The Canucks are headed to the Stanley Cup Finals! The only Canadian team left in the NHL playoffs took down the San jJse Sharks in a double overtime 3-2 win Tuesday night.

The last time Vancouver made the Stanley Cup final was in 1994. Now that the Canucks have won the Western conference final, they will play either the Boston Bruins or the Tampa Bay Lightning for the Stanley Cup.

In international news,  Ottawa has announced immediate sanctions against Bashar al-Assad’s regime, in an attempt to stop the brutal crackdown on protesters in Syria. The sanctions  were announced by Minister of Foreign Affairs John Baird, at a news conference on Parliament Hill on Tuesday. The sanctions include a travel ban for Syrian president and other officials, as well as an asset freeze.

Animal-welfare advocates will be taking to the streets this Saturday in cities across Quebec. They will be protesting Montreal's use of for-profit animal-control service The Berger Blanc in many of the city's municipalities.

The Society for the Protection of animals, the body organizing the demonstrations, is also threatening the city with a tourism boycott. The group says they'll call a boycott if the city does not produce a written pledge that it will take over animal-control services by next year.

Information concerning the disappearance and murder of a Montreal girl will be met with a reward. Jolène Riendeau was ten years old when she disappeared in April of ninety-nine following a trip to a convenience store. A reward as high as thirty thousand dollars was offered by six anonymous donors.

Police are also reaching out for the public’s help. The young girl’s remains were found last September under a bridge.

Over a hundred people have been found dead in Joplin, Missouri after a Tornado ravaged the town on Sunday. The death toll is the highest for a tornado in the US since 1953. Winds were measured at up to 320 kilometers per hour.

The town of Joplin has been utterly devastated. Buildings were levelled and cars were torn completely apart into scrap metal. Residents 70 miles away found debris from the destroyed Joplin Hospital on their driveways.