canoe.ca - The Northern Gateway pipeline will never be built on their land, said the Dene First Nations.

canada.com - Andrew Murley of Gander, N.L., says after losing more than 200 pounds, he's also lost faith in Newfoundland and Labrador's health-care system, which denies surgery to remove excess skin related to extreme weight loss.

Ottawa Sun - The Northern Gateway pipeline will never be built on their land, said the Dene First Nations.

The Globe & Mail - Authorities met with the Shafia family on separate occasions over concerns of violence, the trial has heard, but investigators must balance protection with sanctity of family

canoe.ca - Research in Motion’s Thorsten Heins plans to waste no time in his new job. The BlackBerry maker’s chief executive said he will present the board with his plan for company’s future in just a matter of weeks.

canoe.ca - Two men killed in a sawmill explosion in Burns Lake, B.C., have been identified.

The Globe & Mail - John Batchelor, 72, was ‘healthy,’ ‘alert,’ according to Ontario friend

Ottawa Sun - Two men killed in a sawmill explosion in Burns Lake, B.C., have been identified.

The Globe & Mail - Communist Party newspaper asked fans to urge New York City baseball teams to sign Negro league players in 1940s

The Globe & Mail - Creator of TV Ontario’s beloved Polka Dot Door was also, apparently just once, the famous but elusive Polkaroo

National Post - Eitan, then 17 years old and described by his mother as shy, came home from his first day at Toronto’s Student School in a “state of dismay,� his mother Rachel said

canoe.ca - The Calgary Zoo has lost a king with the death of its lone male lion Friday.

Space.com - See images of the moon and Venus close together.

Space.com - The Progress 46 cargo ship delivered nearly 3 tons of cargo to the International Space Station.

Space.com - NASA astronaut Alan Shepard flew the Freedom 7 capsule on May 5, 1961.

Space.com - Two retired astronauts, a former NASA administrator and five other space leaders signed an open letter.

NASASpaceflight.com - The uncrewed Russian Progress M-14M resupply spacecraft, also going by its US designation of 46P, has successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on Saturday morning (GMT). Ahead of the M-14M events, the recently undocked Progress M-13M/45P performed the unusual procedure of deploying a microsatellite into space prior to de-orbiting. Progress M-14M launch: Progress [...]Related posts:Progress M-09M docks to stowage-laden ISS Hot on the heels of JAXA’s HTV-2 arrival at the...Progress successfully docks to ISS; Stage set for return of manned Soyuz flight Just over two months after the launch failure of the...Cosmonauts complete Russian Spacewalk on ISS Two Russian Cosmonauts stepped outside the International Space Station (ISS)...

Space.com - A summary of the Republican contenders' views on NASA and the future of American spaceflight.

canada.com - The U.S. space agency said Thursday its Kepler space telescope mission has confirmed 26 new planets outside our solar system, all of them orbiting too close to their host stars to sustain life.

CollectSPACE - Jerry L. Ross, the first person to fly seven times to space, retired from NASA last Friday (Jan. 20). Ross spent more than 58 days in orbit and made nine spacewalks ranking him third among all space explorers for extravehicular activity time. Chosen to be an astronaut with NASA's 1980 class, Ross's first flight, STS-61B, was five years later. His seventh and final launch was on the STS-110 mission in 2002. Ross was a mission specialist on space shuttles Endeavour and Columbia once each and a record-setting five times on board shuttle Atlantis.

NASA - Jerry Ross, the first person to launch into space seven times, has retired from NASA. In a career that spanned more than three decades, Ross spent almost 1,400 hours in space and conducted nine spacewalks to rank third on the list of most extravehicular activity time in space.

NASASpaceflight.com - Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) have provided a positive overview on their progress in readying their Dream Chaser spacecraft for commercial crew operations in 2016. A fan favorite - due to its baby shuttle orbiter appearance - Dream Chaser has been paired with the highly reliable Atlas V launch vehicle as part of their Commercial Crew [...]Related posts:SpaceDev announce Dream Chaser agreement with ULA Atlas V SpaceDev have announced a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with United...

canada.com - Republican presidential contender Newt Gingrich has called for a base on the moon and an expanded federal purse for prize money to stimulate private-sector space projects.

