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[1] [2] In 2018, The CBC published "Deadly Force", an investigative report described as "the first country-wide database of every person who died or was killed during a police intervention", which documented 461 fatal police encounters in Canada between 2000 and 2017, suggesting the average is closer to 26 people a year.
a bus carrying tourists from Taiwan crashed head-on with a transport truck in a tunnel on the Trans-Canada Highway, near Revelstoke, BC, killing six and injuring 21. The accident happened in the 316-metre Lanark Snowshed Tunnel, closing the highway for about 14 hours. The transport truck was empty at the time of the accident. [23] Lloydminster ...
[There were no deaths due to deterministic effects (i.e., people receiving a high dose of radiation, rapidly becoming ill, and dying); the 100–240 figure is an estimate of the number of people who died later in life due to cancer caused by radiation from the accident [29]]. 95–4,000+ [30] [31] 26 April 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
610 excess deaths in BC and 66 excess deaths in Alberta during the week [6] [7] [8] 500+ 1953 Polio: Epidemic: Canada 562 1873 RMS Atlantic: Shipwreck Mars Island, Nova Scotia 428 2009-2010 Swine flu: Pandemic Canada out of 3 million Canadians infected 360 1758 Duke William: Shipwreck Atlantic Ocean near the coast of France: during the ...
Mining disasters in Canada (1 C, 3 P) Pages in category "Industrial accidents and incidents in Canada" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
Category: Accidental deaths in Canada. 9 languages. ... Railway accident deaths in Canada (12 P) Road incident deaths in Canada (140 P) S. Sport deaths in Canada (36 P)
[9] [10] Both crashes undermined confidence in the CASB's investigations and led to the Canadian government shutting down the CASB one year after the Flight 1363 accident. The CASB was replaced by the Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB), a more independent and multimodal investigative agency. Air Ontario 1363 Memorial Site
Downie snow clearing accident: 2 March 1936: east of Albert Canyon, British Columbia: 16? When a snowslide engulfed a freight train 6.8 km (4.2 mi) east of Albert Canyon, a work gang began snow removal, but the rescued tender under tow broke loose and ran back down the track. Two occupants jumped safely, but a third jumped to his death.