Since 81 per cent of all vegetables and fruit consumed in Canada are imported, they are highly vulnerable to currency fluctuations. They are pegged to increase in price by four to 4.5 per cent in the new year.
E-Comm, which handles emergency calls for 24 B.C. cities, towns and districts while dispatching 33 police and fire departments, has released the 10 most outrageous calls received by staff this year.
Two sizable hives holding some 30,000 bees have been stolen from a field in the Ottawa area, and the couple that cares for them is asking for the public's help in finding whoever is responsible.
Matt Barzal scored the shootout winner to lift Canada to a 3-2 win over Switzerland on Tuesday in the preliminary round at the world junior hockey championship.
Six patients were taken to hospital by ground ambulance and another was taken by air.
Police say there were two men on the plane when it crashed late Monday afternoon and they were taken to hospital.