In the news

I'll assume you meant 'where'. Canada.
Maybe the CBC plays a numbers game when it comes to fatalities, not sure how they decide what's newsworthy. I get most of my news from radio, maybe 1/10 from the papers.

Yup, silly typo. These things happen alarmingly often in that country;

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/nov/25/bangladesh-factory-fire-dhaka

Big factory fire late last year.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2012/11/201211188959229987.html

Fire through slums around a similar time.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10232918

Massive fire in 2010 where electrical transformer blew up in an area where a wedding was going on. (Electrical wiring in this area is insane btw)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10232918