A Newfoundland man said he felt as if someone had punched him when he was told last month that an independent office of the Newfoundland and Labrador government had cremated and buried his sister without telling him. Scott Hounsell said he got the news during a phone call with the province’s public trustee’s office, which […]

A report from British Columbia’s worker safety agency says the potential dangers of a burning cedar tree were identified but not acted upon before it fell, killing a young wildland firefighter and injuring two others last summer. WorkSafeBC’s 21-page incident investigation report highlighted ineffective hazard management, inadequate supervision, training and orientation of young workers, unsafe […]

Funeral directors across the country are warning grieving families about a trend of third-party websites republishing obituaries for profit. Jim Bishop, the funeral director for Bishop’s Funeral Home in Fredericton, said he’s noticed an increase in grieving people who use his services complaining of altered death notices — sometimes with erroneous details — appearing on […]

Unclaimed bodies are piling up in Newfoundland, and a funeral director says they likely belong to people whose loved ones couldn’t get enough government help to pay for a funeral.  Emails obtained by the provincial NDP show the number of unclaimed bodies kept in temporary freezer units at the province’s largest hospital more than doubled […]