In 1903, a mountain fell on a town in the Canadian Rockies. The town of Frank, Alberta, was buried under 100 million tons of limestone. At least 76 men, women, and children were killed.

It was the rich seams of coal in Turtle Mountain that caused people to build a town under its shadow. The desire for coal led residents to ignore the regular tremors in the rocks above them. In fact, miners counted ...

The prisons in the Canadian province of Quebec enforce a ban on smoking. With no cigarettes, the inmates have resorted to creative solutions. In place of tobacco, some use a mixture of tea leaves and residue from the nicotine gum provided to help smokers kick the addiction.

The concoction is rolled up in a page from the Bible. The Bible is used because those pages reportedly burn slower than normal ...

Petr Kouba runs a website called Heaven's Registry. For $20, Kouba offers "guaranteed admission into heaven." Although police consider this a scam, detective Mark Johnson admitted, "It would be pretty tough to prove he's wrong."

The certificate is also available for "cherished pets" at a cost of $15.

Commenting on the report, pastor Alan Andrus said, "Our calling is to teach and to preach what's in ...

In the September 20, 2004, issue of MacLean's magazine, Lianne George recounts this tragic story:

One November day in 2002, Jim Sulkers, a 53-year-old retired municipal worker from Winnipeg (Manitoba, Canada), climbed into bed, pulled the covers up, and died. Nearly two years later, on August 25, 2004, police who had been called by concerned relatives entered Sulkers' apartment and found his body in ...

Percentage of Americans who say religion is very important compared with respondents from other wealthy nations:

59 percent—United States
33 percent—Great Britain
30 percent—Canada
27 percent—Italy
21 percent—Germany
12 percent—Japan

Source: The Pew Global Attitudes Project Survey of more than 38,000 people in 44 countries, July–October 2002.

In 1981, at the age of 20, I devoted a summer to working with North American Indian Missions in the mountains of North Central British Columbia. My missions partner, Ken Short, and I drove all day up the Frazer River Canyon and deep into the mountains, finally arriving at the Tsquailak Indian Reservation.

The Tsquailak Indians were a tribe of 100. There was no church in the village, and our task was ...

In his book, The Church You've Always Wanted, pastor Glenn Wagner recounts a story told by Christian speaker Gary Smalley:

Two moose hunters in northern Canada shot an unusually huge moose. The two hunters had a problem, however. They couldn't pack this trophy animal out of the woods; it was just too big for their packhorses. But not to worry! Using their cellular phone, they called in a tiny seaplane. ...

There were 200 passengers on Flight 929 from London to Chicago on September 11, 2001. As they neared the North American coast, the pilot informed them that, due to a national emergency, they were going to land in Gander, Newfoundland.

According to the Chicago Tribune, "Onboard were families, friends, a couple just married and a few others headed to weddings, another returning from a funeral…and others ...

When I was a kid, we lived in a rural community that specialized in growing tobacco. My first summer job was weeding the crop, and most of the time we would walk the seemingly endless rows with a hoe, scuffing out weeds in relative comfort. But inevitably when we got close to the fence, we ran into thistles—hundreds and hundreds of little thistles. They looked harmless enough, but you couldn't scuff ...

During the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Selena Roberts wrote in the New York Times:

About 10 yards past a security checkpoint along the path of a cinder-block hall inside the Salt Lake Ice Center, a panel of nine judges filtered into a room for a standard post-competition meeting last Tuesday morning. Twelve hours removed from the controversial moment when gold medallions were draped over ...