Not content to let Canada have all the creepy foot fun, a tennis-shoe-clad, possibly human foot has washed ashore in Clallam County, Wash. A woman spotted the foot in some seaweed early Saturday monring, 14 miles south of Canadian shoreline. Clallam County police are working with Royal Canadian Mounted Police to see if there is any connection between this foot and the five that have washed ashore in British Columbia. The first of the five......

An Orcas Island connection to the foot mystery? "Orcas Island View" by Jay Cox After almost a year of mystery, the first of five severed feet found in British Columbia have been identified as belonging to a missing man. While the man's family has asked that his identity not be released to the public, Royal Canadian Mounted Police say the man was depressed and disappeared over a year ago. Which of the found feet belonged......

Royal Canadian Mounted police announced today that two of the five severed human feet found along the coast of British Columbia came from the same person. Who that person is or how they lost their feet is still unknown...but surely, this is a step in the right direction.......

Our lovely neighbors to the north have been having a rough go at it. Locals have been discovering all kinds of unpleasant things you'd rather not find in your back-yard. First five severed feet washed ashore on area beaches, and now a new case of mad cow disease has been confirmed at a B.C. farm. Canadian officials believe this is an isolated case, which has not spread to other animals, much less humans. Still,......

Just kidding about the sixth foot found, literally. It appears to have been a prank, rooted in that quirky Canadian sense of humor. According to the Associated Press via the Seattle P-I:The coroner's service says a forensic pathologist and anthropologist examined the latest foot and found it actually was an animal paw inserted into the shoe, along with a sock packed with dried seaweed.......

Now that a sixth foot has washed ashore in British Columbia and the mainstream media has picked up the story (because, five severed feet washing ashore—not national news; but half a dozen—now that's a headline!), the theories on the source of the severed feet are coming in. The first theory we heard came from local oceanographer Curtis Ebbesmeyer, who told the Seattle P-I that he believes: "The feet came along as a result of an......

As the news of a sixth human foot appearing in the waters around Vancouver, B.C. percolates through the Interweb, we're reminded of another troubling and--we can only hope--wholly unrelated story we caught on CBC the other night. Apparently, for the last year, athletically built young men have been mysteriously disappearing around Vancouver, B.C. While the police have yet to suggest any relationship--or even foul play--between the disappearances, family members increasing see links. They've created a......

The word on the tubes is that a 6th human foot was found floating in British Columbia this morning. Courtesy of Boing Boing, who has a connected reader in B.C.: I work for a newspaper in Campbell River, B.C. on Vancouver Island. Another foot was found here this morning at Tyee Spit (the second this week!). What is up, Canada? Even if it is just some strange current from the middle of the ocean......

Another human foot has been found floating in British Columbia. And, unlike the four before it, this one is a left foot. The B.C. Coroner is working to determine if this foot is a match for any of the right feet that have washed ashore. Still, just like the fourth foot, authorities are reluctant to declare that any of the floating feet are related. The Mounties also say there is no evidence that the......

Another severed human foot has washed ashore on an island in British Columbia. Surprisingly, "severed human foot" isn't the most important part of that first sentence..."another" is. Another, as in this is not the first severed human foot to wash ashore in B.C. In fact, it is the fourth severed foot that has been found since September. Just as the three feet found before it, this one still had a tennis shoe on when......

This year if Sasquatch just ain't your thing, there's an upcoming brand-new music festival hosted by our neighbors to the north. Yes indeedy, this summer marks the first-ever Pemberton Festival, to be held July 25-27 in Pemberton, British Columbia. Considering it's their first year, this little baby music fest has rounded up some big names, including Coldplay, Tom Petty, Nine Inch Nails, Jay-Z, Interpol, Death Cab, Flaming Lips, and Vampire Weekend. There'll be two......

In case you missed it on Monday, British Columbia Liberals announced a $14 billion transit upgrade plan. The Vancouver region already has the 49-kilometre SkyTrain system - the longest automated transit system in the world. But Mr. Campbell yesterday committed to about 30 kilometres of new SkyTrain-style and light-rapid-transit lines, plus bus systems elsewhere in the province, and $1.6-billion for 1,500 new clean-technology buses to increase the provincial fleet by about 60 per cent. B.C.......

Boom! Governor Gregoire comes right out of the gate at the new legislative session with a new bill laying "the groundwork for concrete limits on greenhouse gas emissions beginning in 2012." And, in just four short (or long, depending on how you look at it) years, the bill "would give the state Department of Ecology the authority to regulate those emissions," reports the P-I. The main thing is that "big polluters" in Washington State would......

There are a lot of things we can see being seized at the border between Canada and the United States: handguns with the serial number filed off, bricks of heroin, briefcases with the radioactivity sign on the side. Hard drives we'd expect to make it through, but unfortunately we'd be wrong. The guy bringing the masters of the songs Chris Walla recorded in Vancouver back down to Seattle had the drive containing them yanked by......

The Sightline Institute's Cascadia Scorecard was released last week and while British Columbia continues to show us how it's done on almost every environmental front (live longer, less energy use, less sprawl, more Canadian), the news ain't all bad for Washington. Gasoline consumption in our state declined again to 15.3 gallons a person a week, the lowest usage we've seen since 1967. Hybrids haven't really been in wide enough circulation to account for this, particularly......

