Posted AT 9:42 AM EDT on 14/07/08
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COLD LAKE, ON. — There are hot spots here, but they have nothing to do with temperature changes that swimmers find as they slip through the currents.
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These particular hot spots are chased by the featherless loons, the strange, sometimes waddling creatures - 100 per cent of them male - who cruise about the gravel roads and along the channel that runs between the islands in search of a connection.
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