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Compliance & Enforcement
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Proximity to power lines halts portion of work on new Winnipeg bus route
Manitoba Hydro issues stop-work order
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Photographer files complaint with police after alleged assault while on the job
Journalist claims attack at Toronto counter-protest Saturday
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Thousands of police officers expected at regimental funeral in Fredericton
Constable Sara Burns remembered for helping people: family
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Fredericton gunman wounded by police in abdomen, according to court document
Matthew Vincent Raymond, 48, killed two police officers, two civilians
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Calgary man sentenced to seven years after pleading guilty to Regina stabbings
Taxi driver, others assaulted in 2016
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Ottawa sends condolences, keeping watch on events unfolding in NB
Two police officers among the dead in mass shooting in Fredericton
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Report finds hundreds of Manitoba civil servants have experienced harassment
Government culture must change, says Premier Pallister
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After the Humboldt crash: Truck driver health and training must be a priority
Inadequate training, poor diet and fatigue among safety issues, says academic
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How the Soulpepper case changed cultural institutions without going to trial
Accused theatre-company founder Albert Schultz settles with actresses
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Police called to workplace accident in Saskatoon, man later dies in hospital
SASKATOON – Police in Saskatoon say a man has died following an industrial accident. Officers were called to a repair shop in the city’s north end Tuesday. They found a 61-year-old man suffering from serious injuries. The worker was taken…
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Owner of Sudbury, Ont., concrete company faces criminal charge after worker dies
SUDBURY, Ont. – Police in the northern Ontario community of Sudbury say the owner of a local concrete company has been charged criminally in connection to a workplace fatality earlier in this year. Boris Naneff, the owner of Rainbow Concrete…
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Vancouver moves to expropriate two hotels closed over ‘life safety concerns’
VANCOUVER – The City of Vancouver is moving to assume ownership of two decaying hotels on the Downtown Eastside that had been home to some of the city’s most vulnerable residents. The city announced it has filed a notice of…
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Political parties split on committee decision in speaker harassment complaint
FREDERICTON – A legislative committee in New Brunswick has made a decision on what action to take in respect to harassment allegations against Speaker Chris Collins, but details are being withheld and the vote was far from unanimous. The Legislature…
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Offshore oil worker who tested positive for drug use ordered reinstated: court
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. – Newfoundland and Labrador’s highest court has upheld a decision to reinstate an offshore oil worker who was fired after he tested positive for taking an unauthorized form of tranquilizer. Drug tests were ordered in January 2015…
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Former Manitoba Liberal staffer loses human rights complaint over firing
WINNIPEG – The Manitoba Human Rights Commission has dismissed a complaint from a former political staffer who said she lost her job and was discriminated against because of mental illness. A commission board says Elizabeth Gonsalves received severance pay and…
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Ousted president of B.C. Nurses’ Union sues for damages and to get job back
VANCOUVER – The former president of the B.C. Nurses’ Union is suing to get her job back after she says she was fired amid false allegations of bullying. Gayle Duteil’s statement of claim filed Tuesday in B.C. Supreme Court says…
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Ammonia leak at Fernie, B.C., ice rink linked to aging equipment: report
VANCOUVER – Old equipment that continued to be used seven years after a maintenance contractor recommended replacing it caused an ammonia leak that killed three workers at an ice rink in British Columbia last October, says an organization that oversees…
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Female patient stopped by police after driving off with ambulance in Montreal
MONTREAL – A female patient jumped into the front of an ambulance and sped away before being intercepted by Montreal police, the local ambulance service says. A spokesman for Urgences-Sante says the woman, who appeared intoxicated, was being transported to…
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Allegations against New Brunswick Speaker founded ‘in part’: committee
FREDERICTON – A legislative committee in New Brunswick has concluded that harassment allegations against Speaker Chris Collins were founded, but only in part. The legislature’s administration committee met for two hours Monday before deputy Speaker Bernard LeBlanc emerged to read…
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Rail manager guilty in case of train left on B.C. mountainside without handbrakes
REVELSTOKE, B.C. – A manager with Canadian Pacific Railway has been found guilty for his role in illegally parking a train carrying dangerous materials on a mountainside near Revelstoke, B.C. A B.C. provincial court judge found Tim McClelland, director of…