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POPSCree remove blockade - drivers blast through The blockade was to remain until Monday to mark National Aboriginal Day, as other aboriginals marked the day with marches and celebrations, but was taken down on Saturday. The band had notified oil and gas companies operating in the area of its intentions, and many of them agreed to stay off the road until the blockade ended, Anderson said. Most oil workers had been extremely understanding, he said. Residents and other drivers had been allowed to pass through. "
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POPSdrunk driver jailed 20 years "The collision occurred on Jan. 20, 2006, the day Yellowknee had just been released from jail. He had been drinking all day and, by 5 p.m., he was staggering around the Sawridge Truck Stop in Slave Lake, a bottle of Silk Tassel Rye tucked into his jacket, trying to hitch a ride up to Wabasca. Slave Lake is about 250 kilometres northwest of Edmonton. Minutes later, he was behind the wheel of a stolen white pickup truck, speeding out of Slave Lake on the highway with the police in pursuit, lights on, sirens blaring. He fishtailed, hit the shoulder, shot over the yellow line and slammed head-on into a black car. He killed everyone inside. Misty Chalifoux, 28, died instantly, as did two of her daughters - nine-year-old Trista Chalifoux and 13-year-old Michelle Lisk. Six-year-old daughter Larissa was airlifted to hospital. She died the next day. Yellowknee's blood alcohol level was .22 that night, nearly triple the legal limit of .08."
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POPSRapid permafrost thaw expected
"Climate warming is degrading permafrost, and roads, runways and building foundations in many parts of the North have been buckling and cracking as the top layer of the ground thaws. The increasingly mushy ground also has created "drunken forests," where trees now lean at strange angles. At least 30 per cent of all the carbon stored in soils worldwide is found in the North -- and scientists worry rising temperatures will release carbon dioxide and methane, both potent greenhouse gases, now locked in the permafrost. "To me, probably the biggest uncertainty is whether methane emissions are going to go up, and if they are, by how much," says Lawrence. Last summer, the Arctic sea ice shrank to more than 30 per cent below average, setting a modern-day record. Temperatures over land in the western Arctic also were unusually warm, reaching more than 2 C above the 1978-2006 average and raising questions about whether the ice retreat was tied to the warming temperatures over land."
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POPSFamily found safe after six days lost in Arctic "During the day, the couple pulled the sled with the children inside, attempting to reach Hall Beach. Meanwhile, ground crews began searching for the family on Sunday when they failed to arrive. It wasn't until Thursday that the weather lifted and a helicopter and airplane were able to join the search. Bill Kennedy, a search co-ordinator in Repulse Bay, told The Canadian Press it was a group of Rangers -- mostly aboriginal military reservists -- who eventually found the family. They followed a set of tracks that led to a burned-out snowmobile that the family appeared to have set on fire as a smoke signal to rescuers, CP reported. However, heavy cloud cover had made it impossible for rescuers to see the plume of smoke. "
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POPSThe Video Google Censored - The 9/11 Solution - RESTORED "Earlier this year, we posted a video called the "9/11 Solution." After a huge run up a viewers it was removed from Google Video three days later. I tried to post it to YouTube and it was rejected by YouTube too. I appealed to subscribers to repost the video on as many sites as possible. Someone re-posted the video to YouTube Canada and surprisingly it stuck. The result? So far 585,567 views which makes it one of the most viewed News videos on YouTube Canada of all time. Currently, this video is the most discussed new video on YouTube Canada of all time. On YouTube Canada the video is called: "Here's the video that Google Video pulled down!""
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POPSFoul play suspected in death of native activist " The settlement reached in September gives an estimated 70,000 former students $10,000 each for their first year in school, plus an additional $3,000 for each year of residence beyond that. The compensation comes as a one-time payment. "
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POPSgirl dies after being buried under snowbank More: Police said the Grade 2 student was home from school because of the massive storm that struck Eastern Canada on the weekend. On Sunday, a 16-year-old boy died at the scene of a crash in Nova Scotia after the same storm hit the province. Police say slippery roads may have been a factor in the accident, which took place on Highway 101 in the Kentville area. The driver, a 17-year-old boy, was taken to hospital with serious injuries. An unidentified woman was killed near London, Ont., on Sunday when she stopped on the shoulder of a highway to fix a windshield wiper on her van. The woman's vehicle was struck by a snow plow, killing her instantly. Two passengers inside the van, related to the victim, were taken to hospital for shock.
