Energy fuels inflation rise in Canada November
Inflation climbed to 3.2 percent in November from 2.8 percent in October, the highest since 1991, as energy costs surged. Gasoline prices were up 19 percent from a year earlier, with natural gas jumping over 40 percent, while the core rate rose to 1.8 percent. Analysts caution higher energy costs may persist but expect some offset from oil prices.
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Statistics Canada
Mario Angustiniotis
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Federal Reserve
Craig Alexander
Cibc World Markets
Canada
Officials grilled over original Walkerton action
A judicial inquiry heard public health officials would not have acted faster with knowledge of prior deficiencies in Walkerton. The probe chair said E coli test results from the week of the outbreak would have helped. public utility lawyer Ken Prehogan blamed inspector James Schmidt for not alerting officials, while Patterson faced questions over his handling.
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Dave Patterson
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Stan Koebel
Prehogan
Dennis O’connor
Patterson
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Utilities Commission
Koebel
Mall roof collapse kills Hallmark clerk in Sarnia Ontario
A mall roof collapse at Lambton Mall in Sarnia Ontario during heavy snow killed Hallmark card shop clerk Susan Foster age 47. Co worker Helen McCabe was treated and released. Four police K 9 units searched rubble with no additional victims found. The collapse occurred about 8 30 am before mall opening to Christmas shoppers.
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Sarnia. Ont
Hallmark Card
Sarnia
Mike Bradley
Susan Foster
Lambton Mall
Helen McCabe
George Linton
Foster
Port Huron
Mich
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Mediation Sought in Ottawa Funding Fight at Sagkeeng Centre
Ken Courchene chief executive of Virginia Fontaine Addictions Foundation on Sagkeeng First Nation asks Health Canada to mediate a dispute over funding cut and a $5 million lawsuit. He says a full audit is not required though a limited audit including patient files may be acceptable.
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Manitoba
Court of Queen’s Bench
Ken Courchene
Virginia Fontaine Addictions Foundation Inc
Ottawa
Health Canada
Courchene
Caribbean
Montreal
VIA Rail Canada Inc
Montreal Gazette
David Collenette
Collenette
Harry Gow
Transport 2000 Canada
VIA
Potentially large compensation issue for Sophonow case
An inquiry heard that a substantial award to Thomas Sophonow could set a costly precedent. Ontario and Manitoba lawyers cited studies suggesting up to 1 percent of Canada’s 84,000 annual inmates may be wrongfully convicted, potentially prompting 800 or more claims. Experts caution the actual number proving innocence is small and warn against broad fear of mass lawsuits.
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Winnipeg
Thomas Sophonow
Bill Olson
Manitoba
Canada
Sheilah Martin
University of Calgary
Sophonov
Court rejects Zundel bid for Canadian citizenship
The Supreme Court of Canada refused to hear Zundel’s latest appeals, ending his bid for citizenship. He withdrew his application after the decision. Two other appeals about a 1997 Canadian Human Rights Commission case on his Holocaust denying material were also rejected.
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Supreme Court of Canada
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Zundel
High Court
Toronto
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CSIS
Germany
Canada
Security Intelligence Review Committee
SIRC
Canadian
Human Rights Commission
Downtown tenants feud with wreath removal demand
Residents of a 12 storey Lawrence Construction building in Toronto say the landlord ordered them to remove Christmas decorations hung outside doors, despite no prior notice of such rules. One resident noted a wreath vanished on December 5 and a pile of ornaments was found in the superintendent’s office.
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Toronto
Lawrence Construction Company
Nicole Koteff
Koteff
Ontario bills to seize profits of criminals like Bernardo
Ontario proposes a law to strip criminals of earnings from books interviews or media recounting their deeds Attorney General Jim Flaherty says the target is criminals seeking to profit from their crimes not filmmakers or publishers The bill arrives amid debate over a possible Bernardo film drawing political attention
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Paul Bernardo
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Jim Flaherty
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