Five Britons including a father and his teenage son who died when a whale-watching boat sank off the coast of Canada have been named.

He started, it turns out, as he meant to go on. The Millennium Stadium roof will be closed on Ireland and Canada on Saturday afternoon. But Jamie Cudmore will still seek out the shadows. That is where the second-row enforcer does his best work, where he sees clearest, where, in the yellow of Clermont Auvergne, he has had such a devastating impact on Irish hopes in the past.

A story of three bears, without Goldilocks, is in the news in Canada. It began last month when a female black bear began breaking into a mobile home in Port Hardy, Vancouver Island, to steal meat and fish from a freezer.

WILLIAM Shakespeare was born four and a half centuries ago this year; he was baptised on April 26, 1564.

IF YOU’RE thinking Canada’s west coast, for once don’t do the predictable things. Break away from the crowd. Hire a car.

What do you call a group of over 1,000 dolphins? A superpod #notajoke.

An earthquake measuring 6.2 in magnitude has struck off Canada's Vancouver island.

IT’S been a bad year for wild fires in California and the one that caught the attention of the world media last week was the ‘Rim Fire’ which spread into Yosemite National Park.

Canadian actor Cory Monteith, star of the hit TV show 'Glee', has been found dead in a Vancouver hotel.

MY friends recommended home-exchanging. They’d been swapping houses with people all over the world, three to five times a year.

BABY it’s cold outside.

AS we stagger bruised and blinking into the cold financial dawn of 2013, it’s hard to be optimistic.

Pamela Anderson wants to move back to Canada permanently.

AN EARTHQUAKE with a magnitude of 6.7 has struck off the coast of British Colombia in Canada, scientists have said.

An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.7 has struck off the coast of British Colombia in Canada, scientists have said.

TEENAGER Colton Harris-Moore, is achieving folk hero status as the “Barefoot Bandit” in the US and Canada after a string of burglaries and daredevil escapes from the law.

Seven people have been killed in a plane crash on a remote island off the coast of British Columbia, Canada.

LAST week on this page Damien Enright described the magnificent trees on the neglected estate at Kincragie, near where he lives in Co Cork.

I PUT a fresh log on the fire.

Residents of a small Indian village in Canada braved the stormy waters off British Columbia’s north coast in fishing vessels and speedboats to help rescue 101 passengers and crew from a large ferry that hit a rock and sank.

CANADIAN scientists and Indians are competing in boats for the affections of a dangerously friendly killer whale off Vancouver Island, British Columbia.

Jazz singer Diana Krall has confirmed she and British pop star Elvis Costello are engaged – and said her father let the cat out of the bag.

Canada’s young guns believe they can shoot down Scotland in flames when they take on the tourists this evening in the scenic surroundings of Vancouver Island.

As many as six children, all under the age of 12, are feared dead following a house fire in a remote community on northern Vancouver Island.