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2019年9月5日 · On July 24, 1924, the body of a 22-year-old Scottish nursemaid named Janet Smith was found lying in a pool of blood in the basement laundry room of a Shaughnessy Heights mansion belonging to one of the city’s most prominent families. At first police believed Smith committed suicide. Soon it was decided she was murdered.
- The Disaster
- Civil Proceedings
- Criminal Trial
- Changes to Rail Transportation
- Impact of The Rail Disaster on Residents
On 5 July 2013, train engineer Thomas Harding, an employee of the Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway company, parked his train for the night in the town of Nantes, Quebec. Nantes is about 10 km northwest of the 6,000-person town of Lac-Mégantic, located in the province’s Estrie region (see Eastern Townships). The train was composed of locomotives a...
The Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway company (MMA), which operated in both the United States and Canada, didn’t have enough assets or insurance to pay damages to victims and other creditors of the disaster. Shortly after the derailment, the company was forced into bankruptcyin both countries. Victims of the derailment launched a class-action laws...
In 2014, train engineer Thomas Harding and two other former MMA employees, traffic controller Richard Labrie and manager of train operations Jean Demaître, were arrested. They were each charged with one count of criminal negligence causing the deathof 47 people. Their trial began in October 2017 in Sherbrooke, Quebec, about 100 km west of Lac-Mégan...
The final report into the disaster by the federal Transportation Safety Board (TSB) noted many problems with the way the MMA rail company maintained its infrastructure and trained its employees. The TSB, however, also said regulatory agencies didn’t do enough to force the company to comply with federal rules (see also Transportation Regulation). Th...
The effects of the Lac-Mégantic rail disaster left emotional scars among the people who lived there. Many in the community lost family, friends, neighbours and co-workers. A study by the Estrie health authority published in January 2017 found that roughly half of residents continued to suffer from post-traumatic stressmore than three years after th...
2014年3月4日 · In 2012, Québec and Canada experienced the longest student strike in their histories. The strike lasted several months (from 13 February to 7 September 2012) and pitted students in Québec against the provincial government on the issue of tuition fee increases.
2006年2月7日 · Riot. Article by Wayne Renke, Clifford D. Shearing. Published Online February 7, 2006. Last Edited March 4, 2015. Under s67 of the Criminal Code, where a riot involving 12 or more people is in progress, a justice, mayor, sheriff or other designated official is authorized to order the rioters to disperse in the name of the Queen.
2021年7月19日 · Minutes before 10:00 p.m. on Sunday 22 July 2018, a 29-year-old man walked into a busy Toronto neighbourhood and began shooting people indiscriminately. He walked along Danforth Avenue, shooting others before exchanging gunfire with police and turning his handgun on himself.
2021年8月13日 · At 1:24 p.m. on 23 April 2018, a 25-year-old man who identified as an incel (involuntary celibate), drove a rented van onto the sidewalk on Yonge Street in Toronto ’s North York business district. He proceeded to drive south, intentionally running over pedestrians.
Long before the fire was out, the centre of Lac-Mégantic was a charred dead zone stretching across blocks. At press time, 15 deaths were confirmed, but about 50 more were missing, known to have been near the train when it derailed, and do not appear to have survived.
