Michel Comte
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/ 11 June 2007

Star Trek fans beam into Canada’s wild west

A Klingon is an unexpected sight in Canada’s vast western plains, among the lonely oil wells, cow pastures and wheat fields. But hundreds of the ferocious warriors from Gene Roddenberry’s fictional <i>Star Trek</i> universe gathered in Vulcan this weekend for the town’s annual <i>Spock Days and Galaxyfest</i> — a three-day space festival and <i>Star Trek</i> convention.

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/ 11 November 2006

Rock, paper, scissors champs gather in Toronto

Can global conflicts be settled by rock, paper, scissors? Maybe not. But organisers of a RPS tournament in Toronto this weekend want the centuries-old children’s game applied more often to settle lesser fights. "It’s the simplest, fairest way to make a decision or resolve a conflict," said tournament director Graham Walker.

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/ 6 June 2006

More arrests expected in Canadian bomb plot

More arrests were expected following the detention of 17 people over an alleged al-Qaeda-inspired plot to bomb high-profile targets in Canada. Amid media reports that the Canadian Parliament was on the group’s hitlist, Mike McDonell, assistant commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, said: ”This investigation is not finished.”

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/ 6 July 2005

Canada in a frenzy over serial killers

Canada’s placid and innocent society was shattered with the release from prison of the country’s most notorious female sex killer this week. Reporters camped for days outside the Ste-Anne-des-Plaines penitentiary north of Montreal, waiting for the release of Karla Homolka who raped, tortured and murdered teenage girls with her ex-husband Paul Bernado.