Canada

Tornadoes Hit West Of Toronto

Vicky Hunter - Aug 19, 2005 / 1:23 pm | Story: 11611

Tornadoes about 80 kilometres west of Toronto flipped over cars and damaged trees Friday. One unconfirmed report said a funnel cloud had touched down just outside the city. CBC News
An encounter with a Middle Eastern man in a Canadian bar ended with smuggling charges filed against a Wayne County Michigan woman in Detroit. Twenty-one-year-old Delecia Carter is the third person this week to be charged with trying to smuggle Chinese immigrants into the United States from Canada. CBC News
Hundreds of people have joined the search for Alicia Ross, a 25-year-old woman who went missing from her home in a suburb north of Toronto around midnight Tuesday. CTV News
The man appointed to lead a fact-finding mission into the use of Agent Orange and other defoliants at a New Brunswick military base was given a tour Friday of a remote area where spent barrels of the toxic chemicals could be buried. Vaughn Blaney, a former New Brunswick environment minister, travelled to Canadian Forces Base Gagetown only three days after he was handed the job as fact-finder by the federal government. CTV News
Ontario legislature Speaker Alvin Curling resigned his post and his seat Friday after he was named as one of Canada's 10 newest ambassadors in a diplomatic shakeup announced by the federal government. Globe and Mail
A backhoe driver working on the renovation of the Library of Parliament has died after an accident at the site. Globe and Mail
It was almost certainly a Saskatchewan mosquito that landed Calgary with its first suspected West Nile case in more than two years, but health officials are still sounding the alarm. Deputy Medical Officer of Health Judy MacDonald said the virus that has a 68-year-old Calgary man seriously ill in hospital should serve as a warning to all Calgarians as the city enters its most dangerous period of West Nile worry. Calgary Sun