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WARNING: This story contains discussions of suicide. Canada’s largest jail is again facing calls to improve mental health care for inmates following an investigation into the death of a 23-year-old man who died by suicide inside his cell. A fatality inquiry into the death of Timothy “TJ” McConnell found that …
Read More »Why these N.S. social workers are worried kids are falling through the cracks
Near the end of February, Emily, a social worker with extensive experience working in child protective services, received news that made her heart sink. A six-year-old child had been stabbed in broad daylight in downtown Halifax, allegedly by a 19-year-old woman. Her first thought? It might be one of her clients. …
Read More »Woman finds coded telegraph in antique dress, computer analyst cracks it – Winnipeg
When antique collector Sara Rivers Cofield made a unique discovery in one of her purchases, she didn’t know it would lead to an almost decade-long mystery. Rivers Cofield, who lives in Chesapeake Beach, Md., purchased an antique bustle dress from an antique store in Searsport, Maine, about 10 years ago. …
Read More »Veteran Winnipeg safe breaker cracks decades-old mystery at Garrick Hotel
Descrease article font size Increase article font size A veteran safe breaker cracked a decades-old mystery safe at Winnipeg’s historic Garrick Hotel on Saturday. The safe had been there since at least the 1990s and no one had ever been able to open it. Winnipegger Rick Ammazzini has been cracking …
Read More »Dispute in B.C. reveals cracks in Canada’s shipbreaking regulations
When Mary Reynolds started flying her camera-equipped drone over a small stretch of Vancouver Island shoreline she landed in the middle of a fight between local activists and a company that dismantles old watercraft. The 71-year-old’s videos, posted on her blog, showed how Deep Water Recovery was taking apart old …
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