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Staff at Ambassador Theatre Group's Comedy Theatre in London are using waste materials left by patrons to recreate costumes.

John Kelly - Looking at summer through snow-covered glasses

It seems as if winter will never end. This is not a cold spell or a serving of a "wintry mix." This seems like the new reality, the Earth locked in a different orbit, our hemisphere turned from the sun. I can honestly say I don't remember what spring is like.

I can't wait till summer, even summer in Washington.

And so I write this column to read in deepest, hottest summer -- when the air is thick and gauzelike and heat radiates from the sidewalk like discharge from a blast furnace -- to keep myself from saying: "God, I hate summer. I can't wait till winter."

Caribou management plan reached

NWT/YUKON - Governments and aboriginal leadership from the NWT and Yukon have agreed on a management plan for the Porcupine caribou herd.

The herd, which migrates across the Yukon-NWT border and inhabits mostly Gwich'in land, has not been properly surveyed since about 2001, when it numbered 123,000.
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The survey must be done during migrating season at the beginning of July.

"Every year we've tried to get a count, but Mother Nature has to work with us and the caribou have to co-operate with us," Tetlichi said, explaining that unseasonably cold weather, fog and smoke in the air have hindered attempts at surveying the Porcupine herd over the past nine years.