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A years-long murder trial at the Court of King’s Bench in Saskatoon is reopening a portion of the case after defendant Greg Fertuck asked to personally cross-examine witnesses. Fertuck is on trial for first-degree murder in the disappearance of his ex-partner, Sheree Fertuck, whom he is accused of killing in …
Read More »Why this Thunder Bay folk singer brought back his 1979 protest song to speak out against nuclear waste
What’s old is new again in the debate around whether to store nuclear waste in northwestern Ontario. In 1979, when Atomic Energy of Canada was consulting on its plan to bury nuclear waste near Atikokan, Thunder Bay folk singer Rodney Brown’s gave a five-minute deputation expressing his opposition to the …
Read More »Witness at outgoing Surrey mayor’s trial testifies she told him she would be the one ‘that brought him down’
The woman who Doug McCallum allegedly falsely accused of vehicular assault claims she told the outgoing Surrey mayor he was “evil” and that she “was going to be the bitch that brought him down.” Debi Johnstone recalled the words as she took the stand on the opening day of McCallum’s public mischief …
Read More »How oil drives the gang war that brought Haiti to its knees
Haiti is facing many crises converging all at once: crime, cholera and the breakdown of democratic institutions. But at the heart of the current emergency that recently led Canada and the U.S. to send secret military flights to the island is fuel: gasoline, diesel and kerosene. Although Haiti has tapped some of …
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