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What's the value of a panda?
Canada is abuzz pandamonium but some animal advocate groups are sounding a cautionary note.
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Giant snails invade Miami
No one knows how they got there. But an invasion of African giant snails has southern Florida in a panic over potential crop damage, disease and yuckiness surrounding the slimy gastropods.
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The race to find life under the Antarctic
The race is on to discover life in the most remote and extreme environment known on Earth. Russia has set the pace, piercing through Antarctica's icy crust to reach a freshwater lake to try to find ancient or new kinds of life.
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Chinese pandas heading to zoos in Toronto, Calgary
Panda-monium is heading to Canada. Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Chinese President Hu Jintao announced Thursday that Canada and China are finalizing details on an agreement that would see the Chinese loan two giant pandas to zoos in Calgary and Toronto for a period of five years each.
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Stanley Park petting zoo animals feared slaughtered
A Langley hobby farm that adopted the Stanley Park petting zoo’s pygmy and dwarf goats may have sold most of the animals for slaughter at a livestock auction, Vancouver’s park board revealed Sunday.
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Scientists re-create Jurassica-era cricket song
The call of a Jurassic-era cricket was simple, pure and capable of traveling long distances in the night, said scientists who reconstructed the creature's love song from a 165 million year old fossil.
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Toronto Zoo unveils baby polar bear
The Toronto Zoo's newest ursine attraction, a 14-week-old male polar bear cub, made his debut on Friday.
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Michael D. Reid
The best of the fest
An explosive Belgian crime thriller about the consequences of a brutish cattle farmer's involvement with Flemish mobsters who peddle illegal growth hormones took top honours at the Victoria Film Festival awards presentation Sunday night.
Les Leyne
Les Leyne: Clark's speech wasn't worth the trouble
You can take a premier out of commercial radio, but you can't take commercial radio out of the premier.
Cleve Dheensaw
Tigers' star Etem joins elite group
With the return of the Western Hockey League to Victoria, those expecting a constant barrage of blinding flashiness on Blanshard Street from future NHL stars have perhaps been mildly underwhelmed. But that certainly wasn't the case in October when Emerson Etem of the Medicine Hat Tigers, the complete package of strength and speed, roared through Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre to score five goals in a two-game set against the Royals.
Mike Devlin
Denzel's acting portfolio awash in great roles
Despite his humble onscreen beginnings - playing an extra in Charles Bronson's Death Wish - Denzel Washington has slowly become one of the best actors of his generation, if not all-time.
