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It was thought the Shagreen snail could only be found in Canada on Middle Island and Pelee Island in Lake Erie, but photographs uploaded to a crowdsourcing nature app have proved the endangered snail is on the mainland, just outside of Woodstock, Ont. Scott Gillingwater, species at risk biologist with …
Read More »Lower Mainland Safeway workers vote 98 per cent in favour of strike authorization – BC
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Over 3,000 Sobeys employees across 40 Lower Mainland Safeway stores have voted overwhelmingly to approve a strike if bargaining talks break down in the weeks ahead. United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1518, which covers Sobeys’ employees from Whistler to Hope, says …
Read More »North Korea test fires ballistic missile with range capable to strike U.S. mainland
Leaders of the United States, South Korea, Japan and allied countries convened an emergency meeting during an Asian summit on Friday and condemned North Korea’s firing of a suspected intercontinental ballistic missile, calling for a united response. The missile, which landed just 200 kilometres off Japan, was capable of reaching the mainland United States, Japanese …
Read More »Taiwan learning to live with record COVID cases, as mainland China continues strict controls
Billed a COVID-19 success story as its economy boomed through the pandemic, Taiwan is now battling a record wave of infections as it eases restrictions that had kept outbreaks at bay to start life with the virus. For the whole of 2021, Taiwan reported less than 15,000 locally transmitted cases. …
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