Blog Posts by Lindsay Jolivet

Red means stop, shadow means dove.

Britain may have to redefine its street light signals after a dove nested within a light at Cuckoo Corner in Essex, England, according to the BBC. The light contains spike to deter birds from nesting but that hasn't stopped the dove from happily settling in under the light's warmth.

A spokesperson from the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds told the broadcaster the bird's chosen area has a park with plenty of grass and food nearby.

This bird could be directing local traffic for a while.

Meanwhile, the latest corporate threat to Hewlett-Packard isn't financial but fowl-related.

The company is teaching employees at its Boise, Idaho, office how to avoid attacks by Canada geese, through a memo that has since been posted online by a Huffington Post writer.

Geese aren't quite so majestic when they're hissing and attacking corporate employees. Worry not, the company has compiled extensive, if overly precautionary, advice to prevent any serious bird

It took a cringe-worthy performance before an international audience, but Canadian singer-songwriter Alexis Normand has found fame — of a certain kind.

The francophone jazz-folk artist from Saskatoon, Saskachewan, botched the American national anthem at the Memorial Cup game on Saturday, forgetting the lyrics as the audience shifted in their seats. Finally, the crowd came to her rescue, encouraging her by singing along.

Normand tweeted after the event and told the Saskatoon Star-Phoenix that she was nervous and her mind simply went blank as she lifted the microphone to sing.

I'm embarrassed and deeply sorry. I wish I'd had more time to learn the American anthem. Thanks so much for the crowd's help! #memorialcup

— Alexis Normand (@Alex6Normand) May 19, 2013

As news outlets in the U.S. and Canada reported the fumbled performance, dubbing it the "Star-Mangled Banner" and saying she "murdered" the national anthem, she followed up with a tweet about her sudden popularity.

No doubt it's been a

Canadian employers, those pitiful-sounding coughs you've been hearing over the phone before the long weekend — as staff members say they're feeling just a little under the weather and they can't make it into work — might be as fake as they sound.

More than half of Canadians, 54 per cent, have called into work sick when the only bug ailing them was the prospect of a long day at the office, according to a survey conducted by Angus Reid on behalf of the workforce management company Kronos.

The survey, entitled "Sick or Tired?" found that most of those who feigned illness said they felt stressed. According to the survey, the provinces where the highest number of respondents admitted to faking were Manitoba and Ontario. Those were also the provinces where the vast majority, 83 per cent and 78 per cent, respectively, said they've lied because of burn out and stress.

[ More Buzz: Teen accidentally buys alleged Coca-Cola recipe for $15M ]

Other reasons included caring for sick kids and a heavy

An eBay seller claiming possession of a document dated to World War II that could show the top-secret recipe for Coca-Cola has found himself a buyer.

Unfortunately for him, the person who clicked the "Buy It Now" is a 15-year-old who doesn't likely have the $15 million asking price to spend, Agence France-Presse reports. The seller, Cliff Kluge, told the news wire yesterday the kid had three days to pay up before the recipe would return to the market.

Kluge says on the eBay posting that he bought the document at the estate sale of a renowned chemist from Chattanooga, Tennessee, where Coca-Cola opened its first bottling factory in 1899.

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In the listing, he argues that spending $15 million on the document will more than pay itself off if the recipe does, in fact, yield the secret to reproducing Coca-Cola.

One wonders why he doesn't try it.

Coca-Cola, for its part, told AFP the actual original recipe for the drink

Dinner is served.

At least, dinner could be served for about 200 people with the meat of an enormous cod caught off the coast of Norway last month, according to the Telegraph.

However, the fisherman who caught it says he'll donate the fish to a museum, according to the Daily Mail.

Michael Eisele told the tabloid he was visiting Norway from Germany on a fishing trip, sitting in the boat with friends, when he felt the bite on his line that will earn him a world record if it's confirmed.

He said he spent a half hour trying to reel in the giant cod, which weighed 103 pounds.

[ More Buzz: Ontario Star Trek fan sends model Enterprise into space ]

The current listed weight record for an Atlantic cod is 98 pounds, according to the International Game Fish Association. An angler named Alphonse Bielevich caught the cod off the Isle of Shoals in New Hampshire.

Factors including overfishing have reduced cod populations, according to the World Wildlife Federation.

Canada has had a moratorium against cod

"Second star to the right and straight on 'til morning."

An Ontario man may have been channeling Captain Kirk and Peter Pan when he staged the launch of a model spacecraft last month using a weather balloon.

Trekkie Steve Schnier posted a video to YouTube showing a model of the U.S.S. Enterprise he built and launched on an interplanetary mission in search of extra-terrestrial civilizations. Or at least, in the hopes of reaching the nearby town of Innisfil.

Operation Ultimate Cool launched from Stayner, Ont., on April 28, according to the video.

[ YouTube Video: Operation Ultimate Cool ]

The ship didn't quite make it to Planet Nibiru and it didn't reach the otherworldly civilization of Toronto, either, when it crash landed near an island in Georgian Bay, according to Canada A.M.

Still, the footage shows the small spacecraft ascending way up into the sky and cruising with a spectacular view of the Earth from above.

[More Buzz: Videos parody Chris Hadfield 'at home' ]

But the ship lost connection

Gravity is tricky.

It's certainly been giving astronaut Chris Hadfield a pain in the neck this week as he readjusts to Earth after five months in space. He said at a news conference on Thursday that his body feels like he played "a hard game of rugby."

In his disoriented state, Hadfield appears to have forgotten that instructional videos aren't very useful on Earth. Either that, or a fake-moustachioed imposter has been uploading parodies of the astronaut.

In the videos, Hadfield struggles to create more of the videos that enraptured the public while he was in space, except from his home in Canada.

Spoiler: Earth is boring.

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So far, Sean Ireland and a group of others credited in the video descriptions have parodied two of Hadfield's short videos, about clipping nails and wringing out a washcloth in space.

In the first video, the actor posing as Hadfield gives straight-faced instructions about how to wring out a washcloth, casually pointing out that

When a deer leaped in front of a Pennsylvania city bus this week, the driver probably didn't even have time to say "Oh dear" before the animal had crashed through the windshield.

Surveillance footage has captured the dramatic moment when a deer burst through the front of the bus and began to thrash around the interior, injured and disoriented.

[ Related: Deer crashes through windshield of bus, runs around and then gets let off ]

Once the driver pulls over and opens the door, the deer leaps out of the bus, apparently healthy enough to dash away.

Meanwhile, a deer in Toronto has apparently learned to read maps. After a car struck the animal on Wednesday, the animal ran into the city's Deer Park neighbourhood, according to the Toronto Star.

It's unclear how badly the deer is injured.

Despite its name, the historical Deer Park area isn't an ideal refuge for the animal and authorities told the Star they hoped it would wander back into a park that lies nearby.

In 1837, Toronto's Heath family bought