Monday, December 29, 2025
ADVT 
National

Rescue Crews Searching For Missing Snowboarder On Cypress Mountain

The Canadian Press, 30 Jan, 2016 01:18 PM
    VANCOUVER — North Shore Rescue is searching for a 40-year-old snowboarder missing on Cypress Mountain.
     
    Team leader Mike Danks says the Surrey man was supposed to be back by 2:30 p.m. Friday.
     
    He was last seen on the west side of the mountain in West Vancouver.
     
    Danks says crews have found a track leading below the Howe Sound Crest route.
     
    Crews also responded to a second call Friday night for a group of missing skiers, also below the Howe Sound Crest route.
     
    Rescue crews established cell phone contact and the skiers were escorted off the mountain safely.

    MORE National ARTICLES

    Nardwuar Tweets That He's Been Discharged From Vancouver Hospital After Stroke

    Nardwuar Tweets That He's Been Discharged From Vancouver Hospital After Stroke
    The eccentric Vancouver native posted a message to his Facebook and Twitter accounts on Saturday to announce he was leaving the hospital's stroke unit.

    Nardwuar Tweets That He's Been Discharged From Vancouver Hospital After Stroke

    Infrastructure Minister Amarjeet Sohi Says New Rules, Standards Will Speed Up Funding Flows

    Infrastructure Minister Amarjeet Sohi Says New Rules, Standards Will Speed Up Funding Flows
    Infrastructure Minister Amarjeet Sohi says those big objectives are threefold: grow the economy, create jobs and make the country more sustainable.

    Infrastructure Minister Amarjeet Sohi Says New Rules, Standards Will Speed Up Funding Flows

    Remains Found In Woods Are Those Of Young Quebec Girl Missing Since 2007

    Remains Found In Woods Are Those Of Young Quebec Girl Missing Since 2007
    Quebec provincial police announced Saturday night that human remains discovered in the woods outside the city were those of Cedrika, the nine-year-old girl who went missing on July 31, 2007.

    Remains Found In Woods Are Those Of Young Quebec Girl Missing Since 2007

    Arrival Of Syrian Refugees In Montreal A 'Real Christmas Present' To Reunited Family

    Arrival Of Syrian Refugees In Montreal A 'Real Christmas Present' To Reunited Family
    MONTREAL — The arrival of a second federal government planeload of Syrian refugees in Montreal Saturday night was "a real Christmas present" for one Syrian man who was reunited with family he hasn't seen in eight years.

    Arrival Of Syrian Refugees In Montreal A 'Real Christmas Present' To Reunited Family

    Ontario Urged To Fund Anti-human Trafficking Task Force And Help Rape Victims

    Ontario Urged To Fund Anti-human Trafficking Task Force And Help Rape Victims
    The report by a provincial legislative committee is calling on the Liberal government to increase funding for the justice system and create a co-ordinated, province-wide strategy.

    Ontario Urged To Fund Anti-human Trafficking Task Force And Help Rape Victims

    Old Convent In Rural Nova Scotia Ready To Welcome Family Of Syrian Refugees

    Old Convent In Rural Nova Scotia Ready To Welcome Family Of Syrian Refugees
    ST. ANDREWS, N.S. — The old convent in rural St. Andrews, N.S., had been for sale for more than a year when the Sisters of St. Martha concluded that fate or something more powerful was telling them the big, empty home had a higher purpose.

    Old Convent In Rural Nova Scotia Ready To Welcome Family Of Syrian Refugees