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‘Canada will never be a safe haven for zombies,’ Foreign Minister John Baird tells House of Commons
Canada’s founding prime minister John A. MacDonald would be rolling in his grave — if he was an undead zombie.
In a bizarre exchange in a place known for bizarre exchanges, Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird told the House of Commons Wednesday that “Canada will never be a safe haven for zombies.”
Baird was responding to a question from NDP MP Pat Martin who asked if Canada is working with the U.S. to ensure that its citizens don’t suffer from a case of the zombie apocalypse. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld)
Return of The Walking Dead: A statistical look back at the series so far
This Sunday marks the return of AMC’s The Walking Dead. To mark the occasion, the Post catches you up to speed on everyone’s favourite gorefest
Graphic: Stopping the Dead
A statistical look back at the zombie kills and the weapon used in the Walking Dead series so far.
Just when you thought the survival horror game genre was dead, it leaps back to life.
We hope you packed enough ammo.
ZombiU is the first must-buy hardcore game for the Wii U.Check out our review: http://natpo.st/Sd70qi
The best tweets from last night’s Walking Dead Season 3 premiere
Wesley Crusher and Claire Danes’ cry face get honourable mentions.
From Chad Sapieha’s latest story on Post Arcade:
“Resident Evil is the reason I’m writing this post.
It’s probably the reason I have the job I have today. It may even be the reason I’m playing video games at all.
I’d pretty much stopped playing games by my 20th birthday. I was busy with school, strapped for cash, and had a general sense that the medium I’d loved as a kid had stopped growing along with me.”
Ever wonder what you might look like as a zombie? Canadian artist Byron Rempel will be happy to zombify you
From his home in the town of Morden, Man., located roughly a half-hour drive from the U.S.-Canada border, Byron Rempel is slowly amassing an army of the undead.Luckily for local residents, Rempel’s growing stable of zombies aren’t of the flesh-eating variety, but rather works of art; drawings and paintings created by Rempel, each one designed to depict a real person as they might look as a member of the
living dead.It’s all part of the artist’s ambitious 1,000 Zombies project, which, as the name suggests, is something of a personal quest for Rempel, who plans to create a horde of “zombified” portraits of the people he meets through the Google+ before the end of the year.
Police looking for more witnesses in naked man’s face-eating attack
Authorities in Miami looked for more witnesses after a naked man who refused to stop chewing on the face of another naked man on a busy highway ramp, despite being shot by police, was finally shot to death.
Detective William Moreno said police want to understand what led to the grisly scene in which a witness said the man — identified by authorities as Rudy Eugene, 31 — growled when a police officer told him to stop his attack.
The victim, who has not been identified, is hospitalized in critical condition. Local reports said most of the man’s face was gone — his nose bitten, his eyes gouged, his skin ripped away. (Screenshot/AP Photo/The Miami Herald)
Zombie attack? Have no fear, the B.C. government is here
If British Columbians are suddenly struck with an overwhelming need to eat brains, the province has cobbled together advice on how the living can fend off the zombies.
The B.C. government is hoping its fictional advice will generate interest in a set of social media tools that aim to help the public in real emergencies.
A blog tapping into the popular horror genre was launched this week on the Emergency Info BC website, and it’s penned from the perspective of a citizen who finds her town infected with a strange virus. (Photos: Leo Ramirez/AFP/Getty Images)
Honey bees turned into ‘zombies’ by parasite: study
U.S. scientists have discovered a fly parasite that turns honey bees into confused zombies before killing them, possibly offering new clues to why bee colonies are collapsing.
So far, the parasite has only been detected in honey bees in California and South Dakota, American researchers reported in the open access science journal PLoS ONE this week.
But if it turns out to be an emerging parasite, that “underlines the danger that could threaten honey bee colonies throughout North America,” said the study led by San Francisco State University professor of biology John Hafernik.
Soon, the bees began to die, but not in the usual way by sitting still and curling up. These bees kept trying to move their legs and get around, but they were too weak, said lead author Andrew Core, a graduate student in Hafernik’s lab.
“They kept stretching them out and then falling over,” said Core. “It really painted a picture of something like a zombie.” (Photo: Wolfgang Kumm/AFP/Getty Images; NP illustration)
Actor zombies injured on Resident Evil movie set
Disaster struck the Resident Evil: Retribution movie set when as many as 16 actors, some in zombie gear, were injured falling from a platform during filming on Tuesday morning.
Toronto police said the injuries ranged from leg injuries to more severe back injuries. Ten of the victims were transported to hospital. The incident occurred at Cinespace Film Studios, at 777 Kipling Ave., at about 8 a.m. (Screen Gems)
Invasion: California
Hello, I’m Andrew Barr, the National Post’s resident monsterologist. Since the dawn of time, man has wondered, “Are we alone in the universe?” If Hollywood is to be believed (and why shouldn’t it?) the answer is “no.” And it seems aliens don’t like us very much, either, and for some reason California tends to be a major part of their plans. Sure, sometimes the visitors are friendly — sometimes their ship breaks down and California just seems like a great place to stop for parts. But as Battle: Los Angeles and last year’s Skyline show, some space monsters just think California makes a great beachhead for their plans of global mayhem. But is California really the easy target these aliens think it is? Let’s examine some of the more interesting tactics space creatures have employed in their invasions and what role the Golden State played. WARNING: Spoilers.
Over the past few days pundits have been abuzz about the Conservative attack ads on Michael Ignatieff:
- Stephen Taylor: CBC draws a line in Tory ads
- Chris Selley’s Full Pundit: Stephen Harper will come back for you
- Gerry Nicholls: Grading the Conservative attack ads
- Keith Beardsley: Stale Tory ads could get free ride from media
- Kelly McParland: Conservatives miss the call for more civilized debate
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