OTTAWA — Five decades ago, a young Joan O'Malley was summoned by her father one snowy November night to sew Canada's first Maple Leaf flag.
OTTAWA — Lester B. Pearson was so delighted by his pick for a potential new Canadian flag that the Liberal prime minister summoned some journalists to 24 Sussex Drive in the summer of 1964 to show it off.
OTTAWA — When Lester B. Pearson unveiled his top pick for a new Canadian flag at a Winnipeg legion hall in July 1964, he was met with boos, hisses and heckling from veterans who accused him of selling out Canada to the "pea soupers."
MONTREAL — The union representing safety and maintenance workers at Canadian Pacific Railway issued strike notice on the company Thursday and could be off the job by the weekend if negotiations on a new contract fail.
HALIFAX — Some questions and answers about the case of Clayton Cromwell, who died after a drug overdose last April at the Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility in Halifax:
EDMONTON — A police officer who consented to bail for a career criminal who would later kill a Mountie in Alberta has been unfairly targeted as making a mistake, says his union.