern for local residents and for industry critics. Fort Chipewyan's concerns surfaced recently in Washington, D.C., when they were discussed at a hearing hosted by a Democratic senator who opposes the Keystone XL pipeline from Alberta to the Texas Gulf Coast.</p> <p> The government survey compared the incidence of 81 cases of 18 different types of cancer to the Alberta average.</p> <p> Bile duct and cervical cancer rates were high enough above average to be statistically significant.</p> <p> Cervical cancer is caused by a virus and U.S. research shows only weak links between bile duct cancers and environmental toxins, said Talbot.</p> <p> "There's only weak evidence for that to be associated with bile duct cancer and there are a lot of other, stronger-linked ones that we can do something about in the community."</p> <p> Bile duct cancer is more strongly linked to diabetes, obesity, cirrhosis and hepatitis C, Talbot said.</p> <p> He added that cancer rates in Fort Chipewyan's children under 15 are low, which also suggests environmental contamination isn't a significant factor because children are more sensitive to it.</p> <p> There's also some initial evidence to suggest that aboriginals suffer from bile duct cancer at a higher rate than average, Talbot said.</p> <p> The chief medical health officer did acknowledge that people in Fort Chipewyan are probably correct in their feeling that cancer is becoming more common. Rates of the disease are gradually rising everywhere, partly because the population is getting older, Talbot said.</p> <p> "The perception is that there's more cancer and to some extent that's correct, but it's not unique to this community."</p> <p> Chief Adam and Alberta Liberal Leader Raj Sherman said the survey was too limited in its approach.</p> <p> "This report appears to be a whitewash because of its internal nature and because of its extremely narrow focus," said Sherman.</p> <p> Both Sherman and Adam are calling for a comprehensive Fort Chipewyan health study to be conducted by a group independent of industry and government.</p> <p> The government had commissioned such a study, but the chief and council for one area band backed out over fears it wouldn't be independent. The band also wanted assurances it would focus on cancer rates and would include a baseline health study, neither of which it got.</p> <p> The Athabasca Chipewyan has since commissioned its own health review. Adam said it should be released soon.</p> <p> The government study was quickly released Monday in Edmonton after the Alberta Liberals obtained a copy of it through access-to-information legislation.</p> <p> Alberta Health Services had planned to share it first with the community, but a meeting to do that was cancelled after the government refused to give advance copies of the survey to the First Nations involved, said an Athabasca Chipewyan band spokeswoman.</p> <p> Courtoreille was angry the survey was released to reporters before his community had a chance to look at it.</p> <p> "Health Minister (Fred) Horne had promised to get us a copy of the report prior to releasing of these statistics and that didn't happen."</p>
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<p> Lab testing has confirmed that a Saskatoon man who was hospitalized after a recent trip to West Africa does not have the Ebola virus.</p> <p> In a statement released Tuesday, Canada's deputy chief public health officer said there are no confirmed cases of Ebola or any other hemorrhagic viruses in Canada.</p> <p> "In fact, there has never been a confirmed case of hemorrhagic virus in this country," the statement reads. It adds that the risk of contracting such a virus "remains very low" in Canada.</p> <p> Testing for the possible hemorrhagic virus case was conducted Monday night and results were confirmed by the Public Health Agency of Canada's National Microbiology Laboratory.</p> <p> Viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF) refers to a group of illnesses that can cause overall vascular damage and can impair the body's ability to regulate itself, according to the U.S.-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Ebola hemorrhagic fever, Lassa fever, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever and yellow fever are diseases that fall under the VHF family.</p> <p> Tuesday's confirmation that the Canadian man has not contracted a hemorrhagic virus comes after World Health Organization spokesperson Gregory Hartl said in a tweet earlier on Tuesday that the man, who has not been identified, tested negative for a number of illnesses found in Africa.</p> <p> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Canada&src=hash">#Canada</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Ebola&src=hash">#Ebola</a> suspect tests NEGATIVE for Ebola, Marburg, Lassa, CCHF, RVF <a href="https://twitter.com/WHO">@WHO</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/pahowho">@pahowho</a> at Winnipeg BSL4 lab</p> 鈥� Gregory Härtl (@HaertlG) <a href="https://twitter.com/HaertlG/statuses/448365461173182464">March 25, 2014</a> <p> The Canadian man is being kept in isolation at a Saskatoon hospital and remains seriously ill. According to Canada’s Public Health Agency, testing continues to diagnose his illness.</p> <p> On Monday, Saskatchewan health officials had said the man was being examined for a suspected case of viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF), cautioning that they hadn't yet identified the nature of the illness.</p> <p> He had recently returned from a trip to Liberia, where health officials are investigating the deaths of five people after a group crossed the border from neighbouring Guinea. The World Health Organization says the Ebola virus has killed 59 people in the West African country.</p> <p> According to officials, the Canadian man showed no signs of the illness on his return home.</p> <p> There is no vaccine for the Ebola virus, which leads to severe hemorrhagic fever. People with the virus can also bleed from the eyes and mouth, one of the final symptoms.</p> <p> Saskatchewan health officials say Ebola is transferrable through saliva and other bodily fluids, but it not as contagious as some might believe.</p>
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<p> Over an extraordinary 17 days and nights, until the moment Malaysia's prime minister stepped to a lectern to deliver investigators' sobering new findings, the fate of vanished Flight 370 hung on morbid conjecture and fragile hope.</p> <p> Many previous tragedies have transfixed us by revealing their power in cruel detail. But the disappearance of the Beijing-bound Boeing 777 without warning or explanation captivated imaginations around the world in no small part because of the near vacuum of firm information or solid leads.</p> <p> Nothing solid, that is, until late Monday night, when Prime Minister Najib Razak announced that an analysis of the plane's last-known signals to a satellite showed that it went down somewhere in the desolate waters of the southern Indian Ocean -- and that all on board perished.</p> <p> It was a turning point of sorts in one of the most perplexing mysteries of modern times. Najib's statement offered some resolution -- the plane has surely crashed -- but little else. No one has found the plane, or the passengers, or the answer to why all this happened in the first place. And solving those riddles involves a search that looms dauntingly across a vast expanse of unforgiving ocean at the bottom of the earth.</p> <p> The puzzle of Flight 370 has been complicated by a frustrating lack of hard facts since it vanished on a night flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8. Who could say what might have happened in the cockpit or the cabin -- or who or what was responsible? Who knew where the plane had gone -- up or down, north or south -- or what had become of its 239 passengers and crew?</p> <p> Hungry for answers, officials and investigators, relatives and reporters focused their questions fruitlessly on the two Iranian passengers who boarded the plane with stolen passports; then on the oil slicks in the Gulf of Thailand; then on the rumours that a Uighur passenger might have harboured anti-Chinese motives; then on the pilot's home flight simulator.</p> <p> The reluctance of Malaysian officials to reveal what they knew and sometimes to offer conflicting information only seemed to feed the doubts, even after many of the nefarious scenarios suggested early on were dismissed. And with limited evidence and not even a bit of confirmed wreckage, everyone from experts on aviation and terrorism to armchair travellers was left to speculate.</p> <p> It may have been hard to take rocker Courtney Love seriously when she posted a photo on Facebook showing an oil slick off the coast of Malaysia and suggested that it revealed the location of the missing plane. But when a fake news story showed up online supposedly quoting Sarah Palin as saying she believed the plane had flown directly to heaven, its plausibility hinged not on the former Alaska governor, but on the fact that just about anybody could and seemingly did have an opinion on the flight's fate.</p> <p> That's probably because most people felt connected to it and, therefore, invested in it. As Australia's opposition leader Bill Shorten put it, "There is something about a plane disappearing which links all the citizens of the globe. These people who disappeared on this flight could be any of us."</p> <p> While many of the theories presented were well-informed speculation based on deep experience and thoughtful analysis, they all had one flaw or another, and could not dispel the void. With so little to go on, families of those aboard grasped at the clouds of uncertainty, which allowed them to maintain a sense, however shaky, that that the plane might possibly be found intact, their relatives found alive.</p> <p> "Dearest love, I hope you are able to get some rest where you are, and that they are feeding you," Sarah Bajc wrote last week in a Facebook post to her boyfriend, Philip Wood, a native of Texas who was on board. "Any chance they include a glass of wine with dinner?"</p> <p> It was one of a heartbreaking string of love notes she sent out into the electronic ether, as she clung to the hope that her partner was still alive. A few days later: "Hi baby, It has been a lazy Sunday here. I cannot imagine what you must be going through." Later still: "Good morning baby, how are you holding up? I'm doing my best to bring you hope and courage to continue the fight."</p> <p> And fight the families did -- for any scrap of information that might reveal their loved ones' fate. Gut-wrenching grief, frustration and, eventually, rage bubbled over among some of the family members, who accused the Malaysian government of withholding information. Before a news briefing in Kuala Lumpur, two Chinese relatives of passengers held up a banner demanding the truth.</p> <p> "I want to see my son!" one of the women cried, before being carried away by security as she wept and screamed.</p> <p> And then, at last, came a break -- or at least, what seemed like one. On March 20, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott stunned the world when he stood up during what had been a routine session of parliament, slipped on his glasses and began to read from a statement:</p> <p> "New and credible information has come to light in relation to the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in the southern Indian Ocean," he began. "The Australian Maritime Safety Authority has received information based on satellite imagery of objects possibly related to the search."</p> <p> The objects -- two blurry, whitish blobs captured in a satellite image -- were located in a patch of the Indian Ocean, near absolutely nothing. The closest major body of land was Australia's west coast, 2,500 kilometres (1,550 miles) away.</p> <p> The hunt was on in earnest. Military planes from Australia, the U.S. and New Zealand had already been searching the area and more planes from China and Japan were sent to help, while an Australian navy supply ship, the HMAS Success, scoured the waters, some of the roughest and remotest in the world.</p> <p> More potential clues began popping up: A civil aircraft taking part in the search on Saturday spotted several small objects floating in the water, including a wooden pallet surrounded by straps. Could it have been from the aircraft? Malaysia Airlines confirmed the flight did, indeed, have wooden pallets on board. But pallets are also commonly used in the shipping industry. A New Zealand military aircraft tried to find the objects for closer inspection, but found only clumps of seaweed.</p> <p> The sense that searchers were getting close grew when more satellite data emerged; China announced it had captured a large object within the search zone on one of its satellites, and France said it had satellite data that may have identified debris from the missing plane.</p> <p> More objects of potential interest were spotted by the search planes crisscrossing the skies: a grey or green circular object and an orange rectangular object. A white, square object glimpsed through a break in the clouds.</p> <p> The U.S. sent a Towed Pinger Locator to the region in case a debris field was found, in the hopes it could locate the plane's so-called black box. An Australian navy support vessel, the Ocean Shield, equipped with acoustic detection equipment, was also moving into the search zone.</p> <p> But except for analysts' fresh conclusion based on satellite data that the flight had gone down, there are still no hard answers. And finding the jet remains far from a certainty.</p> <p> For Bajc, the woman who has all along refused to give up hope that her boyfriend is still alive, Malaysia's fatalist announcement offered little resolution.</p> <p> "I need closure to be certain but cannot keep on with public efforts against all odds," she wrote in an email. "I STILL feel his presence, so perhaps it was his soul all along."</p> <p> Associated Press writer Aritz Parra in Beijing contributed to this report.</p>
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<p> Giving last-minute kisses to wives and girlfriends, Ukrainian marines in Crimea piled into buses Tuesday to head back to the mainland. Former comrades saluted them from outside a base that has been overrun by Russian forces.</p> <p> It was a low-key exit from the eastern port of Feodosia, with fewer than a dozen friends or relatives on hand to bid the marines farewell. A troop transporter bearing black Russian military plates trailed the bus as it pulled away.</p> <p> Their departure came as Ukraine's defence minister stepped down Tuesday after harsh criticism for authorities' often-hesitant reaction to Russia's annexation of Crimea, which was formalized following a hastily organized referendum this month. And while Ukraine struggled to deal with its humbling by Russia, it also faced the menace of seething Ukrainian nationalists angered by the police killing of a leading radical.</p> <p> Troops were given the stark choice of staying in Crimea and switching to work for Russia or leaving the peninsula to keep their jobs with Ukraine.</p> <p> So far, 131 Ukrainian marines have left Crimea, the defence ministry said. They are going to be stationed temporarily at a military barracks in the southern town of Genichesk but their final destination is still unclear.</p> <p> One serviceman, 30-year old Senior Lt. Anatoly Mozgovoy, told The Associated Press that he left his wife and seven-month-old daughter behind to stay with his mother-in-law in Crimea.</p> <p> "The Russians threatened, intimidated, bullied and tried to get us to switch sides to Russia. It has been very difficult to resist this enormous pressure but I have made a choice that I can live with," Mozgovoy said by phone from Genichesk. "We were greeted as heroes in Ukraine. I was able to breathe freely for the first time in months."</p> <p> When he finds out where he is being permanently stationed, Mozgovoy plans to reunite the family.</p> <p> At a summit on nuclear security in The Hague, Netherlands, President Barack Obama said Russian troops would not be dislodged by force from Crimea. He reminded the audience that one of the achievements of his first nuclear summit in 2010 "was Ukraine's decision to remove all of its highly enriched uranium from its nuclear fuel sites."</p> <p> "Had that not happened, those dangerous nuclear materials would still be there now. And the difficult situation we're dealing with in Ukraine today would involve yet another level of concern," Obama said.</p> <p> In an address to parliament in Kyiv, Defence Minister Igor Tenyukh denied that he had failed to issue clear instructions to his troops but reserved the right to resign. The order to withdraw from Crimea was issued Monday, a week after many bases had already been stormed and seized by pro-Russian forces.</p> <p> Lawmakers initially refused Tenyukh's resignation but later accepted it and replaced him with Col. Gen. Mykhailo Koval.</p> <p> About 4,300 Ukrainian servicemen and 2,200 of their relatives have asked to leave Crimea, Tenyukh said Tuesday. That means about two-thirds of the 18,800 military personnel and relatives that he said were stationed on the Black Sea peninsula were taking their chances in Crimea.</p> <p> Tenyukh said accommodations for incoming soldiers were being prepared at boarding houses and other facilities in Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital. Oleksandr Rozmaznin, deputy chief of operations for Ukraine's armed forces, said navy troops were being redeployed in port cities along Ukraine's southern mainland -- in Odesa, Mykolaiv and Kherson.</p> <p> The Defence Ministry, meanwhile, said 11 of its servicemen have been abducted by Russian troops and remain unaccounted for, including Col. Yuliy Mamchur, a commander who earned wide plaudits in Ukraine for defying besieging pro-Russian forces until his base was stormed over the weekend.</p> <p> Ukraine's new government is struggling to consolidate control amid ominous signals of discontent from Right Sector, a radical nationalist movement that played a key role in the anti-government demonstrations which prompted President Viktor Yanukovych to flee to Russia in February.</p> <p> One radical, Oleksandr Muzychko, was shot dead overnight as he was being detained by police, the Interior Ministry said Tuesday.</p> <p> Moscow has cited the alleged influence of nationalist groups like Right Sector to justify its hasty annexation of Crimea, which has a large Russian majority.</p> <p> Russian state television, which is widely viewed by Ukraine's Russian-speaking population in the east, has regularly aired lurid reports on Muzychko's antics as part of what media analysts say is a sustained effort to undermine the government in Kyiv.</p> <p> But many in Ukraine downplay the group's importance and it has no posts in the new government. Police say Muzychko was being sought for organized crime links, hooliganism and threatening public officials.</p> <p> Right Sector leader Dmytro Yarosh lashed out at his killing.</p> <p> "We cannot silently watch as the Interior Ministry carries out active anti-revolutionary activities," Yarosh said.</p> <p> His group demanded the immediate resignation of Interior Minister Arsen Avakov and the arrest of the head of the Sokol special forces.</p> <p> Amid the country's political turmoil, Ukraine's economy is in a dire state and representatives from the International Monetary Fund have been holding talks with the new government for weeks on the terms of a potential bailout.</p> <p> Officials in Moscow, meanwhile, warned Kyiv that the country's new government will have to pay more for Russian gas. President Vladimir Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said a gas discount that Russia had previously given Ukraine was linked to Russian Black Sea fleet's lease in Crimea and no longer valid.</p> <p> But he added the Russian natural gas giant Gazprom would have to set the new price.</p> <p> In November, Russia agreed to help prop up Yanukovych's teetering government by selling Ukraine gas at $268.5 per thousand cubic meters, but that discounted price has been scrapped. Ukraine's Energy Minister Yury Prodan said Tuesday that Kyiv would pay Gazprom no more than $387 per thousand cubic meters for gas.</p> <p> The U.S. and the EU have both hit Russia with sanctions for annexing Crimea, and NATO member Norway on Tuesday suspended joint activities with Russia's military. But Russia has so far shrugged off the sanctions, including being tossed out of the elite Group of Eight developed nations.</p> <p> Officials say the other G-8 nations with meet, without Russia, in Brussels in June.</p>
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<p> TORONTO -- BlackBerry is about to launch an update to its popular BlackBerry Messenger chat service that it hopes will rake in some extra coin.</p> <p> The Waterloo, Ont.-based technology firm is looking to generate revenue with its BBM app through sponsorships with brand names and by launching a new BBM Shop that deals in virtual goods.</p> <p> The plan delivers on a promise last year when it said BBM, which has grown to more than 85 million since the chat service became available to iPhones and Android devices, would become a money-making business,</p> <p> The company has no intentions to start charging most users for the app, opting instead for various other hooks to drive revenues, from selling enhanced emoticons known as "stickers" to the eventual launch of a secure payment platform.</p> <p> "At no point should monetization come at the expense of the user," said David Proulx, senior director of BBM Business Development at a meeting with reporters Tuesday.</p> <p> "Approaches we're taking all -- in their own way -- add incremental value to the BBM experience."</p> <p> The technology community was skeptical when BlackBerry first talked about plans to make the BBM service a viable business, but over the past few months chat applications have grabbed the attention of investors after Facebook purchased the competing service WhatsApp for US$19 billion.</p> <p> Now it's up to BlackBerry to generate money from its own service without alienating users.</p> <p> When an update to the BBM software is released "within the next week," the company will open the doors to a new virtual shop which will heavily promote a line of virtual stickers designed by various artists.</p> <p> While the "sticker" phenomenon has yet to truly catch on in North America, it's wildly popular in Asia where it has replaced the emoticon as a primary form of communication online, Proulx said.</p> <p> Facebook's messaging service has its own line of large and colourful pictures that users can use to convey their emotions.</p> <p> BlackBerry hopes to expand standard emoticons into a more branded experience with partners like World Wrestling Entertainment Inc.</p> <p> Further sponsorship deals will be made through an updated version of its BBM Channels service, which will allow users to follow their favourite companies or download sponsored apps that are catered to their specific interests, whether its music, sports or business.</p> <p> For corporate users the company will launch BBM Protected this summer. Companies can purchase the enhanced level of encryption as part its enterprise services.</p> <p> In the longer term, BlackBerry hopes to turn BBM into a mobile financial services tool that will allow users to link their bank account to their phone for easier payments.</p> <p> While the company tested out a early version of the idea with BBM Money in Indonesia, Proulx said it will still be awhile before other parts of the world get to access similar technology.</p> <p> BlackBerry is scheduled to report its fourth-quarter and year-end financial results early Friday.</p>
