CO POISONING sends 10 to hospital

OTTAWA - Ten people were sent to hospital and one of them was suffering from life-threatening injuries after a suspected accidental case of carbon monoxide poisoning case Sunday morning, Ottawa police said.

Police said the fire department and paramedics responded to a call at about 9:15 a.m. at a home on Granville Street in the city’s Vanier district.

Insp. Scott Pettis told reporters at the scene that the gas came from a vehicle that had been left running inside a garage to warm up. The exhaust built up as the door was left unopen, he said.

WINNIPEG — Manitoba’s auditor general found “an unprecedented number of errors” during his office’s latest review of 2023-24 receipts submitted by the provincial government and public entities.

“We identified significant weaknesses in financial statement preparation,” Tyson Shtykalo wrote in a new report on public accounts and related statements.

Shtykalo’s findings show bureaucrats were asked to correct a long list of problems with their statements related to processes around collecting budget documents internally and across the public sector.

The 54-page document draws on an annual mega-review of government department, Crown corporation and public board finances for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2024.

WINNIPEG — Manitoba has reported its first bird flu case of 2024.

Highly pathogenic avian influenza was detected at a commercial poultry operation in the Rural Municipality of Portage la Prairie on Nov. 26, according to a Canadian Food Inspection Agency database.

A primary control zone was set up around the site.

The CFIA said there is no evidence to suggest eating cooked poultry or eggs could transmit the virus to humans.

MILTON KEYNES, England — Liam Lawson will partner world champion Max Verstappen at Red Bull in 2025, the Formula 1 team said on Thursday.

Lawson, a New Zealander, replaces Sergio Perez, who was dropped on Wednesday after months of poor results.

The 22-year-old Lawson will switch from Racing Bulls, Red Bull’s sister team, after racing as a replacement driver in 2023 and this year. He started in Red Bull’s junior program.

Lawson said it was a “lifelong dream” to be racing with Red Bull.