A doctor may have misdiagnosed patients in southern Ontario partly because she had cataracts that blurred her vision, a newly released document suggests. Hotel-Dieu Grace Hospital in Windsor, Ont., apparently caught four of the errors attributed to pathologist Dr. Olive Williams before any harm was done, but two patients were not so lucky, [ more ]

Transportation Safety Board investigators were meeting with witnesses Sunday to try and determine what caused a float plane to crash in northern Quebec killing two people on board. The DHC-2 Beaver float plane crashed around 11 a.m. Saturday in a swamp two kilometres from the La Grande Riviere airport, not far from James Bay. The [ more ]

Sentencing begins today for a Canadian Forces captain found guilty for shooting a wounded Afghan insurgent. But before Capt. Robert Semrau learns his fate, a military judge will decide whether sentencing provisions of the National Defence Act violate the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. During Semrau’s trial, his lawyer argued that because [ more ]