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<p> KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- China demanded Tuesday that Malaysia turn over the satellite data used to conclude that a Malaysia Airlines jetliner had crashed in the southern Indian Ocean, killing all 239 on board. Officials sharply narrowed the search area as a result of that assessment, but the zone remains as large as Texas and Oklahoma combined.</p> <p> Australia said improved weather would allow the hunt for the plane to resume Wednesday after gale-force winds and heavy rain forced a daylong delay. Searchers face a daunting task of combing a vast expanse of choppy seas for suspected remnants of the aircraft sighted earlier.</p> <p> "We're not searching for a needle in a haystack -- we're still trying to define where the haystack is," Australia's deputy defence chief, Air Marshal Mark Binskin, told reporters at a military base in Perth as idled planes stood behind him.</p> <p> Late Monday, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak announced that a new analysis of satellite data confirmed the plane had crashed in a remote part of the southern Indian Ocean.</p> <p> That announcement unleashed a storm of sorrow and anger among the families of the plane's passengers and crew -- two-thirds of them Chinese. Family members of the passengers have complained bitterly about a lack of reliable information and some say they are not being told the whole truth.</p> <p> Nearly 100 relatives and their supporters marched Tuesday to the Malaysian Embassy in Beijing, where they threw plastic water bottles, tried to rush the gate and chanted, "Liars!"</p> <p> Many wore white T-shirts that read "Let's pray for MH370" as they held banners and shouted, "Tell the truth! Return our relatives!"</p> <p> There was a heavy police presence at the embassy. Police briefly scuffled with a group of relatives who tried to approach journalists.</p> <p> In a clear statement of support for the families, Chinese President Xi Jinping ordered a special envoy, Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Yesui, to Kuala Lumpur to deal with the case. Deputy Foreign Minister Xie Hangsheng told Malaysia's ambassador that China wanted to know exactly what led Najib to announce that the plane had been lost, a statement on the ministry's website said.</p> <p> Investigators and the Malaysian government have been able to say little with certainty about Flight 370's fate since it disappeared on March 8 shortly after taking off from Kuala Lumpur for Beijing.</p> <p> Left unanswered are many troubling questions about why it was so far off course. Experts piecing together radar and satellite data believe the plane back-tracked over Malaysia and then travelled in the opposite direction to the Indian Ocean.</p> <p> Investigators will be looking at various possibilities including mechanical or electrical failure, hijacking, sabotage, terrorism or issues related to the mental health of the pilots or someone else on board.</p> <p> "We do not know why. We do not know how. We do not know how the terrible tragedy happened," Malaysia Airlines' chief executive, Ahmad Jauhari Yahya, told reporters.</p> <p> The airline's chairman, Mohammed Nor Mohammed Yusof, said Tuesday it may take time for further answers to become clear.</p> <p> "This has been an unprecedented event requiring an unprecedented response," he said. "The investigation still underway may yet prove to be even longer and more complex than it has been since March 8th."</p> <p> He added that even though no wreckage has been found, there was no doubt the plane had crashed.</p> <p> "This by the evidence given to us, and by rational deduction, we could only arrive at that conclusion: That is, for Malaysia Airlines to declare that it has lost its plane, and by extension, the people in the plane," he said.</p> <p> The conclusions were based on an analysis of the brief signals the plane sent every hour to a satellite belonging to Inmarsat, a British company, even after other communication systems on the jetliner shut down for unknown reasons.</p> <p> The latest satellite information does not provide an exact location but just a rough estimate of where the jet crashed into the sea.</p> <p> Hishammuddin said the data is still being analyzed "to attempt to determine the final position of the aircraft" and that an international working group of satellite and aircraft performance experts had been set up. He did not give more details.</p> <p> The search area has been reduced as a result of the new data to 1.6 million square kilometres (622,000 square miles), a massive expanse of ocean, but just 20 per cent of the area that was previously being searched, he said.</p> <p> There had been two corridors -- based on rough satellite data -- for the search. Hishammuddin said operations had been halted in the northern corridor that swept up from Malaysia toward Central Asia, as well as in the northern section of the southern corridor that arches down from Malaysia toward Antarctica.</p> <p> Although there have been an increasing number of apparent leads, there has been no confirmed identification of any debris.</p> <p> Australian and Chinese search planes spotted floating objects in an area 2,500 kilometres (1,550 miles) southwest of Perth on Monday, but none was retrieved. Now, with the 24-hour delay in the search, those objects and other possible debris from the plane could drift to an even wider area.</p> <p> "A visual search will resume tomorrow when the weather is expected to improve after gale-force winds and heavy swells resulted in the suspension of the search operation on Tuesday," said the Australian Maritime Safety Authority, which is overseeing the search out of Perth, Australia.</p> <p> There is a race against the clock to find any trace of the plane that could lead searchers to the black boxes, whose battery-powered "pinger" could stop sending signals within two weeks. The batteries are designed to last at least a month.</p> <p> Several countries have begun moving specialized equipment into the area to prepare for a search for the plane and its black boxes, the common name for the cockpit voice and data recorders, needed to help determine what happened to the jetliner.</p> <p> Hishammuddin said a U.S. Navy deep-sea black box locator was on its way to Australia and would be installed on an Australian navy support vessel, the Ocean Shield, which is expected to arrive in several days. It is not expected to reach the search area until April 5.</p> <p> There are 26 countries involved in the search, and Hishammudin said the problems now facing the hunt to recover Flight 370 are not diplomatic "but technical and logistical."</p> <p> The U.S. Navy has also sent an unmanned underwater vehicle to Perth that could be used if debris is located, said Rear Adm. John Kirby, a Pentagon spokesman.</p> <p> Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said he had spoken to Najib to offer help with the ongoing search and investigation.</p> <p> "What up until now has been a search, moves into a recovery and investigation phase," Abbott said. "I have offered Malaysia, as the country legally responsible for this, every assistance and co-operation from Australia."</p> <p> The search for the wreckage and the plane's recorders could take years because the ocean is up to 7,000 metres (23,000 feet) deep in some parts. It took two years to find the black box from an Air France jet that went down in the Atlantic Ocean on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris in 2009, and searchers knew within days where the crash site was.</p> <p> "We've got to get lucky," said John Goglia, a former member of the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board. "It's a race to get to the area in time to catch the black box pinger while it's still working."</p>
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<p> A 42-year-old man is facing sexual assault charges for groping two young girls in public on two separate occasions.</p> <p> Calvin Soosay is charged with two counts of sexual assault, two counts of sexual interference and two counts of breach of probation stemming from two incidents this past month.</p> <p> The latest occurred on the Southgate LRT platform on the afternoon of March 11. The accused reportedly approached and groped a 13-year-old girl walking on the platform.</p> <p> Another incident occurred on February 24 at the downtown library. Police say the accused struck up a conversation with a 10-year-old girl in the children’s section of the library and then sexually assaulted her. Soosay fled on foot.</p> <p> With help from library staff, police identified and arrested the man on March 12.</p> <p> Police believe there may be other complaints connected to Soosay and are asking people to come forward.</p> <p> To contact Edmonton police, you are encouraged to call 780-423-4567 or #377 from a mobile phone. Anonymous information can be submitted to Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or <a href="https://www.tipsubmit.com/start.htm">online</a>.</p>
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<p> The City of Calgary says that it is on schedule to repair and shore up the banks of the Bow River before this year’s flood season.</p> <p> Work has been ongoing to repair pathways all the way along the Bow and Elbow Rivers since the floodwaters receded.</p> <p> Frank Frigo, with the City of Calgary Water Services, says the roadway has been rebuilt and water lines put back in place.</p> <p> He says that in addition to the erosion protection and riverbank restoration, work has been done to protect from future flooding.</p> <p> “We’re ensuring that we have protection to a level that’s at least the one in 100 year level plus a half-metre. So, on top of the erosion protection work that’s being done, we’ve integrated some flood protection work in to make sure the embankment that we leave behind will be enough to protect from future floods.”</p> <p> Experts said earlier this year that it is always hard to tell what the flood risk is until we get further into the spring season.</p>
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<p> Over an extraordinary 17 days and nights, until the moment Malaysia's prime minister stepped to a lectern to deliver investigators' sobering new findings, the fate of vanished Flight 370 hung on morbid conjecture and fragile hope.</p> <p> Many previous tragedies have transfixed us by revealing their power in cruel detail. But the disappearance of the Beijing-bound Boeing 777 without warning or explanation captivated imaginations around the world in no small part because of the near vacuum of firm information or solid leads.</p> <p> Nothing solid, that is, until late Monday night, when Prime Minister Najib Razak announced that an analysis of the plane's last-known signals to a satellite showed that it went down somewhere in the desolate waters of the southern Indian Ocean -- and that all on board perished.</p> <p> It was a turning point of sorts in one of the most perplexing mysteries of modern times. Najib's statement offered some resolution -- the plane has surely crashed -- but little else. No one has found the plane, or the passengers, or the answer to why all this happened in the first place. And solving those riddles involves a search that looms dauntingly across a vast expanse of unforgiving ocean at the bottom of the earth.</p> <p> The puzzle of Flight 370 has been complicated by a frustrating lack of hard facts since it vanished on a night flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8. Who could say what might have happened in the cockpit or the cabin -- or who or what was responsible? Who knew where the plane had gone -- up or down, north or south -- or what had become of its 239 passengers and crew?</p> <p> Hungry for answers, officials and investigators, relatives and reporters focused their questions fruitlessly on the two Iranian passengers who boarded the plane with stolen passports; then on the oil slicks in the Gulf of Thailand; then on the rumours that a Uighur passenger might have harboured anti-Chinese motives; then on the pilot's home flight simulator.</p> <p> The reluctance of Malaysian officials to reveal what they knew and sometimes to offer conflicting information only seemed to feed the doubts, even after many of the nefarious scenarios suggested early on were dismissed. And with limited evidence and not even a bit of confirmed wreckage, everyone from experts on aviation and terrorism to armchair travellers was left to speculate.</p> <p> It may have been hard to take rocker Courtney Love seriously when she posted a photo on Facebook showing an oil slick off the coast of Malaysia and suggested that it revealed the location of the missing plane. But when a fake news story showed up online supposedly quoting Sarah Palin as saying she believed the plane had flown directly to heaven, its plausibility hinged not on the former Alaska governor, but on the fact that just about anybody could and seemingly did have an opinion on the flight's fate.</p> <p> That's probably because most people felt connected to it and, therefore, invested in it. As Australia's opposition leader Bill Shorten put it, "There is something about a plane disappearing which links all the citizens of the globe. These people who disappeared on this flight could be any of us."</p> <p> While many of the theories presented were well-informed speculation based on deep experience and thoughtful analysis, they all had one flaw or another, and could not dispel the void. With so little to go on, families of those aboard grasped at the clouds of uncertainty, which allowed them to maintain a sense, however shaky, that that the plane might possibly be found intact, their relatives found alive.</p> <p> "Dearest love, I hope you are able to get some rest where you are, and that they are feeding you," Sarah Bajc wrote last week in a Facebook post to her boyfriend, Philip Wood, a native of Texas who was on board. "Any chance they include a glass of wine with dinner?"</p> <p> It was one of a heartbreaking string of love notes she sent out into the electronic ether, as she clung to the hope that her partner was still alive. A few days later: "Hi baby, It has been a lazy Sunday here. I cannot imagine what you must be going through." Later still: "Good morning baby, how are you holding up? I'm doing my best to bring you hope and courage to continue the fight."</p> <p> And fight the families did -- for any scrap of information that might reveal their loved ones' fate. Gut-wrenching grief, frustration and, eventually, rage bubbled over among some of the family members, who accused the Malaysian government of withholding information. Before a news briefing in Kuala Lumpur, two Chinese relatives of passengers held up a banner demanding the truth.</p> <p> "I want to see my son!" one of the women cried, before being carried away by security as she wept and screamed.</p> <p> And then, at last, came a break -- or at least, what seemed like one. On March 20, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott stunned the world when he stood up during what had been a routine session of parliament, slipped on his glasses and began to read from a statement:</p> <p> "New and credible information has come to light in relation to the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in the southern Indian Ocean," he began. "The Australian Maritime Safety Authority has received information based on satellite imagery of objects possibly related to the search."</p> <p> The objects -- two blurry, whitish blobs captured in a satellite image -- were located in a patch of the Indian Ocean, near absolutely nothing. The closest major body of land was Australia's west coast, 2,500 kilometres (1,550 miles) away.</p> <p> The hunt was on in earnest. Military planes from Australia, the U.S. and New Zealand had already been searching the area and more planes from China and Japan were sent to help, while an Australian navy supply ship, the HMAS Success, scoured the waters, some of the roughest and remotest in the world.</p> <p> More potential clues began popping up: A civil aircraft taking part in the search on Saturday spotted several small objects floating in the water, including a wooden pallet surrounded by straps. Could it have been from the aircraft? Malaysia Airlines confirmed the flight did, indeed, have wooden pallets on board. But pallets are also commonly used in the shipping industry. A New Zealand military aircraft tried to find the objects for closer inspection, but found only clumps of seaweed.</p> <p> The sense that searchers were getting close grew when more satellite data emerged; China announced it had captured a large object within the search zone on one of its satellites, and France said it had satellite data that may have identified debris from the missing plane.</p> <p> More objects of potential interest were spotted by the search planes crisscrossing the skies: a grey or green circular object and an orange rectangular object. A white, square object glimpsed through a break in the clouds.</p> <p> The U.S. sent a Towed Pinger Locator to the region in case a debris field was found, in the hopes it could locate the plane's so-called black box. An Australian navy support vessel, the Ocean Shield, equipped with acoustic detection equipment, was also moving into the search zone.</p> <p> But except for analysts' fresh conclusion based on satellite data that the flight had gone down, there are still no hard answers. And finding the jet remains far from a certainty.</p> <p> For Bajc, the woman who has all along refused to give up hope that her boyfriend is still alive, Malaysia's fatalist announcement offered little resolution.</p> <p> "I need closure to be certain but cannot keep on with public efforts against all odds," she wrote in an email. "I STILL feel his presence, so perhaps it was his soul all along."</p> <p> Associated Press writer Aritz Parra in Beijing contributed to this report.</p>
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<p> A High River resident and a Lethbridge man with a deep connection to STARS air ambulance were among the big winners of the 2014 STARS Lottery.</p> <p> William Rader won a show home in Red Deer, worth $945,000, and says the win is a lot to let sink in.</p> <p> Rader was impacted by the flooding last June and was out of his home for nearly two months. “To hear that we won a house is surreal,” he said in a release.</p> <p> Brodin Fyke, who won a home truck and trailer package worth $127,430, says he buys a ticket every year.</p> <p> “My wife was in a motocross accident 10 years ago and was airlifted by STARS, so I believe this is a great cause to support,” said Fyke in a release.</p> <p> The lottery raised over $11M, with 3,200 prizes worth over $5.6M.</p> <p> The top five grand prize winners:</p> <ul> <li> Neil Lunn and Mona Cardinal of Didsbury - Calgary show home worth $1.3 million</li> <li> Bart Grover of Calgary - Edmonton show home worth $964,000</li> <li> William Rader of High River - Red Deer show home worth $945,000</li> <li> Andre Lavigne of Fort McMurray - Lethbridge show home worth $799,000</li> <li> Brodin Fyke of Lethbridge - Home away from home truck and trailer package worth $127,430</li> </ul> <p> Other top winners:</p> <ul> <li> Donald Rulke of Edmonton - Early bird prize winner - $100,000</li> <li> Kirk Byrtus of Edmonton - Early bird prize winner 鈥� 2014 BMW 435i, Las Vegas vacation and $5,000</li> <li> Ralph Holmes of Edmonton - 2014 Audi A5 Progressive Cabriolet Convertible</li> <li> Karen Taylor of Calgary - 2014 Mercedes-Benz GLK250BT</li> <li> Isabel and Dennis Schultz of Brooks - 2014 Dodge Ram 1500 SLT 4x4 Crew Cab</li> <li> Shona Karas of Calgary - 2014 Acura RDX AWD</li> </ul> <p> For general information about the STARS Lottery and for a complete list of winners, which will be posted on April 4, 2014, visit <a href="http://www.starslottery.ca">www.starslottery.ca</a>.</p>
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<p> Frigid temperatures, the coldest in 20 years in Calgary, prompted many residents to turn up the heat and gobble up more power.</p> <p> Alberta’s Electric System Operator says that from December 21, 2013, to March 20, 2014, energy usage was up four percent from the same period the year before.</p> <p> That difference, about 373 megawatts, equals the regular consumption of about 460,000 homes.</p> <p> "We typically see an increased demand this time of year, but with the deep freeze we have seen this winter and residential and industrial use increasing, this year has been a particularly notable one," says Miranda Keating Erickson, Vice President, Operations with the Alberta Electric System Operator (AESO) in a release.</p> <p> The peak-system demand increased by five percent from 2012 to 2013, which AESO says is the strongest growth in North America.</p> <p> AESO says that potential cold snaps could be behind us for the season, but it could be put under significant stresses if April has a lot of precipitation.</p>
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<p> Authorities in Medicine Hat are investigating reports of a possible abduction that took place on Monday night.</p> <p> According to the reports, a witness in the area of Collier Road S.E. heard a female screaming.</p> <p> When the witness looked outside, they spotted a dark-coloured, four-door Land Rover with a roof rack drive up onto the sidewalk.</p> <p> A young teenager, about 14 to 15 years old, was seen pulled inside the vehicle.</p> <p> Police checked over the area but have since turned up nothing.</p> <p> They have not received reports of missing persons and it is very early in the investigation.</p> <p> Medicine Hat Police Service requests that if anyone has information regarding this incident, please contact police at (403) 529-8400, (403) 529-8481 or Crime Stoppers.</p>
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<p> Police are continuing to look for three men who attacked and stabbed a man who was meeting someone in response to his Kijiji ad to sell his phone.</p> <p> A man in his 20s posted an online ad to sell his mobile phone and then made contact with a prospective buyer, who agreed to meet with him at the Shawnessy Shopping Centre on Sunday night.</p> <p> Three men showed up to meet with him and the seller got into their vehicle.</p> <p> That’s when, police say, he was stabbed.</p> <p> The assailants fled and the seller’s girlfriend rushed him to hospital, where he is now in serious, but stable, condition.</p> <p> The tale is all too familiar for Corey Clark, who was attacked two and a half years ago in Fort McMurray and knows how dangerous online classifieds can be.</p> <p> Clark, who still buys and sells items through online classified websites, says that when he heard about the stabbing, he can’t believe it happened in Calgary.</p> <p> He adds that some simple precautions can help reduce the risk. “I’ve never had an incident like that, or anything like that. I’d say houses, go to each other’s houses right, like meet there, that’s one of the best spots.”</p> <p> Police are recommending that you also shouldn’t meet with buyers or sellers alone.</p> <p> “If you’re going to meet someone, make sure it’s in a public place, even the parking lot of a police station would be a good idea,” says Staff Sergeant Jim Stinson with the Calgary Police Service. “Prior to meeting anyone, make sure you have their contact information, not just email information, and for sure don’t bring a whole lot of cash to these meetings.”</p> <p> Clark says he will always keep safety in mind when buying and selling on Kijiji.</p> <p> “If it’s not seeming right, then I will definitely not go and buy it, just because I don’t want to put myself in harm’s way for sure.”</p> <p> Police are looking for three suspects, all about 19 years old.</p> <p> The driver was a black male with very short hair, and there was a black male in the front passenger seat.</p> <p> The passenger in the rear seat was a black male with shoulder length dread locks, wearing a baseball cap, possibly with a star logo on it.</p> <p> Investigators also say the men fled in a mid 1990s white Jeep.</p>
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<p> The PC Party of Alberta has set the date to elect their new leader and the 16th Premier of Alberta.</p> <p> The decision was made during a meeting in Red Deer on Monday night.</p> <p> The first vote will take place on September 6 and, if needed, a second vote will take place on September 20.</p> <p> PC president Jim McCormick says they expected a tremendous group of candidates putting their name forward.</p> <p> "We put together a set of rules that will see the best candidate become the new leader of the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta and premier of this province."</p> <p> This year, candidates will need to donate $50,000 nomination fee to the party instead of the regular $40,000.</p> <p> A nomination date hasn't been set so far, but McCormick says it will be soon.</p>
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<p> KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- China demanded Tuesday that Malaysia turn over the satellite data used to conclude that a Malaysia Airlines jetliner had crashed in the southern Indian Ocean, killing all 239 on board. Officials sharply narrowed the search area as a result of that assessment, but the zone remains as large as Texas and Oklahoma combined.</p> <p> Australia said improved weather would allow the hunt for the plane to resume Wednesday after gale-force winds and heavy rain forced a daylong delay. Searchers face a daunting task of combing a vast expanse of choppy seas for suspected remnants of the aircraft sighted earlier.</p> <p> "We're not searching for a needle in a haystack -- we're still trying to define where the haystack is," Australia's deputy defence chief, Air Marshal Mark Binskin, told reporters at a military base in Perth as idled planes stood behind him.</p> <p> Late Monday, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak announced that a new analysis of satellite data confirmed the plane had crashed in a remote part of the southern Indian Ocean.</p> <p> That announcement unleashed a storm of sorrow and anger among the families of the plane's passengers and crew -- two-thirds of them Chinese. Family members of the passengers have complained bitterly about a lack of reliable information and some say they are not being told the whole truth.</p> <p> Nearly 100 relatives and their supporters marched Tuesday to the Malaysian Embassy in Beijing, where they threw plastic water bottles, tried to rush the gate and chanted, "Liars!"</p> <p> Many wore white T-shirts that read "Let's pray for MH370" as they held banners and shouted, "Tell the truth! Return our relatives!"</p> <p> There was a heavy police presence at the embassy. Police briefly scuffled with a group of relatives who tried to approach journalists.</p> <p> In a clear statement of support for the families, Chinese President Xi Jinping ordered a special envoy, Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Yesui, to Kuala Lumpur to deal with the case. Deputy Foreign Minister Xie Hangsheng told Malaysia's ambassador that China wanted to know exactly what led Najib to announce that the plane had been lost, a statement on the ministry's website said.</p> <p> Investigators and the Malaysian government have been able to say little with certainty about Flight 370's fate since it disappeared on March 8 shortly after taking off from Kuala Lumpur for Beijing.</p> <p> Left unanswered are many troubling questions about why it was so far off course. Experts piecing together radar and satellite data believe the plane back-tracked over Malaysia and then travelled in the opposite direction to the Indian Ocean.</p> <p> Investigators will be looking at various possibilities including mechanical or electrical failure, hijacking, sabotage, terrorism or issues related to the mental health of the pilots or someone else on board.</p> <p> "We do not know why. We do not know how. We do not know how the terrible tragedy happened," Malaysia Airlines' chief executive, Ahmad Jauhari Yahya, told reporters.</p> <p> The airline's chairman, Mohammed Nor Mohammed Yusof, said Tuesday it may take time for further answers to become clear.</p> <p> "This has been an unprecedented event requiring an unprecedented response," he said. "The investigation still underway may yet prove to be even longer and more complex than it has been since March 8th."</p> <p> He added that even though no wreckage has been found, there was no doubt the plane had crashed.</p> <p> "This by the evidence given to us, and by rational deduction, we could only arrive at that conclusion: That is, for Malaysia Airlines to declare that it has lost its plane, and by extension, the people in the plane," he said.</p> <p> The conclusions were based on an analysis of the brief signals the plane sent every hour to a satellite belonging to Inmarsat, a British company, even after other communication systems on the jetliner shut down for unknown reasons.</p> <p> The latest satellite information does not provide an exact location but just a rough estimate of where the jet crashed into the sea.</p> <p> Hishammuddin said the data is still being analyzed "to attempt to determine the final position of the aircraft" and that an international working group of satellite and aircraft performance experts had been set up. He did not give more details.</p> <p> The search area has been reduced as a result of the new data to 1.6 million square kilometres (622,000 square miles), a massive expanse of ocean, but just 20 per cent of the area that was previously being searched, he said.</p> <p> There had been two corridors -- based on rough satellite data -- for the search. Hishammuddin said operations had been halted in the northern corridor that swept up from Malaysia toward Central Asia, as well as in the northern section of the southern corridor that arches down from Malaysia toward Antarctica.</p> <p> Although there have been an increasing number of apparent leads, there has been no confirmed identification of any debris.</p> <p> Australian and Chinese search planes spotted floating objects in an area 2,500 kilometres (1,550 miles) southwest of Perth on Monday, but none was retrieved. Now, with the 24-hour delay in the search, those objects and other possible debris from the plane could drift to an even wider area.</p> <p> "A visual search will resume tomorrow when the weather is expected to improve after gale-force winds and heavy swells resulted in the suspension of the search operation on Tuesday," said the Australian Maritime Safety Authority, which is overseeing the search out of Perth, Australia.</p> <p> There is a race against the clock to find any trace of the plane that could lead searchers to the black boxes, whose battery-powered "pinger" could stop sending signals within two weeks. The batteries are designed to last at least a month.</p> <p> Several countries have begun moving specialized equipment into the area to prepare for a search for the plane and its black boxes, the common name for the cockpit voice and data recorders, needed to help determine what happened to the jetliner.</p> <p> Hishammuddin said a U.S. Navy deep-sea black box locator was on its way to Australia and would be installed on an Australian navy support vessel, the Ocean Shield, which is expected to arrive in several days. It is not expected to reach the search area until April 5.</p> <p> There are 26 countries involved in the search, and Hishammudin said the problems now facing the hunt to recover Flight 370 are not diplomatic "but technical and logistical."</p> <p> The U.S. Navy has also sent an unmanned underwater vehicle to Perth that could be used if debris is located, said Rear Adm. John Kirby, a Pentagon spokesman.</p> <p> Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said he had spoken to Najib to offer help with the ongoing search and investigation.</p> <p> "What up until now has been a search, moves into a recovery and investigation phase," Abbott said. "I have offered Malaysia, as the country legally responsible for this, every assistance and co-operation from Australia."</p> <p> The search for the wreckage and the plane's recorders could take years because the ocean is up to 7,000 metres (23,000 feet) deep in some parts. It took two years to find the black box from an Air France jet that went down in the Atlantic Ocean on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris in 2009, and searchers knew within days where the crash site was.</p> <p> "We've got to get lucky," said John Goglia, a former member of the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board. "It's a race to get to the area in time to catch the black box pinger while it's still working."</p>