CollectSPACE - After 13 years on display at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Alan Shepard's Freedom 7 Mercury capsule will be moving soon to Boston. Pending final arrangements with the Smithsonian, the first U.S. manned spacecraft will next be exhibited by the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum. But the craft's journey won't end there; the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington plans to display Freedom 7 beginning in 2016 as part of a new Apollo-themed gallery.

New York Times - The former governor of Massachusetts moved past his rival, Newt Gingrich, heading into the final weekend before the vote.

New York Times - Written by an adviser to the Republican candidate Mitt Romney, the book, “The World America Made,” makes the case that the nation’s decline is a myth.

New York Times - Goldman Sachs, which manages Mitt Romney’s family’s fortune, is also his largest source of campaign contributions.

National Public Radio - The former mayor was credited with putting the city on a path to prosperity. White also saw the city through court-ordered busing to desegregate public schools, but he ended his four-term tenure in 1983 under a cloud of ethics suspicions. White died Friday in his home. He was 82.

Wall Street Journal - The application of a favorable tax treatment to some of Mitt Romney's income from Bain Capital is a source of debate among tax lawyers sifting through murky reaches of the tax code.

Wall Street Journal - Florida senator and conservative favorite pursued by Romney and Gingrich measures his every move.

Reuters - MIAMI (Reuters) - Newt Gingrich struggled to regain momentum in the Republican presidential race on Friday as two new polls showed him falling behind rival Mitt Romney, who was seen as the winner of the final debate before the Florida primary.

The Globe & Mail - ’Quebec’s real adversary is in Ottawa: It is Stephen Harper’s Conservative government,’ Marois tells party faithful

Politico - PLM Group pulls out amid NGO raid fallout.

Politico - The enduring image of the president's tour of five key states will be his confrontation with Brewer.

The Globe & Mail - Moving quickly to address concerns around Old Age Security reform, Conservatives say any changes would be phased in gradually

CBC - Whatever changes the government makes to retirement income won't happen overnight, Minister of State for Finance Ted Menzies said Friday.

New York Times - Could America build a lunar base during an eight-year Newt Gingrich presidency, as Mr. Gingrich promised this week? The obstacles would lie in money and politics.

New York Times - The young male, tracked with a GPS unit, is believed to be the first gray wolf in California in decades, raising hopes that the endangered species may once again thrive there.

New York Times - Under popular pressure, Chinese officials have begun to track the most pernicious measure of urban air pollution and promise to set new health standards and publish data on air pollution.

New York Times - Samantha Garvey, an 18-year-old senior in Long Island, was named a semifinalist in the Intel Science Talent Search for her work with mussels.

canoe.ca - Research in Motion’s Thorsten Heins plans to waste no time in his new job. The BlackBerry maker’s chief executive said he will present the board with his plan for company’s future in just a matter of weeks.

Wall Street Journal - Facebook could file papers for its initial public offering as early as next week, as anticipation mounts for what is likely to be one of the biggest debuts for a U.S. company.

Wall Street Journal - U.S. law-enforcement officials say they are increasingly concerned about cyber-retaliation against agents and prosecutors after they say people linked to the hacker collective Anonymous targeted the private life of a government official investigating WikiLeaks.

CTV.ca - When Facebook makes its long-expected debut as a public company this spring, the social-networking company will likely vault into the ranks of the largest public companies in the world, alongside McDonald's, Amazon.com and Bank of America.

Wall Street Journal - RIM's newly appointed CEO said he has embarked on a wide-ranging turnaround of the BlackBerry maker's operations that involves putting founder Mike Lazaridis in a more "visionary" role.

The Globe & Mail - In a video discussion with 17,000 employees around the world, the new chief outlined his plans and rejected any sale of the company

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Wall Street Journal - After years of touting itself as a champion of free expression, Twitter touched off a torrent of criticism after it announced it can remove messages from the online service within specific countries if asked to do so.