For students who like adventure, a cool summer job to consider would be search and rescue work on Canada’s waters. Every summer, the Canadian Coast Guard hires post-secondary students to staff Inshore Rescue Boat stations across the country. There are… »
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Quebec manhunt intensifies as police search cabins for father of 2 dead girls
Quebec provincial police are asking residents of Saint-Apollinaire near Quebec City to check their cabins, trailers and sheds scattered in the woods around the municipality as they intensify their search for Martin Carpentier, who is wanted in connection with the… »
Manhunt for father of 2 girls found dead in Quebec enters 6th day
Quebec provincial police continued combing through a wooded area near Quebec City on Tuesday as the search for the father of two girls whose lifeless bodies were found in a small town southwest of the provincial capital entered the sixth… »
Search for missing helicopter crew turns to recovery as more remains found
Three days after a Canadian military helicopter with six crew members on board crashed into the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Greece, the Department of National Defence said Friday it has lost hope of finding any survivors. The helicopter… »
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Canada accepts new Search and Rescue aircraft
In spite of ongoing concerns over the manuals for the plane, the Canadian military has accepted the first of its new Search and Rescue (SAR) aircraft from Airbus. Known as the CC-295 the plane was to be delivered by December… »
Canadians’ interests revealed in Google searches
Hurricane Irma was one of the topics most searched by Canadians in 2017, according to the 17th annual survey of top-trending searches on Google. The hurricane that battered the Caribbean and Florida starting on August 30th was also widely searched… »
The Arrow legend: mystery, intrigue, search for last artefacts
It was a world-leading state-of-the-art jet interceptor. Indeed it seemed Canada would become a world leader in aerospace with the development of the CF-105 Avro Arrow, and its powerful new Canadian designed engines. With the first planes completed and… »
Privacy watchdog flags U.S. border searches
Canada’s privacy commissioner has warned the government that U.S. plans to enhance border searches may contravene Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms and there’s little recourse for people subjected to them. At issue is the fact that the U.S. conducts… »
More police divers arrive in Fort Chipewyan to search for missing hunters
Three more police divers have arrived in the remote Indigenous community of Fort Chipewyan in northeastern Alberta to assist in the search for three hunters feared drowned in a freak boating accident last week. The body of the fourth hunter… »
Police send divers to search for missing hunters
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police has dispatched a team of police divers to help in the search for four hunters missing in the wilderness of northeastern Alberta. The four men, all experienced outdoorsmen from the First Nation community Fort Chipewyan, left the… »
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