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<p> Lab testing has confirmed that a Saskatoon man who was hospitalized after a recent trip to West Africa does not have the Ebola virus.</p> <p> In a statement released Tuesday, Canada's deputy chief public health officer said there are no confirmed cases of Ebola or any other hemorrhagic viruses in Canada.</p> <p> "In fact, there has never been a confirmed case of hemorrhagic virus in this country," the statement reads. It adds that the risk of contracting such a virus "remains very low" in Canada.</p> <p> Testing for the possible hemorrhagic virus case was conducted Monday night and results were confirmed by the Public Health Agency of Canada's National Microbiology Laboratory.</p> <p> Viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF) refers to a group of illnesses that can cause overall vascular damage and can impair the body's ability to regulate itself, according to the U.S.-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Ebola hemorrhagic fever, Lassa fever, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever and yellow fever are diseases that fall under the VHF family.</p> <p> Tuesday's confirmation that the Canadian man has not contracted a hemorrhagic virus comes after World Health Organization spokesperson Gregory Hartl said in a tweet earlier on Tuesday that the man, who has not been identified, tested negative for a number of illnesses found in Africa.</p> <p> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Canada&src=hash">#Canada</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Ebola&src=hash">#Ebola</a> suspect tests NEGATIVE for Ebola, Marburg, Lassa, CCHF, RVF <a href="https://twitter.com/WHO">@WHO</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/pahowho">@pahowho</a> at Winnipeg BSL4 lab</p> 鈥� Gregory Härtl (@HaertlG) <a href="https://twitter.com/HaertlG/statuses/448365461173182464">March 25, 2014</a> <p> The Canadian man is being kept in isolation at a Saskatoon hospital and remains seriously ill. According to Canada’s Public Health Agency, testing continues to diagnose his illness.</p> <p> On Monday, Saskatchewan health officials had said the man was being examined for a suspected case of viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF), cautioning that they hadn't yet identified the nature of the illness.</p> <p> He had recently returned from a trip to Liberia, where health officials are investigating the deaths of five people after a group crossed the border from neighbouring Guinea. The World Health Organization says the Ebola virus has killed 59 people in the West African country.</p> <p> According to officials, the Canadian man showed no signs of the illness on his return home.</p> <p> There is no vaccine for the Ebola virus, which leads to severe hemorrhagic fever. People with the virus can also bleed from the eyes and mouth, one of the final symptoms.</p> <p> Saskatchewan health officials say Ebola is transferrable through saliva and other bodily fluids, but it not as contagious as some might believe.</p>
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<p> VANCOUVER -- Federal Transport Minister Lisa Raitt says a government-backed 14-point action plan remains the best way to resolve a strike that has disrupted Canada's largest port, but container truck drivers insist a negotiated settlement is the only way out.</p> <p> A strike by more than 1,200 unionized and non-unionized drivers at Port Metro Vancouver's four container terminals initially brought truck traffic to a standstill, but the port says activity is increasing.</p> <p> Raitt says the resumption of activity indicates steps taken by the government and the port to resolve the dispute are working.</p> <p> The union representing several hundred truck drivers disagrees, and Unifor's national president, Jerry Dias, accuses Raitt of picking a fight with workers instead of trying to work something out at the bargaining table.</p> <p> The B.C. government has introduced back-to-work legislation that would force about 250 unionized truckers to return to their jobs, while the port has said truckers who aren't at work won't have their licences renewed.</p> <p> In addition to the unionized truckers, the dispute also involves more than 1,000 non-unionized workers.</p>
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<p> B.C. appears to be woefully unprepared for “the big one,” according to an auditor-general report released Tuesday.</p> <p> In his latest report, B.C. Auditor General Russ Jones said that the province’s emergency management organization is “not adequately prepared for a catastrophic earthquake.”</p> <p> Jones’ report also found the province and EMBC haven’t made earthquake preparedness a priority since the last audit was released in 1997.</p> <p> “EMBC’s current operating budget for emergency activities is approximately the same as it was in 2006,” he said in a news release.</p> <p> The audit called on EMBC to publicly report on its efforts to increase earthquake preparedness so British Columbians can plan for themselves accordingly.</p> <p> The report also made recommendations for EMBC to conduct regular earthquake exercises and to regularly review its earthquake program to “identify significant gaps and risks to a coordinated and integrated response.”</p> <p> The B.C. government responded swiftly to the report, saying it will take immediate action on all of Jones’ recommendations.</p> <p> The province said EMBC is already figuring out a long-term plan for achieving the goals laid out in the report.</p> <p> “A tough report offers a great opportunity,” Attorney General Suzanne Anton said in a statement. “This one in particular will help us continue to identify what work needs to be done to best prepare B.C. communities and families for a major earthquake.”</p> <p> The province said in coming months it will launch an awareness campaign geared toward getting B.C. residents to properly prepare for a seismic event.</p> <p> B.C. forms part of the North American portion of what is called the Pacific "Ring of Fire," a 40,000 km horseshoe of ocean trenches and volcanoes where 90 per cent of the world's earthquakes take place.</p> <p> According to Natural Resources Canada, the Geological Survey of Canada records more than 1,000 earthquakes in western Canada each year. More than 100 magnitude 5 or greater earthquakes have been recorded in the ocean west of Vancouver Island in the past 70 years.</p> <p> With files from The Canadian Press</p>
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<p> ARLINGTON, Wash. -- The death toll of 14 from a massive Washington state mudslide is expected to increase as crews continue to search through the soupy, debris-laden field and rainy conditions complicate matters for searchers on the ground and in the air.</p> <p> "We're expecting that number to go up throughout the day," Snohomish County Fire District 21 Chief Travis Hots said Tuesday.</p> <p> Dozens of people remain unaccounted for. Authorities are working off a list of 176 potentially missing people, though many of those names likely are duplicates and they think that number will decrease.</p> <p> Snohomish County Emergency Management Director John Pennington said officials expect to have an updated list later Tuesday.</p> <p> The landslide Saturday destroyed a small community 55 miles northeast of Seattle, flattening about two dozen homes and critically injuring several people.</p> <p> From the beginning, rescue crews on the ground have faced dangerous and unpredictable conditions as they navigated quicksand-like mud that was 15 feet deep in some places. Some who went in got caught up to their armpits in the thick, sticky sludge.</p> <p> A scientist who documented the landslide conditions on the hillside that buckled had warned in a 1999 report filed with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers of the "potential for a large catastrophic failure," The Seattle Times reported late Monday.</p> <p> That report was written by geomorphologist Daniel J. Miller and his wife, Lynne Rodgers Miller. "We've known it would happen at some point," Daniel Miller told the newspaper (http://is.gd/yodBQx).</p> <p> Snohomish County Executive John Lovick and Public Works Director Steve Thomsen said Monday night they were not aware of the 1999 report. "A slide of this magnitude is very difficult to predict," Thomsen told The Times. "There was no indication, no indication at all."</p> <p> Pennington said officials would examine the report, but he said local authorities were vigilant about warning of potential landslide dangers. A less severe slide struck the area in 2006.</p> <p> "We've done everything we could to protect them. We've mitigated the landslide from 2006," Pennington said at a morning news conference. "We're going to get to the bottom of this."</p> <p> He said the local homeowners "were very aware of the slide potential."</p> <p> The threat of potential flash floods or another landslide also loomed over rescuers. On Monday, some crews had to pull back because of concern that a hillside could shift.</p> <p> Hots said dozens of searchers will continue throughout the day. The dry, sunny weather has turned to rain, which was expected to continue throughout the day.</p> <p> "It's going to further complicate things, slow things down a bit," Hots said.</p>
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<p> How much sensitive data is on your smartphone and what are the odds of having your phone returned if you lose it? A security software company has just wrapped up a fascinating experiment and it turns out Canadians aren't as honest as you might have thought.</p> <p> Sixty smartphones loaded with fake personal and corporate data were intentionally lost in six major cities across Canada in an experiment dubbed “The Honeystick Project".</p> <p> "We really wanted to do this study to see what happens with these mobile phones when they get lost. What kind of personal information gets access on them, if any," said Lynn Hargrove, director of consumer solutions at Symantec Canada.</p> <p> One of the phones was left on a bench in the Royal Centre Mall in downtown Vancouver. It was then remotely tracked through GPS technology to see exactly where it went, what sensitive information was accessed and how often.</p> <p> It didn't take long for someone to pick the phone up. Exactly 13 minutes later, GPS tracking technology determined that someone had accessed the webmail on the smartphone.</p> <p> The phone was then carried to the Burrard SkyTrain station where webmail was accessed a second time. Then the smartphone moved to the Gastown areawhere the finder had time to search the device for HR salaries, calendar and webmail.</p> <p> From there, it was off to Rupert Park, where private photos were repeatedly accessed. The following day, the smartphone was plugged in to be recharged.</p> <p> The last recorded activity was reported on January 18th around 9:20 p.m. when the phone was again plugged in for charging. At no time did anyone attempt to return the phone to its owner.</p> <p> Of the 60 intentionally lost smartphones across Canada, only 33 attempts were made to return the device to its owner. Before attempting to return the smartphone, the vast majority of finders still accessed information on those lost devices, everything from HR files to online banking apps.</p> <p> "People are naturally curious, but it went way beyond that. They were looking for information. They were looking to gain access," said Hargrove.</p> <p> After crunching the data from the Honeystick Project experiment. It was determined that:</p> <ul> <li> 93% of finders had accessed the device</li> <li> 83% clicked on personal data like photos</li> <li> 63% clicked on corporate data like HR salaries, HR cases and corporate email clients</li> <li> 72% showed attempts to click on login and password reset screens.</li> </ul> <p> "I think the message here is phone security has to be at the paramount because you have so much personal, private information on that device. You never want that to get in the wrong hands," said Hargrove.</p> <p> To make things worse, it turns out Vancouverites were the least likely to return the lost smartphones. Of the ten phones in the Vancouver experiment, only three attempts were made to find the owner. Calgary, Toronto and Ottawa had the highest attempted return rate at 70 per cent.</p> <p> The security experts have a few simple tips.Use the screen lock feature on your phone and make sure you have a strong password. A shocking number of people use weak passwords like 1-2-3-4 or the word "password". And download security software onto your smartphone that has remote and lock capabilities so you can remotely lock and wipe all your personal information if the phone is lost or stolen.</p>
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<p> The suspicious death of a woman at a Burnaby apartment complex Monday night has sparked a murder investigation.</p> <p> The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team was called to a building in the 5100-block of Irving Street near Royal Oak Avenue just before 6 p.m.</p> <p> A woman inside the apartment reportedly suffered injuries and later died, according to IHIT Sgt. Bari Emam.</p> <p> “At this early stage of the investigation IHIT is working closely with members of the Burnaby RCMP to determine if this case is a homicide,” Emam said in a news release.</p> <p> IHIT was expected to release more information on the incident later Tuesday.</p> <p> No word on the identity of the victim or the nature of the injuries that led to her death.</p> <p> Watch 麻豆影视 at Noon for an update on this developing story.</p>
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<p> Part of Green Timbers Park remained cordoned off with police tape Tuesday morning as Mounties investigated the discovery of human remains.</p> <p> According to police, a passerby found the remains in a wooded area while walking in the park at around 6 p.m. Monday.</p> <p> RCMP couldn’t’ say whether the body belonged to a man or a woman, or how long it had been there.</p> <p> BC Coroners Service was expected at the scene late Tuesday morning.</p>
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<p> The first-degree murder trial for Matthew Foerster, who is charged with killing 18-year-old Taylor Van Diest, began Monday in Kelowna.</p> <p> Lisa Jean Helps, the defence lawyer for Foerster, said the 27-year-old is sorry for his actions but his motivations are the question.</p> <p> “My client is very remorseful and is accepting responsibility for causing the death of Ms. Van Diest but on what level of intent is a whole other matter," she told reporters outside the courthouse.</p> <p> Family friend Shirley States said she came to the courthouse to support the Van Diests.</p> <p> "This has been such a tragedy. And so we're here to give support to the family,” she said.</p> <p> Marie Van Diest, Taylor’s mother said she is relieved the case is finally in court.</p> <p> “Well it should have started almost a year ago, so of course we're highly relieved that things are finally underway. We can finally see some sort of justice doled out," she said.</p> <p> The teenaged Van Diest was found clinging to life near railway tracks in her hometown of Armstrong, B.C. on Halloween night and died Nov.1, 2011.</p> <p> RCMP Cst. Milan Ilic told the court he was there shortly after Van Diest was found, and heard the girl’s mother lean over her daughter.</p> <p> "You're going to make it. You're going to survive," Ilic reported hearing Van Diest say.</p> <p> Van Diest said that although she always thinks about that day, it is difficult to revisit.</p> <p> "It's pretty hard to relive what we went through [in] October 2011, and it's always in our minds of course, but to have it brought forth in your face like that, it's very difficult," she said.</p> <p> Crown counsel Frank Captuo spoke about a DNA match in his opening submission and also read a transcript from an interview where Foerster answered “yes” when asked if he “felt bad for killing Taylor”.</p> <p> The trial is expected to last several weeks.</p> <p> With a report from CTV’s Kent Molgat</p>
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<p> Areas around the Lower Mainland are at-risk for mudslides similar to the one in Washington state.</p> <p> Chilliwack has one of the fastest growing economies in Canada and more homes continue to be built on what can be unstable ground.</p> <p> Brent Ward, an Earth and Ocean Sciences professor at Simon Fraser University, said the area has a history of slides.</p> <p> “There's thick fine grain sediments, and there’s a long history of landslides,” he said.</p> <p> In May 2011 the Sunshine Valley slide destroyed several homes and cabins east of Hope, B.C. and in June a massive wall of mud trapped drivers in their cars on Highway1 between Chilliwack and Hope.</p> <p> “There's a legacy of houses that have been there for 30,40,60 years that could be in areas that are potentially at risk,” Ward said.</p> <p> Relatively new homes in Mission had to be destroyed by the city after a mudslide in 2007.</p> <p> “Out in Mission the ground there, there is a certain type of sediment that is very prone to failure,” Ward said.</p> <p> Other areas in B.C. that are not high-risk have also been the site of mudslides.</p> <p> In 2005 a North Vancouver woman was killed when the slope above her property collapsed and buried her home. A Johnson’s Landing slide near Kootenay Lake killed four people in 2012.</p> <p> Vancouver-based search-and-rescue team Canada Task Force was at the scene in the Johnson’s Landing slide and the 125-member crew is prepared to assist in Washington if needed.</p> <p> “We’ve offered observer status, so at some point we may get the call to send, if not a rescue squad down there, to send command staff in an observer status role,” said John McKearney of Canada Task Force.</p> <p> “We can learn so much just by sending a couple of people down there.”</p> <p> Ward said.that it is difficult to predict if the slides would occur in highly-populated areas.</p> <p> With a report from CTV Vancouver’s Shannon Paterson</p>
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<p> An organized campaign by anti-vaccination groups to sow doubt about the effectiveness and safety of vaccines has helped push some vaccination rates among kindergarten-aged children in B.C. to their lowest levels in a decade.</p> <p> And that campaign 鈥� which health officials say is riddled with misinformation, bad science and paranoia 鈥� is likely going to result in more outbreaks of the kind that made more than 200 unvaccinated people sick with the measles in the Fraser Valley this month.</p> <p> “It’s challenging. It’s frustrating. We have to continually work at educating the public as to the risks that these diseases continue to pose, and the benefits of getting the vaccine,” said Dr. David Scheifele, who runs the Vaccine Evaluation Centre at B.C. Children’s Hospital.</p> <p> The medical establishment is firmly on the side of vaccines being safe, and that vaccination in general has saved more lives than any other public health advance. Debilitating diseases like polio have been eradicated in North America, chiefly through widespread vaccine use, according to the Public Health Agency of Canada.</p> <p> But that scientific consensus is hardly reflected online, where parents concerned about vaccine safety can find websites that run the gamut from allegations that vaccines cause autism, to allegations that doctors look the other way from vaccine’s ill effects because they have been bought off by a powerful vaccination industry.</p> <p> Googling “vaccine risks” brings up a promoted link to an anti-vaccine website. While the top hit brings a searcher to the American Centre for Disease Control, the next one down is the B.C.-based Vaccination Risk Awareness Network, which includes web stories of people who believe their children were hurt by vaccines.</p> <p> Another group, the Vancouver-based Vaccine Resistance Network, is run by Joel Lord, who operates their website from his East Vancouver home.</p> <p> “It’s such a deep rabbit hole,” he told 麻豆影视. “There are so many layers to this.”</p> <p> Lord is a prolific writer, having published scores of articles on the VRM’s website. His organization held an anti-vaccine summit in Vancouver last year. He promotes what he calls a vaccine-free natural approach, because he believes the chemicals in vaccines are behind severe damage to children’s developing brains.</p> <p> “Look into the eyes of a child who has been seriously damaged by these early childhood shots and you have to go no further,” he said.</p> <p> Lord says the movement is getting help from high-profile celebrities such as Jenny McCarthy, who has said publicly that vaccines caused autism in her son.</p> <p> Efforts of people like Lord appear to be winning ground. In 2005, 81.4 per cent of kindergarten-age children in B.C. had received the five-in-one DaPTP vaccine, which provides protection against whooping cough, tetanus, polio, diphtheria, and haemophilus influenzae.</p> <p> By 2012, that had dropped to 75.5 per cent 鈥� meaning about one in four children hadn’t been vaccinated.</p> <p> That’s frustrating health professionals who are actively monitoring adverse reactions to vaccines that people like Lord are warning about 鈥� and aren’t finding anything.</p> <p> Concerns about vaccine safety in the 1980s prompted officials to set up Impact, the Immunization Monitoring Program, Active, which looks at every single reported case of vaccine adverse reactions in 12 hospitals across Canada, and possible adverse reactions including admissions to neurology wards.</p> <p> “We do a lot of searching and find very few problems. And we’re not finding anything new or worrisome,” said Scheifele.</p> <p> Dr. Scheifele says they monitor about 1500 cases a year, and in every case where a parent believes vaccines have resulted in sickness, and actively search out cases where neurological damage is suspected. An assessment is done for each child.</p> <p> The results of some two decades of monitoring have found no cases where autism has resulted from a vaccine. The reason, he says, is a co-incidence 鈥� many of these symptoms appear at the same time in a child’s development as their vaccine schedule.</p> <p> “It’s human nature to try to find connections between events. I’m not at all surprised that parents are making those connections. That’s why we need science to find the truth. What appears to be connected isn’t connected,” Dr. Scheifele said.</p> <p> The connection between autism and vaccines has been thoroughly debunked by a range of studies, according to a variety of health authorities, including the Public Health Agency of Canada, the World Health Organization, the Mayo Clinic and the American Centre for Disease Control. The researcher who published the original paper in a prestigious medical journal, The Lancet, had an undeclared financial conflict of interest, a British medical board found. The study was recalled, while the author, Dr. Andrew Wakefield, was barred from practicing medicine.</p> <p> There can be negative side effects to vaccines. For example, the worst case scenario of a measles vaccine would be brain swelling, which happens in about one in a million cases, Dr. Scheifele said. But the disease itself is about 1000 times worse, with brain swelling happening in one in a thousand cases.</p> <p> “One in a thousand odds in a lottery, you’d be buying tickets. That’s a good chance. Turn it around, that’s a serious risk. That should give people pause,” he said.</p> <p> And if you believe that your unvaccinated child simply won’t come in contact with the disease, think again 鈥� a Colorado study showed that unvaccinated children were about 40 times more likely to be infected, said Scheifele. That’s because the disease is very infectious 鈥� and unvaccinated children tend to be part of the same social groups.</p> <p> The perfect case study for a world without vaccination exists in some pockets of the third world, where a lack of vaccines lead to illness and death. More than 100,000 children die each year because of the measles.</p> <p> Scheifele says the spread of misinformation on the internet has surprised the medical establishment, he said.</p> <p> “The capacity for misinformation to spread rapidly is something we haven’t figured out how to combat effectively,” he said.</p>
