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Passengers in plane crashes today, such as the one in San Francisco involving Asiana Airlines Flight 214, are more likely to survive than in past disasters.
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LAC-MEGANTIC, Que. - About 40 people are still missing and the official death toll remains unchanged at five after the weekend rail disaster that devastated much of Lac-Megantic, authorities said Monday.
Regardless of whether controversial pipelines are built, B.C. can expect more oil to be transported by rail as production outpaces pipeline capacity. That could leave communities in B.C. vulnerable to the kind of train wreck that left the town of Lac-Magentic, Que. in ruins Saturday, killing five people and leaving 40 missing.
If the quintessential Canadian can make love in a canoe, wouldn’t the perfect West Coast type go for yoga on a big, fat surfboard? It gets you outdoors, on the water, closer to nature and you can do a cat stretch, says Kristy Wright Schell, the first Metro Vancouver instructor to run regular lessons in SUP yoga, short for standup paddleboard yoga.
TORONTO - Almost half of Canadian infants develop flat areas on the back of their heads by the age of two months, likely the result of sleeping face-up to prevent sudden infant death syndrome, a study suggests.
NASR, Egypt — The Muslim Brotherhood called Monday morning’s bloody carnage in the Egyptian capital “a massacre.”
A federal safety official said the cockpit voice recorder from Asiana Airlines Flight 214 showed the jetliner tried to abort its landing and come around for another try 1.5 seconds before it crashed at San Francisco airport.
As the rail disaster in Lac-Mégantic continued into a second day of what will surely be many anxious days, photographers capture the scene.
They are haunted by the friends they couldn’t save, by the memory of people who are missing and might never be found.
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City orchard brings new life to vacant Vancouver lot
A forgotten brownfield at the corner of urban and industrial is not the place you’d expect to find lemon, fig and persimmon trees bearing fruit. But in three to five years, over 400 trees planted on a vacant lot at Main Street and Terminal Avenue should do just that in what the City of Vancouver is calling the largest urban orchard in North America.
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Oldest woman to circumnavigate the globe completes goal in Victoria
VICTORIA - The oldest female sailor to make a solo, non-stop circumnavigation of the globe has finally reached her goal.
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U.S. grand jury indicts Surrey man in $5-million money-laundering scheme
A Surrey man awaiting sentencing for a firearms conviction has been indicted in Washington state on charges of laundering more than $5 million in drug profits. U.S. court documents allege Glenn Harley Sheck, 32, led the multi-million-dollar cash-smuggling ring uncovered during a six-year investigation by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Richmond's DDS Wireless wins $2.3M contract from Los Angeles taxi co-operative
RICHMOND, B.C. - DDS Wireless International Inc. says its taxi unit, Digital Dispatch, has won a $2.3-million contract to sell a software package and wireless mobile computers to LA Taxi Co-operative, part of one the largest taxi co-operatives in the United States.
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Yoga on the ocean goes with the flow in Metro Vancouver (with video)
If the quintessential Canadian can make love in a canoe, wouldn’t the perfect West Coast type go for yoga on a big, fat surfboard? It gets you outdoors, on the water, closer to nature and you can do a cat stretch, says Kristy Wright Schell, the first Metro Vancouver instructor to run regular lessons in SUP yoga, short for standup paddleboard yoga.
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Devastated Lac-Megantic begins work week, with about 40 people still missing
LAC-MEGANTIC, Que. - About 40 people are still missing and the official death toll remains unchanged at five after the weekend rail disaster that devastated much of Lac-Megantic, authorities said Monday.
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