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Seems Mother Nature's pissed at Canada:

From salmon suffocating in warm British Columbia streams to a Newfoundland town entombed in ice, this year's bizarre weather leaves little doubt that climate change has the country in its grip, Environment Canada says....

The first item on Monday's list ...: the variety of abnormal weather that plagued British Columbia all year. It included 2,500 wildfires that forced 50,000 people to flee their homes over the summer, floods in autumn, freezing in November, and another flood in Vancouver a month ago....

The second item on the list was the spate of hurricanes that hit Canada, including hurricane Juan, which struck Halifax directly on Sept. 29. It was the first time the eye of a hurricane had hit the city since 1893.

It tore up 100 million trees, left 300,000 homes without power and destroyed marinas and harbours along the Atlantic Coast....

The other items on the list include:

• severe winter in Eastern Canada from January to March;
  
• forest fires across the country that left an annual fire-fighting tab of almost $1-billion;
  
• entrenched drought on the Prairies and its attendant clouds of grasshoppers;
  
• the March downpour that flooded the four Atlantic provinces and became the most expensive weather disaster in the history of the Maritimes;
  
• a massive ice storm in New Brunswick in February that covered half the province with between 40 and 60 millimetres of frozen rain, closed schools for a week and left 63,000 without power or phones;
  
• deadly avalanches in the Rockies that killed 28 people, making it the second deadliest year for avalanches in nearly a century;
  
• heavy snow on Alberta in April and May, making it the snowiest spring on record for Edmonton and one of the worst in a century for Calgary; and
  
• the sheet of ice that entombed the town of Badger, Nfld., for a week in February, covering cars, trucks and homes with ice more than a metre thick.

Jeebus. Good thing we don't live in Canada, eh? Just tighten up our borders and all will be well.

Besides, Bush's Healthy Forests Initiative surely addresses the matter.

And if all else fails, there's always tax cuts. In fact, let's just skip to tax cuts.
*Homage to that great Canadian, Dan Aykroyd, Ghostbusters.