Toronto Conflict & Tragedy News

Delivering the vaccine and other preparations for swine flu have cost P.E.I. about $5 million so far, says Health Minister Doug Currie. The federal government is proposing new regulations to protect foreign workers coming to Canada. A coyote suspected of...

A rising star of the Canadian folk music scene was killed in a savage coyote attack while hiking alone in Nova Scotia. Singer-songwriter Taylor Mitchell, 19, suffered multiple bite wounds and massive blood loss after a pair of coyotes pounced...

A St. John's, Newfoundland editor won the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-fiction yesterday. Russell Wangersky's book "BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE: Fighting Fires & Losing Myself" describes his experiences and adventures as a volunteer fire-fighter. The book also won British...

A 17-year-old Inuit youth is in a local hospital with hypothermia after spending over 24 hours stranded on a drifting ice floe in Canada's Hudson Bay with three polar bears. The teen became separated from his uncle as the two...

A 26-year-old man is killed in a motorcycle crash on Highway 1A in North Bedeque, P.E.I., on Sunday afternoon. Residential construction is on track to be the same as or well above last year's levels in the communities around Charlottetown....

Human Rights Commission panel will start a hearing Tuesday on whether mandatory retirement at the University of Prince Edward Island is discriminatory. The Confederation Bridge has re-opened to all traffic after travel restrictions were put in place earlier Monday because...

The Canadian Press- According to the newly released Defence Deparment statistics, there were fifteen active-duty members of the military who took their own lives, a rate of 23 per 100,000 in comparison to the 11 confirmed suicides in 2007. The...

TORONTO — Two coyotes attacked a promising young musician as she was hiking alone in a national park in eastern Canada, and authorities said she died Wednesday of her injuries. The victim was identified as Taylor Mitchell, 19, a singer-songwriter...