Ctvnews.com reports that Canada’s spy agency has quietly warned traveling government officials they might be drugged, kidnapped or blackmailed after being enticed into a sexual “honey trap” by an attractive stranger. Foreign intelligence services see federal employees — and the proprietary information they carry — as prized targets, and precautions must be taken to prevent the pilfering of secret files, says the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. Read article
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CBC reports that the B.C. Coroners Service has identified the four victims of a mid-air crash between a glider and a Cessna that happened over Nairn Falls Provincial Park, north of Whistler, at the end of June. Friends and family had already identified Rudy Lee Rozsypalek, 50, of Pemberton, as the pilot of the glider […]
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According to Cowichannewsleader.com, a visiting hiker found himself on a slippery slope Monday, quite literally. Cowichan Search and Rescue members were called at 2 p.m. to rescue a climber who’d fallen approximately 20 feet into a deep crevasse at Mount Baldy in Shawnigan Lake. Due to lower-body injuries and challenging terrain, the hiker was transported […]
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Eturbonews.com reports that visitors to the quaint summer village at Telegraph Cove on Vancouver Island are being warned to be extra vigilant after a cougar killed a small dog in a brazen attack on Canada Day. According to The Province, Priscilla Palsway of Telegraph Cove Resort said a man reported that his Shih Tzu was […]
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According to Rappler.com, at least 80 people are missing in the small Canadian town of Lac-Megantic after a freight train loaded with oil derailed and burst into flames, a firefighter returning from the scene told AFP on Saturday. “There were at least 50 people in the bar. There is nothing left,” the firefighter said on […]
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As reported by Associatedpress.com, police have arrested a Canadian man and a woman and charged them as terrorist suspects for attempting to leave a suspicious package at British Columbia’s provincial legislature on Canada Day. Royal Canadian Mounted Police Assistant Commissioner James Malizia says John Stewart Nuttall and Amanda Marie Korody were arrested Monday. The pair […]
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According to the Ottawa Citizen, RCMP investigated a suspicious package that forced a nearly hour-long evacuation of the U.S. Embassy on Wednesday evening. Just after 5 p.m., Ottawa police announced a lane reduction along Sussex Drive between York and Rideau streets near the embassy, which is at 490 Sussex. Read article
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According to theherald.com, an Australian tourist has survived a freezing ordeal after his tour group was stranded on a drifting and sinking ice floe in the Canadian Arctic. Melbourne surgeon Professor Ian Jones was in a group of about 30 tourists and guides who were stuck after the slab of ice broke off from Baffin […]
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As reported by Yahoo.com, tens of thousands of people have been forced from their homes in Calgary and throughout the rest of southern Alberta over the past 36 hours, as swollen streams and rivers overflowed their banks, some with so little warning that residents had no choice to flee to the roof of their house […]
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According to a globalnews.ca report, a 77-year-old Ohio man says he’ll be forever grateful to actor John Malkovich for coming to his rescue during a frightening incident in Toronto. According to multiple media reports, Jim Walpole and his wife Marilyn, 79, were visiting the city on Thursday as part of a cross-Canada tour. Walpole said […]
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