Six of 10 seniors who survived a bus crash in southern Manitoba that killed 15 others were listed in critical condition in hospital, health officials said Friday. The remaining four were also in hospital, where most of the injured were dealing with head injuries and broken bones. They were among a group of seniors from…

Commentary With a crisis comes the inevitable knee-jerk government response. It seems to be an affliction that is universal in Australia (and most leaders nowadays) irrespective of the level of government or its stripes. The reaction is always more state interference in our lives and regulation. The view being the quicker the better because that…

The court case of a Quebec man accused of killing two young children by driving a city bus into a Montreal-area daycare was postponed on Tuesday to the end of August. Pierre Ny St-Amand was arrested after a city bus crashed into the front of a daycare in the Ste-Rose neighbourhood of Laval, Que., on…

A bus driver was allegedly driving too fast through a roundabout moments before the vehicle careered into a guard rail, killing 10 people and injuring dozens more. The bus was returning guests from a wedding reception at Wandin Estate winery in Lovedale to Singleton, about 20 minutes away. Brett Button, 58, will face a country…

A truck driver is on bail as several children await surgeries for life-altering injuries sustained in a bus crash in Melbourne’s west. Police are investigating whether 49-year-old Jamie Gleeson, from Balliang East, was distracted before the truck he was driving collided with a bus carrying 46 children from Exford Primary School at nearby Eynesbury on…

The parents of one of the two children killed when a bus smashed into a Laval, Que., daycare last week are paying tribute to their four-year-old daughter in a letter sent to Quebec media. In the letter signed “Jessica and Nicolas,” the parents remember their daughter Maëva as a “ray of sunshine” who was full…

Neighbours of the Quebec man accused of killing two four-year-olds when the bus he was driving slammed into a daycare were shocked by the charges, describing him as a pleasant individual and doting father. Pierre Ny St-Amand, a driver with the transit corporation in Laval, Que., was arrested at the scene and charged with two…

The driver of a bus that crashed into a daycare in Laval, Quebec, on the morning of Feb. 8, killing two children and injuring six others, has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder. Pierre Ny St-Amand, 51, and an employee of the city’s transit authority, Société de transport de Laval, appeared by video…

British Columbia’s transportation minister says investigators looking into a bus crash that claimed four lives on the Okanagan Connector road on Christmas Eve are also considering another involving the same operator days earlier. Minister Rob Fleming said Tuesday that maintenance contractors were plowing and salting the road, also known as Highway 97C, on the day…

All of the remaining patients in hospital from a deadly Christmas Eve bus crash in British Columbia are expected to survive, according to an Interior Health official. Michaela Swan, a spokeswoman for the health authority, says seven people who were brought to three hospitals after the bus rolled on the Highway 97C Okanagan Connector on…