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<p> VICTORIA -- Unionized truckers on strike at Vancouver's normally busy shipping container terminals could face fines of up to $400 a day if they don't return to their jobs once back-to-work legislation passes through the British Columbia legislature later this week.</p> <p> The Liberal government followed through with its promise to table back-to-work legislation for unionized truckers, introducing a bill Monday that also includes potential fines of up to $2,500 a day for union officers and $10,000 a day for the union itself, as well as their employers.</p> <p> The legislation, which calls for a 90-day cooling off period, only applies to the 250 unionized truckers at Port Metro Vancouver, Canada's largest port. More than 1,000 non-unionized truckers have also walked off the job.</p> <p> "We need to see some movement here," said B.C.'s labour minister, Shirley Bond.</p> <p> "We introduced legislation today, reluctantly. Today is about the economy -- not just in B.C., but about Canada. I'm starting to receive letters from producers, shippers, importers, exporters. They want their goods moving and so do we."</p> <p> The strike has affected the port's four container terminals in the Vancouver area. At its peak, the port said the strike was affecting $885 million worth of goods per week, though the situation has improved in the past week as truck traffic increased.</p> <p> The non-union truckers walked off the job late last month, and several hundred Unifor members joined them on March 10. They're demanding shorter wait times at the port and standardized rates of pay across the sector to prevent allegations of undercutting.</p> <p> Bond said the back-to-work legislation applies only to the union truckers.</p> <p> "This is the least interventionist we can be," she said. "It really says, 'You need to go back to work."'</p> <p> Union spokesman Gavin McGarrigle said his members are losing money under their current agreements and they feel they have little to lose if they stay on strike.</p> <p> "Our members are telling us if they go to work, they lose money," said McGarrigle, who was at the legislature when the back-to-work law was tabled.</p> <p> "They've got to put fuel in their trucks and they are telling us they just don't have anywhere to go anymore so they are telling us, at this stage, it's going to be business as usual and they'll continue to protest," he said.</p> <p> Last week, the government put forwarded a 14-point plan in an attempt to address the trucker's concerns. The proposal included a 10 per cent rate increase within 30 days and compensation for wait times, but the truckers said it wasn't enough.</p> <p> McGarrigle said it's possible tweaks to the plan in favour of the union and giving mediator Vince Ready the ability to make binding recommendations could spark a settlement without the need for legislation.</p> <p> Opposition New Democrat Leader Adrian Dix said his party would likely oppose the legislation.</p> <p> Dix said the government is bullying truckers, who he described as small business people, by allowing the port to threaten to take away licence privileges.</p> <p> Last week, the port announced truckers whose licences are set to expire in March and April won't have them renewed if they haven't returned to work.</p> <p> About half of the port's shipping container traffic moves in and out of the port by rail, while the other half moves by truck.</p> <p> Of the truck cargo, the port has said traffic is at about 40 per cent of normal levels. Earlier in the dispute, it was as low as 10 per cent.</p> <p> The truckers don't work for the port itself, but instead are typically either independent contracts, sub-contractors or direct employees of shipping companies.</p>
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<p> A small bus crashed into seven parked cars before smashing through the wall of an east Vancouver business just before noon Monday.</p> <p> Witnesses say the driver of the small bus lost control and started bumping into vehicles in the parking lot of the Walmart on Skeena Street near Grandview Highway.</p> <p> The vehicle then hit the side of a business called Filmgo Sales and went right through its brick wall.</p> <p> Sgt. Randy Fincham said at least one person was transported to hospital with non-life threatening injuries.</p> <p> Skeena was shut down to traffic while Vancouver police investigated.</p>
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<p> Maritimers are bracing for a spring storm that is expected to bring significant snowfall, strong winds and powerful storm surges to the region.</p> <p> CTV meteorologist Cindy Day says the storm will land in the Yarmouth area before sunrise Wednesday, pushing up through Halifax, Saint John and the Annapolis Valley between 7 a.m. and 8 a.m.</p> <p> It will continue to move throughout Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and into Prince Edward Island throughout the morning and early afternoon. Day says the snow will start to fly in Cape Breton around 2 p.m.</p> <p> The storm is expected to continue in the late afternoon and early evening into southern Newfoundland, where winds will also be intense but less snow is forecast.</p> <p> Day says Wednesday’s storm is considered a weather bomb, which is defined as a rapidly intensifying low-pressure system in which the central pressure drops 24 millibars in less than 24 hours. </p> <p> “All computer models project a central drop of as much as 40 millibars in 24 hours,” says Day.</p> <p> “That’s significant because that will tighten the pressure gradient and trigger a very strong counter-clockwise circulation around the storm’s center.”</p> <p> Between 30 and 40 centimetres is expected along southwestern Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia’s South Shore, southeastern New Brunswick and in central P.E.I.</p> <p> Central Nova Scotia will likely see 30 centimetres of snow, while the eastern half of the mainland will see about 20 centimetres. Day says there will be a changeover to rain for several hours before changing back to snow Wednesday evening.</p> <p> The New Brunswick side of the Bay of Fundy could see up to 30 centimetres of snow, while central New Brunswick will see between 10 and 15 centimetres. Less than five centimetres is expected in northern New Brunswick.</p> <p> Strong winds are expected to intensify late Tuesday, gusting up to 100 km/hr hour along the Atlantic coast by noon Wednesday.</p> <p> Prince Edward Island is expected to see particularly powerful gusts, with winds expected to reach 110 km/hr. The province's Office of Public Safety is advising Islanders to prepare for the possibility of power disruptions.</p> <p> "Snow and ice buildup on tree branches, rooftops and utility lines can lead to dangerous conditions with breaking branches, downed utility lines and possibly power outages," the office said in a news release.</p> <p> Storm surge warnings are in effect and coastal communities are preparing for flooding and potential damage to docks and properties.</p> <p> “Tomorrow afternoon and evening, higher-than-normal water levels combined with rapidly-rising wave activity could produce local flooding along much of the Atlantic coast of mainland Nova Scotia during the high tide late Wednesday,” says Day.</p> <p> “These high water levels combined with the heavy pounding surf could give rise to some coastal erosion in some areas.”</p> <p> Gordon Hayward, the manager of winter operations for Halifax, said the storm will likely take the city over its $20 million annual budget for snow removal.</p> <p> Hayward said it's not uncommon for snow removal crews to be out clearing the streets late in March, but he doesn't recall similar forecasts of such snow accumulation and wind speeds this time of year.</p> <p> "If you don't have to be out there, stay off the road,” warns Hayward. “It's not going to be fun, it's not going to be pretty."</p> <p> Neera Ritcey, spokeswoman for Nova Scotia Power, said the utility is watching for a combination of heavy, wet snow and wind and is deploying repair crews around the province.</p> <p> "We're ready to respond as needed," she said.</p> <p> With files from CTV Atlantic's Cindy Day and The Canadian Press</p>
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<p> Police say a missing Halifax man has been found safe and sound.</p> <p> Police issued a release Tuesday morning asking for the public’s help in locating Jonathan Fisher, 33.</p> <p> Investigators said Fisher was last seen at Alexandra’s Pizza on Queen Street around 11 p.m. Sunday.</p> <p> Fisher failed to show up for work on Monday and police said his family and friends were concerned for his well-being.</p> <p> Police said Tuesday afternoon that Fisher had been found safe and sound in Halifax.</p>
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<p> A 27-year-old Nova Scotia man is facing a slew of drug and weapons charges after police raided a home in Lunenburg County.</p> <p> Police executed a search warrant at a home on Cove Road in Conquerall Bank on Friday.</p> <p> Officers seized a quantity of hydromorphone, cash, other drug-related property and several loaded firearms, including a sawed-off shotgun and three handguns.</p> <p> Sean Andrew Ivany was arrested on a parole violation warrant. Police say he remains in custody and is facing several charges:</p> <p style="margin-left:.5in;"> · Possession of firearms contrary to order (six counts)</p> <p style="margin-left:.5in;"> · Careless use of a firearm (six counts)</p> <p style="margin-left:.5in;"> · Possession of a firearm knowing its possession is unauthorized (six counts)</p> <p style="margin-left:.5in;"> · Possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose (seven counts)</p> <p style="margin-left:.5in;"> · Unauthorized possession of a firearm (five counts)</p> <p style="margin-left:.5in;"> · Possession of a prohibited or restricted firearm with ammunition (three counts)</p> <p style="margin-left:.5in;"> · Tampering with a serial number (two counts)</p> <p style="margin-left:.5in;"> · Possession of a controlled substance for the purpose of trafficking (two counts)</p> <p> Ivany is due to appear in Bridgewater provincial court at a later date.</p> <p> Police say the seizures remain under investigation.</p>
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<p> Three teens are in custody after shots were allegedly fired at a home in Halifax’s north end Monday evening.</p> <p> Police responded to the 2400 block of Gottingen Street at 8:45 p.m.</p> <p> Officers say windows of a home and a vehicle parked in the area sustained some damage. They determined the shots had been fired from a pellet gun.</p> <p> No injuries were reported.</p> <p> Investigators located three suspects at a nearby home and recovered a carbon dioxide gas-powered pellet gun.</p> <p> A 15-year-old boy and two 14-year-old boys were taken into custody. There is no word on charges at this time.</p> <p> Police say the incident remains under investigation.</p>
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<p> New Brunswick RCMP believe speed was a factor in a crash that sent four people to hospital on the weekend.</p> <p> St. Stephen RCMP spotted a vehicle speeding eastbound along Highway 1 around 2:45 a.m. Saturday. Police say the vehicle was travelling at more than 160 kilometres per hour.</p> <p> Officers tried to pull the vehicle over but police say the driver failed to stop and exited the highway at St. David Ridge Road.</p> <p> Police eventually found the vehicle, which had left the road and crashed into a tree.</p> <p> Two 20-year-old men and two girls, ages 16 and 17, were taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Police say they are all from the St. Stephen area.</p> <p> The collision is under investigation but police believe speed was a factor in the crash.</p>
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<p> HALIFAX -- The Nova Scotia government will deliver its spring budget April 3.</p> <p> Finance Minister Diana Whalen recently warned that wage and other cost pressures combined with poor economic growth will add to the government's challenges in the 2014-15 fiscal year.</p> <p> Whalen has said civil service job cuts are not a priority in the upcoming budget.</p> <p> The last fiscal update Whalen released in December projected a $481.7 million deficit for 2013-14 due to a large unfunded liability in the public service pension plan and a drop in government revenue.</p> <p> The budget will be the first for the Liberals since they were elected in October.</p>
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<p> FREDERICTON -- The New Brunswick government has sold its plane to an air ambulance service in Alberta for $2.8 million.</p> <p> The plane, which was used to transport the premier and members of cabinet, is going to Can-West Corporate Air Charters, a public service medevac contractor for Alberta based in Edmonton.</p> <p> The previous New Brunswick government bought the 2006 King Air B200 in 2008 for $4.5 million.</p> <p> Transportation Minister Claude Williams says use of the plane has been declining while costs for the crew, insurance, fuel and maintenance totalled almost $900,000 each year.</p> <p> Williams says the government will now charter flight services for government business trips.</p> <p> Three companies submitted bids for that service following a request for proposals last year but none of the bids met their required guidelines.</p> <p> Williams says a new request for proposals was issued in January and the results are being reviewed.</p>
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<p> Students who only smoke marijuana do better at school than classmates who smoke just tobacco, or who smoke both tobacco and pot, says a new study, which tracked substance use among teens over 30 years.</p> <p> Researchers from the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health analyzed data from a survey administered to nearly 39,000 Ontario students between 1981 and 2011. The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health asked students in Grades 7, 9 and 11 about their tobacco and marijuana use, and their academic performance.</p> <p> The study found that marijuana-only users did better at school than their counterparts who smoked only cigarettes or who smoked both cigarettes and marijuana. However, the findings reflect the fact that fewer students smoke tobacco today compared to 30 years ago, and those that do make up a very “marginalized, vulnerable” population, says lead study author Michael Chaiton, assistant professor in epidemiology and public health policy.</p> <p> About 92 per cent of tobacco users also use marijuana, the study found. However, only 25 per cent of marijuana uses also smoke tobacco.</p> <p> “It’s better relatively,” Chaiton says of marijuana-only users’ academic performance.</p> <p> Marijuana users don’t outperform non-users, Chaiton says.</p> <p> “Now there is a distinction between marijuana use and co-use with other substances, and it’s an indication of the changing social norms. So it’s not an absolute that they do better; it’s that social norms have changed and the population of people who use marijuana are more like the general population.”</p> <p> The study was published in the March edition of the Journal of School Health.</p> <p> In the 1980s, when the study began, there was less marijuana use among students. And those who did smoke pot also smoked tobacco. At the time, pot use among tobacco smokers was very low.</p> <p> Thirty years later, that had switched, the researchers found. As tobacco use declined, marijuana use shot up. And among the remaining tobacco users, marijuana use is now very high.</p> <p> One reason for the statistical switch, Chaiton says, is the effectiveness of anti-tobacco messaging in recent years.</p> <p> “The population of youth smokers right now is one that is a fairly marginalized population, quite a vulnerable population, so they are at high rates of cannabis use but also of other drugs and other behaviours,” Chaiton says. “So the change in trends is that this is a social phenomenon. This is not that tobacco is causing this, it is something that has changed socially in the role of tobacco in society.”</p> <p> Now that marijuana smoking has become more of a social norm, Chaiton says, programs aimed at keeping youth from risky behaviours such as drug abuse must take into account two factors: that more students now smoke marijuana compared to 30 years ago, and that students who smoke tobacco are more likely to use marijuana or other drugs and engage in at-risk behaviours such as vandalism and theft.</p> <p> As marijuana use becomes more prevalent and socially acceptable, Chaiton says, the focus must turn to developing programs for youth that properly educate them on the risks.</p> <p> Tobacco and marijuana are “similar drugs in many different ways,” Chaiton notes, and “people dramatically underestimate the risks associated with cannabis use, particularly among youth.”</p> <p> “I would argue that we need to start talking about them in the same way and start addressing them in the same types of interventions,” he says, particularly given the growing public discussions about decriminalizing or legalizing marijuana.</p> <p> “If we do legalize or change the regulations in dramatic ways, that does change the social environment again and that can, as we’ve seen a number of times, cause big shifts in youth and we could see another big shift in marijuana use among youth.”</p>
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<p> TORONTO -- The odds of having a lost cellphone returned are just a little better than 50/50, while the chances of it being probed by its finder are close to 100 per cent, according to the results of an experiment conducted in six Canadian cities.</p> <p> Security software company Symantec dropped 10 phones each in Calgary, Halifax, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver and waited to see if they would be returned.</p> <p> Each phone was preloaded with icons for phoney apps designed to tempt the finders into tapping on them. Tracking software recorded what they couldn't resist peeking at.</p> <p> Stefano Tiranardi, an information protection specialist with Symantec Canada, says he's disappointed by the results of the experiment.</p> <p> "I was surprised at the higher-than-expected numbers," Tiranardi says.</p> <p> "Really, individuals who misplace a phone or have it stolen have absolutely no hope their private information will remain private."</p> <p> Of the 60 phones in the test, 55 per cent of them were picked up by someone who attempted to return the device.</p> <p> Twenty-seven phones were grabbed and never returned -- and they weren't even flashy high-end smartphones. Symantec used older Google Android phones for the experiment.</p> <p> Among the questions that Symantec wanted to answer with the study was how persistent people would be in poking around a found phone.</p> <p> The answer was very.</p> <p> One phone dropped at a Calgary bus stop was found by an honourable person eager to return it. But while waiting to establish contact with the rightful owner, that person did some extensive snooping.</p> <p> The phone was picked up just 25 minutes after being dropped and right away an app labelled Contacts and another with the name Social Networking were tapped. Nine minutes later, a HR Salaries app was opened.</p> <p> Soon after, an email was sent to an address labelled as "Me" in the Contacts app with an offer to return the phone.</p> <p> And the peeping continued.</p> <p> About half an hour later, a Passwords app was accessed. Then, after another hour had passed, Social Networking and Online Banking apps were tapped.</p> <p> A few days elapsed without the phone being used. When it was plugged in to recharge, several more apps were accessed and the following day, there was more digging into the contents of the phone.</p> <p> That storyline wasn't unusual.</p> <p> Ninety-three per cent of the phones were accessed in some way by the people who found them.</p> <p> Social networking and corporate-related apps were tapped on about two-thirds of the phones, while passwords, photos and emails apps were launched on half of the devices. An online banking app was accessed on one in three phones.</p> <p> While it appeared to researchers that seven per cent of the phones were not accessed in any way, that might not be the case.</p> <p> Tiranardi says the tracking of taps was based on the phone's mobile data connection and it's likely that one of two scenarios played out.</p> <p> It's possible the phones were taken to a lost and found and were turned off or remained untouched until their batteries died.</p> <p> Or the SIM cards from the phones could have been yanked immediately after they were found, which would have cut off the signal back to the researchers.</p> <p> "Somebody who picked it up could have figured, 'I'm selling this on eBay ... I'm going to go home, factory reset and try to wipe it and get rid of the phone,"' Tiranardi says.</p>
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<p> A portable computer hard drive containing the personal information of more than 500,000 student loan recipients was left unsecured for extended periods of time by government employees and was not protected by a password or encryption, Canada’s top privacy watchdog says.</p> <p> In a report tabled in Parliament on Tuesday, interim federal privacy commissioner Chantal Bernier detailed the various security procedures Employment and Social Development Canada failed to follow when dealing with the confidential information -- failures she said should serve as a lesson for every public sector department and agency.</p> <p> The report says the ESDC hard drive went missing in 2012. It contained the personal information -- including social insurance number, name, date of birth, home address, telephone number, loan amounts and balances -- of 583,000 Canada Student Loans Program borrowers from 2000 to 2006.</p> <p> The hard drive also included the gender, language and marital status for some borrowers, as well as information on about 250 ESDC employees.</p> <p> The ESDC subsequently reported the hard drive missing to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, and an investigation began in January 2013.</p> <p> The privacy commissioner’s report says that the ESDC has found no evidence that the personal information stored on the hard drive has been accessed or used for fraudulent purposes. But the results of that investigation show that numerous security procedures were not properly followed and that ESDC employees had contravened sections of the Privacy Act “related to the use, disposal and disclosure of personal information.</p> <p> “The report concludes that a gap between policies and practices at ESDC led to weaknesses in information management controls, physical security controls, and most importantly, the level of employee awareness of departmental policies and procedures,” a summary of the privacy commissioner’s report says.</p> <p> While ESDC policy required portable storage devices such as hard drives to be stored in a lockable filing cabinet when not in use, the report says that it was often left unsecured for extended periods of time. Even when it was stored in a filing cabinet, the report goes on to say, the cabinet was in an open cubicle and often not locked. The report says ESDC did not record the serial number of the hard drive and that “no specific employee was assigned responsibility for its custody.”</p> <p> ESDC also didn’t classify the hard drive as “a high-level threat to privacy,” and that neither “password protection nor encryption were implemented to protect the sensitive information on the portable hard drive.”</p> <p> The privacy commissioner’s investigation also revealed that ESDC did not track which employees used the device, or knew the exact contests of the portable drive at the time it went missing.</p> <p> EDSC staff lacked a “clear understanding of the information content on the hard drive," as well as “sufficient awareness about information stewardship, security responsibilities, IT controls and privacy threats, all areas covered by department policies,” the report says.</p> <p> “This incident should serve as a lesson for all organizations,” Bernier said in a summary of the investigation. “Protecting personal information cannot be ensured by having policies on paper. Policies must be put into practice each and every day and monitored regularly.”</p> <p> The report said that ESDC has accepted all of the privacy commissioner’s recommendations. They include:</p> <ul> <li> Severely restricting the use of portable storage devices and introducing computer software that blocks the use of any such devices on desktop computers without specific authorization;</li> <li> Periodically examining portable storage devices to make sure they are being used properly;</li> <li> Reviewing all materiel holdings, disposing of transitory records and classifying remaining records at the appropriate security level; and</li> <li> Mandatory employee training every two years on the protection of personal privacy</li> </ul> <p> The report also says the Office of the Privacy Commissioner will conduct a follow-up in one year to confirm ESDC’s progress in the implementation of the commissioner’s recommendations.</p>
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<p> VANCOUVER -- Federal Transport Minister Lisa Raitt says a government-backed 14-point action plan remains the best way to resolve a strike that has disrupted Canada's largest port, but container truck drivers insist a negotiated settlement is the only way out.</p> <p> A strike by more than 1,200 unionized and non-unionized drivers at Port Metro Vancouver's four container terminals initially brought truck traffic to a standstill, but the port says activity is increasing.</p> <p> Raitt says the resumption of activity indicates steps taken by the government and the port to resolve the dispute are working.</p> <p> The union representing several hundred truck drivers disagrees, and Unifor's national president, Jerry Dias, accuses Raitt of picking a fight with workers instead of trying to work something out at the bargaining table.</p> <p> The B.C. government has introduced back-to-work legislation that would force about 250 unionized truckers to return to their jobs, while the port has said truckers who aren't at work won't have their licences renewed.</p> <p> In addition to the unionized truckers, the dispute also involves more than 1,000 non-unionized workers.</p>
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<p> VICTORIA - B.C.'s auditor general says the provincial government isn't prepared for a catastrophic earthquake.</p> <p> In a report released today, auditor Russ Jones says Emergency Management BC has not made earthquake planning a priority.</p> <p> He says the Office of the Auditor General made similar conclusions about B.C.'s poor state of earthquake preparedness 17 years ago in a previous report, but not much has changed since then.</p> <p> Jones says successive B.C. governments have decided to dedicate resources to issues they consider more pressing than earthquake preparedness.</p> <p> Opposition New Democrat public safety critic Kathy Corrigan says B.C. is in an earthquake-prone zone, but the government has not taken the issue seriously.</p> <p> She says the recent attempt to appoint former Liberal solicitor general John Les to consult about earthquake preparedness now seems like a pre-emptive response to Jones's report, which the government already had.</p>
