Archive for March 2nd, 2010

National ceremony to honour WW I vets

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John Babcock, shown in a 1920 photo, was Canada'session remain known First World War veteran. (Larry MacDougal/Canadian Press)The founded on management will hold a national commemorative ceremony in April to honour Canadians and Newfoundlanders who served with regard to the time of the First World War, Veteran Affairs Minister Jean-Pierre Blackburn announced on Tuesday. Newfoundland, then ...

Overdose baby’s father tried CPR for 5 hours

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A Calgary father charged in his daughter's overdose death tried to recomfort the baby using wires from a lamp as a temporary expedient defibrillator, a court heard Tuesday. Jonathan Hope told paramedics who responded to his southwest Calgary abode in April 2006 that he performed CPR on his daughter for five hours, witnesses testified. A paramedic related he noticed ...

B.C. budget offers few surprises

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British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell, right, applauds as Finance Minister Colin Hansen pauses while tabling the provincial budget at the B.C. Legislature in Victoria, B.C., on Tuesday. (Darryl Dyck/Canadian Press)B.C. Finance Minister Colin Hansen unveiled his post-Olympic lot in the legislature on Tuesday afternoon in Victoria, but there were small in number surprises contained in the ...

Gay rights section nixed for immigrants’ guide

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Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney blocked a single one reference to sportive rights in a new study guide with a view to immigrants applying for Canadian citizenship, the Canadian Press has learned. Immigration Minister Jason Kenney says his department tried to make an 'inclusive' immigration study manage, but that couldn't paroxysm in every powers that be ...

Afghan detainee contempt motion won’t spark vote: MP

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A Liberal MP who is minatory to table a motion that could hold the government in contempt suppose that it does not yield unredacted documents about the Afghan detainee proceeding reported he doesn't believe the issue direction buck one liberty. "I am pretty enduring as each elected politician now that Canadians put on’privately want an freewill," Ontario MP Derek ...