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Me and my family have applied to emigrate to Canada, BC. And seeing as I don’t know the place that well, I’m finding it hard to find a school to look at. I want to be a police officer in the future (if that helps) so I’m also looking at perhaps a Police Academy/College. Please if you have any suggestions…please share them with me!

Flying squirrels are the oldest living line of modern squirrels (modern, as opposed to their precursors, the early-Eocene squirrel-like rodents called “paramyids”). Evidence of their relative’s existence goes back to the late Eocene period, between 38 and 55 million years ago! Tree squirrels made their first appearance on this earth during the late Oligocene period, about 30 million years ago. Ground squirrels came in waves, with some appearing 28 million years ago (very late Oligocene period), late Miocene period (8 million years ago) and very late Pliocene period (2.5 million years ago).

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North American flying squirrels are not very well represented in the fossil record, for several reasons.

Their fine bone structures do not fossilize well, and due to their arboreal lifestyle, dead specimens rarely were situated so that fossilization could occur. Flying squirrel teeth are often the only fossil record that survive the ravages of time. Attempts have been made, in the past, to identify extinct flying squirrel species’ via dentition characteristics, but it was found that using this method alone was inaccurate more often than not. A high degree of expertise is required to make distinctions between extinct tree and flying squirrel teeth, so skeletal (including the skull) AND dental characteristics combined present the most accurate method of identification.

So, there being a paucity of information to be gleaned from fossil records (these records are virtually all Pleistocene Era records, by the way), we have little data to enlighten us about the flying squirrel’s time here on this continent.

What we do know, however, is:

What we now call the southern flying squirrel likely emigrated to North America via the Bering Land Bridge via Asia roughly 25 million years ago during the early Miocene era. This squirrel was adapted for life in temperate mixed deciduous-coniferous forests, and migrated north and south with the glacier activity through the eons.

More adapted to warmer climes than the northern, southern flying squirrels found themselves migrating as far south as Central America during the Pleistocene era, roughly 100,000 years ago. Relict populations exist to this day in higher-elevation areas of Central America and Mexico, their connectivity forever lost due to climate changes and more recently, large-scale deforestation.

What we now call the northern flying squirrel is a relative newcomer to North America, having emigrated to North America during another incarnation of the Bering Land Bridge roughly 12 million years ago, during the early Pliocene era. This route of emigration via the Bering Land Bridge is not unusual, as many of North America’s mammals, both extinct and extant, followed a similar route. In fact, it is generally accepted that our First Nations people emigrated to this continent via the Bering Land Bridge roughly 12,000 years ago, although there is some evidence that there may have been “ancient mariners” who rafted across the Pacific Ocean

The general thinking today is that the northern flying squirrels came from different stock than that of the southern flying squirrel. The most convincing argument for this theory is the squirrel’s baculum, a small supporting bone of the penis that aids in the mating process and is present in many mammal species. The northern flying squirrel’s baculum is structurally much more comparable in shape possessed by the Asian genus Hylopetes than that of the southern flying squirrel’s. Shown on the right is the baculum of the northern flying squirrel (much enlarged!).

The Bering Land Bridge (Beringia)

The Bering Sea, Bering Strait and Beringia (a term to describe an area ranging from the Kolyma River in the Russian far east to the Mackenzie River in the Northwest Territories of Canada) was named for Vitus Bering, a Danish explorer for a Russian czar in the 18th Century.

At some points, this land mass, which at times sported a rich mixed forest environment, was thousands of miles wide, depending upon sea levels in the Bering Sea.

An animated video on how post-glacial flooding affects the size and scope of the Bering Land Bridge can be found here.

Below is a graphic detailing the extent of the last ice age. Flying squirrels, like most of our mammals, had to pack their bags and head south to warmer, more suitable areas such as the taiga biomes shown below. Once a warming trend began to melt these huge masses of ice from south to north, wildlife also moved northward.

I know my question is very, very broad, but there is so much information out there I need to have some sort of an overview from some experts, so any help would be appreciated.

