The body of an 82 year old Birch River man, who drowned with his wife last month after they got caught up in rushing flood waters, has now been found. Searchers found the body this weekend.
Another day, another day of labor concession talks between G.M. and the Canadian Auto Workers union. Union boss Ken Lewenza says little progress has been made despite a full week of talks. He says the C.A.W. has already made numerous sacrifices, but the demands are now starting to spin out of control. Pensions, wages and benefits are the main sticking points.
Well it was a pretty good long weekend for Conrad Black. His lawyer is over the moon now that the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to take a look at his fraud conviction. Black was convicted 2 years ago for his role in an alleged scheme to defraud shareholders of his company, Hollinger International. He’s currently serving a 6 and a half year prison sentence in Florida.
Why is it fewer Canadians are voting these days? Well, experts say it could be a number of factors, including bad attitudes towards politicians. Recent federal and provincial elections show that just over half of the eligible voters cast a ballot.
We may have turned a corner with the swine flu. The country’s chief public health officer says it appears the spread of the H1-N1 virus, is losing steam, but he does caution we’re still within the incubation period. That means more cases could pop up in the summer.
The crew of the space shuttle Atlantis is preparing to say buh-bye to the Hubble Space Telescope. The scope will get released today from the shuttle’s cargo bay, after undergoing a high tech repair job that should give us dazzling views of the universe for another 5 to 10 years.
A 4 year old California boy may be permanently blind after police say his father bit out one of his eyes, and mutilated the other. Cops say the father appeared to be under the influence of PCP when he attacked his son.