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<p> TORONTO -- Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne has moved the chairs around in her cabinet following the resignation of Municipal Affairs and Housing Minister Linda Jeffrey.</p> <p> Two backbenchers have been elevated to cabinet, while three others have changed jobs.</p> <p> Bill Mauro of Thunder Bay takes over Jeffrey's portfolio, while Oakville's Kevin Flynn talks over labour from Yasir Naqvi.</p> <p> Naqvi takes over community safety and correctional services from Madeleine Meilleur, who becomes Ontario's first francophone attorney general.</p> <p> Her predecessor John Gerretsen, who has said he won't run for re-election, is minister without portfolio and chairman of cabinet -- taking over from Jeffrey.</p> <p> Jeffrey announced earlier Tuesday that she's leaving provincial politics to run for mayor of Brampton.</p> <p> She said she was troubled by the spending controversies surrounding current Mayor Susan Fennell, which include a sky-high salary and the approval of hundreds of millions of dollars for projects that weren't completed or started.</p> <p> But the provincial Liberals have spending scandals of their own, including pulling the plug on two unpopular gas plants, which will cost taxpayers up to $1 billion.</p> <p> Jeffrey stood by the cancellation of the plants, despite the extraordinary cost that will likely become political cannon fodder.</p> <p> "It was a difficult decision, but I'm focused on what's happening in Brampton," she said.</p> <p> "Right now, I see some very troubling things that are being discovered on a daily, weekly basis. I think respect for taxpayers is an extraordinarily important quality and I plan to bring that to the job."</p> <p> Wynne has six months to call a byelection in Jeffrey's riding of Brampton-Springdale, unless there's a general election.</p> <p> She noted that Jeffrey was the first woman elected to represent Brampton in provincial politics.</p> <p> "I will personally miss Linda," Wynne said in a statement. "She is a woman of integrity and honesty and I wish her all the very best in her next endeavours."</p> <p> Jeffrey said she's been lobbied to run for mayor of Brampton over the past year, with former Progressive Conservative premier Bill Davis -- who represented his hometown in the legislature -- being one of the most vocal proponents.</p> <p> But she said she's only been considering it seriously since January.</p> <p> Jeffrey, who was first elected in the Liberal sweep of 2003, has also held the portfolios of natural resources, labour and minister responsible for seniors.</p> <p> She was also the point person when it came to fielding questions about whether troubled Toronto Mayor Rob Ford should step aside after he confessed to smoking crack cocaine.</p> <p> Jeffrey is the latest Liberal to announce that she's calling it quits since Wynne took the top job just over a year ago.</p> <p> Laurel Broten quit last July, following her cabinet colleagues Margarett Best, Dwight Duncan, Greg Sorbara, Chris Bentley and former premier Dalton McGuinty. Backbencher Kim Craitor also stepped down.</p> <p> Joining the exodus are Gerretsen, Government Services Minister John Milloy, former cabinet ministers Rick Bartolucci, Harinder Takhar and Donna Cansfield, as well as MPP Phil McNeely, who have all said they don't plan to run again.</p>
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<p> Maritime residents are bracing for a massive snowstorm that is expected to hit the region on Wednesday -- a chilly reminder that while the calendar says spring, winter has other plans.</p> <p> Halifax will likely see anywhere between 30 and 40 cm of snow on Wednesday, with gusting winds expected to get as high as 100 km/h around noon.</p> <p> Areas south of Halifax -- Lunenburg County, Queens County and Shelburne County -- could see as much as 50 cm of snow.</p> <p> AccuWeather meteorologist Bernie Rayno said the worst of the storm is expected to hit Wednesday afternoon and into the evening in parts of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island.</p> <p> “This is as bad as it gets and it will be a full-fledged blizzard,” Rayno told CTV’s News Channel in an interview from AccuWeather’s head offices in State College, Pa.</p> <p> Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil urged residents Tuesday to prepare for the storm and look out for their neighbours.</p> <p> “If there are people in your community 鈥� that are living alone or are elderly or needing some support, make sure you keep in touch with them to ensure that everyone weathers the storm,” he said.</p> <p> Prince Edward Island will see similar weather as Nova Scotia, with some places expecting to be blanketed with as much as 40 cm of snow.</p> <p> In New Brunswick, both Saint John and Moncton will see upwards of 40 cm of snow as well, with winds gusting as high as 90 km/h.</p> <p> “You’re going to have all kinds of blowing snows and this is the kind of storm that shuts things down, Rayno said.</p> <p> Further inland in Fredericton, the storm won’t be nearly as fierce, with only 10 cm of snow predicted for Wednesday.</p> <p> The storm will likely hit Newfoundland sometime Wednesday evening or early Thursday, hitting St. John’s with about 10 cm of snow. Winds, however, will be the biggest concern there, where gusts could get as high as 120 km/h Wednesday evening. Rayno said Cape Breton could see wind gusts of up to 135 km/h.</p> <p> Cindy Day, CTV Atlantic’s chief meteorologist, says this type of storm is called a “weather bomb” -- a rapidly intensifying low pressure system. Day wrote in a recent blog post that most weather bombs see a central pressure drop of 24 millibars (atmospheric pressure units) in less than 24 hours. She says computer models predicting this weather bomb shown a 40-millibar drop in less than 24 hours.</p> <p> Jean-Marc Couturier, an Environment Canada meteorologist, says the storm will be one of the strongest of the season, but added that it’s not unusual for the Maritimes to see a storm like this so late in March.</p> <p> "Definitely we'd still be looking at some potential storms along the Atlantic seaboard and throughout Atlantic Canada at this time of year," Couturier told The Canadian Press on Sunday. "We're not sure at this point if it would be the strongest system... that we've seen this winter, but it will be one of the strongest for sure."</p> <p> The harsh winter has forced some Maritime municipalities to spend more on snow removal than they budgeted for. According to a report from CTV Atlantic, the winter works department in Saint John, N.B., has already spent nearly two-thirds of the $5.8 million allotted for snow removal in 2014. Cape Breton, N.S., is predicting an overrun of nearly $500,000 due to the snow.</p> <p> Gordon Hayward, the manager of winter operations for Halifax, says this next storm will likely take the city over its $20 million annual budget for snow removal.</p> <p> “It’s more dollars added to a budget that’s already swelled,” Hayward told CTV Atlantic.</p> <p> With files from CTV Atlantic and The Canadian Press</p>
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<p> MONTREAL -- Quebec provincial police are confirming they have wrapped up their investigation into the deadly train disaster in Lac-Megantic last summer.</p> <p> The crash and explosion killed 47 people and destroyed a large swath of the downtown area.</p> <p> The runaway train belonging to the Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway rolled into town carrying volatile crude oil, derailed and exploded in the wee hours of July 6.</p> <p> Police spokeswoman Aurelie Guindon says the investigation was officially completed on Saturday and the case is now in the hands of the province's director of criminal and penal prosecutions.</p> <p> Neither the Crown nor police would discuss the results of the probe.</p> <p> Police said last summer their investigation would focus on the possibility of criminal negligence.</p> <p> A spokesman for the Crown's office said the file is in the hands of a team of prosecutors, who have been working with police since the beginning.</p> <p> Crown spokesman Jean-Pascal Boucher said his office will leave it to the prosecutors to review the file and that there is no timetable for potential charges.</p>
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<p> VANCOUVER - Homicide investigators spent Monday night at an apartment building in Burnaby, B.C., investigating a suspicious death.</p> <p> Integrated Homicide Investigation Team Sgt. Bari Emam says Mounties were called to a suite in the complex in central Burnaby Monday evening for a report of an injured woman.</p> <p> The victim died a short time later and Emam says that's when IHIT members were summoned.</p> <p> He says the team is working closely with Burnaby RCMP to determine if the case is a homicide and more information could be available later.</p> <p> Name of the woman, her age and cause of death have not been released.</p> <p> In an unrelated case, Surrey Mounties responded to Green Timbers Urban Forest Monday night when human remains were found, and police say there are few details about the discovery and the bones appear to have been there for a long time.</p>
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<p> NEWMARKET, Ont. -- A father who narrowly survived a purported home invasion in which his wife was fatally shot in the head testified Tuesday about the elaborate web of deceit his daughter had spun in the years before the attack.</p> <p> Glancing impassively at his daughter in the prisoner's dock, Hann Pan described how she had soaked her parents for thousands of dollars while lying about attending school or work and where she was living.</p> <p> Among the lies, court heard, were a fake university diploma, a bogus hospital volunteer job, phoney part-time work at a department store complete with a fake pay stub, and the fiction that she was rooming with an acquaintance.</p> <p> Jennifer Pan, 27, her high school sweetheart Daniel Wong, 28, and three others are each charged with first-degree murder in the November 2010 death of her 53-year-old mother, Bieh Ha Pan.</p> <p> According to the prosecution, she had promised to pay $5,000 for each parent killed from her share of her inheritance.</p> <p> Crown lawyer Michelle Rumble elicited that the Pans, who owned their home outright, would have left an estate worth about $1 million at the time of the killing.</p> <p> Their son and daughter stood to inherit the money equally, something his wife had often discussed with their daughter, Pan told the court.</p> <p> Pan, 60, a tool and die maker, said he often wanted to query his daughter about her studies but his wife would intercede, arguing the young woman was already a grown up.</p> <p> "Let her be herself. Too much interference will not be good," Pan said his wife told him.</p> <p> The web of lies finally unravelled in 2009, when the suspicious father noted his daughter had no uniform or key-card for the Toronto hospital she said she was volunteering at.</p> <p> "I was frustrated and I was concerned that something was not right," Pan told jurors through a Vietnamese interpreter.</p> <p> When he drove her to the hospital, she bolted and disappeared.</p> <p> The following morning, after the friend she was apparently rooming with said she was not staying there, Pan came home and confessed:</p> <p> "Jennifer said that she lied. She did not work at the hospital. Had not graduated from university. My daughter said she was currently living with her boyfriend, Daniel Wong," Pan testified.</p> <p> "I was very upset."</p> <p> The angry father ordered his daughter to sever her relationship with Wong and return to school. She apparently agreed.</p> <p> "He had covered for my daughter to stay out of school for the last four years," Pan explained.</p> <p> Pan was shot in the face during the attack at the family home in Markham, Ont., but survived. His wife was killed by two shots to the head -- one at point-blank range.</p> <p> The prosecution alleges that what happened was a deliberate hit orchestrated by their daughter, because her parents had thwarted her relationship with Wong.</p> <p> In the months before the attack, Han discovered his daughter was still in contact with Wong, and gave her an ultimatum: Cut ties with him or leave the family forever.</p> <p> Again, the daughter said she would stay home and not have contact with her boyfriend.</p> <p> Also charged with Pan and Wong in Ontario Superior Court are Eric Carty, Lenford Crawford and David Mylvaganam.</p> <p> Before she was fatally shot, Pan's mother repeatedly begged the intruders not to harm her daughter, the Crown alleges.</p> <p> Pan's home-invasion story fell apart when it became clear her father would live, court has heard.</p>
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<p> A portable computer hard drive containing the personal information of more than 500,000 student loan recipients was left unsecured for extended periods of time by government employees and was not protected by a password or encryption, Canada’s top privacy watchdog says.</p> <p> In a report tabled in Parliament on Tuesday, interim federal privacy commissioner Chantal Bernier detailed the various security procedures Employment and Social Development Canada failed to follow when dealing with the confidential information -- failures she said should serve as a lesson for every public sector department and agency.</p> <p> The report says the ESDC hard drive went missing in 2012. It contained the personal information -- including social insurance number, name, date of birth, home address, telephone number, loan amounts and balances -- of 583,000 Canada Student Loans Program borrowers from 2000 to 2006.</p> <p> The hard drive also included the gender, language and marital status for some borrowers, as well as information on about 250 ESDC employees.</p> <p> The ESDC subsequently reported the hard drive missing to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, and an investigation began in January 2013.</p> <p> The privacy commissioner’s report says that the ESDC has found no evidence that the personal information stored on the hard drive has been accessed or used for fraudulent purposes. But the results of that investigation show that numerous security procedures were not properly followed and that ESDC employees had contravened sections of the Privacy Act “related to the use, disposal and disclosure of personal information.</p> <p> “The report concludes that a gap between policies and practices at ESDC led to weaknesses in information management controls, physical security controls, and most importantly, the level of employee awareness of departmental policies and procedures,” a summary of the privacy commissioner’s report says.</p> <p> While ESDC policy required portable storage devices such as hard drives to be stored in a lockable filing cabinet when not in use, the report says that it was often left unsecured for extended periods of time. Even when it was stored in a filing cabinet, the report goes on to say, the cabinet was in an open cubicle and often not locked. The report says ESDC did not record the serial number of the hard drive and that “no specific employee was assigned responsibility for its custody.”</p> <p> ESDC also didn’t classify the hard drive as “a high-level threat to privacy,” and that neither “password protection nor encryption were implemented to protect the sensitive information on the portable hard drive.”</p> <p> The privacy commissioner’s investigation also revealed that ESDC did not track which employees used the device, or knew the exact contests of the portable drive at the time it went missing.</p> <p> EDSC staff lacked a “clear understanding of the information content on the hard drive," as well as “sufficient awareness about information stewardship, security responsibilities, IT controls and privacy threats, all areas covered by department policies,” the report says.</p> <p> “This incident should serve as a lesson for all organizations,” Bernier said in a summary of the investigation. “Protecting personal information cannot be ensured by having policies on paper. Policies must be put into practice each and every day and monitored regularly.”</p> <p> The report said that ESDC has accepted all of the privacy commissioner’s recommendations. They include:</p> <ul> <li> Severely restricting the use of portable storage devices and introducing computer software that blocks the use of any such devices on desktop computers without specific authorization;</li> <li> Periodically examining portable storage devices to make sure they are being used properly;</li> <li> Reviewing all materiel holdings, disposing of transitory records and classifying remaining records at the appropriate security level; and</li> <li> Mandatory employee training every two years on the protection of personal privacy</li> </ul> <p> The report also says the Office of the Privacy Commissioner will conduct a follow-up in one year to confirm ESDC’s progress in the implementation of the commissioner’s recommendations.</p>
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<p> It took just 2 1/2 minutes for a combination of human and technical mistakes to turn a passenger and supply flight into a remote Arctic community from routine to calamitous.</p> <p> A Transportation Safety Board report into the crash of First Air Flight 6560 blames an undetected autopilot change, a faulty compass reading and disagreement between the pilots about whether to abort the landing.</p> <p> "This accident was the product of a complex series of events, all of them lining up together," lead investigator Brian MacDonald said Tuesday as the report was released. "But what ultimately tied all these things together was that as the flight progressed each pilot developed a different understanding of the situation and they were unable to reconcile that difference."</p> <p> The crash at the Resolute airport Aug. 20, 2011, killed eight passengers and four crew members. Three passengers miraculously survived.</p> <p> In cool, technical language the board's report provides a second-by-second breakdown of what probably happened in the cockpit as the pilots crashed the Boeing 737 into a hillside more than a kilometre from the runway.</p> <p> Problems began because on-board compasses were incorrectly adjusted by 17 degrees. That error was compounded when the captain turned into the final approach and unwittingly changed the operational mode of the plane's autopilot. Busy with the landing checklist, in weather obscured by cloud, mist and light rain, neither he nor the co-pilot picked up the change.</p> <p> "This incongruency would have negatively affected the pilots' situational awareness and increased their workload as they attempted to understand and resolve this ambiguity," the report says.</p> <p> Within seconds after that final turn, co-pilot David Hare realized the plane was off course and repeatedly told the pilot, reminding him about the large hill to the right of the runway. Pilot Blair Rutherford replied that the autopilot was working fine.</p> <p> Puzzled as to why the plane's navigational instruments weren't lining up with ground-based systems, Hare asked if they'd done something wrong. Five seconds later, he suggested they pull up and go around for another approach.</p> <p> Rutherford, fully focused on landing the plane and on figuring out why his instruments were giving confusing readings, refused.</p> <p> "It is likely that the captain did not fully comprehend information that indicated that his original plan was no longer viable," says the report.</p> <p> Less than 10 seconds after first suggesting they pull up, Hare asked again, pointing out that the plane wasn't configured for a landing so close to the landing strip. The report suggests Rutherford is likely to have understood the remark as a request to prepared the plane for landing.</p> <p> Cockpit communication had broken down.</p> <p> "The captain's mental model was likely that the approach and landing could be salvaged, and the (co-pilot's) mental model was almost certainly that there was significant risk to the safety of flight and that a go-around was required. These divergent mental models compromised the pilots' ability to communicate and work together."</p> <p> Four seconds after his second request to pull up, Hare asked Rutherford to bank to the left. Their navigational confusion was evident when Hare confused the shoreline of a small lake with the seashore.</p> <p> Just under a minute after that, Hare said: "Blair, I don't like this."</p> <p> Almost immediately after, the plane's ground position systems began to sound alarms. About 160 seconds after making the final turn, Rutherford tried to pull up and go around.</p> <p> "There was insufficient altitude and time to execute the manoeuvre and avoid collision with terrain."</p> <p> The plane smashed into the hill and broke into three main pieces. Debris was strewn around the tundra.</p> <p> Resolute residents and soldiers from a military exercise that happened to be underway nearby rushed to the scene to try to pull survivors from the flaming wreckage.</p> <p> Within minutes, rescue crews and fire trucks were dispatched. Coast Guard and military helicopters arrived on the scene. Those not rescuing survivors or recovering casualties worked frantically to douse a fire from a fuel leak.</p> <p> Military medical teams and equipment that had arrived shortly before the crash were pressed into service. The injured were stabilized in a field hospital and flown to Iqaluit.</p> <p> The board has recommended that First Air revise its procedures to ensure pilots can communicate clearly and directly. It also said the carrier should be clearer about what types of compasses are to be used in which situations.</p> <p> The report said First Air has taken those actions, including a new rule that any crew member can order a go-around simply by saying "Go around."</p> <p> Several lawsuits have been filed over the disaster. The suits cast partial blame on the Canadian Forces, which had taken control over the small airport on the day of the crash.</p> <p> The transportation board said the military's presence was not a contributing factor in the crash.</p> <p> The military had established a temporary air traffic control tower to guide in all planes. The airport was normally an uncontrolled airspace and pilots navigated themselves onto the runway.</p> <p> The suits claim the military did not have enough people on duty to handle the air traffic and those working the tower were not briefed or properly trained to navigate civilian planes.</p> <p> None of the allegations has been proven in court. Statements of defence were not immediately available.</p> <p> The chartered plane was on a regular run from Yellowknife to Resolute. There were scientists on the plane along with staff heading back to work at a local inn and the inn owner's two young granddaughters. There was also a load of food.</p>
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<p> The Ottawa Chinese community is raising money for a young family after a 40-year-old father was tragically killed as he tried to save his son from drowning during a winter vacation in Cuba.</p> <p> Fanyan Bu says her husband, Yue Liu, and their seven-year-old had been swimming in the ocean at a beach resort last week when a massive wave dragged the two deep into the water.</p> <p> “My son couldn’t swim very well, so my husband tried to push him to shore,” Bu <a href="http://www.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=312649&playlistId=1.1744126&binId=1.810401&playlistPageNum=1">told CTV Ottawa on Monday.</a></p> <p> Bu says she and her nine-year-old daughter were at the hotel’s pool at the time of the incident.</p> <p> According to witnesses, Liu managed to keep his son’s head above water as he screamed for help.</p> <p> Another Canadian tourist eventually jumped into the water to try to save the pair.</p> <p> After Liu and his son were pulled out of the water, efforts to resuscitate Liu were not successful.</p> <p> “I miss him a lot,” Bu said. “Every time I see his picture I want to cry.”</p> <p> In response to the tragedy, the Ottawa Chinese community is raising money to help the young family bring Liu’s body home and pay for funeral costs.</p> <p> “In 24 hours, in one day, about $20,000 were raised by members of the Chinese community from all across Ottawa,” Andy Wang, a family supporter,<a href="http://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/ottawa-father-drowns-during-vacation-in-cuba-1.1743827"> told CTV Ottawa.</a></p> <p> Anyone can donate to the cause by visiting this <a href="http://comefromchina.com/liuyue/">website</a>.</p> <p> Bu said her son has been traumatized by the experience.</p> <p> “He cried a lot,” she said. “I said ‘no, your father is in heaven because he did things. If you are happy, your father will be happy in heaven.’”</p>
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<p> THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- With no sign of Russia abandoning the Crimean Peninsula, President Barack Obama said Tuesday he's concerned that Moscow will move deeper into Ukraine and warned Russian President Vladimir Putin that the international community is prepared to impose punishing sanctions against his country's economy.</p> <p> Obama stood fast on his insistence that Crimea remains a part of Ukraine, even as the fledgling Ukrainian government in Kyiv ordered its troops to pull back from the disputed territory. He dismissed Russia as a "regional power" that was acting from a position of weakness.</p> <p> "We're not recognizing what is happening in Crimea," Obama said at his first news conference since Russia moved to annex Crimea after a referendum 10 days ago. Obama rejected "the notion that a referendum sloppily organized over the course of two weeks" would "somehow be a valid process."</p> <p> Obama said that while the Russia's military controls Crimea, its acquisition of the Black Sea peninsula is "not a done deal" without international recognition. But he also said, "It would be dishonest to suggest there is a simple solution to what has already taken place in Crimea."</p> <p> "We also are concerned about further encroachment by Russia into Ukraine," Obama said, as he took questions in a joint appearance with his host, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte.</p> <p> "I think that will be a bad choice for President Putin to make," Obama said. "But ultimately he is the president of Russia, and he's the one who's going to be making that decision."</p> <p> Obama was pursuing efforts to pressure Russia out of its aggressive pose as world leaders met for an international Nuclear Security Summit. But to the east, the Russian annexation of Crimea was beginning to take root and Moscow shrugged off Obama's drive to leave Putin in the cold.</p> <p> Rutte said he could not envision the crisis over Ukraine ending in a military conflict. "I don't think that is likely. I don't think anybody wants it," the Dutch prime minister said as he stood next to Obama.</p> <p> Rutte added that the West retains the option to impose more sanctions on Russia if the standoff escalates, and he said that "these sanctions would hit Russia very badly."</p> <p> "And obviously, you can never guarantee that the people in Europe, in Canada, in the U.S. would not be hurt," the prime minister said. "But obviously, we will make sure that we will design these sanctions in such a way that they will have maximum impact on the Russian economy and not on the European, the Canadian, the Japanese or the American economy."</p> <p> Obama also said he was concerned about Russia's troop build-up along the Ukrainian border. "We oppose what appears to be an effort at intimidation," Obama said. "But Russia has a right legally to have its troops on its own soil."</p> <p> Asked whether in hindsight he agrees with Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney's assessment that Russia is the United States' top geopolitical foe, Obama said he is more concerned about a nuclear bomb in Manhattan than he is about Russia's actions threatening national security.</p> <p> "America's got a whole lot of challenges," Obama said. "Russia is a regional power that is threatening some of its immediate neighbours, not out of strength but out of weakness."</p> <p> The U.S. and some of its closest allies cut Russia out indefinitely from an exclusive coalition of leading industrial nations and cancelled a summer summit Russia was to host in its Olympic village of Sochi. Obama also sought to win backing from other foreign leaders in hopes of ostracizing or even shaming Putin into reversing his acquisition of Crimea and backing away from any designs he might have on other Eastern Europe territory.</p> <p> In a strongly worded joint statement, the United States, France, Canada, Britain, Germany, Italy and Japan denounced a referendum in Crimea to secede from Ukraine and Russia's ensuing annexation. In so doing, the seven leaders also effectively excluded Russia from what had been a two-decade-old coalition known as the Group of Eight.</p> <p> "This clear violation of international law is a serious challenge to the rule of law around the world and should be a concern for all nations," the declaration said.</p> <p> Still, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov shrugged off the international gestures.</p> <p> "The G-8 is an informal club," he said. "It has no membership tickets, and it can't purge anyone by definition."</p> <p> In an addition to his public schedule, Obama sat down with Putin ally President Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan. As Obama and Nazarbayev wrapped up their meeting, the White House released a joint statement from Obama and Nazarbayev that did not address the Ukraine situation, but focused instead on bilateral co-operation on nuclear security -- the theme of concurrent summit serving as the official purpose for Obama's visit to the Netherlands.</p> <p> Obama praised action at the summit, including new commitments by Japan, Italy and Belgium to reduce their stocks of nuclear materials. He said the next summit, in 2016, will be held in the U.S.</p> <p> Later Tuesday, Obama met with Prince Mohamed bin Zayed, crown prince of Abu Dhabi, the richest emirate in the United Arab Emirates federation. He was also scheduled to meet jointly with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and South Korean President Park Geun-hye.</p> <p> Both those meetings centred less on Ukraine and more on regional tensions in the Middle East and northern Asia. The visit with the crown prince served as precursor to Obama's on Friday visit to Saudi Arabia, where he will meet with King Abdullah to address Arab anxieties over the Syrian civil war and U.S. nuclear talks with Iran, a Saudi rival in the region.</p> <p> The meeting with Park and Abe brings together two U.S. Asian allies who have been quarreling over rekindled memories of Japan's aggression in World War II. It will be the first meeting between the two Asian leaders since they took office more than a year ago.</p>
