Canada Conflict & Tragedy News

The Canadian Public Complaints Commission issued a damning report on the misuse of Tasers following the tragic death of a Polish immigrant at the Vancouver airport over a year ago. Commission member Paul Kennedy detailed fumble and cover-ups that bring...

Diabetes is expected to cost Canada about $12.2 billion in 2010, nearly double its level a decade ago, the Canadian Diabetes Association says. A significant proportion of HIV-positive women of child-bearing age want to become pregnant at some point, a...

Opposition leader Olive Crane invoked the voice of her predecessor, now Premier Robert Ghiz, in her efforts to get witnesses before the public accounts committee. A Charlottetown man went through a local fast food drive-thru to buy a hamburger, and...

An Etobicoke woman was found guilty today of first-degree murder in the axe-bludgeoning of her long-time boyfriend. Nicky Puddicombe was convicted of either orchestrating, aiding in the murder or wielding the axe herself during the Oct. 27, 2006 slaying of...

Two fairly large earthquakes rocked the west coast of British Columbia, Canada in the early hours of Tuesday morning. Some residents of the misty, rugged Queen Charlotte Islands were shaken from their beds. Babies crying..dogs barking..the whole shebang! Skidigate resident...

Fortunately the area where the core of the storm is landing is in a remote part of Luzon that is not too densely populated. Even so it will be very difficult to get help to villages that are hard hit....