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Lego man in space: one (very) small step
Two teenagers from Toronto sent a Lego man carrying a Canadian flag into the stratosphere. Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad, both 17, attached four cameras to a balloon carrying the toy astronaut 24km above Earth. A week after launch they recovered their Lego man in a field, and discovered they had captured stunning space footage
Epic, awesome, majestic … these are the words more commonly associated with Whistler in British Columbia. Yet in this fun film the resort is tiny, toy-like, a real-life snow globe. It documents a day in the life of the Canadian resort using a special filming technique that appears to turn the resort into a miniature version of itself
Black bear found in Vancouver rubbish collection truck
(Note: this video has a happy ending)
Mountie greeting: the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are met by the Canadian foreign affairs minister John Baird in Ottawa. Photograph: Frank Gunn/AP
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