This week in Canada.

[Kenny Satch]

AP thank you for posting that ^^

[BCJC]

[frorider]

https://jalopnik.com/whats-wrong-wit...ure-1820558368

[Angle Parking]

Alas, Hammy's run could not last forever;

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/britis...ammy-1.4416815

[BCMtnHound]

Small justice for the Whitebark. SARA charge in a national park ski area no less.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgar...plea-1.4431936

[Kenny Satch]

Small justice for the Whitebark. SARA charge in a national park ski area no less.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgar...plea-1.4431936

Say it ain't so. That's like murder.

1 year in jail for each tree killed. The person giving the order should be the one to serve the time and/or a life time ban to any national park.

[reckless toboggan]

Say it ain't so. That's like murder.

1 year in jail for each tree killed. The person giving the order should be the one to serve the time and/or a life time ban to any national park.

I think they should jail, for life, one lawyer/owner from RCR for each tree. No parole.

[Angle Parking]

This happened last year in my town and I didn't even hear about it;

[XXX-er]

thats from the security cam in front of Brians hotel, it went viral and people wanted to buy the tape but they gave it to the guy who got hit by the deer ... you gotta get out more

[danmelon]

Too much beer eh

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/beer...nbev-1.4439295

[XXX-er]

yeah micro brews everywhere, we got 2 micro brews coming on stream pretty quick in a town of 5000 which is great but I wonder how they are gona pay the bills?

[reckless toboggan]

This week in Canada...

https://london.ctvnews.ca/mobile/sno...lent-1.3723739

Snow shovelling dispute turns violent.

Snow and fists were flying in St. Thomas during an altercation Thursday.

Police say two neighbours started fighting over where snow was being shovelled in a laneway.

The confrontation became physical and then a mother of one of the fighters came outside and attacked the other with a baseball bat.

A 51-year-old woman was arrested and charged with one count of assault with a weapon.

Her 26-year-old son is charged with assault.

They were both being held in jail until a bail hearing.

[reckless toboggan]

This Week in Canada...

Canadian Scientists Watching Interspecies Erotica.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-...ions-with-deer

Scientists Say Japanese Monkeys Are Having 'Sexual Interactions' With Deer

An adolescent female Japanese macaque on the back of a male sika deer. Researchers have looked into some macaques' attraction to the deer.

Adolescent female monkeys in Japan have repeatedly engaged in sexual behaviors with sika deer, for reasons that are not yet clear, according to researchers who study macaque behavior.

The study, published in the peer-reviewed Archives of Sexual Behavior, follows up on a single report from earlier this year of a male macaque mounting a female sika deer on Yakushima Island.

That report was intriguing, but a co-author of the new study told The Guardian it was essentially anecdotal. "Even the sexual nature of this interaction was not clearly demonstrated," said Noëlle Gunst, a researcher at the University of Lethbridge in Canada. So she and her colleagues sought to nail down the nature of the mounting.

Looking at a different set of relationships — adolescent female monkeys and deer, particularly male deer, in Minoo, Japan — the researchers found interactions that definitely seemed to be sexual in nature. (The female monkeys were climbing onto the deer and grinding their genitals against the deer's backs. Yes, there's video.)

Japanese macaques are known to ride deer like humans ride horses, for fun or transportation — behavior the deer seem to tolerate in exchange for grooming and discarded food. But these monkeys were up to something different.

The researchers compared the monkey-deer interactions, which happened during mating season, with homosexual monkey-monkey interactions, where female macaques mount each other. They paid close attention to the "mounting postures" the monkeys assumed on the deer, and the vocalizations they made, to determine that the interactions were, in fact, sexual ... at least for the monkeys.

Some of the deer shook the monkeys off and fled the situation. But adult male deer, in particular, were likely to just stand calmly as the female monkeys thrusted. In some cases, the male deer kept eating.

Five of the female monkeys had "successful heterospecific consortships" with deer. That is, they had "a temporary, but exclusive, sexual association" with an individual from another species, with "three or more mounts within a 10-minute period."

All told there were 13 successful pairings — and 258 separate mounts.

