(CHATHAM-KENT, ON) – At approximately 9:44 a.m. this morning, emergency crews attended a residence on Robertson Avenue in Chatham in response to a residential fire. Fire crews located an elderly man inside the residence. The 80-year-old Chatham man was transported to the Chatham-Kent Health Alliance with absent vital signs and was later pronounced dead at [...]
Lame duck support for DRIC. How about "DEAD DUCK!" Even Andy Dillon, the big House booster for the DRIC-ites said as quoted in the Free Press: "Dillon also supports the administration’s plan for a second bridge over the Detroit River, called the Detroit River International Crossing. The plan has been strenuously fought by the [...]
(NORTH VANCOUVER, BC) – Constable Quentin Frewing of the North Vancouver RCMP has been charged with one count of assault. The alleged assault is in regard to a complaint of excessive force used during an arrest. “This is difficult news to bring to our community,” said Superintendent Tonia Enger, head of the North Vancouver RCMP. [...]
PORTLAND, OR—Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Somalia and resident of Corvallis, Ore., has been arrested on charges of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction (explosives) in connection with a plot to detonate a vehicle bomb at an annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony earlier this evening in Portland, Ore., the [...]
(PENTICTON, BC) – The Government of Canada is helping vintners uncork new international market opportunities for Canada’s top-quality wines. Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz and Stockwell Day, President of the Treasury Board and Minister for the Asia-Pacific Gateway, announced an investment of more than $475,000 to help Canada’s wine producers increase exports and strengthen their production [...]
(WINDSOR, ON) – Windsor Police are looking for the driver of a vehicle that failed to stop for a stop sign and struck another vehicle before fleeing the accident scene on the city’s east side on 24 November. In the afternoon of Wednesday November 24, 2010, uniformed patrol officers responded to the intersection of Wyandotte St. [...]
(OTTAWA, ON) – The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) and Sobeys Inc. are warning the public not to consume the assorted cold cut subs described below, sold in Foodland stores in the Atlantic provinces, because they may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. This recall is being initiated as these subs are associated with the recall [...]
(AUKLAND, NEW ZEALAND) – A more efficient immigration system and enhanced border security are two of the key benefits of the new Immigration Act which comes into effect tomorrow, says Immigration Minister Jonathan Coleman. ‘’The Immigration Act 2009 significantly modernises New Zealand’s immigration laws and provides us with a robust framework for the future. ‘’This [...]
(WINNIPEG, MB) – The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has confirmed that the virus detected in a commercial poultry operation in the Rural Municipality of Rockwood, Manitoba is low pathogenic H5N2 avian influenza. Pathogenicity refers to the severity of the illness caused in birds. The infected farm remains under quarantine, and all birds in the [...]
(GENEVA, SWITZERLAND) – Denying harm reduction services to injecting drug users is contributing to the transmission of HIV and constitutes a violation of human rights says a new report released today by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). Launched for World AIDS Day, the new report, Out of harm’s way, [...]
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