Surviving the wild
‘I built an igloo with a small knife’: Nunavut MLA survives 8 days lost on tundra by Bob Weber in The Canadian Press
Animals
Beaver
Beaver blocks traffic in West Vancouver in CBC News
Beaver ‘still at large’ after falling tree damages SUV in Canoe
Mad beaver terrorizes Miramichi in The Toronto Star
Sick beaver hitches 400-km ride after Ottawa-area sanctuary issues urgent plea – CBC News
Raccoon
‘I banished that raccoon. He knows why’: This stowaway was found on a GO Train — and things got weird by National Post
Moose
Baby moose survives after being expelled by mother hit by car in the CBC
B.C. woman hits moose on way to visit sister who hit moose in the National Post
Man finds moose calf, takes it to Tim Hortons in the Toronto Sun
What moose? Woman can’t recall dramatic collision in the CBC
Moose-eating shark rescued in Newfoundland harbour in the CBC
The Canadian government
Air Canada grapples with ‘explicit’ material in cockpit: Airline memos order staff to stop leaving “explicit, illicit” material in aircraft by Marnie Luke of CBC News
Your porn is not Canadian enough, CRTC warns erotica channels by Tristan Hopper of the National Post
Hockey
What If Everybody in Canada Flushed At Once? in Pat’s Papers
Maple syrup
2 charged in $18M maple syrup heist on the CBC
- Follow-up article: Vermont firm implicated in $20-million maple syrup heist from Quebec warehouse by Anne Sutherland in The Gazette
- Maple Syrup cartel and the Global Strategic Maple Syrup Reserve
Warfare
Hundreds of Toronto women learned military drills to defend the home front during First World War in the National Post (by Paola Loriggio of The Associated Press)