Everything we know about dodging the draft by heading to Canada we learned from The Brothers K and popular mythology. So, we don't know much. Little before our time, there. Despite the fact that today's army is all volunteer (and today's Canada is more Conservative) there are still some soldiers waiting out Iraq up north. Almost everyone that this Salon article mentions seems to have already pulled a shift in the Middle East and is......

Seattlest is a horrible role model. If we're not pickling our livers at famous local dives then we are snorting rat droppings in our basements. Either that or we're licking rusty old rail track. That's the price we pay to bring you, dear reader, this here fine reportage. In short: Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be Seattlests. Get out of this dirty dirty town and consider playing hooky on the next available......

Monday CALL 911! CALL 911!: Political and economic commentator and White House strategist during the Nixon administration, Kevin Phillips talks about his book, American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century. Phillips traces the set of related causes that caused the downfall of historical world powers. That same combination of ills he says -- global over-reach, militant religion, resource problems, and ballooning debt -- is......

Sightline's Eric de Place celebrated his own private Kyoto on Friday by congratulating the region for their collective environmental work. British Columbia, which has been slow to catch up with even the rest of Canada, has finally been pushed in the right direction by the Prime Minister's recent green initiative talk. Oregon's governor Ted Kulongoski has recently said that he wants the state to become the "clean energy capital of the nation" and released an......

A Canadian mining minster in British Columbia recently flamed someone who wrote in about a policy decision via email. He pretty much tore the guy up and attacked him on the grounds of the guy's questionable Canadian pedigree ("It is my understanding that you are an American, I don't give a shit what your opinion is on Canada or Canadian residents"). Big story. The guy seems to have resigned over it. Shit's in the P-I.......

A little over a month ago a fine was levied against Celebrity Cruises for dumping waste water into Puget Sound. Oh how we wish we could say "for illegally dumping waste water into Puget Sound," but, unfortunately, we can't. Cruise ships operate under a Memorandum of Understanding in the Sound that says what they can dump, where, and what happens to them when they completely disregard those rules. It isn't a law, though. It's just......

Eighteen teams competed in Seattlest trivia at the Old Pequliar last night. We'll post the final standings this afternoon. In the meantime, test yourself with the quiz: Round 1: Geography 1) The mouth of the Mekong River is in what country? 2) What's the largest lake in the United States that isn't one of the Great Lakes? 3) Which Canadian province or territory contains Mt. Vancouver? 4) Volcán Tajumulco, the tallest mountain in Central......

The current problem with Seattle sports teams, besides the fact that a giant douche bag let our NBA team leave town, is that we don't have any athletes from British Columbia on our rosters. British Columbiainerites are showing that they are a force to be reckoned with, and they have the hardware to prove it. Steve Nash has taken home back-to-back NBA MVP awards, yesterday Justin Morneau won the American League MVP, and in the......

ROUND 1—GEOGRAPHY 1. What county in Pullman in? 2. What is the tallest mountain located entirely in British Columbia? 3. What is the capital of Mongolia? 4. Lake Union was landlocked until the completion of what? 5. Name Italy's largest lake. 6. State Route 99 runs from Everett to which city? 7. Which is the only Oregon County to observe Mountain Time? 8. How many Baltic States are there? 9. Which country is located directly......

Last night at the Old Pequliar, eight teams competed for cash at Seattlest's debut quiz. With Newcastle's doubling of the prize pool, that left $80 to be divvied among the top three teams. The results: 1) Friendship Is a Weapon: 66 points, won $60 2) Faust: 62 points, won $15 3) Fighting Amsih: 53 points, won $5 4) Pasargada: 51 points 5) The Newbies: 48 points 6) Team Awesome: 45 points 7) Mixology: 39......

One of the ideas we take for granted is that we are but one in a sea of many, with that anonymity providing both comfort and solace. Part of the appeal of the glut of reality television (and shock radio and tabloids before that) is that there is this transparency applied to an individual's existence, the removal, however temporary, of the social protections that we hold dear. The new Pardon Me exhibit at Vancouver's......

The Matador Records website announced a New Pornographers / Belle and Sebastian tour last week and we can't say we're ecstatic about the pairing. Sure, we went through a very brief B&S phase at one point a few years ago. We're not proud of it, but we can admit it. Finally. And we suppose that we can see what Matador is trying to do. Twin Cinema is an excellent attempt at a great album and......

A few weekends ago, our mountain bike team competed in the 24 Hours of Adrenaline race in Whistler, British Columbia. (That's in Canada for those of you following along at home.) If by "Adrenaline" one thinks of non-stop rain, mud, and suffering, then that was the right title for the event. Here's the short version about this race: teams or individuals attempt to get as many laps as possible completed on a specific set......

The busy beavers over at Seattle's Northwest Environment Watch have taken their statistical sideshow to the wilderness. They've decided to track the health of five northwestern indicator species: gray wolves, woodland caribou, greater sage grouse, Chinook salmon, and the resident orcas off the coast of Washington and British Columbia. (Yes, Virginia, there's a chart!) What does a look at these five species tell us? Results are mixed, according to our preliminary research. Some species, like......

It's that time of year again here in the Pacific Northwest, where's a man's fancy turns to...salmon. Oh sure, you're gonna hear much about Copper River Salmon. It's the one salmon that gets nationwide attention. When you go to your local fishmonger, they're gonna tell you about the Copper Salmon's nutty taste, or how much oil content is in the fish. Then they're going to use these little tidbits of fact to charge you just......