The evidence of a decline in aviation safety in Canada comes from many sources: from industry experts; pilots, mechanics and their unions; accident investigations; and reports by investigative journalists.
The picture that emerges is a disturbing one: an industry where staff and insiders often fear to travel on their own companies' planes, and a system which increasingly looks like 'an accident looking for someplace to happen'.
Cecilia Leung began as a contractor with the TTC’s IT department in August of 2005 – assigned to a one-year project to convert 30-year-old software for the transit authority’s accounts payable, procurement and other systems.
On May 25 of last year — a little more than a week before her wedding — the 35-year-old computer specialist was unceremoniously dumped by the Blue Suits.Her crime: Daring to speak up about the culture of mismanagement at the TTC.
A torrent of outrage over a deadly high-speed train accident grew further on the Chinese Internet Tuesday, reflecting the mounting challenge China’s leaders face in managing opinion of their governance among an increasingly wired and demanding public.
Anger and skepticism that emerged quickly after Saturday’s collision of two bullet trains in eastern China—which killed at least 39 people dead and injured more than 192—has intensified as the government has drawn fire for not being forthcoming enough with information on the disaster.
VANCOUVER — Two widows whose husbands were killed in a British Columbia helicopter crash have won a court fight to add Transport Canada to the list of people and groups they claim are liable.
Transport Canada, which has been working for years to shift the safety onus onto the aviation industry, argued unsuccessfully that it didn't have a "duty of care" in connection to the crash.
One of the words often used in association with Russia these days is "corruption." According to Transparency International, an international organization that measures relative corruption around the globe, Russia is in 154th place out of 176 countries. (Canada is sixth).
Many observers believe it's one of the key reasons that attacks like the one on Jan. 24 at the Domodedovo Airport aren't prevented by its security services.
U.S. actor and writer Harry Shearer has just finished a provocative documentary film “The Big Uneasy” about the impact of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans.
Shearer argues that this was not a natural disaster but a man-made one. To back this up he draws upon evidence that the Army Corps of Engineers not only failed to build adequate levées for the weather conditions that could be expected, but actually created the conditions for massive flooding through its ill-conceived MRGO shipping-canal project.
When Canada has trouble measuring how much snow is on the ground, something is seriously wrong with the state of government research.
An internal Environment Canada report from 2008, released through an access to information request, shows that cuts to the Meteorological Service of Canada have left this country without accurate weather data. We're not talking about a lack of money for fancy computer models or self-indulgent research projects. No, this is about basic measurement of stuff like temperature, rainfall and hours of sunshine.
Canada will pay a huge price for the Harper government's "short-sighted" decision to scrap the mandatory census, leading U.S. statisticians say.
"This decision will lower the quality and raise the cost of information on nearly every issue before Canada's government," Stephen Fienberg at Carnegie Mellon University and Kenneth Prewitt at Columbia University say today in the journal Nature.
OTTAWA - Sustained cuts to Environment Canada weather-service programs have compromised the government's ability to assess climate change and left it with a "profoundly disturbing" quality of information in its data network, says a newly released internal government report.
The stinging assessment, obtained through an access-to-information request, suggests that Canada's climate network infrastructure is getting progressively worse and no longer meets international guidelines.
OTTAWA — Canada is in violation of new international standards to combat pilot fatigue in the cockpit, the country's largest pilot union told parliamentarians Tuesday.
Paul Strachan, president of the Air Canada Pilots Association, said Transport Canada's outdated flight and duty time regulations put Canada offside internationally because they don't take into account the latest research on why flying overnight is harder on the body than day-time flying.
