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Well here we are time for a great new season.. Mark your calenders hockey fans we get the lightning and the rangers in Prague. Then the Detroit home season opener October 9th: The leafs at Joe Louis arena with an appearance from Def Leppard  and the raising of the Stanley Cup championship banner  it's only on Versus and CBC (center ice picks up some of the CBC stuff so don't forget your subscription :P).. 

I think it could be a pretty good season with the revised schedules and all the movement around the league..  

Rescuers have called off the search for a Florida man who failed to return from a kayaking trip in Ban ff National Park.

Parks Canada spokeswoman Tania Peters said all was clear and sunny when the man took his rented kayak for a trip along Bow Lake, near Lake Louise, Alta., on Saturday evening.

However, a storm blew through the region, knocking out power in some areas and causing other problems.

The man's friends became concerned when he didn't return, Peters said.

Despite a massive search that involved helicopters, dogs and powerboats, crews did not find the 30-year-old man, whose name has not been released.

Only the man's overturned kayak was found in the water, his belongings still inside.

"We just exhausted all sorts of our search proximity of the lakeshore area and had not found any evidence to indicate that the gentleman had come to shore," Peters told CBC News.

It has now been deemed a missing person's case with the RCMP, Peters said.

Canada's favorite primister lost his son near this area. I don't know if people think they are competent in their area in one area it doesn't always pertain to another area. The region does have alot of touristy type areas, bu get out of those areas and it man versus nature. I actually did my survival camping near this area sewed up my friend with a emergency sewing kit in this area. It seems scenic enough for a tourist, but beware.

In the latest development in the widening dispute, Russian troops moved from another separatist province, Abkhazia, and invaded Georgian territory proper.

Georgian Defense Ministry officials told the Associated Press that Russian troops had seized a military base in the town of Senaki, about 32 km inland from the Black Sea. A Georgian Interior Ministry spokesman, meanwhile, said Russian forces also took over police stations in the town of Zugdidi, which is about 30 km from Senaki.

The violence began when Russia sent troops into South Ossetia last Friday after Georgia tried to regain control there. The Georgian offensive involved artillery, armour and aircraft.

Russia has said that more than 2,000 people have been killed since then, most of them Ossetians with Russian passports.

Thanks to snarfer (my rss feed reader)... I actually found this intresting as one of our provincial (state) neighbors to the north seems rolling in the dough.. I would have expected the weakining US dollar to have more of an impact on their manufacturing sector, but I guess not..

Saskatchewan finished the last fiscal year with its biggest-ever budget surplus — $641 million — thanks to revenues that were 25 per cent higher than budgeted in 2007.

Although spending was up by about $246 million in the fiscal year that ended March 31, the province took in $2 billion more than it had budgeted for in the spring of 2007, according to the province's public accounts released on Friday.

Much of the extra cash coming in — $810 million — came from natural resources like oil and potash, commodities whose prices have been soaring over the past year. Tax revenue is also way up — by about $629 million.

Even with extra spending, the province took in $1.3 billion more than it paid out. Half of that went to the province's rainy day fund and the other half went to debt reduction.

The government finds itself wondering how it will spend all the extra money that continues to flow into its coffers, Finance Minister Rod Gantefoer said, adding he's open to ideas.

"The premier has asked us all to go out into our constituencies and across the province through the course of the summer and solicit advice from our constituents and the people of Saskatchewan," Gantefoer said.

However, opposition politicians like the NDP's Deb Higgins said the government should share the wealth.

"People are struggling with the cost of day-to-day living, whether it's gas and fuel at the pumps, or whether it's housing, whether it's the projection of increased utility rates that may be coming in the fall," she said. "People like to see the government going good, but they'd also like to share in that, too."

One thing people can expect soon is a plan to reduce property and education taxes, Gantefoer said.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/saskatchewan/story/2008/06
/27/public-accounts.html

  With all the talk about goverments being in the red isnt it one more incentive to drill here now?

I think it's more than a bit strange, but about his neighbor that made 3 dvd's worthy of evidence .... how much evidence does on need unless your enjoying it?

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