Ottawa, Nov 29 : Scientists have found the fragments of a 10-tonne asteroid along the Alberta/Saskatchewan border in Canada.

According to a report by the Canadian Press, University of Calgary researchers Alan Hildebrand and graduate student Ellen Millet discovered several pieces of the space rock late on November 27 near Marsden, a farming village of 275 people about 270 kilometres southeast of Edmonton.

The search for the space rock began on November 20 after the asteroid was spotted hurtling towards Earth by thousands of people in both Alberta and Saskatchewan.

People in the Marsden area not only saw the fireball, which was as bright as a billion-watt light bulb, but they also heard and smelled it.

Ottawa, Nov 29 : A team of researchers has claimed to have located the world’s oldest stash of marijuana, in a tomb in a remote part of China, dating back to 2,700 years.

According to a report by the Canadian Press, the 789 grams of dried cannabis was buried alongside a light-haired, blue-eyed Caucasian man, likely a shaman of the Gushi culture, near Turpan in northwestern China.

Researchers said that the cache of cannabis was clearly cultivated for psychoactive purposes, rather than as fibre for clothing or as food.

The extremely dry conditions and alkaline soil acted as preservatives, allowing a team of scientists to carefully analyze the stash, which still looked green though it had lost its distinctive odour.

Ottawa (Canada), Nov. 28 : Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has condemned the terrorist strikes in Mumbai, which have so far claimed 127 lives and caused injured to 327.

Ottawa, Nov 24 : A new research has suggested that human footprints found a century ago in Lake Ontario, Canada, are 11,000 years old, not 100,000 years, as was indicated by previous research work.

In the fall of 1908, while building a waterworks tunnel east of Hanlan''s Point in Toronto Bay, a work crew came across 100 footprints in a layer of blue clay.

The prints appeared to have been left by people wearing moccasins.

Ottawa, Nov 17 : Canadian government is learnt to be spending between five and ten lakhs in keeping a vigil on suspected al-Qaeda members, who belong to other countries but have been released into Canadian communities.

They were not deported back to their home countries, because judges found that they would be at risk of torture in their homelands, and also that it would be inhumane to detain them indefinitely in Canada, said a report in the Globe and Mail.

In one case, federal department officials budgeted for six full-time agents to watch one released prisoner, at an annual cost of 868,700 dollars.

Ottawa, Oct 24 : After 15 months in sanctuary, paralysed would-be refugee claimant Laibar Singh has decided to leave an Abbotsford Sikh temple and return to India to be with his family.

Kalgidhar Darbar temple president Swarn Singh Gill said Singh is stressed and worn out by the struggle to remain in Canada and thinks it is better to go home.

“He is thinking the border services are going to put him in jail. He is thinking he will never be allowed to stay in Canada. All these things are running around in his mind all the time,” Gill said on Thursday.

So Singh, who has mounted a lengthy and controversial battle against the Canada Border Services Agency, has now informed his lawyer, Peter Edelmann, that he will leave Canada voluntarily.