Anti-oil pipeline rally in Victoria B.C.Maybe we all are a bunch of tree huggers in Canada.

According to a survey, released by Angus Reid on Friday, Canadians are more environmentally conscious than our British and American cousins.

Specifically:

- 58 per cent of Canadians, 47 per cent of Americans and 45 per cent of Brits believe that "global warming is a fact and is mostly caused by emissions from vehicles and industrial facilities."

- Only 13 per cent of Canadians believe climate change has yet to be proven; 20 per cent of the Americans surveyed and 19 per cent of the British surveyed are of that mind.

- 60 per cent of Canadians, 49 per cent of the Americans and 44 of the British surveyed support protecting the environment "even at the risk of hampering economic growth."

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Interestingly, the survey came out on the same day that a senior Conservative cabinet minister was dogged about comments he made about global warming.

On Friday, Postmedia

A couple of Canadian zoos have taken some stick over their treatment of elephants in their collection, which has resulted in plans to send three to a California elephant sanctuary.

But now animal lovers are lobbying for a Winnipeg zoo to give refuge to a polar bear reportedly suffering in an Argentine zoo.

Arturo is languishing in the Mendoza Zoological Park and apparently not doing so well, according to Maria Fernanda Arensten.

Hot weather and poor living conditions are taking their toll on the 29-year-old bear, she told CBC News.

A video purportedly depicting Arturo was posted on YouTube. It shows a bear moving jerkily near the top of its arid-looking compound, with a shallow pool half-filled with water in the foreground.

"He looks so sad. He really looks in pain," said Arentsen, who hails from Argentina but now lives in Canada. "The weather, the conditions, you can imagine it — a polar bear in a desert, with a swimming pool 50 centimetres deep."

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The law books in prison libraries get a lot of use among inmates working on pending cases but they get a workout as well from inmates filing lawsuits.

There are no readily available figures on the number of suits filed by Canadian prisoners. Last year a group of inmates filed a $1.25-million class action after being barred from wearing T-shirts with an upside down maple leaf on Prisoners Justice Day, the Toronto Star reported.

But American courts have been inundated with prisoner lawsuits.

In 1995, inmates in U.S. institutions filed almost 40,000 suits in the federal court system, accounting for almost 20 per cent of the entire federal civil docket, according to a 2003 scholarly article by University of Michigan law professor Margo Schlanger.

A vast number of suits were considered frivolous and less than 15 per cent were successful, prompting the U.S. Congress to pass a controversial law that restricted inmates' access to the civil courts.

But that hasn't stopped murderer Larry

Former Vancouver Olympic boss John FurlongJohn Furlong has scaled the heights of success and fame, overcoming tremendous pressure to engineer the triumphant 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Games.

He faces a different, darker test of strength now, losing his wife in a car crash while in the midst of a legal offensive against allegations of sexual and physical abuse against students while he was a Catholic youth worker decades ago.

Deborah Sharp Furlong died Thursday in an accident while vacationing in Ireland, Furlong said in a statement issued Friday morning to news media.

"While our extended families are beyond words over this loss, we would like to thank our friends and well-wishers for their heartfelt concern and condolences as our families face this sudden and painful tragedy," the statement said.

"While I understand that there may be interest in more details, please understand that at this extremely difficult time, I request privacy for our families. Thank you."

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Kieran Thomas graduated in July 2009 into one of the weakest job markets since the great depression.

The Montreal native completed an undergraduate degree in engineering at the University of Waterloo and quickly learned that getting a job close to home was an unlikely possibility.

"There were little to no jobs in Ontario or Quebec for new grad engineers, and the ones that were available were not very interesting and had very low starting salaries," Thomas, 27, said. "Most of my friends ended up going back to school for a master's degree to wait out the poor job market."

Looking back on it now, Thomas considers himself lucky. He didn't get a job in Ontario or Quebec, but did get a job. During his co-op program he did six work terms, three of which were in Alberta, so when it came time to apply for jobs he suddenly had some experience in the oil and gas industry.

"Shell made me a much better offer than any Ontario or Quebec company, both in terms of salary, benefits and vacation time,"

From a moose walking into a B.C. grocery store to a man climbing three storeys on the outside of a burning building to save girl, we've seen some amazing videos this week. Here are some of our favourites:

1. Catching two fish at once

A man was out in a boat in Lake Austin in Texas when he saw one large-mouth bass trying to eat another similarly sized large-mouth bass whole. The one fish only had the other fish's head in its mouth. Both fish seem to still be alive and are trying to swim off, but aren't having much luck. The man just picks them both up with his hand and puts them in the boat.

[ Last week's must see video: Purse thief runs right through glass window ]

2. Moose wanders through B.C. grocery store

Grocery shopping is usually uneventful, but not for the folks at a Safeway in Smithers, B.C. this past Wednesday. A moose strolled into the store apparently just hoping to smell the roses after following customers in through the electronic doors. The moose was

Anonymous

But this time, after so many similar deaths, society might have learned something. Maybe this time the series of grief, outrage and inaction that follow such deaths will change. Maybe this time is the time we take cyber-bullying seriously.

There are signs that that is the case. Earlier today, the online hacker group “Anonymous” turned the results of their investigation over to RCMP in Nova Scotia. Shortly after, investigators announced that new information had led them to reopen the case. These mature steps might lead to a positive outcome in this tragic tale.

By now the story is well known. So well known that American news channels have covered the fallout of Parsons’ death. So well known that Anonymous, the same

A generous fisherman in Hawaii shared his catch with a shark last weekend and captured the little picnic on video.

He didn't have much choice but to share his tuna when the shark leaped out of the water and tried to take a bite out of the fish that was hooked on his line.

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The man was Isaac Brumaghim, according to Hawaii News Now, an "extreme kayak fisherman" who seemed startled by the sharks sudden leap. Brumaghim swore but then he still tried to reel in the fish, ever the determined fisherman.

In the end, the shark swam under the boat and ate the fish, he told the news outlet.

A marine biologist told Hawaii News Now the shark may have been drawn to the hooked fish if it was bleeding.

I feel compelled to include a public safety warning: dangling food before a shark and then trying to take it back again is not advisable. But it does make for a popular YouTube video, as this one has been viewed nearly two million times since it was