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was wearing a dress, a sum INSIDE More details on the death of Tarda Dumstrey-Soos, Including her relationship with the animals at the private zoo. A2 mer dress, and it was waving around, and you know cats like to play with things that move." The Bells run Primate Estates, what they describe as an exotic animal "sanctuary" five kilometres outside of Lake Cowichan on Vancouver Island. One of their charges is Susie, a nine-month-old, 140-kilogram Bengal tiger. She lives in an eight-metre-by-eight-metre pen in the backyard. The Bells routinely visit her inside her cage, and Cody says he will pet her through the bars and stick his fingers in her mouth.

However, he adds, they are careful never to be alone with her. "It takes two of us to feed her because she's a big cat, and cats will attack you from behind." "She could eat a cow now." They also have 52 primates of different kinds, various reptiles, and nine other exotic cats, including servals an African species likened to a miniature cheetah and a caracal, a southwest Asian species described as the "desert lynx." See SANCTUARY COULD A2 1 ii-- lit i1 massive flooding in the region. The troops were deployed as part of the Joint Task Force Pacific, which coordinates preparations for an emergency with municipalities and the province. They are setting up radio, computer and telephone networks that will be used to deploy and mobilize troops should the Fraser River overflow its banks 1 II I IAN SMITHVANCOUVER SUN Master Cpl. Walter Draeger (front) and Master Cpl.

Ben Wornardt set up shop In Aldergrove. Alberta soldiers arrive in B.C. as waters, worries go higher 41, this spring. "The work we do now is prudent planning to prepare for the flooding," said Mark Maclntyre, spokesman for the Joint Task Force Pacific. "They're going to monitor the situation and we'll be ready to move in with more troops if needed." See FLOOD WARNINGS A2 "It's really great, but it's pretty humbling too," said Demco, a director at Webnames.ca.

"I didn't expect this kind of attention or growth for dot-ca. You've heard the saying that Canadians do tend to punch above our weight from time to time and this maybe one of them." In 1987, the Internet was used mostly for small-time research, and Demco never expected dot-ca would be a force in global commercialization. Nor did he expect to be awarded a CANARIE IWAY award for community service in 2001 and a Canadian New Media Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006. The University of B.C., which signed the original agreement for the domain name with the Canadian government and Cana 1 'J I BY KIM BOLAN VANCOUVER SUN More than one-third of Canadians believe that Canada's spy agency and airport security personnel deserve "a great deal of the blame" for the 1985 Air India bombing, a new survey says. And about the same number believe Canada is more vulnerable to a similar terrorist attack than it was in 1985, the Angus Reid Strategies poll indicates.

The company conducted an online survey of 1,046 randomly selected Canadians on May 9 and 10 just after the Air India inquiry was rocked by startling testimony about unheeded warnings and missed opportunities to prevent the terrorist attack. Despite increased public awareness of the case because of the high-profile inquiry headed by Justice John Major, fewer than half of those polled regard the bombing as a Canadian tragedy. Of the 329 people killed when Air India Flight 182 was blown out of the sky, 280 were Canadians, mostly of Indian origin. Yet just 48 per cent of respondents described the attack as a Canadian event, while 30 per cent "said they didn't know. Twenty-two per cent said they saw it as an Indian issue more than a Canadian one.

Among the stunning revelations at the inquiry was testimony by Ontario James Bartleman that he saw intelligence of a specific threat against the Air India flight for the weekend of June 22-23 and tried to pass it on to an RCMP officer, but was brushed off. And a former Quebec police dian Internet Registration Authority, is also considering naming a learning centre after Demco. "Nobody predicted the World Wide Web; it's hard to know if anyone could have predicted the commercialization of it," he said. "Back then it was a novel thing, now it has weaved its way into the fabric of society." The commercialization of the Internet has become an investors' dream, with top-level domain names collecting huge sums in registrations, but most country code domain names are run directly by government or non-profits. "I'm amazed by the size and scope," he said.

"Dot-ca is special to me because it's intended for use by all Canadians." ksinoskipng.canwest.com Pointing fingers An online survey of 1,046 Canadians found plenty of blame to go around for the 1985 attack that killed 329. Who should have stopped the bomblngT 50 40 30 20 10 0 34 34 27 1 18 RCMP CSIS Transport Airport Canada warty Source: Angus Reid Strategies VANCOUVER SUN officer said he was called to Mirabel airport with his explosives dog to search the ill-fated flight, but it left just 15 minutes before he arrived. Several police officers and former agents of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service had testified there were problems with information-sharing between agencies, as well as delays in following up on tips. But Canadians believe CSIS is more responsible for the failures that led to the bombing, the poll said, with 34 per cent blaming the spy agency and just 27 per cent blaming the RCMP. Transport Canada was seen as blame-worthy by 18 per cent of those surveyed.

See TERRORISTS A4 World's top domains Most popular country code domain names In terms of registries for the fourth quarter of 2006. 1. Germany 2. United Kingdom 3. European Union 4.

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9. Brazil 10. Switzerland 13. Canada Creator of celebrates 20 years on Web BY KELLY SINOSKI and LINDA NGUYEN VANCOUVER SUN The Canadian army has set up a command post headquarters in Aldergrove to prepare for potential flooding of the Fraser River. About 100 troops from Edmonton have been posted at the Canadian Forces Station in the wake of growing fears of John Demco says the domain name 'Is special to me because It's Intended for all why INSIDE Arts Life CI Births Deaths B8 Bridge BS Sunny Busbesi 0 Full DonCayo F3 CJassifjed D9 Comics B6 Crossword B5.C5 J100 EditorialsLetters A10 PLUS GST Ferry Schedule B5 $1.25 Shelley Fralic CI MINIMUM Horoscope C5 LowerE IssuesIdeas All MAINLAND Keeping Track F4 Lotteries A2 MsyJes C6 Ian Mulgrew Bl fj) Sports Dl conada.com Sudoku 86 BY KELLY SINOSKI VANCOUVER SUN When John Demco created Canada's online identity with the xa domain name 20 years ago, he also registered himself as the "godfather of dot-ca" as a joke.

Little did he realize he would one day be recognized as one of the founders of the Canadian Internet, with dot-ca signing up more than 835,000 individuals and businesses and becoming the 13th most popular country code domain name in the world. Today marks 20 years since Demco was delegated the dot-ca domain by Jon Postel of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority on May 14, 1987. At the time, Demco was work-ing at the University of B.C. computer science department. Grand Prize Winner chooses from ljl(lolo035 1 nam MSI rules of play: www.Lotto4Kids.net I BC Gaming Event Licence 873779.

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