The National Post reports, “The FBI has arrested a Canadian for his role in an alleged terrorist plot against the Danish newspaper that published the controversial Muhamad cartoons.
Tahawwur Hussain Rana, 48, owner of First World Immigration Services, was charged with aiding a conspiracy to attack the Jyllands-Posten in Copenhagen.”
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A ship off Canada’s British Columbia coast has been seized after it had sailed in Canadian waters unannounced, reports the Globe and Mail.
“In all, 76 men were found on the ship and were believed to be in good health, considering the voyage they had just undertaken, Rob Johnston, of the Canada Border Services [...]
[CBC News]– The Canadian Real Estate Association says 135,182 homes were sold countrywide in the third quarter, up 18 per cent from a year earlier and the most ever for the period.
It’s the biggest year-over-year increase since early 2002, the group said Thursday.
Building on two previous quarterly increases, seasonally adjusted home sales [...]
[The Globe and Mail]– Ottawa rules that his government will protect him. But Gustavo Gutierrez says it was the authorities who advised him to flee, and he is certain that danger waits for him and his family at home.
Gustavo Gutierrez Masareno was the model Mexican law-enforcement officer.
His portrait was displayed on billboards [...]
[CBC News]– A longer than expected maintenance at a Shell refinery has resulted in another gasoline shortage at retail stations in Alberta.
The company’s own stations, as well as others supplied by Shell, began running out of gas and diesel over the long weekend.
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[The New Zealand Herald]– Police raids in Otago and Canterbury have uncovered a sophisticated international drug syndicate.
Queenstown police have recruited the help of Australian and Canadian police after the syndicate was exposed during eight raids yesterday.
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[Los Angeles Times]– In British Columbia, private clinics and surgical centers are capitalizing on patients who might otherwise pay for faster treatment in the U.S. The courts will consider their legality next month.
When the pain in Christina Woodkey’s legs became so severe that she could no long hike or cross-country ski, she [...]
Like good, clean drinking water, the incumbent in Montreal’s race for mayor is known for having no colour, little odour and not much flavour.
But a growing scandal over a massive contract to improve his city’s water system is poisoning his hope for a third term.
Just days into his re-election campaign, Mayor Gérald [...]
Thousands of taxpayers angry about the introduction of the harmonized sales tax rallied throughout British Columbia Saturday.
Leading the charge against the plan to blend the provincial sales tax and the federal goods and services tax were former premier Bill Vander Zalm and current provincial NDP Leader Carole James.
At least 15 rallies took [...]
The gross and ever-widening disparities in the coverage of cancer drugs is causing widespread financial hardship and undermining medicare, the Canadian Cancer Society warns in a stinging new report.
Due to a patchwork system and an “impenetrable level of complexity” in how drugs are approved and reimbursed, many cancer patients are facing burdensome costs and intolerable [...]
