When the polar sea ice is gone

When the polar sea ice is gone... Polar Bears will have to switch from seals to Inuit.
It's sad.

Image by Eric; Broken Vulture Art. Thanx Will.

NASA fears for the polar bears.

Grizzly/Polar bear hybrid (with pic) reveals master plan of Polar Bears to move inland, consume people.

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Prison Ombudsman, Howard Sapers knocks Canadian prison system. From the article:

Canada’s jail system routinely discriminates against aboriginal offenders, according to the federal prison watchdog. In his annual report released Monday, ombudsman Howard Sapers outlined a number of concerns but chose to focus on aboriginal Canadians, saying they are over-represented in the justice system and treated unfairly within it...
Aboriginal offenders are more often placed in maximum security prisons and in segregation than non-aboriginal offenders, Sapers reported, and that "severely limits access to rehabilitative programming and services." He also said aboriginal inmates are not always given the same chance at parole as non-aboriginal offenders.

Meagan Fitzpatrick, CanWest News Service

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Finally; a really cool looking First Nations comic; Rabbit and Bear Paws. My initial viewing gives me hope that this project has legs; it's good.

Little Spirit Bear Productions is a First Nations (Anishinabe, Ojibwa) multi-media company that was created in 2005 by Chad Solomon, Grandson of a Native traditional healer and justice activist Art Solomon, to share the humorous adventures of Rabbit and Bear Paws.

This fresh and funny comic strip for the young and young at heart is created and drawn with the guidance of his community elders in collaboration with writer Christopher Meyer. The first series of comic strips are based upon the teachings of The Seven Grandfathers (wisdom from the Anishinabek Community) and are rapidly gaining enthusiastic fans for their vibrant and entertaining images of Native traditions and oral history.

In other comic newz; DC Comics Vertigo line is presenting a comic series that has Native characters in a mostly all-Native setting rather than "defined by their relation to white society."(Quote from article).
However: I really am not crazy for the title; "Scalped".
Seriously; was this the best-fitting title they could come up with?

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Mohawk dancer/choreographer Santee Smith has won one of seven
Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Awards from the Canada Council of the Arts, for 2006. From the press release:

The annual awards, worth $15,000 each, recognize outstanding mid-career artists in the seven disciplines funded by the Canada Council: music, theatre, dance, visual arts, media arts, writing and publishing and interdisciplinary arts. The Prizes were created using funds from a generous bequest made by the late Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton to the Canada Council.

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Papier-mache giant; arm.


Papier-mache giant; arm and shoulder.


Papier-mache giant; paper added to hip.


Papier-mache giant; with arms and shoulders mounted to check out look.

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