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5/20/2013
The Medical Examiner's office in Oklahoma City confirms that 20 of the 51 confirmed dead following a tornado in suburban Moore, Oklahoma are children. The 1.6 kilometre wide tornado wiped out entire neighbourhood and made direct contact with an elementary school. Many residents are still unaccounted for. Area hospitals say over 120 people are injured, many of them critically.
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5/20/2013
Alberta sheriffs have issued a number of traffic tickets to a young 15 year old girl after she was clocked doing 190 kilometers an hour on the QE2.It happened around 9 Monday morning near the Crossfield overpass.When the vehicle stopped for officers, the 15-year old female driver attempted to switch seating positions with the front seat passenger in order to hide the fact that she did not have a drivers license. She also failed to provide insurance and registration.
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5/20/2013
No one was injured when a fire broke out at a construction site at the Calgary Airport Monday.Fire crews were able to quickly extinguish the fire, despite the fact that no hydrants were in the immediate area and that diesel and propane tanks were threatened by the blaze.Water tenders were called to the scene to shuttle water to the area to assist the firefighting operation.The construction area is located east of the main terminaland is not accessible by the general public.
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5/20/2013
The province is reporting 47 new wildfires over the weekend.All are under control and are being held.Officials say a majority of the wildfires were caused by humans and 33 of the 47 are in the southern part of the province.
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5/20/2013
Prime Minister Stephen Harper is likely to face outraged from Members of Parliament when he meets with his caucus Tuesday morning. MPs say they've been flooded with emails and phone calls about the Senate expenses scandal.
Mount Royal University political scientist Duane Bratt says the MPs will want answers from the PM after Senators Mike Duffy and Pamela Wallin left the Tory caucus and Harper's Chief-of-Staff Nigel Wright resigned.
Duffy and Wallin are both facing Senate audits over expense claims. Wright stepped down after writing a $90,000 cheque so Duffy could pay back taxpayers for improper housing expense claims.
Bratt says Tory MPs will upset that after railing against the Liberal sponsorship scandal and promising to do things diffently, they've been bitten by something similar. Bratt expects the RCMP will be called in to investigate.
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5/20/2013
A group including some prominent Canadians wants Victoria Day renamed to recognize Canada's indigenous peoples.Author Margaret Atwood, actor Gordon Pinsent and Green Party leader Elizabeth May are among those behind an online petition seeking to change the May long weekend to "Victoria and First People's Day." National Aboriginal Day occurs every year on June 21st, but the group says it's not recognized as a federal public holiday.
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5/20/2013
At least one Tory MP fears Canadians are getting the wrong idea about the expense scandal rocking the Senate. Ontario's Gord Brown says there are a lot of good people working hard for their country who wouldn't think of abusing their expenses.
MPs have been flooded with calls and emails from constituents furious about the Senate expense scandal. Prime Minister Harper is expected to try to reassure his caucus troops tomorrow following the resignation of his chief of staff.
Nigel Wright stepped down amid revelations he gave Senator Mike Duffy $90,000 dollars to cover the repayment of improper expense claims.
The NDP's ethics critic is demanding a full explanation. Charlie Angus says the government is in absolute panic mode when key people are " being tossed under the bus.''
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5/20/2013
Only two-thirds of the way through the long weekend and it's already been a particularly deadly one on Alberta's highways. Four people are dead following four separate crashes--three of them on Saturday.
A 39-year-old man was killed and 6 other people injured when a minivan collided with a truck on Highway 16 near Edson yesterday. Earlier on the weekend, a minivan driver was killed after turning into the path of a semi on Highway 2 south of Calgary near Claresholm on Saturday. A rollover south of Stavely on the Number 2 south of Calgary and another on Highway 88 north of Slave Lake each killed one person.
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5/19/2013
Two young men are in hot water after being nabbed for riding their sport motorcycles at excessive rates of speed.
Airdrie RCMP said the bikes were travelling together -- heading southbound on Highway 2 near Highway 72. They were clocked going 140 kilometres in a 110 km/hour zone.
One bike did stop for the officer but the other took off. He was nabbed by another officer a little further down the road going 180 kilometres per hour.
A 25-year-old year old man and a 22-year-old man -- both from Calgary -- are facing a number of charges in connection with the incident.
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5/19/2013
According to Global News, Ray Novak has been named the Prime Minister's new Chief of Staff.
35-year-old Novak has been with the Prime Minister's office since 2001. His latest position there was of Prinicpal Secretary. He has held that job since 2008.
Novak got the promotion today after Nigel's Wright's resignation this morning. This after it was revealed Wright gave former Conservative Senator Mike Duffy $90-thousand dollars to repay bogus housing claim expenses.
Wright has repeatedly said Harper was unaware of his actions in this matter.
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