Canada Conflict & Tragedy News

I've flown all over this province in all manner of planes. Beavers and Otters and Dash 7's & 8's....jets and helicopters. I've lifted off from fog-bound Gold River with loggers returning to camps a hundred miles away through thick coastal...

With high unemployment it is not surprising that there would be more families requiring help from the government. This shows that job creation needs to be a number one priority for the Obama administration. As the figures indicate, minority groups...

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....

Heavy rains combined with unusually high tides have flooded large areas of Duncan on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. The town of 27,000 sits near the mouth of the Cowichan River and the river estuary is not far off. The Koksilah...

The typhoon is named Ramil in the Philippines and Lupit internationally. Somehow every typhoon seems to have an international and Philippine name! Some areas have not recovered from the last typhoon, Pepeng, and this storm at present is tracking along...

The tropical storm Parma is strengthening into a super typhoon. It could hit the north eastern coast of Luzon in the Philippines as early as Friday bringing more flooding and destruction, although it is far from Manila there still could...

Manila is a densely populated metro area of over a dozen cities so it is not surprising that there are many casualties. You can see from the video that many structures would not be flood or wind proof. This is...