The Transportation Safety Board allowed cameras to take a close look at the wreckage of the Air Canada plane that crashed at Halifax Airport, injuring 25 people in the early hours of Sunday morning.
Have a look and see the extent of the damage and how lucky it was the crash didn’t end up with a more devastating outcome.
She's really handle it as well as anyone could.
The passage of Robin Williams left millions of people with a broken heart, but no one suffered as much as the children of the actor.
But Zelda Williams came in a rare appearance on Friday with his mother Marsha Garces to Noble Awards in Beverly Hills.
And although, of course, wants to keep the memory of her father alive - she admits is basically unlikely to ever forget the bigger man than life.
[Related: Zelda Williams Legacy Father recalls Robin Williams' In his first sit-down interview since his death]
Here's what he said:
"For me it's easy to remember someone who is impossible to forget."
Zelda also talked about back in the spotlight and like something I felt I had to do was. She explained:
"It is not difficult, it's just a strange feeling. Nothing happens, that will be fine, but it's a transition. It is recognizing that you have to stop feeling that there is a world out there, because for a short period of time doesn "t."
You may remember Zelda has a beautiful tattoo of a hummingbird in memory of his father, and she explained that the tattoo to her, saying:
"If you saw it fly, and if you know a bit about them, are impossible to keep in one place. Whenever people see them not as they say, 'Oh, my God, a hawk for a hummingbird -flor, and that was the reaction that my father has, kids, fans, old people, and that's what always hummingbirds meant to me. "
Robin Williams and Marsha Garces really did a wonderful job with their children and Zelda is a shining example of his father.
She is only 25 and yet she is so wise at this point in your life. Robin Williams would be very proud of it.
HALIFAX – Halifax airport says 25 passengers who were on board an Air Canada jet were taken to hospital after a flight from Toronto skidded off a runway as it landed today.
The airline released a different figure for the number of injured passengers from the Airbus A320, saying 23 were taken to hospital for observation and treatment of minor injuries.
Air Canada says in statements there were 133 passengers and five crew members aboard flight AC624, which left Toronto just before 9 p.m. Saturday for a scheduled midnight landing at Halifax Stanfield International Airport.
The Halifax area was experiencing blizzard conditions Saturday night and into Sunday.
Air Canada could not be reached for comment.
Airport spokesman Peter Spurway says the aircraft touched down at about 12:35 a.m. in the stormy conditions and none of the injuries were considered life threatening.
“It came down pretty hard and then skidded off the runway,” said Spurway.
He said he didn’t know whether runway conditions played a role in the landing.
Power went off at the airport, which meant an emergency response centre had to be moved to a nearby hotel as a result, Spurway said.
Nova Scotia Power said on Twitter that it had restored power to the airport, but it did not indicate why electricity was lost.
The airport tweeted that it was closed to all flights.
The Capital District Health Authority in the Halifax area said it was treating 13 of the passengers for minor injuries at three of its hospitals.
Randy Hall and his wife Lianne Clark were on their way home from a Mexican vacation when they said the plane ran in to trouble as it was about to land.
“We just thought that we were landing hard. And when the … air bags started to deploy and you saw thing falling on the floor, we said, ‘Oh no. We’ve got to get out,’ ” said Clark, a computer consultant
“We just opened the doors when we landed and everyone started to pile out.”
Hall said he believe the jet hit a power line and landed hard on the runway. There were sparks but no fire, he said.
“We were just coming in to land and there was a big flash,” said Hall. “The plane came down, bang! It jumped up in the air again.”
The aircraft skidded for a long time before coming to a stop, said Hall, who is retired and lives in Mount Uniake, N.S.
OTTAWA — Political and legal faultlines separated the Harper Conservatives from the federal Liberals and Quebec on Friday after the Supreme Court of Canada ordered the destruction of the province’s gun registry data.
By a 5-4 margin, the high court gave the federal government the right to order the destruction of Quebec’s federal gun registry data — but all three Quebec judges on the court disagreed.
The ruling was a rare vindication of the Conservative government’s agenda at the country’s highest court, and it also exposed a legal divide on its bench over the powers of the provinces versus those of the federal government.
In a dramatic show of solidarity, the Quebec justices on the Supreme Court — Clement Gascon, Richard Wagner and Louis LeBel — put their names on a dissenting opinion that upheld the right of the provinces to make laws in relation to property and civil rights.
They lost to the majority, which ruled that destroying the data was a lawful exercise of Parliament’s legislative power to make criminal law under the Constitution.
The Supreme Court firmly upheld the notion that as long as the government operates within the law, it is free to enact whatever policies it deems appropriate. It was a clear signal from the court that it wanted to remain above the inevitable political fire storm that erupted after the ruling.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper happened to be at an event in Quebec on Friday, where he expressed satisfaction with the ruling.
