Judge unmoved by disguise in Second Cup firebomb case
Montreal police testified that Rheal Mathieu, charged with firebomb attempts at three Second Cup outlets, tried to hide his identity by removing glasses and adjusting a cap before leaving envelopes at the Montreal Gazette and Montreal La Presse. The jury heard details of the surveillance on October 6 as incendiary devices were found.
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Montreal
Rheal Mathieu
Raymond Gelinas
Mathieu
Gelinas
Montreal Gazette
Montreal la Presse
Mandela citizenship bid stirs Ottawa clash in Commons
Prime Minister Chretien condemned Alliance MP Rob Anders for blocking a motion to name Nelson Mandela an honorary Canadian with Parliament set to debate the issue. Mandela, South Africa's first black president, spent 27 years in prison fighting apartheid and urged reconciliation. A new plan allows brief debates by party reps next week as Day defends free speech.
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Ottawa
Nelson Mandela
Alliance
Jean Chretien
Rob Anders
Anders
House of Commons
Mandela
South Africa
Chretien
Commons
Stockwell Day
Inquiries Focus on Rural Health Care in New Brunswick
Roy Romanow toured New Brunswick to push his national health care inquiry. He met Premier Bernard Lord and stressed shortages of doctors nurses and other medical staff and the need to improve rural care across Canada after a rural hospital emergency failure and a tragic infant death.
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Fredericton
Roy Romanow
New Brunswick
Romanow
Bernard Lord
RNWMP’s Last Surviving Member Turns 100 in Canada
Earnest Henry James Gibson, known as Gib, reaches age 100 as the last RNWMP veteran. He served 1919 to 1921 after training in Regina and posting at Fort William, now Thunder Bay. On Saturday he will receive congratulatory letters from the Queen, PM, and RCMP commissioner. The RNWMP merged into the Dominion Police in 1920 to form the RCMP.
Office named to settle Indian Residential Schools cases
Prime Minister Jean Chretien announced a new Office of Indian Residential Schools Resolution in Ottawa to bolster federal efforts to settle thousands of related lawsuits. The office comes without major new funding but is pitched as proof of Ottawa's commitment to a fair resolution of long standing abuse cases.
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Ottawa
Office of
Jean Chretien
Drug Ring Cracked Near Mirabel Airport Montreal
Canadian and U.S. agents arrested 22 people across Montreal Toronto and Ottawa in a raid tied to a drug ring that allegedly used baggage handlers at Mirabel airport to move 135 kilograms of cocaine. Police seized 1.5 million in cash plus 100000 and small amounts of cocaine. Three Canadians face extradition to the United States on drug trafficking and money laundering charges. Some suspects are linked to the Hells Angels Colombian cartels and the Mafia.
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Montreal
U.S
Mirabel
RCMP
Toronto
Ottawa
Allan Lockwood
Hells Angels
United States
Lockwood
Wing failure may explain Alberni ultralight crash
An ultralight crash at Alberni Valley Regional Airport killed Victoria residents pilot David Palmer and passenger Cara Forshaw. Coroner Andrew Mitchell says wing problems are now the focus after the plane lost a wing and dropped 150 metres, igniting fuel. The aircraft was used that day to tow three hang gliders and Palmer appeared to perform a solo demonstration prior to the fatal plunge.
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Port Alberni
Victoria
Alberni Valley
David Palmer
Cara Forshaw
Andrew Mitchell
Mitchell
Palmer
Forshaw
Migrant ships sunk at Port Alberni dock
RCMP probe sinking of two rusty boats tied at Port Alberni dock that had carried Chinese migrants to British Columbia in 1999. The vessels, intended to be sunk as an artificial reef, disappeared overnight and pose a navigational hazard. an insurer will raise them.
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Port Alberni
RCMP
B.C
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