Ten or more black bears found guarding B.C. pot farm

Seeded on Thu Aug 19, 2010 6:44 AM EDT (Local News | BC News | Current Stories | World News Headline | Vancouver Sun)

Police investigating an outdoor pot farm at Christina Lake stumbled across a strange menagerie of guards. Between 10 and 15 amiable black bears popped out of the Kootenay woods to greet the officers

environment

Composter tests companies' claims about biodegradable plastic bags

Seeded on Mon Aug 16, 2010 3:11 PM EDT (Local News | BC News | Current Stories | World News Headline | Vancouver Sun)

Victoria, B.C. - Composting at home can be a messy business. To help keep the process clean, or just to have the convenience of a plastic bag without its environmental impact, many people use compostable or biodegradable bags.

environment, trash, plastic-bag

A budding menace

Seeded on Sat Aug 7, 2010 10:20 PM EDT (Local News | BC News | Current Stories | World News Headline | Vancouver Sun)

A looming referendum in California on whether to legalize marijuana has fuelled a debate among bloggers and pundits over this question: Could legalization in the United States cripple the Canadian economy? In a column on the Guardian's website this week, B.C.

business, marijuana, pot, bud

Thousands ordered to leave their homes after massive slide

Seeded on Sat Aug 7, 2010 9:22 AM EDT (Local News | BC News | Current Stories | World News Headline | Vancouver Sun)

VANCOUVER — A melting glacier triggered a massive rock slide on the unstable slope of a dormant volcano near Pemberton on Friday, diverting a river, blocking a creek and causing officials to issue an evacuation alert for more than 5,000 people. By late Friday, the alert had be …

slide, environment, volcano

Federal government investigates cloned embryo claims

Seeded on Thu Aug 5, 2010 9:58 PM EDT (Local News | BC News | Current Stories | World News Headline | Vancouver Sun)

The federal government is probing a claim that embryos from a cow bred of a cloned parent animal in Great Britain have been sold to breeders in Canada. "We are working closely with our U.K.

health, cloning, ge-foods

F-bombs away: Canadians proudly saltier of tongue than Brits, Americans

Seeded on Wed Aug 4, 2010 4:57 PM EDT (Local News | BC News | Current Stories | World News Headline | Vancouver Sun)

TORONTO — We mild-mannered Canadians swear more than our British and American peers, according to a new Angus Reid Public Opinion poll. Canadians, it seems, swear more often than Americans and Britons when talking to friends.

odd-news, cursing, swearing, f-bomb

Canadian lab successfully re-grows brain cells in rats

Seeded on Fri Jul 30, 2010 11:42 AM EDT (Local News | BC News | Current Stories | World News Headline | Vancouver Sun)

CALGARY -- Researchers at the University of Lethbridge will announce Friday they are the first in the world to successfully re-grow brain cells in adult mammals, which could be a critical step in the drive to find a treatment for such neurological ailments as Alzheimer's. "I thi …

science, cell, rat, brain, experiment, alzhiemer

Bangladesh garment workers rampage over new wage

Seeded on Fri Jul 30, 2010 11:41 AM EDT (Local News | BC News | Current Stories | World News Headline | Vancouver Sun)

DHAKA -- Bangladeshi police used batons and teargas to disperse thousands of garment workers who went on a rampage in Dhaka on Friday, burning cars and pelting stones to protest against a wage hike they consider inadequate. The protests came a day after the government nearly dou …

labor, strike, textiles, factory, world-news, wages

Suspected camp guard charged in murder of 430,000 Jews

Seeded on Wed Jul 28, 2010 8:37 PM EDT (Local News | BC News | Current Stories | World News Headline | Vancouver Sun)

BONN, Germany — A 90-year-old man has been charged with taking part in the murder of some 430,000 Jews at a Nazi-run death camp during World War II, prosecutors said Wednesday. Samuel Kunz, who is suspected of having been a camp guard at Belzec in German-occupied Poland, was t …

camp, war, nazi, holocaust, crime, world-news, jew

EWWWWWW:Disabled Austrian eaten to death by maggots: Police

Seeded on Wed Jul 28, 2010 9:39 AM EDT (Local News | BC News | Current Stories | World News Headline | Vancouver Sun)

VIENNA - A paralyzed Austrian man was eaten to death by maggots in his bed while his partner slept beside him, police said Wednesday. The 61-year-old retiree died in an ambulance on his way to hospital in Vienna on Tuesday with the maggots having partly devoured his back. Param …

vienna, odd-news, disability

Darwin Award Winner: Man arrested after B.C. Starbucks robbed in front of police

Seeded on Tue Jul 27, 2010 11:53 PM EDT (Local News | BC News | Current Stories | World News Headline | Vancouver Sun)

NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C.

