Mark and Sue Brady had just sailed from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on a holiday cruise with their daughter and her husband, grand-daughters and their son-in-law’s parents when the unthinkable happened: Mark had a seizure.

Wade Belak has seen a lot of fights in his career, most of them from the perspective of a pair of fists lunging for his face.

Canada’s air security agency said Tuesday its $25-million biometric screening program is a major step toward ensuring the wrong people don’t get access to an airport’s most sensitive areas.