In the news...

Awwww... Chance found a friend in Boo:

LONELY MUSKOX, CARIBOU ORPHANS BOND
A real-life Disney plot is playing out on a game farm in the Yukon as an orphaned baby muskox has become fast friends with an orphaned baby caribou.
FULL STORY:
http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/06/09/animals-yukon050609.html

SCIENTISTS CAN ACCESS NEW MADE-IN-CANADA STEM CELLS
In a first for medical research in Canada, scientists in Toronto have developed two stem cell lines from human embryos.
FULL STORY:
http://www.cbc.ca/story/science/national/2005/06/08/stem-cells050608.html

PROTECT MARINE LIFE FROM 'BIOPROSPECTORS,' UN REPORT URGES
Lowly underwater life with medicinal potential deserves regulatory protection, according to a UN report to be released on Thursday.
FULL STORY:
http://www.cbc.ca/story/science/national/2005/06/08/marine-drugs050608.html

The rest of this post is all death and destruction. :P

It's only a game:

REAL-LIFE MURDER IN ONLINE GAMING DISPUTE
A court in China has sentenced an online gamer to death for the real-life murder of a fellow player after a confrontation over a virtual weapon.
FULL STORY:
http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2005/06/08/gamer050608.html

Even more disturbing:

MAN WITH BLOODY CHAINSAW LET INTO U.S.
Grisly details have been revealed about the slayings of an elderly couple in New Brunswick – at the same time that questions are being raised as to how their accused killer was able to get into the U.S. armed with a bloodstained chainsaw and various weapons.
FULL STORY:
http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2005/06/08/despres050608.html

Yikes:

MEXICAN POLICE CHIEF KILLED HOURS AFTER TAKING JOB
The only person to apply for the post of police chief in the violent Mexican border city of Nuevo Laredo was shot and killed seven hours after taking the job.
FULL STORY:
http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2005/06/09/mexico-policechief050609.html