great news from Manitoba
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Resurrected: woolly mammoth blood proteinFloating 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. |
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Skies to be swept for alien lifeHat Creek, California - The switch has been thrown on a telescope specifically designed to seek out alien life. |
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Al Gore & IPCC Share Nobel Peace Prize For 2007Oslo, 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. |
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Retailers face fine for using plastic bagsLeaf Rapids, Manitoba, Canada - Paper or plastic soon won't be an option for a northern Manitoba town. |
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Experimental artificial lung saves babyWinnipeg, Manitoba, Canada - A baby boy is alive today thanks to a groundbreaking surgical setup pioneered in Winnipeg, doctors said Friday. |
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Conservationists rejoice at return of burrowing owlManitoba - Five years ago, Manitoba's burrowing owls pulled a disappearing act. |
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New law protects provincial ‘whistleblowers’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. |
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Manitoba moves to protect its rivers and lakesWinnipeg, Manitoba - Manitoba now has greater power to protect its water quality. |
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Ontario, Manitoba to extend daylight time in 2007Toronto, 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. |
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Husky plans second large Canadian ethanol plantWinnipeg, 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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national news
- Cannabis electric car to be made in Canada
- Fortune 500 Companies Flex Market Muscle, Reject Tar Sands
- Fair trade goes mainstream
- Crime rate fell 17% in past decade: Stats Can report
- Canada’s boreal forest primed to be world’s best-protected ecosystem
- Canada to phase out older coal-fired power plants
- Fruits and veggies becoming bigger part of Canadian diet
- Canada, U.S. to regulate emissions of heavy vehicles
- Greenpeace lauds historic new pact to save Canada’s Boreal Forest
- Canadian Cement Plant Becomes First to Capture CO2 in Algae
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