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Resurrected: woolly mammoth blood protein

New Scientist, Sun May 02, 2010, comments (40)
Floating in a test tube in a lab in Winnipeg, Canada, is a tiny speck of woolly mammoth – a blood protein which may explain how the animals coped with the cold of an ice age.



Skies to be swept for alien life

BBC News, Sat October 13, 2007, comments (2)
Hat Creek, California - The switch has been thrown on a telescope specifically designed to seek out alien life.



Al Gore & IPCC Share Nobel Peace Prize For 2007

Scoop, Sat October 13, 2007, comments (3)
Oslo, Norway - The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.



Retailers face fine for using plastic bags

Toronto Star, Tue April 03, 2007, comments (0)
Leaf Rapids, Manitoba, Canada - Paper or plastic soon won't be an option for a northern Manitoba town.



Experimental artificial lung saves baby

CBC, Sat February 17, 2007, comments (0)
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada - A baby boy is alive today thanks to a groundbreaking surgical setup pioneered in Winnipeg, doctors said Friday.



Conservationists rejoice at return of burrowing owl

CBC, Sun July 16, 2006, comments (0)
Manitoba - Five years ago, Manitoba's burrowing owls pulled a disappearing act.



New law protects provincial ‘whistleblowers’

CBC, Tue May 09, 2006, comments (0)
Winnipeg, Manitoba - Employees who report wrongdoings in the province's public sector would be protected under wide-ranging new "whistleblower" legislation introduced in the legislature Monday.



Manitoba moves to protect its rivers and lakes

Star Phoenix, Thu January 05, 2006, comments (0)
Winnipeg, Manitoba - Manitoba now has greater power to protect its water quality.



Ontario, Manitoba to extend daylight time in 2007

CTV, Sat October 22, 2005, comments (0)
Toronto, Canada - That perennial harbinger of winter -- the rollback of the clock that signals the inevitable onset of winter -- will soon be delayed, at least in Ontario and Manitoba.



Husky plans second large Canadian ethanol plant

Planet Ark, Thu June 09, 2005, comments (0)
Winnipeg, Manitoba - Husky Energy Inc. hopes to expand a small ethanol plant in Manitoba to make it of equal size to a large, new plant it is building on the Alberta-Saskatchewan border, Chief Executive John Lau said on Thursday.

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