National Immunization Awareness Week October 24th through 30th.
Highlights Ongoing Need to Protect Children
Transit advocates said
yesterday bus and metro
users shouldn't have to fork
over more money for the same
level of service they received
last year - this after the
Montreal Urban Community
Transit Corp. announced fare
hikes in its 2000 bus report.
"It's unfair. It's a tax on the
users," said Normand Parisien,
head of Transport 2000, which defends the rights of transit riders.
Homicide detectives in Montreal say they are
certain they have closed two cases that sparked
fears more than seven years ago that a serial killer
was stalking gays.
Their suspect is a man who was already in prison in
New Brunswick while awaiting trial for a double
homicide committed in that province last year and is
a suspect in at least another killing there.
A West Vancouver man on the run from a
notorious New York prison for nearly 30 years
said Wednesday he loves Canada and hopes to
stay, both for himself and his cancer-stricken
Canadian wife.
"I've made a home for myself and I feel very much
that I am at home," said Allen Richardson. Richardson, 50, walked away from a state work
camp in 1971, 12 weeks into a four-year
sentence for selling $20 worth of LSD to an undercover policeman in his dorm
room at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
He fled with another inmate because he feared he was about to be returned to
Attica prison just weeks after a four-day riot when 43 people were killed.
"This is absolutely bizarre," said NDP MP Nelson Riis. "It's a reflection of some
overzealous law-enforcement officers in the United States, presumably.
"This is a man that has proven himself as a decent citizen for decades," Riis
said. "This is clearly an example of the system going absolutely mad."
Nova Scotia opposition parties yesterday renewed
their calls for the resignation of a cabinet minister who lost the
housing portfolio after being called a ''slumlord'' and is now accused
of trying to intimidate a journalist.
John Chataway, the Human Resources Minister who was stripped
of the housing portfolio last month, came under fire in the Legislature
for approaching a radio news director about an
access-to-information request.
The Ontario government could run into Charter trouble if it proceeds with a plan to force drug-addicted
welfare recipients into rehab, says the province's human rights commissioner.
Drug addiction is a disability under the law, and forcing addicts into treatment programs as a condition for welfare would
constitute discrimination under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Keith Norton said Thursday.
It's a dreadful date: Dec. 6, 1989.
It entered history as the grim occasion when 14 young women were slain by a female-hating gunman at Montreal's Ecole
polytechnique. Now their relatives, friends and supporters are preparing a series of events to recall the 14 victims - and to raise
hope for the future.
The National Council of Veteran Associations,
which represents 36 veterans organizations, was pleased to hear that Veterans
Affairs Minister George Baker is apparently preparing a proposal for cabinet
regarding compensation for Merchant Seamen.
We have been in consultation with Mr. Baker and his officials for several
weeks.
n a ruling delivered Tuesday in the Ontario
Superior Court of Justice, Justice John H. Brockenshire granted a class action
motion on behalf of disabled Canadian veterans to the legal team comprised of
Windsor lawyers Raymond Colautti and David Greenaway of the law firm of
Paroian Raphael, and Peter Sengbusch of London, Ontario.
``This lawsuit seeks reimbursement for the government's failure -- over
several decades -- to pay interest to the thousands of poor and disabled
veterans whose pension and other benefits were being administered by the
federal government,'' said Mr. Colautti.
Just half of new parents are eligible for paid leave under employment insurance,
and the eligible ones receive less money than their counterparts did six years
ago, says a new study.
Average maternity and parental benefit cheques of $277 per week in 1998 were
down from a high of $297 in 1992 and 1993, says a Statistics Canada analysis.
A landmark bill that would provide Canadians with more protection for their personal information was
passed Tuesday by the Commons.
Bill C-6, known as Bill C-54 last year before Parliament adjourned, would ensure that all federally regulated industries obtain
consent before collecting and using private information, with certain exceptions for police work. If the provinces don't follow
through with similar legislation, the federal bill would also apply to all private business within three years.
New Brunswick natives have moved their fight for treaty rights from the water to the woods.
Ontario's Conservatives will introduce for the third time Tuesday laws requiring future provincial premiers
to keep balanced books and seek approval of taxpayers before introducing tax hikes, senior government sources said Monday.
Khatami Protesters Held In Paris, Face Expulsion French police detained a group of Iranian-born people who flew into Paris from Canada Monday to protest
against a visit by Iranian President Mohammad Khatami later this week.
Two extremely popular television
programs have been put under the microscope by the
Canadian Broadcast Standards Council.
A transportation lobby group says proposed
regulations would make highways more dangerous by
allowing truck drivers to spend more hours behind the wheel.
While many women her age are enjoying quality time with
grandchildren, a 71-year-old woman believes she can best help her family by sitting
in a jail cell.
Betty Krawzyk was arrested in the Elaho Valley logging protests along with 13 others.
But unlike the others, she refused to sign an agreement to stay away from the
controversial site where Interfor has set up logging operations.
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