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ELLIOT LAKE, Ont.

Gift by the numbers: 2,400 client files, 300 photographs, 40 maps and about 180 bound volumes of correspondence

By Peter Baker and Paul ShivelySometimes the environmental challenges facing our oceans seem so large that it’s hard to know where to start solving them.

Haida Gwaii experiment may embolden others, critic warns

SMITH, Graham Philip 1947 - 2012 Predeceased by his parents, Rhoda and Hartley and brother, Ron. Survived by brother, Michael; sister, Barbara (Brownridge) and nephew, Kurtis.

A Victoria woman has a special invitation to meet the Queen next week at an intimate reception celebrating the monarch's Diamond Jubilee.

Golf club workers came to the rescue when a shark - apparently snagged by a bird - dropped out of the sky and flopped around on the 12th tee. An employee rushed the shark back to the Pacific Ocean, about eight kilometres away.

Gregory Brotherston has been charged with manslaughter in connection with the death of a Colwood man. The 31-year-old youngest son of former Highlands councillors Ken and Marie Brotherston was arrested Oct. 9.

A Crown witness testified that Andrew Belcourt told him he shot a man during a robbery on March 3, 2010, because Belcourt's mask fell off. Max Deleeuw, 22, was testifying Thursday at the second-degree murder trial of Belcourt and Samuel Mcgrath in B.

In this case of moose versus Mountie, the officer - and his car - got the worst of it. RCMP say the officer was writing a report in his car in Prince George on Thursday when he saw two moose crossing an intersection.