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POPSMuslim airport worker wins uniform compromise "I always liked my first position, because I feel more comfortable. I had been working there for six years, but I don't mind if they find me another place. I just want to go back to my job. I need to work," she said in an interview. Under the agreement, Muse will stay in the administrative position until the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority (CATSA) can evaluate its policies, which required Muse to choose between a shorter skirt or pants, neither of which she deemed modest enough. Garda of Canada said it had to follow CATSA's guidelines. On Monday, the Teamsters and the Canadian Council on American-Islamic Relations said they had filed a complaint with the Canadian Human Rights Commission on Muse's behalf. The complaint said Muse had been discriminated against on the basis of her religion by CATSA and Garda of Canada. (Reporting by Irene Kuan; Editing by Frank McGurty)
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POPSHunting male polar bears could endanger species: data "... We have a policy to preferentially harvest males over females, and the argument behind that is that the females are the ones doing the reproduction," Polar bears typically mate from the beginning of April to the end of May, when males follow the trails of females in heat. If they like each other, they will mate over a period of about 2 1/2 weeks, after which the female is generally pregnant. The male will then wander off in search of other females. Study looked at the number of males that searched for and found females, how long the pairs stayed together, if the males found other mates, and how many females a male could fertilize in a breeding season. Molnar said there currently appears to be no problem with the pregnancy rate. In Lancaster Sound, for example, 99 per cent of females find partners. The paper says that if the number of males declined to a threshold of two males for every three females, it could lead to a dramatic and rapid reproductive collapse o
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POPSMan walks 10 hours across Arctic tundra while family waits in igloo "Their journey began Saturday night, when the three packed up their snowmobile with a couple of knives, five Arctic char and some seal fat. They set out from their home in Hall Beach, Nunavut, expected to arrive in Igloolik within two and a half hours - a distance of about 80 kilometres across fields of ice. Their trouble began when they had to made a detour overland because warmer temperatures had made the ice soft. Right around the time the engine on their snowmobile konked out, a blizzard blew in. "Luckily, I had my knives, including my snow knife. But it took me four hours to build an igloo in that blizzard," he recalled. Once Innuarak had their igloo built, the family started a fire with the seal fat and ate one of the five fish they'd brought with them." With the temperature outside dipping at one point to - 38 C with the windchill, they began to feel afraid."...
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POPSFires undo forests' climate benefits, scientists find "Fire activity more than doubled since the '70s across Canada," Flannigan says. And the mountain pine beetle, which has proliferated because of warmer winters, has killed vast track of boreal forest in British Columbia that is also becoming a source of CO2. "I used to say this is what we'll expect with climate change," Flannigan says, pointing to the increasing rate of fires and insect infestation. "Now I say climate change is here." Flannigan says the new study builds on previous Canadian research, and provides a more detailed picture of how the forest's carbon budget is changing. "It's a real concern," Flannigan says. "We were hoping our forests would be a carbon sink. But the more work we do the more we see they are a becoming a source because of things like disturbances."
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POPSCanada goose-kill in United States In 1990 the Garden State had 28,000 resident Canada geese. By 1999, the population had ballooned to 82,000. New Jersey has the highest concentration of resident Canada geese. "In the last 60 years they've rapidly increased in numbers and they're very successful in breeding. They have five, six, seven young and they have no enemies so no animals kill them and so they're spreading wildly." Typically, the geese are protected under The Migratory Birds Convention, a shared treaty between Canada and the United States. "A Canada goose could not be captured, harassed, shot, wounded, killed or collected with out a permit," Carol Bannerman, a spokeswoman from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Wildlife Service told CTV.ca." Ya, da permit, eh?