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<p> COPENHAGEN, Denmark -- A Danish zoo that faced protests for killing a healthy giraffe to prevent inbreeding says it has put down four lions, including two cubs, to make room for a new male lion.</p> <p> Citing the "pride's natural structure and behaviour," the Copenhagen Zoo said Tuesday that two old lions had been euthanized as part of a generational shift. It said the cubs were also put down because they were not old enough to fend for themselves and "anyway would have been killed by the new male lion."</p> <p> Zoo officials hope the new male and two females born in 2012 will form the nucleus of a new pride.</p> <p> Last month the zoo triggered a wave of protests by killing a 2-year-old giraffe, and feeding its remains to the lions as visitors watched.</p>
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<p> ARLINGTON, Wash. -- A scientist working for the government had warned 15 years ago about the potential for a catastrophic landslide in the fishing village where the collapse of a rain-soaked hillside over the weekend killed at least 14 people and left scores missing.</p> <p> As rescue workers slogged through the muck and rain in search of victims Tuesday, word of the 1999 report raised questions about why residents were allowed to build homes on the hill and whether officials had taken proper precautions.</p> <p> "I knew it would fail catastrophically in a large magnitude event," though not when it would happen, said Daniel Miller, a geomorphologist who was hired by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to do the study. "I was not surprised."</p> <p> Patricia Graesser, a spokeswoman for the Army Corps in Seattle, said it appears that the report was intended not as a risk assessment, but as a feasibility study for ecosystem restoration.</p> <p> Asked whether the agency should have done anything with the information, she said: "We don't have jurisdiction to do anything. We don't do zoning. That's a local responsibility."</p> <p> Snohomish County officials and authorities in the devastated village of Oso said that they were not aware of the study but that residents and town officials knew the risks of living in the area.</p> <p> In fact, the area has long been known as the "Hazel Landslide" because of landslides over the past half-century. The last severe one before Saturday's disaster was in 2006.</p> <p> "A slide of this magnitude is very difficult to predict," county Public Works Director Steve Thomsen told The Seattle Times, which first reported on Miller's analysis. "There was no indication, no indication at all."</p> <p> No landslide warnings for the area were issued before the disaster, which came after weeks of heavy rain. The rushing wall of quicksand-like mud, trees and other debris flattened about two dozen homes and critically injured several people.</p> <p> "One of the things this tragedy should teach us is the need to get better information about geologic hazards out to the general public," said David Montgomery, a geomorphologist with the University of Washington in Seattle. "Where are the potentially unstable slopes? How big a risk do they pose? And what should be done to let homeowners know about that?"</p> <p> Meanwhile, searchers continued to pick through the debris, warning they were likely to find more bodies. Authorities were working off a list of 176 people unaccounted for, though some names were believed to be duplicates.</p> <p> The threat of flash floods or another landslide loomed over the rescuers.</p> <p> Near the southern perimeter of the slide, volunteers from a logging crew gathered to help move debris with chainsaws, excavators and other heavy equipment.</p> <p> Gene Karger said he could see six orange flags in the debris field, marking bodies they would be pulling out. Karger, a logger most of his life, said it was the first time he was involved in this kind of rescue work.</p> <p> "You see parts of their bodies sticking out of the mud. It's real hard. It's that bad," Karger said. "There are people out there we know."</p> <p> In his report, Miller said that the soil on the steep slope lacked any binding agent that would make it more secure, and that the underlying layers of silt and sand could give way in a "large catastrophic failure."</p> <p> But he also cautioned: "I currently have no basis for estimating the probable rate or timing of future landslide activity."</p> <p> In an interview Tuesday, Miller noted there are hundreds of similar landslides in Washington state each year, and this particular river valley has had three very large slides in the last three decades.</p> <p> Predicting landslides is difficult, so much so that damage from them is excluded from private insurance policies, according to a study published by the U.S. Geological Survey in 2012. One challenge is estimating the probability of a slide in any particular place.</p> <p> One of the authors of the USGS report, Jonathan Godt, a research scientist with the agency in Colorado, said landslides don't get that much attention because they often happen in places where they don't hit anything.</p> <p> But with Americans building homes deeper into the wilderness, he said, "there are more people in the way."</p> <p> Le reported from Seattle. Associated Press writers Jason Dearen in San Francisco and P. Solomon Banda in Darrington, Wash., as well as photographer Elaine Thompson in Oso, Wash., contributed to this report. Researcher Rhonda Shafner contributed from New York.</p>
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<p> KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- China demanded Tuesday that Malaysia turn over the satellite data used to conclude that a Malaysia Airlines jetliner had crashed in the southern Indian Ocean, killing all 239 on board. Officials sharply narrowed the search area as a result of that assessment, but the zone remains as large as Texas and Oklahoma combined.</p> <p> Australia said improved weather would allow the hunt for the plane to resume Wednesday after gale-force winds and heavy rain forced a daylong delay. Searchers face a daunting task of combing a vast expanse of choppy seas for suspected remnants of the aircraft sighted earlier.</p> <p> "We're not searching for a needle in a haystack -- we're still trying to define where the haystack is," Australia's deputy defence chief, Air Marshal Mark Binskin, told reporters at a military base in Perth as idled planes stood behind him.</p> <p> Late Monday, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak announced that a new analysis of satellite data confirmed the plane had crashed in a remote part of the southern Indian Ocean.</p> <p> That announcement unleashed a storm of sorrow and anger among the families of the plane's passengers and crew -- two-thirds of them Chinese. Family members of the passengers have complained bitterly about a lack of reliable information and some say they are not being told the whole truth.</p> <p> Nearly 100 relatives and their supporters marched Tuesday to the Malaysian Embassy in Beijing, where they threw plastic water bottles, tried to rush the gate and chanted, "Liars!"</p> <p> Many wore white T-shirts that read "Let's pray for MH370" as they held banners and shouted, "Tell the truth! Return our relatives!"</p> <p> There was a heavy police presence at the embassy. Police briefly scuffled with a group of relatives who tried to approach journalists.</p> <p> In a clear statement of support for the families, Chinese President Xi Jinping ordered a special envoy, Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Yesui, to Kuala Lumpur to deal with the case. Deputy Foreign Minister Xie Hangsheng told Malaysia's ambassador that China wanted to know exactly what led Najib to announce that the plane had been lost, a statement on the ministry's website said.</p> <p> Investigators and the Malaysian government have been able to say little with certainty about Flight 370's fate since it disappeared on March 8 shortly after taking off from Kuala Lumpur for Beijing.</p> <p> Left unanswered are many troubling questions about why it was so far off course. Experts piecing together radar and satellite data believe the plane back-tracked over Malaysia and then travelled in the opposite direction to the Indian Ocean.</p> <p> Investigators will be looking at various possibilities including mechanical or electrical failure, hijacking, sabotage, terrorism or issues related to the mental health of the pilots or someone else on board.</p> <p> "We do not know why. We do not know how. We do not know how the terrible tragedy happened," Malaysia Airlines' chief executive, Ahmad Jauhari Yahya, told reporters.</p> <p> The airline's chairman, Mohammed Nor Mohammed Yusof, said Tuesday it may take time for further answers to become clear.</p> <p> "This has been an unprecedented event requiring an unprecedented response," he said. "The investigation still underway may yet prove to be even longer and more complex than it has been since March 8th."</p> <p> He added that even though no wreckage has been found, there was no doubt the plane had crashed.</p> <p> "This by the evidence given to us, and by rational deduction, we could only arrive at that conclusion: That is, for Malaysia Airlines to declare that it has lost its plane, and by extension, the people in the plane," he said.</p> <p> The conclusions were based on an analysis of the brief signals the plane sent every hour to a satellite belonging to Inmarsat, a British company, even after other communication systems on the jetliner shut down for unknown reasons.</p> <p> The latest satellite information does not provide an exact location but just a rough estimate of where the jet crashed into the sea.</p> <p> Hishammuddin said the data is still being analyzed "to attempt to determine the final position of the aircraft" and that an international working group of satellite and aircraft performance experts had been set up. He did not give more details.</p> <p> The search area has been reduced as a result of the new data to 1.6 million square kilometres (622,000 square miles), a massive expanse of ocean, but just 20 per cent of the area that was previously being searched, he said.</p> <p> There had been two corridors -- based on rough satellite data -- for the search. Hishammuddin said operations had been halted in the northern corridor that swept up from Malaysia toward Central Asia, as well as in the northern section of the southern corridor that arches down from Malaysia toward Antarctica.</p> <p> Although there have been an increasing number of apparent leads, there has been no confirmed identification of any debris.</p> <p> Australian and Chinese search planes spotted floating objects in an area 2,500 kilometres (1,550 miles) southwest of Perth on Monday, but none was retrieved. Now, with the 24-hour delay in the search, those objects and other possible debris from the plane could drift to an even wider area.</p> <p> "A visual search will resume tomorrow when the weather is expected to improve after gale-force winds and heavy swells resulted in the suspension of the search operation on Tuesday," said the Australian Maritime Safety Authority, which is overseeing the search out of Perth, Australia.</p> <p> There is a race against the clock to find any trace of the plane that could lead searchers to the black boxes, whose battery-powered "pinger" could stop sending signals within two weeks. The batteries are designed to last at least a month.</p> <p> Several countries have begun moving specialized equipment into the area to prepare for a search for the plane and its black boxes, the common name for the cockpit voice and data recorders, needed to help determine what happened to the jetliner.</p> <p> Hishammuddin said a U.S. Navy deep-sea black box locator was on its way to Australia and would be installed on an Australian navy support vessel, the Ocean Shield, which is expected to arrive in several days. It is not expected to reach the search area until April 5.</p> <p> There are 26 countries involved in the search, and Hishammudin said the problems now facing the hunt to recover Flight 370 are not diplomatic "but technical and logistical."</p> <p> The U.S. Navy has also sent an unmanned underwater vehicle to Perth that could be used if debris is located, said Rear Adm. John Kirby, a Pentagon spokesman.</p> <p> Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said he had spoken to Najib to offer help with the ongoing search and investigation.</p> <p> "What up until now has been a search, moves into a recovery and investigation phase," Abbott said. "I have offered Malaysia, as the country legally responsible for this, every assistance and co-operation from Australia."</p> <p> The search for the wreckage and the plane's recorders could take years because the ocean is up to 7,000 metres (23,000 feet) deep in some parts. It took two years to find the black box from an Air France jet that went down in the Atlantic Ocean on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris in 2009, and searchers knew within days where the crash site was.</p> <p> "We've got to get lucky," said John Goglia, a former member of the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board. "It's a race to get to the area in time to catch the black box pinger while it's still working."</p>
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<p> ORLANDO, Fla. -- A friend of one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects threatened an FBI agent and a Massachusetts state trooper with a long pole and was fatally shot by the agent just moments after he had agreed to give a statement about his involvement in a triple slaying, a Florida prosecutor said Tuesday.</p> <p> State Attorney Jeff Ashton said in a report the agent was justified in shooting Ibragim Todashev, 27, last May. The officers were questioning Todashev about the 2011 slaying in Waltham, Massachusetts, and he was about to write a statement when his mood went from co-operative to agitated, according to the report.</p> <p> Todashev, a mixed martial arts fighter, flipped a coffee table in the air, knocking down the FBI agent and causing a bloody gash on the agent's head. Todashev then ran past the two officers, into the kitchen and returned with a pole -- a long metal handle of a broom or mop -- that he pointed at the Massachusetts officer, the report said.</p> <p> The FBI agent fired three or four shots at Todashev as he advanced on the trooper, and Todashev dropped to his knees but then lunged at the officer, and the FBI agent fired three or four more shots, the report said.</p> <p> "The one common thread among all was the observation that he was, at his core, a fearless fighter," Ashton said in a letter to FBI Director James Comey. "Perhaps on this occasion, he simply reverted to that basic aspect of his personality and chose to go down fighting."</p> <p> Separately, the U.S. Justice Department also concluded Tuesday that there was no basis for federal criminal charges against the FBI agent. The federal inquiry echoed the Florida report in saying that Todashev implicated himself in the triple-murder.</p> <p> Federal authorities have said in court filings that Todashev also implicated Tsarnaev in the Waltham slayings, but the Justice Department report said the details of the confession were not being released publicly at the request of prosecutors in Massachusetts. The Justice Department report said both men shared an interest in mixed martial arts and were suspected in the Waltham murders.</p> <p> In the Waltham case, three men were found in an apartment with their necks slit and their bodies reportedly covered with marijuana. One of the victims was a boxer and friend of Tsarnaev, who had befriended Todashev when Todashev lived in Boston.</p> <p> In the Florida shooting, the FBI agent from Boston and two Massachusetts State Police officers had questioned Todashev at his apartment for five hours before the fatal shooting, the report said. The FBI had become interested in Todashev in the days after the Boston marathon bombing last April because he was friends with one of the suspects Tsarnaev. By then, Todashev also had become a "person of interest" in the Waltham slayings, according to the report, and FBI agents had questioned him several times in the weeks before he was killed.</p> <p> Todashev's family has raised doubts about the account provided by law enforcement, saying that Todashev was recovering from knee surgery and was limping at the time he was killed.</p> <p> Hassan Shibly, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Tampa, which is conducting its own investigation into the fatal shooting, said Ashton's investigative focus was very narrow.</p> <p> "It's very important that this isn't whether the agent was justified in shooting," Shibly said. "It's about the pattern of abuse that occurred before, during and after the questioning. That won't be covered in a criminal investigation."</p> <p> Todashev's live-in girlfriend and other friends been deported since the shooting.</p>
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<p> Prime Minister Stephen Harper says Canada stands “united” with its G7 counterparts, NATO allies and the European Union in delivering a strong message to Russia about its actions in Ukraine.</p> <p> Wrapping up his visit to The Hague for the Nuclear Security Summit, Harper said Tuesday that his government has been “outspoken” about the political turmoil in Ukraine partly because of “the kinship we have with a million of Ukrainian Canadians.”</p> <p> After emergency talks on Monday, Harper and other G7 leaders decided to suspend their participation in the Group of Eight until Russia "changes course" in Ukraine.</p> <p> In a move aimed at expressing support for the people of Ukraine, they also decided to skip the G8 summit scheduled for June in Sochi, Russia, opting to instead hold their own meeting in Brussels.</p> <p> The leaders condemned Russia’s annexation of Crimea, a peninsula in southern Ukraine, and what they called an “illegal referendum” on the issue. They also said they are ready to “intensify actions,” including co-ordinated sanctions, if Russia continues to “escalate this situation.”</p> <p> Russia has already retaliated against Canada’s response by banning 13 Canadian lawmakers and officials from entering the country.</p> <p> “I don’t know on what basis they’re sanctioning Canada other than: 'We just don’t approve of their actions,'” Harper said Tuesday.</p> <p> He noted that Paul Grod, national president of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress, is on Russia’s blacklist.</p> <p> “They sanctioned a man for the sole reason that he’s Ukrainian,” Harper said. “Now what does that tell you about the mentality of that government?” </p> <p> On the nuclear summit front, Harper said Canada will support initiatives that address the threat of “nuclear terrorism and weapons of mass destruction.”</p> <p> A statement from the Prime Minister’s Office said two conventions were ratified at the summit to improve nuclear security.</p> <p> Russia worried about G20: expert</p> <p> John Kirton, director of the G8 Research Group at the University of Toronto, suggested earlier Tuesday that the Russian government is now also worried about its future in the G20.</p> <p> Speculation that the Australian government may prevent Russian President Vladimir Putin from attending the G20 summit in Brisbane later this year has the Russians “clearly worried,” <a href="http://www.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=312909&playlistId=1.1744523&binId=1.810401&playlistPageNum=1">Kirton told CTV’s Canada AM.</a></p> <p> He said the G7 leaders’ decision to withdraw from the upcoming G8 summit in Sochi sends a “pretty clear” and “wise” signal to Russia. He said a seat at the G8 table is “still there for Putin,” but it’s now up to him to be invited back.</p> <p> The G7 group consists of Canada, U.S., United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, and Japan. Russia joined in 1998 to form the G8 group, but G7 nations have been meeting separately over the years.</p>
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<p> PRETORIA, South Africa -- Oscar Pistorius will probably testify at his trial later this week, a defence attorney said Tuesday after prosecutors rested their case against the double-amputee runner who is accused of murder in his girlfriend's death.</p> <p> In a rare public comment, Pistorius said he was going through "a tough time" as the case advanced.</p> <p> "We've got a lot ahead of us," he told reporters after the court adjourned.</p> <p> Defence lawyer Brian Webber said Pistorius is "likely" to take the stand to open the defence case.</p> <p> "I don't think we have a choice. It's a question of when," Webber said of Pistorius' testimony, which legal experts describe as critical because the judge will have a chance to assess firsthand whether he is credible. The case will be decided by Judge Thokozile Masipa with help from two assessors. South African courts do not have a jury system.</p> <p> After the prosecution rested, defence lawyer Barry Roux asked for time to consult some of the 107 state witnesses who had not testified against Pistorius, who admits shooting Reeva Steenkamp through the closed door of a toilet cubicle last year.</p> <p> Masipa adjourned the trial until Friday so Roux could prepare his arguments that Pistorius killed the 29-year-old model by accident, thinking she was an intruder in his home.</p> <p> Pistorius has sometimes reacted emotionally in the courtroom. He shed tears this week during testimony about text messages that he and Steenkamp exchanged in the weeks before her death on Feb. 14, 2013. In earlier testimony, he retched and vomited at a pathologist's description of Steenkamp's gunshot wounds. At other times, he has appeared calm, taking notes during testimony and conferring with his lawyers during breaks.</p> <p> The 27-year-old Olympian once basked in global publicity stemming from his achievements on the track but became an almost silent, somewhat cryptic figure after Steenkamp's death, his account only outlined in legal statements that were carefully tailored by his high-powered legal team.</p> <p> Earlier Tuesday, Roux sought to show that Pistorius had a loving relationship with his girlfriend, referring to telephone messages in which they exchanged warm compliments and said they missed each other.</p> <p> The testimony contrasted with several messages read in court a day earlier in which Pistorius and Steenkamp argued, part of the prosecution's effort to demonstrate that the athlete killed his girlfriend after an intense disagreement. In those messages, Steenkamp told the runner that she was sometimes scared by his behaviour, which included jealous outbursts in front of other people.</p> <p> Roux noted that the tense messages amounted to a tiny fraction of the roughly 1,700 texts that police Capt. Francois Moller, a cellphone expert, extracted from the couple's mobile devices. Roux noted a Jan. 19 exchange in which Reeva sent Pistorius a photo of herself in a hoodie and making a kissing face and asked, "You like it?"</p> <p> "I love it," Pistorius said, according to the message.</p> <p> "So warm," Steenkamp responded.</p> <p> Roux was also granted permission to show video broadcast by Sky News that showed Pistorius and Steenkamp kissing in a convenience store.</p> <p> Chief prosecutor Gerrie Nel questioned the relevance of the store video, saying he could ask for a courtroom viewing of another video, also broadcast by Sky News, which shows Pistorius at a gun range, firing a shotgun and using a pistol to shoot a watermelon, which bursts on impact.</p> <p> Nel also said many messages of affection between the couple were brief, in contrast to the texted arguments, which were far longer and dwelled on their relationship in greater depth.</p> <p> Earlier, Moller said Steenkamp connected to the Internet on her cellphone hours before Pistorius killed her. She made the connection just before 9 p.m. on Feb. 13, 2013, and the connection lasted for more than 11 hours, possibly because social media programs were still open.</p> <p> Moller's extraction of data also shed light on what appeared to be frantic calls made from one of Pistorius' cellphones after the killing. They included a call to the administrator of the housing estate where Pistorius lived at 3:19 a.m. on Feb. 14, a call a minute later to an ambulance service and a call a minute after that to the housing estate security.</p>
