s professionals in the field of risk assessment, we're faced daily with the task of separating legit-risk from its misinterpretation.

Steven Stark spent his childhood summers walking up and down the shoreline of Point Roberts, a stick in one hand and a bucket in the other.

He'd look for bubbles, jam the stick four or five inches into the ground and bring up a crab. The bigger the bubbles, Stark says, the larger the crab.

One way to make a problem go away -- at least temporarily -- is to ignore it. It's also the way to make problems grow over time.
For most governments, ignoring problems away isn't easy. It requires a thick skin in the face of criticism, a disengaged electorate, a compliant media, and a lack of immediate consequences. Sadly, those four conditions exist in Canada.

The remains of a woman missing since 2006 have been found in a Winnipeg rooming house, police in Manitoba have confirmed.

Myrna Lisa Letandre was 36 when she was last seen Oct. 5, 2006, near Memorial Boulevard in the city's downtown.

The rooming house, on Lorne Avenue in Winnipeg's Point Douglas neighbourhood, has been the scene of a police investigation since Tuesday.

A Saskatchewan chief is calling on Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations Chief Perry Bellegarde to resign over a decision to ignore the ruling of an independent elections appeal tribunal.

A North Okanagan resident is being recognized for his contributions to the community.

Wayne Christian, chief of the Splatsin First Nation, will received an honorary doctorate from Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops June 13.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Worldwide levels of the chief greenhouse gas that causes global warming have hit a milestone, reaching an amount never before encountered by humans, federal scientists said Friday.

OTTAWA - Two former Conservative cabinet ministers — Jay Hill and Jim Prentice — were waiting for a flight at Toronto's Pearson airport that would take them sailing around a Caribbean island when they ran into two of their former colleagues still toiling as ministers.

A group of South Shore mayors are reeling after the Parti Québécois government announced its decision Friday to give back 300 hectares of land to the Kahnawake Mohawks.

Canada's record on how it treats aboriginal people will be under global scrutiny within the next year.

The federal government is allowing three human rights groups — including two from the United Nations — to make visits where they will look at living conditions in aboriginal communities, including access to clean water, housing and education.

A candlelight ceremony two months after the discovery of 21-year-old Justin Brooks' body in the Prince Rupert Harbour was a bittersweet gathering for his family, who, while mourning the loss, have found support from groups also seeking justice.

Police are searching a Winnipeg home as part of an ongoing investigation into more than two dozen cases of missing and murdered women in Manitoba, CTV News has learned.