UVic report calls on BC to use HST as an opportunity to reduce
spiralling alcohol-related deaths
A new report from the University of Victoria’s Centre for Addictions Research (CARBC) suggests that BC’s introduction of the harmonized sales tax (HST) provides a golden opportunity to reverse recent increases in alcohol-related deaths and hospitalizations.
Since 2002, on average, BC drinkers [...]
The chief of police for the Vancouver Police Department says his department will not use new powers recently granted to police officers to physically force homeless people sleeping on the street inside.
The name of the new legislation is the “Assistance to Shelter Act” and gives the police the right to bring homeless people into shelters [...]
Rivers Cuomo, the frontman of popular alternative-pop band Weezer, is in the hospital following a bus crash yesterday.
Cuomo suffered from three cracked ribs, and has not been released from the hospital.
According to the band’s website, the bus hit a patch of black ice and was tossed over a guard rail. The bus fell about 10 [...]
The Salahi’s were not the first people to breach White House security and are probably not going to be the last according to a confidential 2003 report by the Secret Service obtained by the Washington Post.
Tareq and Michaele Salahi breached White House security at a recent state dinner that was attended by President Barack Obama [...]
Freed journalist, Amanda Lindhout, and her family will be returning to Canada later this week according to a website dedicated to the release of the freelance journalist.
Lindhout, 28, was kidnapped along with Australian photographer, Nigel Brennan, while travelling to visit a refugee camp 25 kilometres west of Mogadishu, the Somali capital. She spent 15 months [...]
Tiger Woods was involved in a car accident in Florida at 2:25AM this morning. Woods sustained injuries but was released from the hospital later in the day. According to Florida Highway Patrol, no one else was inside the 2009 Cadillac sport utility vehicle.
According to Woods’ spokeman, Glenn Greenspan, the golfer was released in good condition. [...]
OTTAWA – The Harper Conservatives have allowed Nortel executives to give themselves millions in bonuses while their workers lose their pensions and severance, said New Democrat Pensions Critic Wayne Marston.
“These bonuses are absolutely disgusting and are only possible because the Conservative government is completely absent when it comes to protecting workers,” said Marston. “I have [...]
November 24, 2009 – News Release
University of Guelph scientists have made a discovery that may lead to more effective vaccines to protect poultry and humans from the deadly avian influenza virus.
“We have found one of the molecular determinants of the H5N1 avian influenza virus that can induce immune responses in chickens,” said Prof. Shayan Sharif, [...]
One person has been arrested and 1,000 street-level doses of cocaine have been seized in the Medicine Hat area. The arrest stems from a month-long investigation by the ALERT Integrated Intelligence Unit and Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit (CFSEU) in Medicine Hat.“Since its establishment in 2006, ALERT units have taken more [...]
OTTAWA – Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty today once again revealed the Harper Conservatives’ disregard for consumers with his announcement of a voluntary code of conduct for Canada’s credit- and debit-card industries.
“Why is this government hesitating to introduce legislation that would guarantee consumers are protected?” asked New Democrat Consumer Protection critic Glenn Thibeault (Sudbury). “These [...]
