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A 17-year-old is dead after falling down a cliff while hiking in B.C.’s Interior, according to police.  RCMP said the teen boy was hiking with two friends on Monday evening when he “disappeared” off a 60-metre cliff on Bastion Mountain, north of Salmon Arm in B.C.’s Shuswap region. Police said he was …

A six-year-old girl is dead and two other children are in hospital following a hit-and-run collision in Surrey’s Fraser Heights neighbourhood Sunday afternoon. In a statement Sunday evening, the Surrey Police Service said officers had responded to reports of a crash involving three children at the intersection of 164 Street …

A New York City sightseeing helicopter broke apart in mid-air Thursday and crashed upside-down into the Hudson River, killing the pilot and a family of Spanish tourists in the latest U.S. aviation disaster, officials said. The victims included Siemens executive Agustin Escobar, his wife, Merce Camprubi Montal, and three children, in …

Canadian Ted Kotcheff, whose six-decade career as film and television director included helming the first instalments of two hit movie franchises in the 1980s, died Thursday at age 94, his son confirmed to CBC News. “He died of old age, peacefully, and surrounded by love ones,” his son Thomas said in …

At least 18 people died and more than 120 were injured after a roof fell at a nightclub in the capital of the Dominican Republic early on Tuesday, authorities said. Crews were searching for potential survivors in the rubble at Jet Set in Santo Domingo, said Juan Manuel Mendez, director …

Val Kilmer, the brooding, versatile actor who played fan favourite Iceman in Top Gun, donned a voluminous cape as in Batman Forever and portrayed Jim Morrison in The Doors, has died.  He was 65. Kilmer died Tuesday night in Los Angeles, surrounded by family and friends, his daughter, Mercedes Kilmer, …

For the first time since 2019, Canadian voters are waking up in a country without a federal consumer carbon levy. We’re expecting the now-defunct carbon tax and other affordability issues to dominate the election campaign today. News Source link

Richard Chamberlain, the handsome hero of the 1960s television series Dr. Kildare who found a second career as an award-winning “king of the miniseries,” has died. He was 90. Chamberlain died Saturday night in Waimanalo, Hawaii, of complications following a stroke, according to his publicist, Harlan Boll. “Our beloved Richard is …

A powerful earthquake centred in Myanmar rocked Southeast Asia on Friday, killing more than 140 people in that country, according to state media, and toppling buildings across a wide area. The quake also hit Thailand, where rescuers in the capital, Bangkok, were searching in the rubble of a tower block …

Oleg Gordievsky, a high-ranking KGB officer who spied for the West during the height of the Cold War, has died at the age of 86. Gordievsky died on March 4 in England, where he had lived since defecting from the Soviet Union in 1985. Police said on Saturday that they …