A senior Canadian border official says traffic at the Canada-U.S. border will be no busier during the 2010 Winter Olympics than a summer Saturday, raising concerns that the Canadian government isn’t taking border issues around the Games seriously.
New technologies similar to what the U.S. is already implementing will be in place on the Canadian side by Games time, said Blake Delgaty, the Pacific Regional Director for the Canadian Border Services Agency.
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VANCOUVER — A gruesome discovery awaits the B.C. Conservation Officer Service near a small island off B.C.’s central coast.
Officers were told by a witness last week that staff at the Lagoon Cove Marina on Cracroft Island had shot a young grizzly bear, dragged its carcass down to a boat, tied a few car batteries around its neck and threw it overboard.
Baden Cross, a researcher with the Valhalla Wilderness Society who is often contracted by the government to map bear-human conflict zones, was canoeing with his wife nearby when he heard the shot fired at the marina.
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