Positive news from Yukon
Skies to be swept for alien lifeHat Creek, California - The switch has been thrown on a telescope specifically designed to seek out alien life.
"For Seti, the ATA's technical capabilities exponentially increase our ability to search for intelligent signals, and may lead to the discovery of thinking beings elsewhere in the Universe,"
- Seth Shostak, senior astronomer at the Seti Institute |
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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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Officer didnt want to see a teenager dieWhitehorse, Yukon, Canada - Saving a drowning teenager. Making an appearance as Safety Bear. Logging enough of the equivalent kilometres as part of Citizens on Patrol to make a round trip from Whitehorse to St. Johns, Nfld. Protecting the public for 20, 25 and 35 years. |
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Scientists find new species in high ArcticFairbanks, Alaska - Contrary to popular opinion, the remote and inhospitable Canadian Arctic is teeming with life, says a team of international scientists who just completed a 30-day expedition to the northern ocean. |
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Lonely baby animals make fast friendsWhitehorse, Yukon, Canada - It sounds like a Disney plot - an orphaned baby animal makes friends with another orphan of a different species - but it's playing out in real life on a Yukon game farm. |
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National news
- Canada introduces new rules to curb future vehicle emissions
- Another city in BC bans shark fins
- Vancouver council makes ‘historic’ move toward shark fin ban
- Nanaimo latest B.C. municipality to ban shark fin
- Quebecers cut plastic bag use in half
- City council votes 13-2 to ban sale, possession of shark fins
- Shark fin ban gains momentum in Metro cities
- Toronto joins growing list of municipalities to ban plastic bags
- Cancer deaths on the decline in Canada
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