August 15, 2005
- A lockout of 5,500 CBC employees, represented by the Canadian Media Guild, goes into effect at 12:01 AM.(CBC)
- A Canadian man is abducted and killed in Iraq.(CBC)
- A man convicted in the April 1999 Taber, Alberta school shootings escapes from open custody in Toronto.(CBC)
- The inquiry into the wrongful conviction of David Milgaard is extended into 2006.(CBC)
- Canadian Blood Services drops restrictions on blood donors from Britain and France.(CBC)
- WestJet follows Air Canada by putting a fuel tax on airfares.(CTV)
- Police investigate a double murder near Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia.(CTV)
- Two Canadian women are injured in a roadside bomb explosion in the Sinai region of Egypt.(CTV)
- Conservative leader Stephen Harper's Chief of Staff becomes another casualty to be forced out of the party.(CTV)
- Pre-trial hearings resume in Robert Pickton case.(CTV)
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“To go by the asters
and breathe
the sweetness that hovers
in August about the tall milkweeds,
without a direct look ...”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)