Canada

Radler Cooperating With Gov't

Vicky Hunter - Aug 18, 2005 / 4:33 pm | Story: 11577

David Radler is cooperating with the U.S. government on fraud charges against Hollinger. According to the United States Attorney in Chicago, Radler "expects to plead guilty at a later date". CBC News
An anti-fogging activist has received an absolute discharge along with some pleasant words from a Manitoba provincial court judge. Glenda Whiteman was charged for protesting last month outside Winnipeg's insect control yard on July 19. CBC News
A teenage girl who was sexually assaulted by her father pleaded that he not be sent to jail. She asked provincial court Judge Cheryl Daniel to sentence her father to house arrest. "Just please don't put him in jail. It's hurting my mom, my sister and I." CBC News
A new report draws a direct line between alarming obesity rates and sharp increases in knee and hip replacement surgeries. Experts warn this should be a wake-up call for Canadians concerned about the health of their joints -- and the cost of their health care. CBC News
A Nova Scotia man appeared in court in Halifax on Thursday to face charges following a double murder in the small community of Glen Haven, west of Halifax. 25-year old Michael Joseph Mitchelmore of Glen Haven was charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Adam Nicholas Eisenhauer and Tyler Glenn Sampson. CBC News
Police are searching for a Toronto-area woman whose disappearance they describe as "unusual." Alicia Ross, 25, vanished from outside her home in Markham, a Toronto, Ont. suburb, on Wednesday. CTV News