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3 weeks ago | 
castanet.net | Aaron Sousa |Catherine Morrison |Steve Lambert |David Baxter
Ottawa says it has banned the largest contractor that worked on the ArriveCan app from entering into contracts or real property agreements with the government for seven years. Public Services and Procurement Canada has announced that GC Strategies Inc. has been deemed "ineligible" after an assessment of the supplier’s conduct. Last year, the department suspended the security status of GC Strategies, which the auditor general says was awarded more than $19 million for the project.
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1 month ago | 
castanet.net | Rianna Lim |Michael Tutton |Steve Lambert |David Baxter
Nova Scotia Power's CEO says up to 140,000 social insurance numbers could have been stolen by cyber-thieves who recently hacked into the utility's customer records. Peter Gregg said in an interview Thursday that the privately owned utility collected the numbers from customers to authenticate their identities.
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1 month ago | 
castanet.net | Rianna Lim |Michael Tutton |Steve Lambert |David Baxter
When David Bennett decided to escape Canada's icy winter with a weeklong trip to the Dominican Republic, he never imagined he'd be fighting to get back on Canadian soil for more than two months. Bennett has finally returned to his Burlington, Ont., home after being arrested in the Caribbean country and accused of smuggling drugs. Even after the charges were withdrawn, he was stuck in the island nation for weeks due to court delays.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
castanet.net | Steve Lambert
Manitoba Education Minister Nello Altomare has died after a battle with cancer. Altomare, who was 61, worked as a school principal before being elected in 2019 to represent Winnipeg's Transcona riding for the New Democrats in the legislature. He was appointed to cabinet after the NDP won the 2023 election. Altomare was diagnosed with Stage 2 Hodgkin lymphoma shortly after his first election and underwent chemotherapy. He went on leave last October as his health worsened.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
castanet.net | Steve Lambert
The trial of two men accused of human smuggling is expected to soon hear from a migrant who survived a long walk across the Canada-U. S. border in a blizzard. Steve Shand and Harshkumar Patel are charged with organizing several illegal crossings, from Manitoba to Minnesota, of people from India. They have pleaded not guilty and their trial is set to run until Friday.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
calgaryherald.com | Steve Lambert
Prosecutors say the family of four Indian migrants froze to death Jan. 19, 2022, after spending hours wandering in heavy snow and bone-chilling coldArticle contentFERGUS FALLS, Minn. — A U.S. border patrol intelligence agent recalled Tuesday feeling horrified when he realized a group of migrants from India, including a young child, were out in a freezing blizzard on a stretch of open prairie at the border between Manitoba and Minnesota.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
castanet.net | Steve Lambert
A family of four from India froze to death while trying to walk across the Canada-U.S. border in a blizzard because alleged human smugglers cared more about money than the risk of people dying, a prosecutor said Monday. "This case is about these two men putting profit ahead of people's lives," Ryan Lipes said in his opening statement at the jury trial of Steve Shand and Harshkumar Ramanlal Patel.
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Nov 17, 2024 | 
torontosun.com | Steve Lambert
• You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. Article contentWINNIPEG — Two men are to stand trial on human smuggling charges this week, almost three years after a family from India was found frozen to death on the border between Manitoba and Minnesota. Advertisement 2Don't have an account? Create AccountArticle contentWe apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, ortap here to see other videos from our team.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
castanet.net | Steve Lambert
An Indigenous man convicted of killing a restaurant worker 50 years ago was acquitted Thursday by a judge who called the case a wrongful conviction that involved systemic discrimination. Clarence Woodhouse, 72, held up his court papers, along with a T-shirt that said "Innocent", outside court. He told reporters he is looking forward to spending time with his son and grandchildren. "I'll probably just relax," Woodhouse said in a quiet voice.
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Sep 14, 2024 | 
castanet.net | Steve Lambert
Climbing up trees, wrangling with ropes and navigating twisted odd-angled limbs may not be everyone's idea of a great day. But it is to Jordyn Dyck, who has turned her job as an arborist into a passion leading to international tree-climbing competitions. "(In my) mid-20s, I had tried a bunch of different jobs — mostly labour-intensive ones — and just nothing was really fulfilling my soul in the way that I kind of needed.
