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In a humorous column, Melanie Collison discusses recent government procurment news. Public Works and Government Services Canada (PWGSC) is advertising for a falconer to manage its bird control program at Canadian Forces Base Halifax and around the dockyard. Apparently public works has had its eye on the award-winning bird control program at the local airport, which uses the only full-time airport falconer in Canada to disperse flocks of hungry snow buntings and geese. he Suffield National Wildlife Area in Alberta. Protected under the Canada Wildlife Act, the 458 square kilometres of relatively undisturbed native grassland was formally carved last year out of Canadian Forces Base Suffield, just west of Medicine Hat. At the moment, PWGSC has a notice of proposed procurement on the books to attract a team to develop and purify polyclonal antibodies for immunoassay applications - biotechnological tools to identify and fight some biological threat agents. Presumably the deer and the antelope are safe from both the threat agents and the antibodies.
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Birds, Bugs, Beasts
THE NASTY CULEX TARSALIS (West Nile virus) and bovine spongiform encephalopathy ("mad cow") grab the headlines, but they're merely the most visible challenges for governments managing responsibilities related to the animal kingdom. Just for today, let's expand the definitio...
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