Chandra Philip

1 week ago | theepochtimes.com | Chandra Philip

An Ontario man who admitted in a courtroom that he had been speeding to dry his car after he had been to a car wash has been found not guilty on a charge of stunt driving. Justice of the Peace Audrey Greene Summers handed down her decision in the Ontario Court of Justice on June 12, saying she was unable to find “beyond a reasonable doubt” that the driver had been travelling at a speed that would justify a stunt charge.

1 week ago | theepochtimes.com | Chandra Philip

The Canada Border Services Agency said it has seized more than $400,000 worth of cocaine hidden in shoes being transported into Canada at the Pearson International Airport. The agency said the traveller caught with the 3.5 kilograms of drugs was arriving from Guyana, but told The Epoch Times in an email it could not disclose the individual’s citizenship due to the Privacy Act. The street value of the drugs has been estimated at $437,000.

1 week ago | theepochtimes.com | Chandra Philip

RCMP in Nova Scotia said they’ve used polygraph tests on some of the people interviewed in an investigation into the case of two missing children in that province. Lilly Sullivan, 6, and Jack Sullivan, 4, were reported missing on May 2. The siblings were said to have wandered off from their home on Gairloch Road in Lansdowne Station, about 140 kilometres northeast of Halifax.

1 week ago | theepochtimes.com | Chandra Philip

Starting this fall, some Alberta residents who want to receive the COVID-19 vaccine will be required to pay the full cost of the vaccine, the government says. The federal government has been paying for COVID vaccines since 2020, although usually the cost of vaccines is the responsibility of the provinces. In April, the procurement process for the COVID vaccine changed, and Ottawa stopped covering the cost, meaning the provinces are responsible for purchasing doses.

2 weeks ago | theepochtimes.com | Chandra Philip

A longtime B.C. high school teacher has been banned from teaching for a year after admitting to inappropriately touching students and making inappropriate comments about students in his class. John Peter Rocca had been working in the Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows school district when the incidents occurred, according to a resolution agreement signed by Rocca and the B.C. commissioner for teacher regulation. Chandra Philip is a news reporter with the Canadian edition of The Epoch Times.