odd-news, crime, robbery, criminal, dumb

YouTube - Sarah Mania! Sarah Palin's Greatest Hits

Seeded on Mon Jul 26, 2010 9:47 PM EDT (YouTube)

Lest We Forget

politics, john-mccain, rush-limbaugh, sarah-palin, politics-tags

YouTube - Sarah Palin's Lie's And Videotape Proof

Seeded on Mon Jul 26, 2010 9:40 PM EDT (YouTube)

Sarah, Sarah, when will all the lies end?

alaska, bridge, politics, lie, sarah, pali, nowhere, wasilla

YouTube - More Sarah Palin lies, scandals, and corruption from Alaska

Seeded on Mon Jul 26, 2010 9:33 PM EDT (YouTube)

Sarah,Sarah, lies will get you nowhere

politics, lies, sarah, palin, wasilla

YouTube - Palin's Apocalypse#!v=s8PscyFARt4&feature=related

Seeded on Mon Jul 26, 2010 9:23 PM EDT (YouTube)

Some questions that really need to be asked

politics, end-times, sarah, rapture, palin, wasilla

YouTube - Could Sarah Palin be The Antichrist?(DO NOT VOTE FOR HER IN 2012)#!v=Ge8ylUAS_AE&feature=related

Seeded on Mon Jul 26, 2010 9:20 PM EDT (YouTube)

Sarah says it all herself

politics, 2012, sarah, palin

Downing diet soda tied to risk of premature birth

Seeded on Mon Jul 26, 2010 1:31 PM EDT (Local News | BC News | Current Stories | World News Headline | Vancouver Sun)

New research suggests that drinking lots of artificially sweetened beverages may be linked with an increased risk of premature births. "It may be non-optimal for pregnant women to have high consumption of these types of products," Dr. Thorhallur I.

diet, health, sugar, pop, soft-drink, aspartame

Medical journal urges strict regulations for high-caffeine energy drinks

Seeded on Mon Jul 26, 2010 1:29 PM EDT (Local News | BC News | Current Stories | World News Headline | Vancouver Sun)

High-caffeine drinks are providing an energy jolt for Canadians young and old, but some products are delivering enough of the drug to potentially cause intoxication, Canada's top medical journal is charging. "Caffeine-loaded energy drinks have now crossed the line from beverages …

energy, health, children, drinks, marketing, labels, caffiene

Are you ready for the big Internet crunch? - CNN.com

Seeded on Sat Jul 24, 2010 11:04 PM EDT (CNN)

(CNN) -- The internet as we know it is reaching its limits.

technology, technology-websites-currently, millennium-bug

A rough guide to three kinds of Christians - The Search

Seeded on Sat Jul 24, 2010 10:43 PM EDT (Canada.com)

A funny thing has happened to the perception of Christianity in North America. With more North Americans becoming rigorously "secular," or "spiritual but not religious," or following any one of a variety of global religions, I often receive a peculiar reaction after writing the …

evolution, abortion, religion, god, roman-catholics, christians, jesus-christ, bible, anglicans, evangelicals

Family fights archaic law requiring kids to support their parents

Seeded on Sat Jul 24, 2010 10:57 AM EDT (Local News | BC News | Current Stories | World News Headline | Vancouver Sun)

When Ken Anderson was just 15 years old, his mother Shirley made it clear: She didn't want him any more. Ken's father, a long-haul trucker, had been transferred from Osoyoos to the Kootenay region.

child-support, senior, abandonment, parental-support

Ethiopia | The Hyena Whisperers

Seeded on Wed Jul 21, 2010 8:14 PM EDT (globalpost.com)

Youseff Mume Saleh has been feeding hyenas nightly for 20 years. (Prasanna Muralidharan/GlobalPost) HARAR, Ethiopia — Twenty-four-year-old Salamo Fantan slapped a strip of goat meat on the stick held between his teeth.

ethiopia, wild, africa, odd-news, harare, hyena

Sea creatures previously unknown to humans found off Newfoundland coast

Seeded on Tue Jul 20, 2010 11:41 PM EDT (Local News | BC News | Current Stories | World News Headline | Vancouver Sun)

A team of Canadian and Spanish scientists has discovered forms of marine life previously unknown to science, some of which are more than 1,000 years old and hold the secrets to ancient underwater ecosystems. The Fisheries Department and scientists from three Canadian universitie …

environment, species, sea-life, marine

Apache buys BP's oil and gas assets in Western Canada, U.S., Egypt for $7 billion

Seeded on Tue Jul 20, 2010 9:19 PM EDT (Local News | BC News | Current Stories | World News Headline | Vancouver Sun)

HOUSTON — BP said Tuesday it had reached a deal to sell $7 billion in assets to Apache Corp as the British oil company raises money to cover costs related to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Apache is known for buying older, undercapitalized assets from oil majors, and wil …

oil, leak, bp, money, gulf, spill, world-news, apache