From the Globe and Mail:

Dozens of amateur videos and photographs, willingly provided by an outraged public, have helped police in Montreal make fresh arrests in the wake of Monday's hockey riot.

In a modern twist on the age-old art of snitching, citizens are e-mailing photos, offering amateur videos and turning to police websites to help investigators identify individuals involved in the downtown fracas.

Police credit public co-operation for boosting the number of riot-related arrests yesterday to 23.

For example, police posted six new photos of rioters on a department website yesterday, some showing vandals damaging a police car. All were provided by people mixed in with the throngs of revellers marking the Canadiens' first-round playoff series victory.

RSF.org is reporting that Russian authorities kicked the Globe and Mail's Jane Armstrong out of Chechnya a week ago, purportedly for not having her papers in order.

Here's the news release.

(h/t to Canadian Journalist)

From the BBC:

A top Taleban commander in Pakistan has ordered his followers to stop all attacks in the country.

Baitullah Mehsud is the man the Pakistani authorities say ordered the killing of Benazir Bhutto.

Pamphlets containing his order appeared in tribal areas along the Afghan border. Mehsud said anyone found violating the order would be punished.

Pakistan's new government has said it will deal with Islamic militancy through dialogue and development.

I wonder if it will be much different than this truce?

Meanwhile, the NYT reports that Pakistan is close to reaching a deal with the militants.

Jeff Rubin, chief economist for CIBC World Markets, predicted today that oil prices will top US$200 per barrel by 2012. Gas? Get ready to pay $2.25 a litre by then.

From Globe and Mail Update:

In a report titled Food Inflation: Coming to a Grocery Store Near You, (CIBC World Markets economist Avery) Shenfeld noted that while consumers are seeing higher costs of grain prices in food such as bakery products and pasta, that has been offset by stable or falling prices for other products, partly because of the strong Canadian dollar.

“Even relative to our closest neighbour, food prices have been remarkably tame in the last year,” Mr. Shenfeld said. “But after looking at what's behind that exceptional gap, it's clear that Canada's good luck on food prices is likely to run out in 2009.”

You might want to revisit this April 1, 2007 post: The Green Revolution's Outer Limits.

The BBC story looked at whether the world can produce enough food to feed the estimated nine billion expected to inhabit it by mid-century -- in other words, is a second act to the Green Revolution of the 1960s possible? Barring an unforeseen scientific breakthrough, it would appear unlikely.

There are other parts to the series:

March 28, 2007: Tiny island with a global warning

March 31, 2007: Obesity fueled by cheaper food

This page archives the podcasts of the Feeding the World series.