3 killed, 23 injured in Ottawa bus crash
OTTAWA — Three people were killed and 23 injured when a doubledecker city bus struck a transit shelter in Ottawa on Friday afternoon, Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson says.
The driver of the bus was arrested at the scene, Chief Charles Bordeleau of the Ottawa police added at an evening news conference at Ottawa city hall. He wouldn't say why she was detained rather than submitting to questions voluntarily.
"Something led us to having to arrest the individual and take them to the station," Bordeleau said.
The crash took place west of downtown at 3:50 p.m., at the beginning of rush hour, just as dusk was beginning to settle on the coldest day of the winter so far in the capital. The bus was westbound for Kanata, a more distant Ottawa suburb, Watson said.
Two of the dead were riding the bus; one was on the platform at Westboro station, a major stop on the city's busway, he said.
Saskatchewan to phase out coal
REGINA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Saskatchewan and Ottawa have reached an agreement under which the province will shut down most of its coal-fired power plants by 2030.
Trudeau says it’s important to phase out coal as an energy source because of the pollution it creates.
“It’s also extremely important that we’re supporting the workers and their families who are in that industry now,” he said Friday after a separate geothermal announcement. “And the agreement that we’ve come to with Saskatchewan will allow for exactly that.”
The agreement, which was finalized in December, is to be made official once it’s signed by the provincial and federal governments after a 60-day public comment period.
Saskatchewan’s greenhouse gas emissions from electricity producers will be limited to 175 megatonnes.
The province has also committed to have at least 40 per cent of its electricity generation come from nonemitting energy sources by 2030.
One of its coal-fired power plants — the Boundary Dam facility near Estevan — is being allowed to remain active after 2030 because it is equipped with carbon capture and storage.
Man given life term in swarming death
VANCOUVER — A man found guilty of second-degree murder for his part in the swarming death of a teenager outside a Whistler, B.C., convenience store has been sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for seven years.
Two other youths who were convicted of manslaughter in the death of 19-year-old Luka Gordic of Burnaby, B.C., were sentenced to 18 months in custody and another 18 months on probation.
The three men can’t be named because they were juveniles at the time of the death.
Prosecutors said at the trial that up to 15 people swarmed Gordic in a planned attack in May 2015.
A fourth man was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced in 2017 to seven years in prison, less time served.