Animal Crazy (Free subscription) | yesterday
WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) — Debby, the world's oldest polar bear, has died — just one month shy of her 42nd birthday. She was euthanized Monday after suffering multiple strokes and organ failure, officials at Winnipeg, Manitoba's Assiniboine Park Zoo said...
CBC Radio 3 (Free subscription) | yesterday
I'm used to being out of step with most people, and being in Vancouver means being out of step with most of this whole country. Just yesterday it was a gloriously warm day here and then Haligonian singer songwriter Jenn Grant came into the studio from Winnipeg ... where there was a lot of snow and cold. What? Snow in November? Sure it's happened in Vancouver before, but not often. Just the night before...
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
No single person was to blame for the death of a homeless man during a 34-hour wait in an emergency department because it wasn't clear he was in the hospital seeking care, the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority concluded yesterday.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
Winnipeg, Canada: Debby, the world's oldest polar bear, has died aged 42
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
Wildlife experts mourn loss of Debby, 41, who lived at Winnipeg zoo for over 40 years
France24 (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
Forty-two year old Debby, the world's oldest polar bear, died Monday in a Canadian zoo in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The world's largest land predator, the polar bear is a threatened species.
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
Tributes and remembrances of Debby, who was the world's oldest living polar bear, flooded into the Winnipeg zoo on Tuesday after officials announced the bear was dead.
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
"Miriam Toews' The Flying Troutmans, touted early on as a possible candidate for several major Canadian book prizes, ended up earning a single nomination. But the popular Winnipeg author's bestselling novel made good on that one nod, claiming the $25,000 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize in Toronto yesterday."...
Moldova.org (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
The world's oldest captive polar bear was euthanized in Winnipeg, Canada, at the age of 42 with veterinarians saying she had multiple organ failure.Gordon Glover, the zoo's coordinator, said in a media release the the polar bear named Debby was surrounded by her handlers and Assiniboine Park Zoo veterinarians Monday when she was given the lethal injections.Last year, the animal was listed in the Guinness...
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
According to a survey of 208 Canadians, Winnipeg is ''too cold, boring, and far away'' for them to come to see the new Canadian Museum for Human Rights in person (Canada's Cultural Travellers Won't Warm To Winnipeg, Survey Finds - Nov. 17).
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
Canadians, particularly francophones, think Winnipeg is too cold, boring and far away, so they will probably view exhibits at the new $265-million Canadian Museum for Human Rights in the city online rather than in person, according to government research.
Twitch (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
We’re not kind of Winnipeg in the rest of Canada, really we’re not. Unless being referenced in some Guy Maddin film or another it mostly exists to the rest of the country - at least to us here in Toronto - as some imaginary place that we have no firm concept of beyond that it has blistering cold winters and utter mosquito madness. If I were to be honest, since Winnipeg lost its NHL team it exists here...
The Shotgun (Free subscription) | 11/16/2008
Steven Chase with the Globe and Mail has provided a list of passed and failed policy resolutions from today's voting at the Conservative policy convention in Winnipeg. I’m shock to see the very modest policy proposal to allow private sector...
The Blog of Walker (Free subscription) | 11/16/2008
Via the Canadian Press: WINNIPEG — Conservative faithful have elbowed Canada's governing party back to the right, just a month after Stephen Harper won another minority mandate with a campaign that hugged the political centre. Some 2,000 delegates at the first Tory policy convention since March 2005 adopted resolutions Saturday that would strip human-rights tribunals of some powers and create new charges...
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 11/15/2008
Federal Industry Minister Tony Clement said yesterday he was investigating the feasibility of a joint Canada-U.S. bailout of the auto industry.''That's the $64 question, or something slightly higher than $64,'' he said during a Conservative Party policy convention in Winnipeg.
