"On Monday, police used pepper spray, a taser and their batons on the Chilliwack, B.C., resident, who reportedly was acting erratically in a Chilliwack rental store."
Info on Kensington Pedestrian Sundays and Spacing's Green Issue
"Once a month, from May through September, people flood the streets of Kensington Market during Pedestrian Sundays. All this merry-making is done in the spirit of community over commuting, an ongoing testament to how much closing down roads to cars opens up neighbourhoods to people."
Hugh McGuire on the changing relationship between advertising and content
"Traditionally, publishers (eg TV stations and Newspapers) courted advertisers to get their business. This meant that content producers worked for the advertisers - with all sorts of implications for what kind of content was allowed.
Now, it seems to me - on parts of the web at least - that advertisers will increasingly have to do the courting, and it’s the content-makers and publishers who will decide what sorts of things they want their content (writing, music, movies) to help sell."
According to the Defense Department, Native lands in Canada may be covered with abandoned explosives.
"A Defence Department list cites 25 reserves potentially laden with discarded explosives, ranging from Second World War-era bombs to anti-tank mortars and even torpedoes."
A group of marine scientists in Oslo is calling for a 2-3 billion dollar study of threats to our oceans.
"A better network of satellites, tsunami monitors, drifting robotic probes or electronic tags on fish within a decade could also help lessen the impact of natural disasters, pollution or damaging algal blooms, they said."
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