Canada

Tickets to 2010 Vancouver Games go on sale in October

Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times

Prepare to get screwed: Vancouver organizers will place the bulk of the 1.6 million tickets on sale in October, with a lottery through the Games' Web site, www.vancouver2010.com. But American fans won't be able to simply get in line online with Canadians. Those tickets, ranging in price from $25 for cross-country skiing to $1,100 for the opening ceremony, will be sold only to Canadian residents. Americans will need to pursue a separate procedure, purchasing through Jet Set Sports, the sole agency licensed to resell Vancouver 2010 tickets in America.

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GM Place to change name for 2010 Olympics

Posted by Shemuses from CBC

General Motors Place will get a new name stripped of corporate marks during the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, the organizing committee said Wednesday.

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Giant chunks break off ice shelf in Canadian Arctic

Posted by Jeff from MSNBC

Giant sheets of ice totaling almost eight square miles broke off an ice shelf in the Canadian Arctic last week and more could follow later this year, scientists said on Tuesday. In a development consistent with climate change theories, the enormous icy plain broke free sometime last week and began slowly drifting into the Arctic Ocean. The piece had been a part of the shelf for 3,000 years.

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Rush of Homes on Vancouver Market: Prices to Slide?

Posted by Jeff from The Tyee

Vancouver has long had extremely high real estate prices: The number of homes for sale tipped 20,000 on Friday and is still climbing. Paul Boenisch, a popular blogger who runs the North Vancouver Homes blog was the first to announce the turn of the dial: "20,000 listings. Is this the top???" This time last year, there were around 12,000 listings for sale, and it was, to use the blogger lingo, a bullish seller's market. But when there are more listings, and the sellers outnumber the buyers, the theory goes that it becomes a buyer's market -- the law of supply and demand.

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Clayoquot logging could lead to more blockades: environmentalists

Posted by Shemuses from CBC

A showdown could be brewing once again in the forests of Clayoquot Sound on Vancouver Island. Environmentalists say they want to talk with First Nations chiefs to find a solution to a dispute over logging in the sound, which is north of Tofino, B.C. MaMook Natural Resources, owned by local First Nations, and Coulson Forest Products of Port Alberni are building roads and logging several cutblocks in the northern reaches of Clayoquot Sound.

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Summit Crafts the Spew Economy

Posted by Shemuses from The Tyee

On the table: how to dole out pollution offsets for big parts of Canada, US.

Representatives from Canada and the U.S. are in San Diego today to discuss a cap-and-trade system that forms a key part of B.C.'s climate change strategy. As they meet, several crucial questions and concerns surround the process.

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Cut children's fluoride exposure, report to Health Canada urges

Posted by Shemuses from Globe and Mail

An expert panel Health Canada commissioned to study the risks of fluoride exposure says the government should cut the recommended amount in drinking water, encourage the use of low-fluoride toothpaste by children and have makers of infant formula reduce levels in their products. The panel recommended reduced fluoride exposure because it was worried children might be getting too much of the chemical from diet, water and toothpaste, placing them at increased risk of fluorosis, said Steven Levy, a panel member and a research professor at the University of Iowa's College of Dentistry.

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