Hundreds of climbing routes closed by NCC
A couple of weeks ago, two of my colleagues and I did a TV report on the potential closure of rock climbing routes in the Ottawa area. Our report was picked-up by Carleton University’s Centretown News.
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Twenty years later, the Hagersville tire fire has left permanent marks on the community
Margaret Vander Mees still remembers in great detail that night 20 years ago when she woke up fearing the worst.
‘‘The fire broke out in the middle of the night and we woke up from the orange. We thought our house was on fire.’’
Canadian companies now exempted from ”Buy American Act”
Canada’s International Trade Minister Peter Van Loan announced Friday that Canadian companies will now be exempted from the so-called Buy American Act. Previously, Canadian suppliers of iron, steel and other construction materials were not allowed to bid on US public infrastructure projects financed by the multi-billion dollar recovery plan set forth by the Obama administration. [...]
Omar Khadr’s rights violated, but won’t order repatriation: Supreme Court
Yesterday, the Supreme Court of Canada rendered judgment in Omar Khadr’s case. I was at the court in the morning as a reporter for Radio News — the show we are producing each Friday for the coming weeks in my radio class. The justices ruled that Khadr’s fundamental rights were violated with the complicity of [...]
