And this news from Toronto: local officials and environmental groups are protesting a Canadian government agency’s decision to fly weapons-grade plutonium across 300 miles of southern Canada. In a surprise move Friday, 4.2 ounces of plutonium was transported by helicopter from Sault Ste. Marie on the US border to Atomic Energy of Canada Limited’s plant in Chalk River, Ontario. The shipment was part of the Parallax Project, a joint American-Russian experiment to determine whether commercial nuclear reactors in Canada can use material from decommissioned Russian nuclear weapons as fuel.