Pickering

An emergency alert indicating a problem at Pickering’s nuclear plant was a false alarm, but a big wake up call to many in its vicinity. What would happen in the event of a real nuclear mishap?

How a rising Tory star seems at odds with his finance minister over an airport that might never be built

A week into his summer tour, Michael Ignatieff is more or less on the record about the Cornwall border crossing, flooding in Manitoba, farm insurance, Louis Riel, firefighters, the census, the proposed Pickering airport, Afghanistan, Richard Fadden, foreign investment, affordable housing, contraband cigarettes, fighter jets, a Peterborough rail link, election timing, overseas travel, our politics and prison farms.