A professional engineer faces charges under health and safety laws in connection with last summer's deadly mall collapse in a northern Ontario town, the province's Ministry of Labour announced Monday.
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Steel supports were so rusted at the time of last year's deadly Algo Centre Mall collapse that it looked as if they had spent decades in sea water, a forensic study finds.
The owner of a northern Ontario mall that collapsed last June had no regard for public safety and saw himself as the victim of a conspiracy to deprive him of the facility, one of his former employees alleges.
The inability to stop severe leaking at the doomed Algo Centre Mall was a disheartening mystery for years but was likely the result of a basic design problem, a public inquiry heard Friday.
Missing bolts, crooked columns and steel beams that were rusted despite being new marred the construction of a doomed mall in northern Ontario, a public inquiry heard Wednesday.
The fatal collapse of the Algo Centre Mall in Elliot Lake, Ont., last summer could have been prevented, a lawyer representing the community’s residents told a judicial inquiry Monday.
A hearing into the collapse of a mall's rooftop parking lot almost nine months ago begins Monday as a public inquiry delves into the tragedy that killed two women and left a community bereft.
