By OLIVER MOORE, Toronto Globe and Mail

Asked what he wanted to be, Sean Aiken used to tell people he was going to become a physiotherapist. He didn't know exactly what that entailed, he acknowledges, but it "sounded cool."

CHARLOTTETOWN, Prince Edward Island - Enterprising farmers on Prince Edward Island are hoping to crack Japan's stiffly competitive Wagyu beef market by using the lure of Anne Shirley, a revered figure to generations of Japanese women -- the ones who decide what is served at weddings.

A Canadian Indian tribe in Labrador says they have killed 64 caribou in an area closed to hunting in what some call a brazen assertion of their traditional rights.

Russia is moving to end its seal hunt, with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin calling it a "bloody industry."
The decision comes as the European Union edges toward banning the trans-shipment of seal products, a move that could stop the Atlantic seal hunt for good.

It will be the world's most northerly railway, a private line snaking across the permafrost and rock of Baffin Island in northern Canada.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- A group of nearly 100 aid organizations operating in Afghanistan issued a scathing report this week that accuses donor countries of botching development funding so badly they risk a spreading insurgency.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- Insurgents worried about informers have attacked at least nine mobile-phone towers in southern Afghanistan during the past month, but the phone companies have rejected official protection because it would identify them with the government, the provincial police chief said.