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Front of Bus Obliterated in Deadly Canada Crash

Multiple fatalities reported as bus collides with train in Ottawa

(Newser) - A Via Rail passenger train and a transit bus collided at a crossing in Ottawa today, and Canadian police say there are multiple deaths. Witnesses say the front end of the double-decker bus was ripped off by the impact. An Ottawa Fire spokesman told CP24 television there are "multiple...

Drinker Guzzles Bar's Prized Toe

Yukon saloon seeks replacement to pickle

(Newser) - Rule No. 1 of a Yukon Territory bar's infamous "Sourtoe Cocktail" challenge is "The lips have gotta touch the toe" placed in the drink. But another, equally important rule is "Don't swallow the toe." An American who swallowed the pickled human toe in his...

Save Detroit. Sell it to Canada
 Save Detroit. 
 Sell It to Canada 
OPINION
Aug 21, 2013 12:51 PM CDT

Save Detroit. Sell It to Canada

Land, art, giraffes—everything must go, writes John H. Fund

(Newser) - How can we save Detroit? Maybe with the mother of all yard sales, suggests John H. Fund in the American Spectator . The Detroit Institute of Arts' collection is worth some $2.5 billion, Belle Isle could be sold to investors as a "mini-Hong Kong" for $1 billion, and even...

Man Tries to Scuba Dive Drugs From Canada to US

Canadian arrested after river swim

(Newser) - Guards on the Michigan side of the US-Canada border made a bizarre late-night bust: A Canadian smuggler in full scuba gear bringing eight pounds of marijuana across the border. The frogman was busted after a tipster called police to report somebody swimming across the St. Clair River, reports the Sarnia ...

City's Anti-Goose Tactic: Drones

Don't laugh, it's working in Canada

(Newser) - The city of Ottawa seems to have found a novel way to drastically cut down on the number of geese hanging out on beaches and fouling the water: Send in the drones. Or drone, to be more precise, reports the Ottawa Citizen . The city has hired a contractor to buzz...

Ted Cruz Will Renounce Canadian Citizenship

...which he really didn't think he had

(Newser) - Ted Cruz will renounce his Canadian citizenship ... if in fact he is a Canadian citizen. The US senator made the announcement last night, after releasing his birth certificate yesterday in an effort to quiet his own "birther" controversy. His office initially wouldn't acknowledge the fact that his being...

Guy Tweets Pot Request, Cops Tweet Him Back

'Awesome! Can we come too'

(Newser) - Twitter, it seems, might not be the best place to conduct your weed-related transactions. A worker at an auto shop near Toronto has lost his job after tweeting for pot to be brought to his workplace. "Any dealers in Vaughan wanna make a 20sac chop? Come to Keele/Langstaff Mr....

2 Teens Charged in Case of Girl Who Hanged Herself

Rehtaeh Parsons committed suicide after photo of alleged assault was circulated

(Newser) - It took nearly two years, but charges have been filed in Canada in the high-profile case of a teenage girl who hanged herself after an alleged sexual assault and subsequent cyberbullying. Police in Nova Scotia arrested two 18-year-old males on child pornography charges, reports CNN . The family of Rehtaeh Parsons...

George Takei: Forget Russia Homophobes, Yank Olympics

Petitions to move Games back to 2010 host Vancouver

(Newser) - George Takei is fed up with Russia's anti-gay policies , but a boycott of Russian vodka —or even of the 2014 Sochi Olympics—isn't the way to make change. Rather, Takei wants to strip Russia of its Games and send them to Canada. In a blog post Tuesday,...

Child Python Victims Played in Snake Case: Pics

Autopsy finds boys died from asphyxiation

(Newser) - The mother of two small boys strangled by a 100-pound python in their sleep earlier this week in Canada had posted photos on Facebook last year of the boys playing in and cleaning her neighbor's snake enclosure. Mandy Trecartin's Facebook page has hundreds of photos of her sons,...

Young Kids Strangled to Death by Escaped Python

Boys, 5 and 7, killed in Canada

(Newser) - Two young boys were killed by a python that escaped its enclosure at a pet store in Canada, according to local police. The brothers, aged five and seven, were sleeping in a friend's apartment above the pet store when the snake strangled them, says Royal Canadian Mounted Police Const....

Woman Flees Sex Attack, Survives 12 Days in Wilderness

Got lost in forest, survived on berries

(Newser) - A Canadian woman who fled into a forest to escape an attacker has been found alive after 12 days lost in the wilderness. Police in Alberta say that after a truck carrying the woman and four other people broke down on a rural road, she was left alone with a...

US Hiker Mauled by Polar Bear

Matt Dyer in stable condition in Montreal: wife

(Newser) - A hiker from Maine was in his tent in northeastern Canada when a polar bear hauled him out and proceeded to maul him on Wednesday. Fellow hikers were able to stop the early-morning attack using flares that frightened the animal, CBC reports, causing it to release victim Matt Dyer. The...

Daughter Finds Missing Mom... 52 Years Later

Alive and well in the Yukon with a whole new family

(Newser) - When Lucy Johnson was reported missing in Surrey, BC, in 1965—four years after she actually disappeared—police suspected her husband. They even dug up his yard, but no trace of the woman was ever found. That is, until Johnson's daughter, Linda Evans, who was seven or eight when...

Answers in Quebec Train Blast May Be Months Away

Toll now at 33, with another 17 presumed dead

(Newser) - While the world's attention has now moved to a different train wreck in France , the aftermath of the train blast in Quebec last week worsens, with the official death toll now at 33 after five more bodies were found. Another 17 are presumed dead, bringing the total to 50....

Railway Boss: Conductor Didn't Set Brakes

Edward Burkhardt tours the devastation in Quebec

(Newser) - Yesterday, the head of the railway company whose runaway train decimated a small Quebec town suggested that firefighters were to blame for the tragedy. Today, Edward Burkhardt of the Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway is blaming one of his own employees—the conductor who left the train in the nearby...

Train Operator Blames Disaster on Firefighters

Says they inadvertently shut off power to brakes during earlier fire

(Newser) - The company that owns the runaway train that decimated the heart of a small Quebec town thinks firefighters working on it hours before the crash are to blame, reports CNN . The firefighters put out a fire aboard the train when it was parked in the town of Nantes. While doing...

8 More Bodies Found in Canada Train Wreck

Up to 50 still missing

(Newser) - The death toll in the oil train derailment in Quebec has risen to 13, with eight more bodies discovered in the wreckage, the AP reports. Many more are still missing—the AP puts the number at "about 40," but Reuters says the figure has been updated to "...

Victims Feared 'Vaporized' in Runaway Train Inferno

40 still missing after Quebec disaster

(Newser) - Around 40 people are still missing after the derailment and explosion of a runaway train in Quebec , and the blast was so intense that authorities fear there may be nothing left of some victims. The hospital in Lac Megantic, which had been braced for huge numbers of casualties, is "...

Toll Hits 3 in Train Derailment

 Toll Hits 5 in Train Derailment 
UPDATED
Jul 7, 2013 11:23 AM CDT

Toll Hits 5 in Train Derailment

Officials believe they'll discover more bodies in Quebec accident

(Newser) - Officials say two more bodies were discovered today after a runaway train carrying crude oil derailed in eastern Quebec, igniting explosions and fires that destroyed a town's center. That brings the confirmed death toll to five. A Quebec provincial police lieutenant said today that fires are preventing rescuers from...

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