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POPSRemote-controlled aircraft would patrol Arctic: military "The military hopes to acquire the new aircraft within five years, but does not yet know how many it will buy or where it will buy them from. There is no estimate yet on how much the aircraft will cost, though Williams said the drones are typically less expensive than the Aurora patrol aircraft the military currently uses when it flies surveillance missions. UAVs are more affordable because they are generally smaller, lighter and cheaper to build than Auroras, and they use less fuel, need less maintenance and require fewer crew members with less training."
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POPSBlackberry maker becomes Canada's most valuable company " Earlier in 2005, Manulife Financial held the top spot in Canada's big companies list. It is now in third place, with a market capitalization of 62.28 billion Canadian dollars (62.3 billion U.S. dollars Nortel Networks was the country's most valuable company during the tech boom of 1999-2000. Its market capitalization reached 400 billion Canadian dollars (400 billion U.S. dollars) in 2000, making up 36 percent of the entire worth of Toronto's benchmark index at the time. It is now worth less than 7 billion Canadian dollars (7 billion U.S. dollars). "
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POPSSimultaneously, Russia and America Conduct Major War Games Russian strategic bombers Tu-160, Tu-95 and Tu-22M3, and Il-78 aerial tankers "will conduct flights over the Arctic region, the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans, and the Black Sea, with simulated bombing raids and firing of cruise missiles at testing grounds in northern and southern Russia," Colonel "Alexander Drobyshevsky said." (RIA Novosti). Part of these Russian war games will be conducted in the Arctic, within proximity of US and Canadian territory (Alaska and Canada's Arctic). "U.S. and Canadian fighter jets, including F-15s, were dispatched each time to escort the Russian planes in the exercises, which ranged from two to six aircraft,... "
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POPSTwo Russian strategic bombers fly along Alaska, Canada coasts "Russia resumed patrolling by long-range aviation in remote areas after a 17-year pause, per decision by the supreme commander-in-chief, President Vladimir Putin. Russian long-range aircraft have flown to the air space of remote areas several times in the past two months. In mid-July, four Tu-95MS bombers flew through the air space near Great Britain. Their flight provoked numerous comments in British media outlets, because it coincided with the diplomatic row over the expulsion of four British diplomats. In early August, two Russian strategic bombers flew to the U.S. base Guam in the Pacific Ocean. As a rule, the flights by Russian long-range aviation are accompanied by NATO fighter jets which are watching the Russian bombers. Earlier on Thursday, Drobyshevsky said more than 90 planes and helicopters were involved in a tactical exercise of the far eastern Air Force and Air Defense formation. "The far eastern Air Force and Air Defense formation has detailed mor
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POPSTroops pay police to bolster security "Police were forced to steal for a living when their pay didn't arrive from Kabul, which hurt morale and fostered resentment among local Afghans, the commander said. “They had to take bribes from the people, because they have to live,” Gen. Laroche said. Kandahar Governor Asadullah Khalid announced last month that a basic patrolman's wages would be increased to $150 a month, up from $77, but many officers say they rarely see a fraction of that." “We are happy about the Canadians' new plan, because I want my men trained and paid,” the police chief continued. “They will be controlled by the Canadians, trained by them and paid by them directly. It's a very good idea.”
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POPSDangerous Crossroads: US Sponsored War Games "President George W Bush and his inner circle are taking steps to place America on the path to war with Iran, .. Pentagon planners have developed a list of up to 2,000 bombing targets in Iran, ... Pentagon and CIA officers say they believe that the White House has begun a carefully calibrated programme of escalation that could lead to a military showdown with Iran. (Quoted in The Sunday Telegraph, 16 September 2007). VS-08 is a large scale military exercise to be conducted over North America and the Northern Pacific Ocean, extending westwards towards the Far East borders of Russia and China: "USNORTHCOM’s primary exercise venues for VS-08 include locations in Oregon, Arizona and a cooperative venue with USPACOM in the Territory of Guam. NORAD’s aerospace detection and defense events will take place across all the exercise venues, to exercise the ability to mobilize resources for aerospace defense, aerospace control, maritime warning, and coordination of air operations "
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