Persons in or near this area should be on the lookout for adverse weather conditions and take necessary safety precautions. Issued: 8:26 PM PST Thursday 17 December 2009
An Alberta reporter recently freed after being held hostage for 15 months in Somalia has released her first public statement, thanking those who helped pull her through the ordeal.
A CBC News analysis shows dozens of members of the Immigration and Refugee Board are overwhelmingly refusing claims for asylum in Canada, while others are overwhelmingly approving them.
Prince Edward County Council feels a lot more informed about the new Green Energy Act after meeting with provincial officials in Picton.. Most of council was at yesterday’s meeting, which included presentations by Hydro One and the Natural Resources, Environment and Energy and Infrastructure ministries. Ameliasburgh Councillor Sandy Latchford says coun […]
Reducing the number of deer and cormorants drew the most attention into the new Resource Managment Plan at Presqu’ile Provincial Park in Brighton. Public comments were received until December eleventh by Ontario Parks, with eleven submissions arriving at the Kingston office. Presqu’ile Superintendent Tom Mates says there were also some comments a […]
A Frankford-area man has been charged under the provincial street racing legislation near Port Hope. Northumberland O-P-P clocked a westbound vehicle on Highway 4-0-1 at 186 kilometres an hour late last night. The officer conducted a roadside alcohol test, and charged 31-year-old Tommy Tsapoitis with driving with more than the legal amount of alcohol in his […]
A Northumberland O-P-P officer isn’t giving up, even though his first attempt to get funding for a portable children’s safety village is over. Constable Chris Dewsbury’s submission to the Aviva Community Fund contest finished 35th out of 62 semifinalists across the country, with 10,700 online votes, when ballot counting ended yesterday. Eve […]
Orphanages linger in the popular imagination as unnatural relics, places from which neglected children need to be quickly rescued. And many international organizations and policymakers have made it a priority to reduce the role of these institutions, trying to place kids into family settings as quickly as possible. [More]
A hotly anticipated announcement regarding a possible signature of dark matter delivered some grist for the physics mill Thursday but failed to produce the blockbuster result some had predicted. In a Webcast talk from Stanford University, Jodi Cooley , a particle physicist at Southern Methodist University, presented the latest results from the Cryogenic Dark […]