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Calgary Zoo at a loss to explain sudden deaths at stingray exhibit

Article online since May 12th 2008
CALGARY - The Calgary Zoo is scrambling to find out why 34 of its prized stingrays suddenly died. The zoo says the cownose stingrays mysteriously died in the last 24 hours after behaving normally around noon on Sunday. Nine of the animals are still alive at the exhibit, which has been open...
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Ottawa could move to label substance used to make chewing gum as toxic

Article online since May 12th 2008
OTTAWA - The federal government is considering declaring a substance used to make chewing gum as toxic after tests on the colourless liquid with a sweet, fruity smell linked it to cancer in lab rats. Vinyl acetate is one of 17 substances Health Canada could recommend be deemed toxic in a draft...
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Harper unveils broad outline of defence strategy; critics pounce on lack of detail

Harper unveils broad outline of defence strategy; critics pounce on lack of detail

Article online since May 12th 2008
HALIFAX - Prime Minister Stephen Harper unveiled his government's plan to spend $30 billion on the military, in a long-term vision statement that was swiftly criticized Monday for being behind schedule and scant on detail. Harper confirmed there was little new in the announcement, delivered...
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Proposed immigration changes 'major step backwards,' says bar association

Article online since May 12th 2008
OTTAWA - The Canadian Bar Association is urging Parliament to discard amendments to immigration legislation, calling them "a major step backwards in the evolution of Canadian immigration law." Bill C-50 would return Canada to a time when visas were given out on a discretionary basis, without...
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Preliminary hearing begins as 2nd man charged in Alta Mountie shootings gets bail

Preliminary hearing begins as 2nd man charged in Alta Mountie shootings gets bail

Article online since May 12th 2008
STONY PLAIN, Alta. - A preliminary hearing began Monday to determine if there is enough evidence to send two men accused in the deaths of four Alberta RCMP officers to trial. The officers were gunned down by James Roszko on his property near Mayerthorpe, Alta., in March 2005. Shawn Hennessey,...

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