Reform guns for Justice bill earns police support
Ottawa authorities back tighter rules on sex offenders with up to ten years post release and possible monitoring for a year even without conviction. Legal experts warn constitutional challenges, while Reform calls the measure halfhearted and insufficient for public safety. Police leaders hail it as a new tool in fighting violent crime.
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Ottawages
Reform Party
Allan Rock
Rock
Canada
Commons
Neil Jessop
Canadian Police Association
Bruce Dunne
The
Criminal Lawyers Association of Ontario
Reform
Art Hanger
WestJet grounded as safety audit triggers suspension threat
Edmonton passengers faced delays as Transport Canada threatened to suspend WestJet's operating licence over maintenance records. WestJet could not provide auditors with proper maintenance documentation for its four Boeing 737s, prompting empty counters and standby ticket handling by Air Canada. WestJet aims to resume flights within two weeks, while the airline disputes the audit process and cites higher standards than Boeing.
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Edmonton
WestJet
David Anderson
Calgary
Air Canada
Canadian Airlines
Siobhan Vinish
Transport Canada
Boeing
Clive Beddoes
Beddoes
Government of Canada
Hat students learn space dreams from Canadian astronaut finalist
Webster Niblock school hosted Alex Markov an aeronautical engineer who shared space life lessons with Grades 1 to 6. He described weightlessness sleeping and eating in space and recalled his near selection as one of Canada’s first astronauts.
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Lorenzo Craig Harkness
Harkness
Webster Niblock
Alex Markov
Markov
Canada
Guy Smith
Shylah-Dawn Bongofski
Earth
Peter Mah
Space
Alberta ads back wheat board critics
Alberta government endorses critics of the Canadian Wheat Board in a radio campaign across 27 stations. Agriculture Minister Walter Paszkowski argues producers should freely market grain and that the province backs their choice, amid a lawsuit to end the board’s monopoly on western wheat and barley sales.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Canadian Wheat Board
Walter Paszkowski
Paszkowski
Wheat Board
Ottawa
Ralph Goodale
Reform leader links Chretien to Somalia affair
Preston Manning accused Prime Minister Chretien of aiding a possible coverup in the Somalia affair by defending Defence Minister Collenette and Gen. Boyle. Speaker Gilbert Parent rebuked him, while Chretien defended the ministers and urged stability in leadership amid an inquiry into the death of a Somali teenager.
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OTTAW
Preston Manning
Jean Chretien
Somalia
David Collenette
Jean Boyle
Manning
House of Commons
Gilbert Parent
Chretien
Collenette
Boyle
Canada
New Mobile Phone Badge Aims To Update Scouting Image
Cellular scouts in London unveil a symbolic mobile phone badge to reward public relations skills. A spokesman says the badge could shed the stereotype of scouts as just wearing funny hats and helping grannies, giving scouting more street credibility.
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London
Reuter
International Youth Movement
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