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Some 250 coloured tacks pepper a large-scale world map among bookshelves at Whodunit Mystery Bookstore. Estonia, Finland, Japan and even Fenwick, Ont., have pins representing places outside Winnipeg where someone has ordered a page-turner from the independent bookstore that specializes in mystery and crime fiction novels. For 30 years, the …
Read More »OPP turn to $50K reward to help solve fatal November 2023 hit and run
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted August 29, 2024 11:40 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Ontario Provincial Police are offering a $50,000 reward that leads to an arrest and conviction in the case of a fatal suspected hit and run last year. Police say …
Read More »How to solve a problem like Canada Post? Even Ottawa isn’t sure – National
Shortly after Canada Post’s top executives warned of “unsustainable” finances and the need for “significant changes” to survive, the federal government has little to say about what solutions are necessary. Board chair André Hudon told the Crown corporation’s annual general meeting Wednesday that the national mail carrier is at a …
Read More »How an Ontario town is using a ‘bag of money’ to try and solve its health care crisis
As small communities across Ontario struggle to recruit doctors and nurses, one town has landed on a strategy that appears poised for success: giving them “a bag of money up front.” That’s the incentive on offer in Huntsville, Ont., where local authorities say they will give an $80,000 signing bonus …
Read More »Ontario cold case: DNA technology helps solve woman’s murder 25 years later, police say
Niagara police say they’ve solved a 25-year-old murder using DNA and genetic genealogy connecting the death of a Toronto woman to a suspect from Northern Ontario. Homicide investigators say DNA evidence has linked the death of then 26-year-old Nadine Gurczenski with a New Liskeard truck driver who died in 2017. …
Read More »Leafs look regroup, solve Bruins’ riddle in Game 2
BOSTON – Sheldon Keefe’s team was in a similar position 12 months ago. The Maple Leafs dropped their playoff opener to the Tampa Bay Lightning before roaring back to capture the Original Six franchise’s first series in nearly two decades. A weight was finally lifted. The fan base rejoiced, if …
Read More »Prolific offenders are committing an outsized amount of crime in B.C. What can be done to solve the problem?
In a Port Coquitlam, B.C., courtroom two decades ago, a defendant named Roy Gene Hopkins stood before a judge and predicted the future with a surprising degree of accuracy. In February 2002, Hopkins was 36 and already had a lengthy criminal record fuelled by addiction to heroin and cocaine. He begged the judge …
Read More »Would more privatization in Canadian health care solve the current crisis?
This is an excerpt from Second Opinion, a weekly analysis of health and medical science news. If you haven’t subscribed yet, you can do that by clicking here. The current staffing crisis in health care has reignited debate over privatization of the Canadian system — and while more needs to be done to take the pressure off hospitals, critics say more private care …
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