Welfare check late last week led to discovery of man and woman’s bodies in a Parkhill homeA WestJet pilot described as a role model in her field has been identified as one of two people found dead in a southwest home in what police are calling suspicious circumstances. The deaths were discovered shortly after 9… Read More »
weekend of grounded passengers on a lot of WestJet flights, the airline blames bad weather, but one air passenger advocate says there are bigger problems. Danina Falkenberg brings us this report.Extremely cold weather in Calgary caused airline passengers big headaches when it came to travel plans, since Friday and over the weekend. Minus 30-dgree temperatures… Read More »
An elderly man dies in WestJet flight from Hawaii to Calgary. The man was found in medical distress and it took about 10 minutes for flight crews to locate the defibrillator. Questions are asked on how prepared the flight crews of the airlines in managing medical emergencies after the death of the elderly man.A late… Read More »
Two others seriously injured in Montrose Road collisionNEWS RELEASE NIAGARA REGIONAL POLICE ******************************** On July 23 at 6:42 p.m., 2 District (Niagara Falls / Niagara on the Lake) uniform officers from the Niagara Regional Police Service (NRPS) responded to reports of a serious collision in Niagara Falls. Officers arrived on scene in the area of… Read More »
The Niagara Falls City Council meeting sputtered to an end Wednesday night after Council Chair James Perry (D) sparred with an animal welfare advocate over whether she was speaking “for the good of the community” in remarks to the council members. Perry cut off advocate Tonya Barone as she began to talk about a FOIL… Read More »
On 13 November, an Air Canada Boeing 777-300 (registered C-FIUV) operated flight AC2 from Tokyo Haneda, Japan, and Toronto, Canada. During final approach on Toronto’s runway 24L, however, the aircraft encountered turbulence. In a YouTube video that appeared online (see below), the 777 increases her rate-of-descent causing a hard touchdown. The wings of the aircraft… Read More »
Passenger On Air Canada Flight to Dubai Boards Plane, Opens Exit Door and Falls 20 Feet to the Tarmac BelowApassenger onboard an Air Canada flight scheduled to depart Toronto Pearson Airport bound for Dubai on Tuesday night sustained serious injuries after falling approximately 20 feet from an open cabin door. Air Canada flight AC56 was… Read More »
Anthony Maravi is a University of Colorado Boulder student who was hit by a car while walking on the sidewalk on campus earlier this month. The driver was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving. (Cliff Grassmick – Staff Photographer) Less than two weeks into their first semester at the University of Colorado Boulder, Jasmine Floyd… Read More »
The University of Colorado Boulder is mourning the death of junior Jeremiah Park, who was found off campus in the University Hill neighborhood on Friday afternoon. Boulder police responded to an apartment complex on Pleasant Street, less than a mile from campus, around 4:42 p.m. on Aug. 23. The Boulder County Coroner’s Office, which will… Read More »
When Javaune Wallen boarded his Calgary-bound flight in Kamloops on Thursday afternoon, he never thought he’d be in for a tense flight.The flight, WestJet Encore 3252, was forced to divert and make an emergency landing at Kelowna International Airport after one of its two engines failed. The plane, with its 75 passengers onboard, landed safely.… Read More »
A woman found dead in a southwest Calgary home has been identified. As Tomasia DaSilva reports, Christina Thomson is being remembered as a great leader and human. Colleagues of a former WestJet pilot who was found dead last year held a celebration of life at the Calgary International Airport on Monday. Christina Thomson, 45, was… Read More »
student at the University of Colorado – Colorado Springs has been arrested for allegedly killing his roommate and a young woman in a double homicide in a dorm room, according to officials. Nicholas Jordan, 25, was charged with two counts of first-degree murder for the deaths of his roommate, Samuel Knopp, and Celie Rain Montgomery,… Read More »