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<p> Over an extraordinary 17 days and nights, until the moment Malaysia's prime minister stepped to a lectern to deliver investigators' sobering new findings, the fate of vanished Flight 370 hung on morbid conjecture and fragile hope.</p> <p> Many previous tragedies have transfixed us by revealing their power in cruel detail. But the disappearance of the Beijing-bound Boeing 777 without warning or explanation captivated imaginations around the world in no small part because of the near vacuum of firm information or solid leads.</p> <p> Nothing solid, that is, until late Monday night, when Prime Minister Najib Razak announced that an analysis of the plane's last-known signals to a satellite showed that it went down somewhere in the desolate waters of the southern Indian Ocean -- and that all on board perished.</p> <p> It was a turning point of sorts in one of the most perplexing mysteries of modern times. Najib's statement offered some resolution -- the plane has surely crashed -- but little else. No one has found the plane, or the passengers, or the answer to why all this happened in the first place. And solving those riddles involves a search that looms dauntingly across a vast expanse of unforgiving ocean at the bottom of the earth.</p> <p> The puzzle of Flight 370 has been complicated by a frustrating lack of hard facts since it vanished on a night flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8. Who could say what might have happened in the cockpit or the cabin -- or who or what was responsible? Who knew where the plane had gone -- up or down, north or south -- or what had become of its 239 passengers and crew?</p> <p> Hungry for answers, officials and investigators, relatives and reporters focused their questions fruitlessly on the two Iranian passengers who boarded the plane with stolen passports; then on the oil slicks in the Gulf of Thailand; then on the rumours that a Uighur passenger might have harboured anti-Chinese motives; then on the pilot's home flight simulator.</p> <p> The reluctance of Malaysian officials to reveal what they knew and sometimes to offer conflicting information only seemed to feed the doubts, even after many of the nefarious scenarios suggested early on were dismissed. And with limited evidence and not even a bit of confirmed wreckage, everyone from experts on aviation and terrorism to armchair travellers was left to speculate.</p> <p> It may have been hard to take rocker Courtney Love seriously when she posted a photo on Facebook showing an oil slick off the coast of Malaysia and suggested that it revealed the location of the missing plane. But when a fake news story showed up online supposedly quoting Sarah Palin as saying she believed the plane had flown directly to heaven, its plausibility hinged not on the former Alaska governor, but on the fact that just about anybody could and seemingly did have an opinion on the flight's fate.</p> <p> That's probably because most people felt connected to it and, therefore, invested in it. As Australia's opposition leader Bill Shorten put it, "There is something about a plane disappearing which links all the citizens of the globe. These people who disappeared on this flight could be any of us."</p> <p> While many of the theories presented were well-informed speculation based on deep experience and thoughtful analysis, they all had one flaw or another, and could not dispel the void. With so little to go on, families of those aboard grasped at the clouds of uncertainty, which allowed them to maintain a sense, however shaky, that that the plane might possibly be found intact, their relatives found alive.</p> <p> "Dearest love, I hope you are able to get some rest where you are, and that they are feeding you," Sarah Bajc wrote last week in a Facebook post to her boyfriend, Philip Wood, a native of Texas who was on board. "Any chance they include a glass of wine with dinner?"</p> <p> It was one of a heartbreaking string of love notes she sent out into the electronic ether, as she clung to the hope that her partner was still alive. A few days later: "Hi baby, It has been a lazy Sunday here. I cannot imagine what you must be going through." Later still: "Good morning baby, how are you holding up? I'm doing my best to bring you hope and courage to continue the fight."</p> <p> And fight the families did -- for any scrap of information that might reveal their loved ones' fate. Gut-wrenching grief, frustration and, eventually, rage bubbled over among some of the family members, who accused the Malaysian government of withholding information. Before a news briefing in Kuala Lumpur, two Chinese relatives of passengers held up a banner demanding the truth.</p> <p> "I want to see my son!" one of the women cried, before being carried away by security as she wept and screamed.</p> <p> And then, at last, came a break -- or at least, what seemed like one. On March 20, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott stunned the world when he stood up during what had been a routine session of parliament, slipped on his glasses and began to read from a statement:</p> <p> "New and credible information has come to light in relation to the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in the southern Indian Ocean," he began. "The Australian Maritime Safety Authority has received information based on satellite imagery of objects possibly related to the search."</p> <p> The objects -- two blurry, whitish blobs captured in a satellite image -- were located in a patch of the Indian Ocean, near absolutely nothing. The closest major body of land was Australia's west coast, 2,500 kilometres (1,550 miles) away.</p> <p> The hunt was on in earnest. Military planes from Australia, the U.S. and New Zealand had already been searching the area and more planes from China and Japan were sent to help, while an Australian navy supply ship, the HMAS Success, scoured the waters, some of the roughest and remotest in the world.</p> <p> More potential clues began popping up: A civil aircraft taking part in the search on Saturday spotted several small objects floating in the water, including a wooden pallet surrounded by straps. Could it have been from the aircraft? Malaysia Airlines confirmed the flight did, indeed, have wooden pallets on board. But pallets are also commonly used in the shipping industry. A New Zealand military aircraft tried to find the objects for closer inspection, but found only clumps of seaweed.</p> <p> The sense that searchers were getting close grew when more satellite data emerged; China announced it had captured a large object within the search zone on one of its satellites, and France said it had satellite data that may have identified debris from the missing plane.</p> <p> More objects of potential interest were spotted by the search planes crisscrossing the skies: a grey or green circular object and an orange rectangular object. A white, square object glimpsed through a break in the clouds.</p> <p> The U.S. sent a Towed Pinger Locator to the region in case a debris field was found, in the hopes it could locate the plane's so-called black box. An Australian navy support vessel, the Ocean Shield, equipped with acoustic detection equipment, was also moving into the search zone.</p> <p> But except for analysts' fresh conclusion based on satellite data that the flight had gone down, there are still no hard answers. And finding the jet remains far from a certainty.</p> <p> For Bajc, the woman who has all along refused to give up hope that her boyfriend is still alive, Malaysia's fatalist announcement offered little resolution.</p> <p> "I need closure to be certain but cannot keep on with public efforts against all odds," she wrote in an email. "I STILL feel his presence, so perhaps it was his soul all along."</p> <p> Associated Press writer Aritz Parra in Beijing contributed to this report.</p>
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<p> The search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 will be remembered as one of the most difficult and complicated endeavours in aviation history.</p> <p> Finding pieces of a Boeing 777 in a large, remote area of the Indian Ocean is a daunting task even for the most experienced search crews. Vague information about the crash site and terrible weather are making matters worse. </p> <p> On Monday, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak announced that new analysis of satellite data showed the plane went down somewhere in the southern Indian Ocean, about 2,500 kilometres west of Perth, Australia.</p> <p> The latest search area has been narrowed down to about 1.6 million square kilometres, but that hasn’t been very helpful to crews trying to locate the plane’s flight recorder data boxes.</p> <p> "We're not searching for a needle in a haystack," Air Marshal Mark Binskin, Australia's deputy defence chief, said Tuesday. "We're still trying to define where the haystack is."</p> <p> The search involves ships and planes from six countries, including Australia, U.S., and China.</p> <p> Doug Wallace, the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Ocean Science and Technology, said crews may only have a couple of weeks left to locate the so-called black boxes, which could have landed on the ocean floor.</p> <p> After 30 days in water, the boxes usually stop sending out signals that can be picked up by sonar equipment, Wallace, an oceanographer at Dalhousie University, <a href="http://www.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=312910&playlistId=1.1744610&binId=1.810401&playlistPageNum=1">told CTV’s Canada AM Tuesday. </a></p> <p> The lack of “solid information” on where the plane went down is making things more difficult, Wallace said. </p> <p> “The wreckage would drift with the currents and the wind, maybe on the order of four to five kilometres a day or more,” he said. “(Debris) might be hundreds to even thousands of kilometres away now from where the wreckage may be lying on the sea floor.”</p> <p> Advanced underwater vehicles are available to search for wreckage at the bottom of the ocean, Wallace said, but they are very slow and usually need a power recharge after one or two days.</p> <p> “Looking for the wreckage on the sea floor has to be very well planned and it could take years,” he said.</p> <p> Erik vanSebille, an oceanographer at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, told The Associated Press that ocean currents can spread items in the water hundreds of kilometres apart within weeks.</p> <p> "It's like one giant pinball machine out there," he said.</p> <p> With files from The Associated Press </p>
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<p> MINYA, Egypt -- After a single session with no defence lawyers present, an Egyptian judge said Tuesday he will issue verdicts next month in a new mass trial of 683 suspected Islamists on charges of murder and attempted murder, a day after he sentenced hundreds to death in a similar trial that raised a storm of international criticism.</p> <p> The mass trials have raised deep concerns among human rights activists over the lack of due process as Egyptian authorities push swift and heavy prosecutions in their crackdown against Islamists and the Muslim Brotherhood. Some 16,000 have been in arrested in the crackdown since the the military's ouster of President Mohammed Morsi last summer.</p> <p> Defence lawyers boycotted the trial that began Tuesday in the court in the city of Minya, south of Cairo, to protest the verdicts issued the day before in a separate trial. Despite the lawyer boycott, presiding judge Said Youssef went ahead with the session, hearing testimony, in what the lawyers called a violation of the law.</p> <p> After the 5-hour hearing, the judge announced that he would issue verdicts in the case at the next session, set for April 28, according to judicial and security officials who attended the sessions and Mohammed Tosson, a defence lawyer who boycotted the session but present in the court building to monitor the results. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the proceedings.</p> <p> The 683 defendants, all but 68 of whom are being tried in absentia, could also face the death penalty in the case. Among the defendants is the top leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Mohammed Badie, as well several other senior members of the group. Badie is in custody in Cairo but was not brought to the hearing in Minya for security reasons.</p> <p> If sentenced to death, Badie would be the most senior figure in the Brotherhood to receive such a sentence since a leading ideologue of the group, Sayed Qutb, was executed in 1966 -- though any verdict against Badie would certainly be appealed.</p> <p> The previous mass trial that Youssef presided over also held only one session to hear testimony before he held a second session Monday to pronounce the verdicts. Defence lawyers said they were not allowed to present their case during the single session, and they were barred from Monday's hearing, when Youssef pronounced deaths sentenced for 528 of the defendants.</p> <p> The sentences are subject to appeal and even judicial officials involved in the case said they expect them to be overturned.</p> <p> But the verdicts stunned Egyptian human rights activists and brought international criticism on Egypt. On Tuesday, the U.N. human rights office called the mass death sentences "unprecedented in recent history" and "a breach of international human rights law."</p> <p> The U.S. State Department said it "defies logic" that so many defendants could have gotten a fair trial in two sessions. German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier called the verdicts "very alarming" and said "further mass trials must be suspended." The European Union's foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, called on Egyptian officials to ensure "defendants' rights to a fair and timely trial."</p> <p> Sixteen Egyptian rights groups said they were "extremely concerned" about the court verdict, saying they constitute "a dangerous, unprecedented shift in the Egyptian judiciary's treatment of such cases and represent a grave violation of both the right to a fair trial and the right to life."</p> <p> The Justice Ministry on Tuesday issued a statement in reaction to the criticism, underlining that the defendants have a right to appeal the verdicts to the Court of Cassation, which can order a retrial. If the retrial reaches a similar verdict, the defendants can appeal to the higher court again, it said.</p> <p> The two trials in Minya are connected to a wave of rioting and mob attacks on police stations by Morsi supporters in August, sparked when security forces stormed two pro-Morsi protest camps in Cairo, killing more than 600 people.</p> <p> In the latest trial, the defendants are charged with murder over the death of two policemen in an attack on a police station in the town of el-Adawa. They are also charged with attempted murder of five people -- including a Christian resident -- as well as with membership in a terrorist group and with aiding, financing and providing weapons to carry out a terrorist attack.</p> <p> The government has branded the Brotherhood a terrorist group, a claim it denies.</p> <p> As a show of protest over the verdicts in the first trial, defence lawyers boycotted Tuesday's tribunal.</p> <p> "As lawyers, we haven't seen anything like what happened here yesterday in our entire professional lives and we will not see anything like it until our deaths," Khaled Fouda, of the Minya lawyers' syndicate, told a press conference announcing the boycott.</p> <p> One of the boycotting defence lawyers, Yasser Zidan, said the judge violated the law by not postponing Tuesday's session until new lawyers could be appointed for the defendants. "This is just another disaster," Zidan said. "This judge smashed the rock of justice with his own hands. He is inventing a new law."</p> <p> According to the judicial and security officials, the judge questioned nearly 20 witnesses, including policemen and civilians who saw the police station attack. A collection of 70 video clips and 200 photos from the attack were also submitted into evidence.</p> <p> A few kilometres (miles) away from the court, clashes erupted between security forces firing tear gas and rubber bullets and Islamist students at Minya University who chanted slogans against the verdicts and the military.</p> <p> Roads around the Minya court building were blocked by cement blocks and metal barricades, manned by security forces and masked special forces. Armored vehicles patrolled the streets and shops in the vicinity of the court were shut down.</p> <p> Security forces kept small groups of protesters, including relatives of the defendants, and traffic away from the area.</p> <p> In a nearby coffee shop, relatives of the defendants sat to sip tea and have breakfast. One of them, 45-year-old al-Hawari, a farmer who spoke on condition he be indentified only by his first name for fear of police harassment, said his cousins and neighbours are among the defendants. He insisted they were not involved in killings or violence.</p> <p> "These are all fabrications. Where is the evidence?" said al-Hawari, dressed in traditional robes. Still, he acknowledged that on the day of the mob attack in the el-Adwa police station, many people were involved in fighting, shooting and rioting near the police station to take revenge from "injustice inflicted by the police officers."</p> <p> "We already know the verdict. God be with us," he said with a sigh.</p>
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<p> Prime Minister Stephen Harper says Canada stands “united” with its G7 counterparts, NATO allies and the European Union in delivering a strong message to Russia about its actions in Ukraine.</p> <p> Wrapping up his visit to The Hague for the Nuclear Security Summit, Harper said Tuesday that his government has been “outspoken” about the political turmoil in Ukraine partly because of “the kinship we have with a million of Ukrainian Canadians.”</p> <p> After emergency talks on Monday, Harper and other G7 leaders decided to suspend their participation in the Group of Eight until Russia "changes course" in Ukraine.</p> <p> In a move aimed at expressing support for the people of Ukraine, they also decided to skip the G8 summit scheduled for June in Sochi, Russia, opting to instead hold their own meeting in Brussels.</p> <p> The leaders condemned Russia’s annexation of Crimea, a peninsula in southern Ukraine, and what they called an “illegal referendum” on the issue. They also said they are ready to “intensify actions,” including co-ordinated sanctions, if Russia continues to “escalate this situation.”</p> <p> Russia has already retaliated against Canada’s response by banning 13 Canadian lawmakers and officials from entering the country.</p> <p> “I don’t know on what basis they’re sanctioning Canada other than: 'We just don’t approve of their actions,'” Harper said Tuesday.</p> <p> He noted that Paul Grod, national president of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress, is on Russia’s blacklist.</p> <p> “They sanctioned a man for the sole reason that he’s Ukrainian,” Harper said. “Now what does that tell you about the mentality of that government?” </p> <p> On the nuclear summit front, Harper said Canada will support initiatives that address the threat of “nuclear terrorism and weapons of mass destruction.”</p> <p> A statement from the Prime Minister’s Office said two conventions were ratified at the summit to improve nuclear security.</p> <p> Russia worried about G20: expert</p> <p> John Kirton, director of the G8 Research Group at the University of Toronto, suggested earlier Tuesday that the Russian government is now also worried about its future in the G20.</p> <p> Speculation that the Australian government may prevent Russian President Vladimir Putin from attending the G20 summit in Brisbane later this year has the Russians “clearly worried,” <a href="http://www.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=312909&playlistId=1.1744523&binId=1.810401&playlistPageNum=1">Kirton told CTV’s Canada AM.</a></p> <p> He said the G7 leaders’ decision to withdraw from the upcoming G8 summit in Sochi sends a “pretty clear” and “wise” signal to Russia. He said a seat at the G8 table is “still there for Putin,” but it’s now up to him to be invited back.</p> <p> The G7 group consists of Canada, U.S., United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, and Japan. Russia joined in 1998 to form the G8 group, but G7 nations have been meeting separately over the years.</p>
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<p> It took just 2 1/2 minutes for a combination of human and technical mistakes to turn a passenger and supply flight into a remote Arctic community from routine to calamitous.</p> <p> A Transportation Safety Board report into the crash of First Air Flight 6560 blames an undetected autopilot change, a faulty compass reading and disagreement between the pilots about whether to abort the landing.</p> <p> "This accident was the product of a complex series of events, all of them lining up together," lead investigator Brian MacDonald said Tuesday as the report was released. "But what ultimately tied all these things together was that as the flight progressed each pilot developed a different understanding of the situation and they were unable to reconcile that difference."</p> <p> The crash at the Resolute airport Aug. 20, 2011, killed eight passengers and four crew members. Three passengers miraculously survived.</p> <p> In cool, technical language the board's report provides a second-by-second breakdown of what probably happened in the cockpit as the pilots crashed the Boeing 737 into a hillside more than a kilometre from the runway.</p> <p> Problems began because on-board compasses were incorrectly adjusted by 17 degrees. That error was compounded when the captain turned into the final approach and unwittingly changed the operational mode of the plane's autopilot. Busy with the landing checklist, in weather obscured by cloud, mist and light rain, neither he nor the co-pilot picked up the change.</p> <p> "This incongruency would have negatively affected the pilots' situational awareness and increased their workload as they attempted to understand and resolve this ambiguity," the report says.</p> <p> Within seconds after that final turn, co-pilot David Hare realized the plane was off course and repeatedly told the pilot, reminding him about the large hill to the right of the runway. Pilot Blair Rutherford replied that the autopilot was working fine.</p> <p> Puzzled as to why the plane's navigational instruments weren't lining up with ground-based systems, Hare asked if they'd done something wrong. Five seconds later, he suggested they pull up and go around for another approach.</p> <p> Rutherford, fully focused on landing the plane and on figuring out why his instruments were giving confusing readings, refused.</p> <p> "It is likely that the captain did not fully comprehend information that indicated that his original plan was no longer viable," says the report.</p> <p> Less than 10 seconds after first suggesting they pull up, Hare asked again, pointing out that the plane wasn't configured for a landing so close to the landing strip. The report suggests Rutherford is likely to have understood the remark as a request to prepared the plane for landing.</p> <p> Cockpit communication had broken down.</p> <p> "The captain's mental model was likely that the approach and landing could be salvaged, and the (co-pilot's) mental model was almost certainly that there was significant risk to the safety of flight and that a go-around was required. These divergent mental models compromised the pilots' ability to communicate and work together."</p> <p> Four seconds after his second request to pull up, Hare asked Rutherford to bank to the left. Their navigational confusion was evident when Hare confused the shoreline of a small lake with the seashore.</p> <p> Just under a minute after that, Hare said: "Blair, I don't like this."</p> <p> Almost immediately after, the plane's ground position systems began to sound alarms. About 160 seconds after making the final turn, Rutherford tried to pull up and go around.</p> <p> "There was insufficient altitude and time to execute the manoeuvre and avoid collision with terrain."</p> <p> The plane smashed into the hill and broke into three main pieces. Debris was strewn around the tundra.</p> <p> Resolute residents and soldiers from a military exercise that happened to be underway nearby rushed to the scene to try to pull survivors from the flaming wreckage.</p> <p> Within minutes, rescue crews and fire trucks were dispatched. Coast Guard and military helicopters arrived on the scene. Those not rescuing survivors or recovering casualties worked frantically to douse a fire from a fuel leak.</p> <p> Military medical teams and equipment that had arrived shortly before the crash were pressed into service. The injured were stabilized in a field hospital and flown to Iqaluit.</p> <p> The board has recommended that First Air revise its procedures to ensure pilots can communicate clearly and directly. It also said the carrier should be clearer about what types of compasses are to be used in which situations.</p> <p> The report said First Air has taken those actions, including a new rule that any crew member can order a go-around simply by saying "Go around."</p> <p> Several lawsuits have been filed over the disaster. The suits cast partial blame on the Canadian Forces, which had taken control over the small airport on the day of the crash.</p> <p> The transportation board said the military's presence was not a contributing factor in the crash.</p> <p> The military had established a temporary air traffic control tower to guide in all planes. The airport was normally an uncontrolled airspace and pilots navigated themselves onto the runway.</p> <p> The suits claim the military did not have enough people on duty to handle the air traffic and those working the tower were not briefed or properly trained to navigate civilian planes.</p> <p> None of the allegations has been proven in court. Statements of defence were not immediately available.</p> <p> The chartered plane was on a regular run from Yellowknife to Resolute. There were scientists on the plane along with staff heading back to work at a local inn and the inn owner's two young granddaughters. There was also a load of food.</p>
