Long-Lost Lake Offers Clues to Climate Change (Younger Dryas)
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Not long ago, geologically speaking, a now-vanished lake covered a huge expanse of today’s Canadian prairie. As big as Hudson Bay, the lake was fed by melting glaciers as they receded at the end of the last ice age. At its largest, Glacial Lake Agassiz, as it is known, covered most of the Canadian province of Manitoba, plus a good part of western Ontario. A southern arm straddled the Minnesota-North Dakota border. Not far from the ancient shore of Lake Agassiz, University of Cincinnati Professor of Geology Thomas Lowell will present a paper about the lake to the Geological Society...
Published on Friday 10th of February 2012 08:44:32 PM
Canadian Aboriginals receive body bags for flu
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Health officials ordered an investigation Thursday into why the Canadian government sent body bags to an Aboriginal reserve in Manitoba after community leaders requested assistance to deal with an expected outbreak of swine flu.
Published on Friday 10th of February 2012 08:44:32 PM
Mystery surrounds Manitoba's sale of $1.2 million in guns to Saudi Arabia
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WINNIPEG — Manitoba exported a cache of guns worth $1.2 million to Saudi Arabia last year, but the federal government won't say who sold them, who bought them, or what they were used for. According to international-trade data available on the Industry Canada website, Manitoba exported a total of $3.1 million in "arms and ammunition" to foreign countries last year. That could include anything from flame-throwers to shotgun cartridges to rocket-launchers, and it's double what the province exported in 2004. Except for Manitoba's guns, Canada sold virtually no other weapons or ammunition to Saudi Arabia last year. Ontario was the...
Published on Friday 10th of February 2012 08:44:32 PM
Scientist arrested for smuggling vials used in Ebola research into US
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A Canadian scientist has been arrested for smuggling 22 vials stolen from Canada's National Microbiology Lab, used in Ebola and HIV research, into the United States, Canadian and US officials said Wednesday. Konan Michel Yao, 42, "was taken into custody" while crossing from Manitoba into North Dakota A Public Health Agency of Canada spokeswoman [said] Yao "was working on vaccines for the Ebola virus and HIV, among other things." The Ivory Coast-born scientist is said to have studied at Laval University in Quebec and briefly worked at the University of Manitoba's plant sciences department.
Published on Friday 10th of February 2012 08:44:32 PM
The Vincent Li Verdict: The Voice is Laughing
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The insanity plea was expected to be the obvious play, and Justice John Scurfield ate it up. Apparently for a crime this outrageous only two witnesses are needed to be heard from. Conveniently, both were forensic psychiatrists who agree that Li is a schizophrenic who – cliché alert! – was told by The Voice of God to kill McLean. A Law & Order episode with this tired and overused plotline would be just cause for switching to hockey highlights.
Published on Friday 10th of February 2012 08:44:32 PM
Canada: Mourning family calls man beheaded on bus 'stubborn, kind' [follow-up]
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WINNIPEG - The family of a young man stabbed to death and beheaded on a Greyhound bus in Manitoba on Wednesday night finally spoke out Saturday, calling 22-year-old Tim McLean "a little guy with a heart bigger than you could know."
Published on Friday 10th of February 2012 08:44:32 PM
Witness: Man beheaded on Greyhound bus: CANADA
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PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE, Man. — A man was stabbed to death then beheaded on a Greyhound bus in an apparent random act of violence, according to an eyewitness. All lanes of traffic on the Trans-Canada Highway remained closed Thursday morning west of Portage la Prairie as the RCMP investigated what they would only refer to as "a major incident" on the bus that was headed from Edmonton to Winnipeg. At about 8:45 p.m. the vehicle was stopped in the eastbound lane following an apparent assault. Garnet Caton, one of 37 passengers on the bus, said he witnessed the attack. "We...
Published on Friday 10th of February 2012 08:44:32 PM
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