There were eight failed attempts as well. In some of those cases, the monkey-deer interaction was interrupted because another young female macaque came along, "successfully displaced the original adolescent female mounters and took over the deer to start their own heterospecific consortships," the researchers noted. That was not a plot twist they had anticipated.

And the interactions went beyond the mere moment of thrusting. The "monkey-to-deer solicitations ... were persistent and conspicuous," the researchers write. Young female monkeys would identify a "particular target" and make calls that sound identical to the ones in monkey-on-monkey courtship.

If the deer avoided the interaction, "the female monkeys often displayed sexually motivated tantrums which consisted of crouching on the ground, body spasms and screaming, while gazing at the deer," the study found.

So. What does this all mean?

Sexual interactions between animals of different species are not unheard of (even when you take human behavior out of the equation). But most of them don't look like these monkey-deer consortships.

Often the animals are of very similar, related species, and the mating might just be a case of mistaken identity. Clearly, that's not the case here. Writing with significant understatement, the researchers note that "this interpretation is implausible in our case because the anatomical differences between Japanese macaques and sika deer are profound."

Scientists have five theories about why the young monkeys might seek out sexual relationships with deer.

First, it might be a way for a less-mature monkey to practice for future sex with other monkeys.

Second, it might be a less dangerous way for a young female macaque — physically smaller than male macaques — to have a sexual interaction. That's the "safe sex" hypothesis, as the scientists put it. It's similar to one explanation for why young female macaques have sex with each other.

Third, they might be an option for young macaques with no available sexual partners of their own species. Apparently adolescent female macaques are not the "preferred" partner for male macaques and are "routinely rejected." This is what the researchers call the "best of a bad job" hypothesis.

Fourth, it might be the result of nonsexual interactions, with macaques riding deer either for fun or for transport and discovering it's a source of genital stimulation that they then seek out on purpose.

Finally, the researchers say, this might be a kind of cultural practice. Japanese macaques display different behaviors in different locations — some wash their food, or take hot-spring baths, or play with snowballs.

Adolescent females grinding on the backs of deer might similarly be a cultural phenomenon. But it has only been observed at Minoo within the past few years.

"The monkey-deer sexual interactions reported in our paper may reflect the early stage development of a new behavioural tradition at Minoo," Gunst-Leca told The Guardian.

Alternatively, the paper notes, it could be a "short-lived fad." Time will tell.

[danmelon]

yeah micro brews everywhere, we got 2 micro brews coming on stream pretty quick in a town of 5000 which is great but I wonder how they are gona pay the bills?

More beers means cheaper beer. It’s basic supply n command

[ghosthop]

posted on DTR by a good ol' boy from Squamish in a thread asking for specific instructions on getting the starter out of the back of a Cummins.

It's pretty easy... I did mine with one arm as the other one was broken. To put it back in I tied a rope around it and slung it around the fender while my 5 year old son held it till I could get it in place.

[frorider]

“Experimental Estimates of Cannabis Consumption in Canada, 1960 to 2015,” found that Canadians spent as much as C$6.2 billion on cannabis in 2015, a figure its researchers arrived at by estimating 4.9 million Canadians consumed 698 metric tons of weed that year at a cost of about $7.14 to $8.84 per gram. That’s almost as much as the C$7 billion Canadians spent that year on wine, Bloomberg reported on Monday.

......

[XXX-er]

https://www.straight.com/cannabis/10...-results-study

[Not Neil_Armstrong]

Straight from my Canadian friend plowing his driveway on IG.
so much Canadian awesomeness

[reckless toboggan]

Straight from my Canadian friend plowing his driveway on IG.
so much Canadian awesomeness

I know him.

[Not Neil_Armstrong]

I know him.

A fellow of the snow and a brother of the Big green egg.

[reckless toboggan]

A fellow of the snow and a brother of the Big green egg.

Nah. All us Canadians just know each other.

Mike from Canmore says hi.

[reckless toboggan]

[Kenny Satch]

nipple jumper cables...that's funny
I'll give it an "eh" for effort

[mntlion]

How cold is it in Canada? Too cold for penguins, Calgary Zoo decides

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/...-penguins.html

[riser4]

nipple jumper cables...that's funny
I'll give it an "eh" for effort

Larry Enticer comes up next when that viddy ends. Send it.