News | The Chronicle Herald

Wednesday, February 22, 2012 - 9:47am | By CHINTA PUXLEY The Canadian Press

UPDATED 4:30 p.m. WINNIPEG — The Crown outlined Wednesday how convicted pedophile and former junior hockey coach Graham James would groom his victims for the sexual abuse to come, then hold them in his sway by threatening to take away the...
Read More

More Headlines

Ontario, B.C. control NDP leader choice

Wednesday, February 22, 2012 - 4:31am | By PAUL McLEOD Ottawa Bureau

Quebec has surged in importance, but Ontario and British Columbia will still play kingmaker at the NDP leadership convention next month. The NDP revealed Tuesday that it now has 128,351 registered members, the largest membership in the party...
Read More

Ford throws transit boss under bus

Wednesday, February 22, 2012 - 4:31am | By The Canadian Press

TORONTO — Toronto’s top transit manager lost his job Tuesday, a high-profile casualty in a war between Mayor Rob Ford and city council over subway expansion. A special Toronto Transit Commission meeting called by allies of Ford had...
Read More

Species risks being small change

Wednesday, February 22, 2012 - 4:31am | By PAUL CLARKE The Canadian Press

OTTAWA — The iconic image of the woodland caribou has graced one side of Canadian quarters since 1936 and environmentalists are worried that may be the only way to see this endangered species in the future. Public consultations on a caribou...
Read More

Maritimes silence regionwide plan for emergency radio

Wednesday, February 22, 2012 - 4:31am | By The Canadian Press

A plan to integrate the separate emergency radio systems for the three Maritime provinces has been scrapped, two years after it was announced. The plan would have provided a digital upgrade to replace several systems in place for first responders...
Read More

Refugee’s lawyer slams security process

Wednesday, February 22, 2012 - 4:31am | By JIM BRONSKILL The Canadian Press

OTTAWA — A lawyer for Mohamed Harkat says the security certificate process being used to deport the Algerian refugee is unconstitutional. “The hearing we got was unfair,” Harkat co-counsel Norm Boxall told the Federal Court of...
Read More

Mali, Darfur exodus fuel fears about famine

Wednesday, February 22, 2012 - 4:31am | By MIKE BLANCHFIELD The Canadian Press

The fear of famine in West Africa is being compounded by another threat — the cross-border fallout from ethnic violence in Mali and Sudan’s Darfur region. Canadian development experts say there’s increased potential for further...
Read More

Peckford: Muskrat Falls needs new eye

Wednesday, February 22, 2012 - 4:31am | By SUE BAILEY The Canadian Press

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — The proposed Muskrat Falls hydroelectric project should be independently reviewed by international energy experts, says former Newfoundland and Labrador premier Brian Peckford. In an open letter to Tory Premier Kathy...
Read More

Finley defends pension reform

Wednesday, February 22, 2012 - 4:31am | By HEATHER SCOFFIELD The Canadian Press OTTAWA

THE FEDERAL government is stepping up its rhetoric to justify plans to cut public pension benefits, but remains silent on how it will address seniors’ poverty. In a speech in Toronto on Tuesday, Human Resources Minister Diane Finley...
Read More

Ontario, B.C. will carry most weight at NDP leadership convention

Tuesday, February 21, 2012 - 7:47pm | By PAUL McLEOD Ottawa Bureau

Quebec has surged in importance, but Ontario and British Columbia will still play kingmaker at the NDP leadership convention next month.
Read More

Report: Ottawa failing veterans

Tuesday, February 21, 2012 - 4:31am | By STEPHANIE LEVITZ The Canadian Press

OTTAWA — A report on how former soldiers are told whether they’ve qualified for disability benefits is the start of a wide-ranging look into problems plaguing veterans’ care, the veterans ombudsman says. In his report into whether veterans are given...
Read More

Driver faces charges of causing friend’s death in couch-surfing incident

Tuesday, February 21, 2012 - 4:31am

ST-JOSEPH-DE-BEAUCE, Que. (CP) — A youthful weekend stunt gone tragically wrong resulted in three criminal charges Monday against a 21-year-old Quebec man. Alex Labbe was accused of causing the death of his friend in a so-called couch surfing...
Read More

Canadian scientists develop isotope solution

Tuesday, February 21, 2012 - 4:31am | By TAMSYN BURGMANN The Canadian Press

VANCOUVER — Thousands of patients with life-threatening illnesses were told they’d just have to sit tight when crucial medical tests were delayed over 2009 as Canada suddenly found itself amidst a severe shortage of medical isotopes. Canadian...
Read More

Prof maps math of music, with Mozart least predictable

Tuesday, February 21, 2012 - 4:31am | By BOB WEBER The Canadian Press

Elvis Presley once said that when you have rhythm, you have it all over. Now, a McGill University professor has used advanced mathematics to prove that The King was more right than he knew. Daniel Levitin has found, hidden within nearly 2,000 pieces...
Read More

CANADA IN BRIEF

Tuesday, February 21, 2012 - 4:31am

RCMP called in over threats to Toews OTTAWA (CP) — The RCMP say they’ve been asked to investigate threats made against Public Safety Minister Vic Toews. The police force won’t discuss the nature of the threats nor...
Read More