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Posted: 12/14/2009 1:00 AM | Comments: 0 (including replies)

Mollusks migrating

HALIFAX -- Mollusks from the Pacific could march into the Atlantic Ocean within decades because of the melting of Arctic sea ice, researchers in California say.

For mollusks to pass, the Arctic would need to have less than 75 per cent sea-ice cover for 125 consecutive days -- something that could happen around 2050, according to an estimate two years ago by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

But Peter Roopnarine, curator of geology and paleontology at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, says that could happen between 2020 and 2030.

Couple's death shocking

ST. CONSTANT, Que. -- Residents in a quiet neighbourhood just south of Montreal were in shock Sunday, one day after a 20-year-old man heard gunshots before finding his parents' bodies.

Vincent Massey was woken by gunshots about 5 a.m. Saturday, police told reporters. He ran upstairs and found his parents Marc Massey, 48, and Cecile Leduc, 51. A hunting rifle was lying next to Massey's body.

Some media reported the couple had experienced difficulty dealing with the death of one of their sons, who was 17 years old when he crashed his car seven years ago.

Fire consumes townhouse

VANCOUVER -- A fire at a Squamish, B.C. townhouse complex early Sunday has left eight families homeless.

No one was seriously injured in the blaze that levelled the older, eight-unit complex, said Squamish Deputy Fire Chief Mike Adams.

Two people were treated at the scene for smoke inhalation, but no one was taken to hospital, he said.

Adams said everyone was accounted for and all the survivors were being looked after by social services personnel.

Ponzi scheme penalty

HAMILTON, Ont. -- A Hamilton-area man accused of running a $14-million US Ponzi scheme has agreed to turn over money and pay a penalty following a settlement reached with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Gordon Driver of Freelton, Ont., and his company, Axcess Automation, reached the agreement just days after the SEC had gone to a California court seeking a contempt order against Driver for not complying with previous court-ordered requirements.

Driver and his company are alleged to have defrauded more than 100 Canadian and American investors since 2006.

CERN head visits Canada

OTTAWA -- The boss of the world's biggest physics lab flew from his Geneva office to Ottawa for a one-day visit last week.

Rolf Heuer, director-general of CERN, the European particle physics lab, endured the Atlantic crossings just to hear first-hand where Canadian researchers are heading.

"I have worked for 25 years with Canadians," he said.

He spent Friday at the National Research Council, asking scientists here what general directions they want to move in.

-- from the news services

Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition December 14, 2009 A14

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