Roger Caron, the bank-robbing author from Cornwall, Ont., has died at 73.

A Montreal-based gang has targeted banks and stores in British Columbia and across the West in a wave of credit- and debit-card crime a Vancouver Crown prosecutor describes as a "tsunami fraud," CBC News has learned.

Dramatic security video from a convenience store in Saint John shows an 89-year-old store owner fighting off two armed gunmen during an attempted robbery.