My situation is this: I am a British Citizen with a clean British passport, but I live in Spain. I am not a skilled worker, however I have a job I can do internationally from home, and the company that hires me is UK based (though I could be based out of their US office if this would help?!) I live with my brother and my father, both who are unfortunately out of work (the Spanish economy is horrifying). There is a potential opportunity for them to be (at least on paper) listed as employees for the same company as me, doing minimal work and earning a very minimal wage. Long term they would be looking for jobs in Canada, but until we all got sorted we could live together.

I have no family in Canada, though I know some people there. I assume I would have to qualify through their Provincial Nomination Program. I don’t know much about that, but I assume it’s mostly paperwork? Would I need to go in person?

Here’s my biggest forseeable problem: I have lived in New York for 13 years, but I was undocumented. I was not classed as an ‘illegal’, because I moved there on a valid visa with my parents, but we ‘overstayed’ whilst paperwork was being processed to claim our residency (under the foolish advice of criminal lawyers), and even though I was a minor when I entered, I left as an adult. All of my family left once we realized that we were chasing a carrot on a string. (The filing is still being managed, but it’s ironically probably less likely it will apply in our behalf as we’ve moved). We were not deported, we simply booked a ticket, boarded the plane, and left. No visa stamps or anything. From what I understand, you’ll need to show your ‘whereabouts’ for the past few years, and since that was only a couple of years ago:

I’m thinking that would be a problem? Or no?
What would immigrating to Canada cost in terms of legal fees? Paperwork fees?
Do I need a lawyer?
What about my family? What will they need? (We’re all British passport holders).
How long does the process take?

Any advice that you might have would be very helpful. I’d still prefer to live back in New York, as that’s where my family is, but I’ve been burned by a nearly 17 year process of trying to live there, and it’s still a question mark if I would still apply for the original category we filed under (as I have significantly aged out now… I’m 30 years old).

Sorry for the wordy question – thanks for your help!

Hello, everyone. I am a Canadian living in the States. Does anybody know this urgent Canadian Birthcertificate service in Toronto? The company’s name is Immigroup Immigration service, and they have a website http://www.immigroup.com/default.asp… and also http://www.canadianbirthcertificate.com/…
I need an urgent service to get my son’s Canadian birthcertificate and they charge $313.94 plus courier fee.
Is this a trustworthy company?

Thanks for your input.

Feeling in a rootikal mood and I just really like this track. Lyrics are so simple but meaningful. If you don’t know, get to know. Originally formed in 1974 as the Soul Supersonics, this six-piece, Jamaican-born reggae act, based in Brooklyn, New York, USA, was led by guitarist/vocalist Errol Moore and other group members included Beres Barnet (guitar, vocals), Paul Henton (bass, vocals), Richard Bertram (drums, percussion), William Brown and John Allen (keyboards). They backed visiting reggae stars and released their first single, “Rocking Time”, in 1977. They followed this with Classical Roots, both records being released in the USA on their Hevyaka label. Under the new name Monyaka (Swahili for “good luck”), they recorded “Stand Up Strong” in 1982. A year later, with just three original members left, they had a UK Top 20 hit with “Go Deh Yaka” (patois for “go to the top”), which cleverly fused reggae and contemporary R&B. The follow-up, “Reggae-matic Funk”, failed to sustain the interest and this unique band joined the ranks of reggae one-hit-wonders. In a short time, Monyaka gathered a sizable following becoming known around the area as key progenitors of the Brooklyn reggae sound. As a result, the group became the number one most requested backing band for any and all of the reggae musicians coming over from Jamaica to Brooklyn during the late 70s and early 80s. Monyaka backed the likes of Dennis Brown, Burning Spear, Black Uhuru, Marcia Griffiths, The Mighty …

Jack Miner and the Birds, and Some Things I Know About Nature

i applied under skilled worker class in august 2008, but now my lawyer tells me the required skill worker categories have changed, and he has not received a file number. so does this mean my application will be rejected and if so around when will i get to know about it ??

I am Mexican and I would like to know the requirements, I know as a mexican citizen, I need the visa if I want to be a tourist, I don’t know if that’s possible to find a job in Canada and to change your status meanwhile you are in Canada or do you have to leave the country and to ask the embassy of canada in my country.. thanks for your answers.

Ok so my canadian friends say in canada your required to have sex before you take sex ed. Because you need to be “Experienced”. I want to know if there is any truth behind this. They say theres a girl and the guys take turns. If its any bit true please say so.