Jan 16 2019 — Teresa Wright, The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — All three people killed in last week's deadly bus accident were passengers on the bus when it crashed, Ottawa Police Chief Charles Bordeleau confirmed Wednesday. Bordeleau provided an update Wednesday on the investigation into the OC Transpo bus accident that killed three and injured 23 others last Friday. He used it as a chance […]
Jan 16 2019 — Teresa Wright, The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — All three people killed in last week's deadly bus accident were passengers on the bus when it crashed, Ottawa Police Chief Charles Bordeleau confirmed Wednesday. Bordeleau provided an update Wednesday on the investigation into the OC Transpo bus accident that killed three and injured 23 others last Friday. He used it as a chance […]
Jan 15 2019 — Teresa Wright, The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — The head of the Transportation Safety Board says Canada needs to move fast on better national "crashworthiness" standards for buses and other commercial passenger vehicles in light of two deadly bus collisions over the last year. Last week's double-decker transit bus crash in Ottawa that killed three people and injured 23 others, as well as the […]
Jan 15 2019 — Teresa Wright, The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — The head of the Transportation Safety Board says Canada needs to move fast on better national "crashworthiness" standards for buses and other commercial passenger vehicles in light of two deadly bus collisions over the last year. Last week's double-decker transit bus crash in Ottawa that killed three people and injured 23 others, as well as the […]
Jan 15 2019 — Teresa Wright, The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — The head of the Transportation Safety Board says Canada needs to move fast on better national "crashworthiness" standards for buses and other commercial passenger vehicles in light of two deadly bus collisions over the last year. Last week's double-decker transit bus crash in Ottawa that killed three people and injured 23 others, as well as the […]
Jan 14 2019 — Teresa Wright, The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — Dr. Manoj Lalu was in the middle of a routine, elective surgery at the Ottawa Hospital Friday evening when the hospital suddenly declared a Code Orange, invoking a protocol for dealing with a large-scale disaster. An OC Transpo bus had hopped a curb and struck a transit shelter, whose roof cut deep into […]
Jan 14 2019 — Teresa Wright, The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — Dr. Manoj Lalu was in the middle of a routine, elective surgery at the Ottawa Hospital Friday evening when the hospital suddenly declared a Code Orange, invoking a protocol for dealing with a large-scale disaster. An OC Transpo bus had hopped a curb and struck a transit shelter, whose roof cut deep into […]
Jan 14 2019 — Teresa Wright, The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — A "beautiful soul," a mother with extended family in the Netherlands and a dad beloved for his sense of humour were the people killed in Ottawa's horrific bus crash last week, the city's police revealed Monday. All three were public servants in the federal government. The collision injured nearly two dozen more and its […]
Jan 14 2019 — Teresa Wright, The Canadian Press — Ottawa police have identified the three people who died in a bus crash in the city on Friday. Bruce Thomlinson, 56, Judy Booth, 57, and Anja Van Beek, 65, died in the collision. "The identification of those who died is a difficult and important process and I want to offer the condolences of the Ottawa Police and […]
Jan 12 2019 — Teresa Wright, The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — The investigation into a deadly bus crash on a busy Ottawa route will not yield answers quickly, the city's police chief said Saturday as he cautioned the public not to jump to conclusions about the events leading up to the collision. Charles Bordeleau said officers have plenty of work ahead of them as they […]
Jan 12 2019 — Teresa Wright, The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — The investigation into a deadly bus crash on a busy Ottawa route will not yield answers quickly, the city's police chief said Saturday as he cautioned the public not to jump to conclusions about the events leading up to the collision. Charles Bordeleau said officers have plenty of work ahead of them as they […]
Jan 10 2019 — Teresa Wright, The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — The agency that processes refugee claims in Canada estimated it would need almost four times as much money as it is getting to tackle a major backlog in asylum claims, caused in part by an influx of irregular migrants. Documents obtained under access-to-information law show the Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) drafted estimates in November 2017 showing it would need $140 million […]
Jan 10 2019 — Teresa Wright, The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — The agency that processes refugee claims in Canada estimated it would need almost four times as much money as it is getting to tackle a major backlog in asylum claims, caused in part by an influx of irregular migrants. Documents obtained under access-to-information law show the Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) drafted estimates in November 2017 showing it would need $140 million […]
Jan 10 2019 — Teresa Wright, The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — The agency that processes refugee claims in Canada estimated it would need almost four times as much money as it is getting to tackle a major backlog in asylum claims, caused in part by an influx of irregular migrants. Documents obtained under access-to-information law show the Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) drafted estimates in November 2017 showing it would need $140 million […]
Jan 9 2019 — Teresa Wright, The Canadian Press — OTTAWA — Elidee Sanchez says her nightmares about her harrowing journey crossing the Mexico-U.S. border finally came to an end the day she arrived — legally — in Canada. After spending 17 years living in the United States as an undocumented migrant, she was in an almost constant state of anxiety. She had no legal status in a country that has […]