A Winnipeg sewage treatment center has been discharging half treated waste into the Red River for more than 3 weeks. A spokesperson for the city’s engineering department says it’s due to a problem with the biological treatment component of the south end water pollution control center plant. A number of beneficial micro-organisms that normally digest small particles of waste in the plant, have been mysteriously dying. No there is no risk or threat to the public apparently….but, officials have said if you come into contact with water from the Red, make sure you wash your hands thoroughly.
Manitoba officials have started publishing the names of businesses fined for not properly paying employees or other offences under provincial legislation. A city pizza joint was fined 2 grand for wage and overtime violations, while a propane company will pay 500 dollars for failing to show payroll records to an inspector. The Manitoba Federation of Labor is applauding the government for holding employers accountable.
Greece, and its plan to put a bailout deal to a popular vote, is the overriding issue at the G-20 summit going on in France. Prime Minister Stephen Harper arrived with a set of proposals for reform in the global financial system. But with the Greek situation more than likely to dominate the summit, there’s a good chance Harper’s agenda will go unnoticed.
Closing arguments are set to begin today in L.A., at the involuntary manslaughter trial of Michael Jackson’s former doctor. Prosecutors and Defense lawyers will summarize their respective cases after 22 days of testimony. Prosecutors will allege Dr. Conrad Murray was criminally negligent for giving the singer a powerful anesthetic without proper medical equipment standing by. But the defense will try to convince jurors that Murray wasn’t the one who gave the fatal dose….that it was Jackson himself who did it.
One of the hottest videos on YouTube lately is a pretty sad one. But, the Texas woman who posted it says she’s received an outpouring of support since posting it. The video shows her father, a judge, beating her with a belt in 2004, when she was 16 years old. What’s ironic is that her father, actually handles child abuse cases in his courtroom. Police have now gotten involved and have started a full scale investigation.
In health news this morning…..a Canadian led international study on prostate cancer has found that, when it comes to dealing with aggressive forms of the disease, hormone therapy plus radiation can increase a man’s odds of survival. The study’s author, Dr. Padraig Warde says the hormone therapy starves prostate cancer cells of testosterone, which they need to multiply. It also makes the cells more sensitive to the killing effects of radiation.
A very grim looking Kim Kardashian says “intuition” led her to pull the plug on her 72 day old stint as a wife. The reality star is currently in Australia to promote her new handbag line. She told an Aussie t.v. program that she followed her heart and felt there was no right or wrong way to handle the demise of her brief marriage to pro basketball star Kris Humphries. Kardashian filed for divorce this past Monday.
There’s still a significant disparity in prices between goods in this country and those in the U.S. A new survey has found that items here, cost an average of 11 per cent more. And while that’s still a pretty big gap, it was better than April’s survey which showed Canadians were paying an average of 18 per cent more.
Closing arguments will start today in the trial of Michael Jackson’s physician. Dr. Conrad Murray is charged with involuntary manslaughter for allegedly giving Jackson a powerful anesthetic just before he died in June of 2009.
You wouldn’t have known it from the outside, but, a business in a small strip mall in the southern Winnipeg, was full of, and was selling guns. Yesterday morning, city police, RCMP and border officials raided the store…where boxes of guns and ammo were found. This was the 2nd weapons raid by gun cops in the past few weeks.
The city’s bed bug battle continues. In fact, yesterday, officials at MTS’s customer care center were affected. On Tuesday, staff found bugs in one area of the building on Osborne street, which has some 700 workers. Company officials say a pest control company was called immediately and the entire area affected was treated.
