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As It Happens6:3130-tonne garbage pile dumped on rural English road It was a sight that James Johnson will never forget: a 15-metre long — that’s the length of a school bus — heap of garbage strewn across the road, dumped illegally. “We had old building materials, rubble, soil, waste from houses, …
Read More »‘I woke up in a pile of rubble.’ Penetangushene, Ont., building collapse survivor shares story
When Leonard Beecroft, 60, went to bed, he was not expecting to wake up rolling outside the building a few hours later as the walls around his room came crumbling down. “It all came tumbling down while we were in bed sleeping,” Leonard says. “It’s hard to describe. All I …
Read More »Vacancies pile up in the Senate with Trudeau slow to appoint new members
Canada’s Senate is nearly 20 per cent vacant after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau allowed some seats in the upper chamber to go unfilled, in some instances for years at a time. Of the 105 seats in the upper house, 17 are unoccupied and some provinces — most of them west …
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