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<p> Over an extraordinary 17 days and nights, until the moment Malaysia's prime minister stepped to a lectern to deliver investigators' sobering new findings, the fate of vanished Flight 370 hung on morbid conjecture and fragile hope.</p> <p> Many previous tragedies have transfixed us by revealing their power in cruel detail. But the disappearance of the Beijing-bound Boeing 777 without warning or explanation captivated imaginations around the world in no small part because of the near vacuum of firm information or solid leads.</p> <p> Nothing solid, that is, until late Monday night, when Prime Minister Najib Razak announced that an analysis of the plane's last-known signals to a satellite showed that it went down somewhere in the desolate waters of the southern Indian Ocean -- and that all on board perished.</p> <p> It was a turning point of sorts in one of the most perplexing mysteries of modern times. Najib's statement offered some resolution -- the plane has surely crashed -- but little else. No one has found the plane, or the passengers, or the answer to why all this happened in the first place. And solving those riddles involves a search that looms dauntingly across a vast expanse of unforgiving ocean at the bottom of the earth.</p> <p> The puzzle of Flight 370 has been complicated by a frustrating lack of hard facts since it vanished on a night flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8. Who could say what might have happened in the cockpit or the cabin -- or who or what was responsible? Who knew where the plane had gone -- up or down, north or south -- or what had become of its 239 passengers and crew?</p> <p> Hungry for answers, officials and investigators, relatives and reporters focused their questions fruitlessly on the two Iranian passengers who boarded the plane with stolen passports; then on the oil slicks in the Gulf of Thailand; then on the rumours that a Uighur passenger might have harboured anti-Chinese motives; then on the pilot's home flight simulator.</p> <p> The reluctance of Malaysian officials to reveal what they knew and sometimes to offer conflicting information only seemed to feed the doubts, even after many of the nefarious scenarios suggested early on were dismissed. And with limited evidence and not even a bit of confirmed wreckage, everyone from experts on aviation and terrorism to armchair travellers was left to speculate.</p> <p> It may have been hard to take rocker Courtney Love seriously when she posted a photo on Facebook showing an oil slick off the coast of Malaysia and suggested that it revealed the location of the missing plane. But when a fake news story showed up online supposedly quoting Sarah Palin as saying she believed the plane had flown directly to heaven, its plausibility hinged not on the former Alaska governor, but on the fact that just about anybody could and seemingly did have an opinion on the flight's fate.</p> <p> That's probably because most people felt connected to it and, therefore, invested in it. As Australia's opposition leader Bill Shorten put it, "There is something about a plane disappearing which links all the citizens of the globe. These people who disappeared on this flight could be any of us."</p> <p> While many of the theories presented were well-informed speculation based on deep experience and thoughtful analysis, they all had one flaw or another, and could not dispel the void. With so little to go on, families of those aboard grasped at the clouds of uncertainty, which allowed them to maintain a sense, however shaky, that that the plane might possibly be found intact, their relatives found alive.</p> <p> "Dearest love, I hope you are able to get some rest where you are, and that they are feeding you," Sarah Bajc wrote last week in a Facebook post to her boyfriend, Philip Wood, a native of Texas who was on board. "Any chance they include a glass of wine with dinner?"</p> <p> It was one of a heartbreaking string of love notes she sent out into the electronic ether, as she clung to the hope that her partner was still alive. A few days later: "Hi baby, It has been a lazy Sunday here. I cannot imagine what you must be going through." Later still: "Good morning baby, how are you holding up? I'm doing my best to bring you hope and courage to continue the fight."</p> <p> And fight the families did -- for any scrap of information that might reveal their loved ones' fate. Gut-wrenching grief, frustration and, eventually, rage bubbled over among some of the family members, who accused the Malaysian government of withholding information. Before a news briefing in Kuala Lumpur, two Chinese relatives of passengers held up a banner demanding the truth.</p> <p> "I want to see my son!" one of the women cried, before being carried away by security as she wept and screamed.</p> <p> And then, at last, came a break -- or at least, what seemed like one. On March 20, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott stunned the world when he stood up during what had been a routine session of parliament, slipped on his glasses and began to read from a statement:</p> <p> "New and credible information has come to light in relation to the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in the southern Indian Ocean," he began. "The Australian Maritime Safety Authority has received information based on satellite imagery of objects possibly related to the search."</p> <p> The objects -- two blurry, whitish blobs captured in a satellite image -- were located in a patch of the Indian Ocean, near absolutely nothing. The closest major body of land was Australia's west coast, 2,500 kilometres (1,550 miles) away.</p> <p> The hunt was on in earnest. Military planes from Australia, the U.S. and New Zealand had already been searching the area and more planes from China and Japan were sent to help, while an Australian navy supply ship, the HMAS Success, scoured the waters, some of the roughest and remotest in the world.</p> <p> More potential clues began popping up: A civil aircraft taking part in the search on Saturday spotted several small objects floating in the water, including a wooden pallet surrounded by straps. Could it have been from the aircraft? Malaysia Airlines confirmed the flight did, indeed, have wooden pallets on board. But pallets are also commonly used in the shipping industry. A New Zealand military aircraft tried to find the objects for closer inspection, but found only clumps of seaweed.</p> <p> The sense that searchers were getting close grew when more satellite data emerged; China announced it had captured a large object within the search zone on one of its satellites, and France said it had satellite data that may have identified debris from the missing plane.</p> <p> More objects of potential interest were spotted by the search planes crisscrossing the skies: a grey or green circular object and an orange rectangular object. A white, square object glimpsed through a break in the clouds.</p> <p> The U.S. sent a Towed Pinger Locator to the region in case a debris field was found, in the hopes it could locate the plane's so-called black box. An Australian navy support vessel, the Ocean Shield, equipped with acoustic detection equipment, was also moving into the search zone.</p> <p> But except for analysts' fresh conclusion based on satellite data that the flight had gone down, there are still no hard answers. And finding the jet remains far from a certainty.</p> <p> For Bajc, the woman who has all along refused to give up hope that her boyfriend is still alive, Malaysia's fatalist announcement offered little resolution.</p> <p> "I need closure to be certain but cannot keep on with public efforts against all odds," she wrote in an email. "I STILL feel his presence, so perhaps it was his soul all along."</p> <p> Associated Press writer Aritz Parra in Beijing contributed to this report.</p>
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<p> The search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 will be remembered as one of the most difficult and complicated endeavours in aviation history.</p> <p> Finding pieces of a Boeing 777 in a large, remote area of the Indian Ocean is a daunting task even for the most experienced search crews. Vague information about the crash site and terrible weather are making matters worse. </p> <p> On Monday, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak announced that new analysis of satellite data showed the plane went down somewhere in the southern Indian Ocean, about 2,500 kilometres west of Perth, Australia.</p> <p> The latest search area has been narrowed down to about 1.6 million square kilometres, but that hasn’t been very helpful to crews trying to locate the plane’s flight recorder data boxes.</p> <p> "We're not searching for a needle in a haystack," Air Marshal Mark Binskin, Australia's deputy defence chief, said Tuesday. "We're still trying to define where the haystack is."</p> <p> The search involves ships and planes from six countries, including Australia, U.S., and China.</p> <p> Doug Wallace, the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Ocean Science and Technology, said crews may only have a couple of weeks left to locate the so-called black boxes, which could have landed on the ocean floor.</p> <p> After 30 days in water, the boxes usually stop sending out signals that can be picked up by sonar equipment, Wallace, an oceanographer at Dalhousie University, <a href="http://www.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=312910&playlistId=1.1744610&binId=1.810401&playlistPageNum=1">told CTV’s Canada AM Tuesday. </a></p> <p> The lack of “solid information” on where the plane went down is making things more difficult, Wallace said. </p> <p> “The wreckage would drift with the currents and the wind, maybe on the order of four to five kilometres a day or more,” he said. “(Debris) might be hundreds to even thousands of kilometres away now from where the wreckage may be lying on the sea floor.”</p> <p> Advanced underwater vehicles are available to search for wreckage at the bottom of the ocean, Wallace said, but they are very slow and usually need a power recharge after one or two days.</p> <p> “Looking for the wreckage on the sea floor has to be very well planned and it could take years,” he said.</p> <p> Erik vanSebille, an oceanographer at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, told The Associated Press that ocean currents can spread items in the water hundreds of kilometres apart within weeks.</p> <p> "It's like one giant pinball machine out there," he said.</p> <p> With files from The Associated Press </p>
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<p> VICTORIA - B.C.'s auditor general says the provincial government isn't prepared for a catastrophic earthquake.</p> <p> In a report released today, auditor Russ Jones says Emergency Management BC has not made earthquake planning a priority.</p> <p> He says the Office of the Auditor General made similar conclusions about B.C.'s poor state of earthquake preparedness 17 years ago in a previous report, but not much has changed since then.</p> <p> Jones says successive B.C. governments have decided to dedicate resources to issues they consider more pressing than earthquake preparedness.</p> <p> Opposition New Democrat public safety critic Kathy Corrigan says B.C. is in an earthquake-prone zone, but the government has not taken the issue seriously.</p> <p> She says the recent attempt to appoint former Liberal solicitor general John Les to consult about earthquake preparedness now seems like a pre-emptive response to Jones's report, which the government already had.</p>
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<p> A portable computer hard drive containing the personal information of more than 500,000 student loan recipients was left unsecured for extended periods of time by government employees and was not protected by a password or encryption, Canada’s top privacy watchdog says.</p> <p> In a report tabled in Parliament on Tuesday, interim federal privacy commissioner Chantal Bernier detailed the various security procedures Employment and Social Development Canada failed to follow when dealing with the confidential information -- failures she said should serve as a lesson for every public sector department and agency.</p> <p> The report says the ESDC hard drive went missing in 2012. It contained the personal information -- including social insurance number, name, date of birth, home address, telephone number, loan amounts and balances -- of 583,000 Canada Student Loans Program borrowers from 2000 to 2006.</p> <p> The hard drive also included the gender, language and marital status for some borrowers, as well as information on about 250 ESDC employees.</p> <p> The ESDC subsequently reported the hard drive missing to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, and an investigation began in January 2013.</p> <p> The privacy commissioner’s report says that the ESDC has found no evidence that the personal information stored on the hard drive has been accessed or used for fraudulent purposes. But the results of that investigation show that numerous security procedures were not properly followed and that ESDC employees had contravened sections of the Privacy Act “related to the use, disposal and disclosure of personal information.</p> <p> “The report concludes that a gap between policies and practices at ESDC led to weaknesses in information management controls, physical security controls, and most importantly, the level of employee awareness of departmental policies and procedures,” a summary of the privacy commissioner’s report says.</p> <p> While ESDC policy required portable storage devices such as hard drives to be stored in a lockable filing cabinet when not in use, the report says that it was often left unsecured for extended periods of time. Even when it was stored in a filing cabinet, the report goes on to say, the cabinet was in an open cubicle and often not locked. The report says ESDC did not record the serial number of the hard drive and that “no specific employee was assigned responsibility for its custody.”</p> <p> ESDC also didn’t classify the hard drive as “a high-level threat to privacy,” and that neither “password protection nor encryption were implemented to protect the sensitive information on the portable hard drive.”</p> <p> The privacy commissioner’s investigation also revealed that ESDC did not track which employees used the device, or knew the exact contests of the portable drive at the time it went missing.</p> <p> EDSC staff lacked a “clear understanding of the information content on the hard drive," as well as “sufficient awareness about information stewardship, security responsibilities, IT controls and privacy threats, all areas covered by department policies,” the report says.</p> <p> “This incident should serve as a lesson for all organizations,” Bernier said in a summary of the investigation. “Protecting personal information cannot be ensured by having policies on paper. Policies must be put into practice each and every day and monitored regularly.”</p> <p> The report said that ESDC has accepted all of the privacy commissioner’s recommendations. They include:</p> <ul> <li> Severely restricting the use of portable storage devices and introducing computer software that blocks the use of any such devices on desktop computers without specific authorization;</li> <li> Periodically examining portable storage devices to make sure they are being used properly;</li> <li> Reviewing all materiel holdings, disposing of transitory records and classifying remaining records at the appropriate security level; and</li> <li> Mandatory employee training every two years on the protection of personal privacy</li> </ul> <p> The report also says the Office of the Privacy Commissioner will conduct a follow-up in one year to confirm ESDC’s progress in the implementation of the commissioner’s recommendations.</p>
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<p> NEWMARKET, Ont. -- A father who narrowly survived a purported home invasion in which his wife was fatally shot in the head testified Tuesday about the elaborate web of deceit his daughter had spun in the years before the attack.</p> <p> Glancing impassively at his daughter in the prisoner's dock, Hann Pan described how she had soaked her parents for thousands of dollars while lying about attending school or work and where she was living.</p> <p> Among the lies, court heard, were a fake university diploma, a bogus hospital volunteer job, phoney part-time work at a department store complete with a fake pay stub, and the fiction that she was rooming with an acquaintance.</p> <p> Jennifer Pan, 27, her high school sweetheart Daniel Wong, 28, and three others are each charged with first-degree murder in the November 2010 death of her 53-year-old mother, Bieh Ha Pan.</p> <p> According to the prosecution, she had promised to pay $5,000 for each parent killed from her share of her inheritance.</p> <p> Crown lawyer Michelle Rumble elicited that the Pans, who owned their home outright, would have left an estate worth about $1 million at the time of the killing.</p> <p> Their son and daughter stood to inherit the money equally, something his wife had often discussed with their daughter, Pan told the court.</p> <p> Pan, 60, a tool and die maker, said he often wanted to query his daughter about her studies but his wife would intercede, arguing the young woman was already a grown up.</p> <p> "Let her be herself. Too much interference will not be good," Pan said his wife told him.</p> <p> The web of lies finally unravelled in 2009, when the suspicious father noted his daughter had no uniform or key-card for the Toronto hospital she said she was volunteering at.</p> <p> "I was frustrated and I was concerned that something was not right," Pan told jurors through a Vietnamese interpreter.</p> <p> When he drove her to the hospital, she bolted and disappeared.</p> <p> The following morning, after the friend she was apparently rooming with said she was not staying there, Pan came home and confessed:</p> <p> "Jennifer said that she lied. She did not work at the hospital. Had not graduated from university. My daughter said she was currently living with her boyfriend, Daniel Wong," Pan testified.</p> <p> "I was very upset."</p> <p> The angry father ordered his daughter to sever her relationship with Wong and return to school. She apparently agreed.</p> <p> "He had covered for my daughter to stay out of school for the last four years," Pan explained.</p> <p> Pan was shot in the face during the attack at the family home in Markham, Ont., but survived. His wife was killed by two shots to the head -- one at point-blank range.</p> <p> The prosecution alleges that what happened was a deliberate hit orchestrated by their daughter, because her parents had thwarted her relationship with Wong.</p> <p> In the months before the attack, Han discovered his daughter was still in contact with Wong, and gave her an ultimatum: Cut ties with him or leave the family forever.</p> <p> Again, the daughter said she would stay home and not have contact with her boyfriend.</p> <p> Also charged with Pan and Wong in Ontario Superior Court are Eric Carty, Lenford Crawford and David Mylvaganam.</p> <p> Before she was fatally shot, Pan's mother repeatedly begged the intruders not to harm her daughter, the Crown alleges.</p> <p> Pan's home-invasion story fell apart when it became clear her father would live, court has heard.</p>
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<p> Maritime residents are bracing for a massive snowstorm that is expected to hit the region on Wednesday -- a chilly reminder that while the calendar says spring, winter has other plans.</p> <p> Halifax will likely see anywhere between 30 and 40 cm of snow on Wednesday, with gusting winds expected to get as high as 100 km/h around noon.</p> <p> Areas south of Halifax -- Lunenburg County, Queens County and Shelburne County -- could see as much as 50 cm of snow.</p> <p> AccuWeather meteorologist Bernie Rayno said the worst of the storm is expected to hit Wednesday afternoon and into the evening in parts of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island.</p> <p> “This is as bad as it gets and it will be a full-fledged blizzard,” Rayno told CTV’s News Channel in an interview from AccuWeather’s head offices in State College, Pa.</p> <p> Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil urged residents Tuesday to prepare for the storm and look out for their neighbours.</p> <p> “If there are people in your community 鈥� that are living alone or are elderly or needing some support, make sure you keep in touch with them to ensure that everyone weathers the storm,” he said.</p> <p> Prince Edward Island will see similar weather as Nova Scotia, with some places expecting to be blanketed with as much as 40 cm of snow.</p> <p> In New Brunswick, both Saint John and Moncton will see upwards of 40 cm of snow as well, with winds gusting as high as 90 km/h.</p> <p> “You’re going to have all kinds of blowing snows and this is the kind of storm that shuts things down, Rayno said.</p> <p> Further inland in Fredericton, the storm won’t be nearly as fierce, with only 10 cm of snow predicted for Wednesday.</p> <p> The storm will likely hit Newfoundland sometime Wednesday evening or early Thursday, hitting St. John’s with about 10 cm of snow. Winds, however, will be the biggest concern there, where gusts could get as high as 120 km/h Wednesday evening. Rayno said Cape Breton could see wind gusts of up to 135 km/h.</p> <p> Cindy Day, CTV Atlantic’s chief meteorologist, says this type of storm is called a “weather bomb” -- a rapidly intensifying low pressure system. Day wrote in a recent blog post that most weather bombs see a central pressure drop of 24 millibars (atmospheric pressure units) in less than 24 hours. She says computer models predicting this weather bomb shown a 40-millibar drop in less than 24 hours.</p> <p> Jean-Marc Couturier, an Environment Canada meteorologist, says the storm will be one of the strongest of the season, but added that it’s not unusual for the Maritimes to see a storm like this so late in March.</p> <p> "Definitely we'd still be looking at some potential storms along the Atlantic seaboard and throughout Atlantic Canada at this time of year," Couturier told The Canadian Press on Sunday. "We're not sure at this point if it would be the strongest system... that we've seen this winter, but it will be one of the strongest for sure."</p> <p> The harsh winter has forced some Maritime municipalities to spend more on snow removal than they budgeted for. According to a report from CTV Atlantic, the winter works department in Saint John, N.B., has already spent nearly two-thirds of the $5.8 million allotted for snow removal in 2014. Cape Breton, N.S., is predicting an overrun of nearly $500,000 due to the snow.</p> <p> Gordon Hayward, the manager of winter operations for Halifax, says this next storm will likely take the city over its $20 million annual budget for snow removal.</p> <p> “It’s more dollars added to a budget that’s already swelled,” Hayward told CTV Atlantic.</p> <p> With files from CTV Atlantic and The Canadian Press</p>
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<p> BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Buffalo Bills owner Ralph Wilson, who helped found the American Football League in 1960, died at his home on Tuesday afternoon. He was 95.</p> <p> Bills president Russ Brandon made the announcement at the NFL winter meetings in Orlando.</p> <p> Wilson was the founder and sole owner of the Bills after establishing the team with the upstart AFL in 1960. He played a key role in the league merger's with the NFL. He was inducted into the Football Hall of Fame in 2009.</p> <p> Wilson died at his home in Grosse Pointe Shores, Mich., around 1:40 p.m., said Mary Mazur, spokeswoman for the Wayne County medical examiner's office.</p> <p> He had been receiving in-home hospice care.</p> <p> Wilson had been in failing health for several years.</p>
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<p> Students who only smoke marijuana do better at school than classmates who smoke just tobacco, or who smoke both tobacco and pot, says a new study, which tracked substance use among teens over 30 years.</p> <p> Researchers from the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health analyzed data from a survey administered to nearly 39,000 Ontario students between 1981 and 2011. The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health asked students in Grades 7, 9 and 11 about their tobacco and marijuana use, and their academic performance.</p> <p> The study found that marijuana-only users did better at school than their counterparts who smoked only cigarettes or who smoked both cigarettes and marijuana. However, the findings reflect the fact that fewer students smoke tobacco today compared to 30 years ago, and those that do make up a very “marginalized, vulnerable” population, says lead study author Michael Chaiton, assistant professor in epidemiology and public health policy.</p> <p> About 92 per cent of tobacco users also use marijuana, the study found. However, only 25 per cent of marijuana uses also smoke tobacco.</p> <p> “It’s better relatively,” Chaiton says of marijuana-only users’ academic performance.</p> <p> Marijuana users don’t outperform non-users, Chaiton says.</p> <p> “Now there is a distinction between marijuana use and co-use with other substances, and it’s an indication of the changing social norms. So it’s not an absolute that they do better; it’s that social norms have changed and the population of people who use marijuana are more like the general population.”</p> <p> The study was published in the March edition of the Journal of School Health.</p> <p> In the 1980s, when the study began, there was less marijuana use among students. And those who did smoke pot also smoked tobacco. At the time, pot use among tobacco smokers was very low.</p> <p> Thirty years later, that had switched, the researchers found. As tobacco use declined, marijuana use shot up. And among the remaining tobacco users, marijuana use is now very high.</p> <p> One reason for the statistical switch, Chaiton says, is the effectiveness of anti-tobacco messaging in recent years.</p> <p> “The population of youth smokers right now is one that is a fairly marginalized population, quite a vulnerable population, so they are at high rates of cannabis use but also of other drugs and other behaviours,” Chaiton says. “So the change in trends is that this is a social phenomenon. This is not that tobacco is causing this, it is something that has changed socially in the role of tobacco in society.”</p> <p> Now that marijuana smoking has become more of a social norm, Chaiton says, programs aimed at keeping youth from risky behaviours such as drug abuse must take into account two factors: that more students now smoke marijuana compared to 30 years ago, and that students who smoke tobacco are more likely to use marijuana or other drugs and engage in at-risk behaviours such as vandalism and theft.</p> <p> As marijuana use becomes more prevalent and socially acceptable, Chaiton says, the focus must turn to developing programs for youth that properly educate them on the risks.</p> <p> Tobacco and marijuana are “similar drugs in many different ways,” Chaiton notes, and “people dramatically underestimate the risks associated with cannabis use, particularly among youth.”</p> <p> “I would argue that we need to start talking about them in the same way and start addressing them in the same types of interventions,” he says, particularly given the growing public discussions about decriminalizing or legalizing marijuana.</p> <p> “If we do legalize or change the regulations in dramatic ways, that does change the social environment again and that can, as we’ve seen a number of times, cause big shifts in youth and we could see another big shift in marijuana use among youth.”</p>
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- X Philadelphia row house collapses, injuring 8, including 2 babies, contractor; gas leak blamed
