The food-cart explosion in Vancouver has brought down the walls surrounding high-class cuisine.
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/ 13 February 2010
A Georgian luger died in a horrific crash on a training run on Friday, casting a shadow as Vancouver opened the Winter Games.
Severed feet are washing up on shore in a whodunnit that has the locals in a Canadian fishing and ferrying community buzzing.
A hot-air balloon caught fire over western Canada, forcing screaming passengers to leap to the ground, some with their clothes in flames, witnesses said. Two people burned to death after being unable to jump from the balloon and 11 were seriously injured, police said on Saturday.
Salman Rushdie, Chinua Achebe and Margaret Atwood are among 15 authors selected as finalists for the 2007 Man Booker International Prize, the award’s organisers said on Thursday. The £60 000 award is presented every two years to highlight a living writer’s continued contribution to fiction on the world stage.
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/ 22 January 2007
Canada will spend 30-million Canadian dollars (United States $25,5-million) to preserve the world’s largest coastal temperate rainforest, home to aboriginal communities and tall trees, the federal government announced last week. "We know there is a strong link between a healthy ecosystem, a healthy society and Canada’s economic prosperity," Environment Minister John Baird said in a statement.
Roland Schoeman has the rules of the Pan Pacific Championships to thank for his place in Friday night’s final of the 100m freestyle. The rules of the competition, currently taking place in Victoria, Canada, state that only two swimmers from each country can swim in a final.
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/ 31 January 2006
In a last-ditch bid to save western Canada’s spotted owls, the emblem of North America’s environmental movement, nature lovers are suing the federal government in court to force action. Four environmental groups wants a judge to order Canada to draft an emergency plan to protect the rare birds.
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/ 15 December 2005
Foreign big-game hunters will be banished from a vast area of western Canada’s wilderness, local environmentalists said, announcing an unusual purchase of a commercial hunting licence. The Raincoast Conservation Foundation privately raised 1,35-million Canadian dollars (,17-million) to buy one of North America’s largest guide outfitters
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/ 21 October 2005
Following just a few simple rules regarding moderate exercise, healthy eating and lifestyle can ensure weight control and lower the risk of disease, say the world’s leading researchers on obesity. ”There’s been a hysteria in place over the last many years,” said Dr Steven Blair, who presented a key speech on the state of the art in exercise to an international science conference on obesity in Canada.
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/ 9 September 2005
Defending champion Vijay Singh shot a three-over-par 73 during the first round of the PGA Canadian Open on Thursday, tying him with 24 others for 71st place. Last year, Singh won a three-hole playoff over Mike Weir, who was denied in his bid to become the first Canadian golfer to win his national championship in 50 years.
Dozens of urbanised black bears are making life uncomfortable for residents of the coastal mountain suburbs of Vancouver in Canada’s westernmost province of British Columbia. The number of complaints against black bears in north Vancouver has reached an all-time high of 1 200 so far this year, four times the number conservation officers received last year.
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/ 25 February 2005
Canadian wildlife officers are tracking smugglers in the macabre slaughter and mutilation of 40 bald eagles, which has shaken aboriginal people on Canada’s west coast. The first dead birds were discovered on February 2 by a woman walking her dog on the reserve of the Burrard Indian band, a forested area across an ocean inlet from Vancouver, in British Columbia.
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/ 2 February 2005
International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge defended the Vancouver Organising Committee on Tuesday, saying the Olympic brand needs to be protected from improper use. Rogge said the organising committee was right to ask local business’ to stop using Olympic names and logos.
John Schneeberger, the disgraced South African doctor jailed for sex crimes and stripped of his Canadian citizenship, on Monday lost his fight against expulsion from the country. An immigration Board hearing in Regina took less than 10 minutes to declare him an undesirable alien and order his deportation.
A Vereeniging family have won a five-year battle to live in Canada because three of them suffer from a potentially fatal skin condition which makes them allergic to sunshine. The ruling means that Johannes and Margharetha Viviers can finally settle down in the Canadian fishing port of Prince Rupert, which is known for its dreary weather and overcast days.
Efforts to stem the trade of ”conflict diamonds” are still needed, even if fighting has eased in the African countries where they are produced.
American filmmaker Michael Moore’s ”Bowling for Columbine,” a movie that plumbs the depths of violence in America, has won, along with two other films, the People’s Choice Award at Vancouver’s International Film Festival.
A British Columbia pig farmer was charged with four additional murders on Wednesday, bringing to 15 the number of women Robert Pickton is suspected of killing.
CANADIAN police on Wednesday arrested a 78-year-old man under an extradition request from Italy, which convicted him in absentia for World War II crimes, including torture and murder.