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Sara Robinson | Outright Barbarism vs. the Civil Society: May 9, 1:42am 2 reviews sociology, canada
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050808E.shtml; From the page: "After 20 years in Silicon Valley, where people put a premium on being direct and to the point, have no time to waste on small talk or personal sharing, and will call a stupid idea stupid to your face, moving to Canada required a whole lot of gearing back on that brusque American aggressive-in-your-face thing. The humbling fact was: We had to learn to mind our manners."

New oilsands extraction method could eliminate tailings ponds (5/4/2008): May 4, 1:25pm 3 reviews environment, canada, energy-industry
http://www.chemistrytimes.com/research/New_oilsands_extraction_method_could_e...; From the page: "A University of Alberta engineering professor is researching a new method of extracting bitumen from oilsands that uses almost no water and would solve the industry's toxic tailings ponds dilemma."

globeandmail.com: Ducks die a crude death: May 1, 2:04pm 2 reviews environment, canada, energy-industry
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080501.DUCKS01/TPStory/Nat...; Not the kind of news I like to read about. From the page: "Just five mallard ducks have been rescued from an oily tailings pond, while up to 500 birds have sunk to their deaths in the toxic byproduct of Syncrude Canada Ltd.'s oil-sands operation in northern Alberta"

Canadas best places to live | Lists | MoneySense |: May 1, 9:28am 3 reviews canada
http://list.canadianbusiness.com/rankings/bestplacestolive/2008/prosperity/De...

& Student fined $628 for sitting in a park & Spacing Montreal: Apr 29, 1:22am 21 reviews canada
http://spacingmontreal.ca/2008/04/25/student-fined-628-for-sitting-in-a-park/

The New York Times & Log In: Apr 29, 1:21am 1 review environment, canada, climate-change, pine-beetle
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/29/science/earth/29obbeet.html; Researches at Natural Resources Canada have calculated the impact of an infestation of mountain pine beetles on pine forests in British Columbia. The effect, they report in Nature, is startling: "the forests are now a large carbon source, and will remain so at least until 2020, long after the infestation peaks."