“We have permitting — in other words, we have registration — of all gun owners in Canada already. We have registration of all handguns already. We have registration of all restricted weapons already. We already have several registers,” Harper said.
“Our view –and I think it’s been borne out by the facts — is that we simply don’t need another very expensive and not effective registry. What we have needed are severe, strong and more effective penalties for people who commit criminal acts using guns, and that’s what we’ve done.”
Quebec Public Security Minister Lise Theriault, on the other hand, rejected the court’s decision.
The united opinion of the three Quebec justices reflects the views of people in the province, and the province will proceed with its own gun registry, Theriault said.
The Liberal government created the gun registry in 1998 in response to the murder of 14 women at Montreal’s Ecole Polytechnique in 1989. They were targeted by a gunman because of their gender.
The Harper government abolished the registry for long guns in 2011 as part of a long-standing campaign promise — a controversial political move that also emphasized Canada’s rural-urban divide.
Liberal MP Stephane Dion, the party’s intergovernmental affairs critic, chastised the Conservatives for not allowing Quebec to keep the data.
“From a political perspective, I would agree that it’s very bad federalist to not co-operate with the province in giving the data,” he said. “It would not have been difficult for the Conservative government to do so.”
Wendy Cukier founded the Coalition for Gun Control after the 1989 Montreal massacre, and became the country’s leading firearms registration crusader.
Standing in the vast marble foyer of the Supreme Court, Cukier said she was “terribly disappointed” that a “punitive” government policy had cleared its last legal hurdle.
“The Supreme Court has made it clear that the decision to destroy the data is a political decision,” she said. “You can track a package you’re sending from here to anywhere in the world, and yet we will not have information on who owns guns in the province of Quebec.”
The Harper government and the Supreme Court have had their differences in the past, notably over the high court’s decision to reject the government’s nomination of Quebec judge Marc Nadon to its ranks.
The Supreme Court also rebuked some core government policy, saying Parliament does not have the power to reform the Senate, or prevent a Vancouver safe-injection drug site from staying open to treat addicts over the objection of the tough-on-crime Conservatives.
But in this case, the high court — notwithstanding the objections of its Quebec jurists — sided firmly with the government in its long-standing policy of wanting to kill the gun registry.
“In our view, the decision to dismantle the long-gun registry and destroy the data that it contains is a policy choice that Parliament was constitutionally entitled to make,” wrote Thomas Cromwell and Andromache Karakastanis for the majority, a group that included Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin.
Representatives from 13 Asian countries committed to immediate action to stamp out poaching at the conclusion of a four-day symposium hosted by the Nepal government in Kathmandu from February 2-6, 2015.
The Symposium: Towards Zero Poaching in Asia adopted five recommendations:
Tika Ram Adhikari, Director General of Nepal’s Department of Wildlife Conservation and Soil Conservation, said: “Nepal was proud to host this vital conversation in Asia because we recognize that poaching is robbing us of our wildlife wealth, which includes tigers, rhinos and elephants. We cannot allow wildlife crime to continue to wrap its tentacles deeper into the region. Our individual efforts may win us a few battles, but we can only win the war if Asia presents a united front to stop the poaching, end the trafficking and wipe out demand.”
Mike Baltzer, Leader, WWF Tigers Alive Initiative, said: “This is the beginning of the end for poaching across Asia. WWF is proud to have supported this landmark meeting and is committed to be part of the new determined movement for Zero Poaching in Asia.”
Nepal was the natural host for the symposium having achieved zero poaching for two years in the past four years. At the symposium, representatives from local communities, protected areas as well as enforcement agencies shared their lessons lea
At the closing ceremony, Nepal’s legendary Chitwan National Park (CNP) also became the first global site to be accredited as Conservation Assured Tiger Standard (CA|TS).Despite the threats that CNP faces, the protected area has seen an increasingly effective management and protection regime. This further demonstrates the commitment of Nepal towards zero poaching.
Thirteen Asian countries participated in the symposium: Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Viet Nam, Malaysia, Russia, Indonesia, Myanmar, Thailand, Nepal, India, Bhutan, and Lao PDR. Partner NGOs and other organisations included IUCN, TRAFFIC, CITES, UN Office on Drugs and Crime, US Department of Justice, SMART Partnership and Southern African Wildlife College.
WWF co-hosted the symposium with Global Tiger Forum, National Trust for Nature Conservation and the South Asian Wildlife Enforcement Network.
The symposium provides valuable direction on tackling poaching in advance of the Kasane Conference on the Illegal Wildlife Trade to be hosted by the Botswana government on 25th March 2015. This meeting follows the London Conference on the Illegal Wildlife Trade hosted by the UK government in February 2014, where 41 governments committed to taking “decisive and urgent action….” through the agreed declaration.
