Disaster

Nova Scotia

Harold Brine, last survivor of the Springhill mine disaster, dies

Somewhere, a kilometre above Harold Brine, there was a two-year old girl who needed him. As he waited to die…

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Nova Scotia

Harold Brine, last of 19 miners rescued after 1958 Springhill mine disaster, dead at 91

Nova Scotia·New Brine, who was 26 at the time, was among 12 men who were rescued after spending six days…

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Canada

Lac-Mégantic celebrates the 10th anniversary of a railway disaster that killed 47 people

A stream of flickering lights illuminated the gloom of Lac-Mégantic in the early hours of Thursday morning as citizens marched…

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Canada

Meet the students who recorded a ‘tool for healing’ 10 years after the deadly railway disaster of Lac-Mégantic

If singer-songwriter Yvon Pion had any doubts about recording a song with schoolchildren in Lac-Mégantic, Que., to mark the 10th…

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Nova Scotia

RCMP investigates fire hydrant disaster in Town of Yarmouth

RCMP in Nova Scotia is investigating hydrant disaster in Yarmouth that flooded a home. Yarmouth Town RCMP received a report…

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Canada

Foothills County is the latest to declare an agricultural disaster as drought grips areas of Alberta

A lack of moisture early in the season, unusually high temperatures and variable winter snow led to poor growing conditions…

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Nova Scotia

The disaster response team helps Halifax businesses recover from wildfires

Halifax businesses affected by the wildfires are receiving support from a disaster response team set up to help them recover.…

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Tech

Who should pay for OceanGate’s experimental approach and subsequent disaster?

The search for five missing passengers aboard an experimental submarine is now over, completing one of the largest joint search…

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Sports

‘Bigger problem than doping’: Canada flirts with disaster amid growth in legalized sports gambling

Jeremy Luke then says that when it comes to gambling, Canada is flirting with disaster. Luke, the president and CEO…

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