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Listen to this article Estimated 4 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. The town of Berwick, N.S., is more than halfway to its goal of powering its community …
Read More »Fort Simpson spared the worst overnight after wildfire stopped on edge of town
Listen to this article Estimated 4 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. A shift in winds overnight has spared Fort Simpson, N.W.T., from the worst impacts of a …
Read More »How do you get rid of 110 vats of smelly fish sauce? This Newfoundland town is finally getting an answer
LISTEN | Mary-Catherine McIntosh’s documentary Fish Sauce: The Current23:11How decades of rotting fish sauce changed a small town It’ll take about 200 trips with a standard-sized dump truck to put an end to a stinky problem that has plagued the town of St. Mary’s, N.L., for the past 25 years. …
Read More »This Alberta village has an ambulance, but it’s out of town 96% of the time
Listen to this article Estimated 5 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. The Village of Linden has a fire engine, a waterpumper and a rescue truck parked and …
Read More »This Japanese town cancelled its cherry blossom festival to stop overtourism. It didn’t work
It took a decade of noise, trash and at least one tourist defecating on a resident’s lawn for the town of Fujiyoshida to declare a crisis. This small city at the base of Japan’s Mt. Fuji made international headlines earlier this year when it cancelled its annual cherry blossom festival …
Read More »Israel launches attack to seize Lebanon border town ahead of U.S.-hosted talks
Listen to this article Estimated 4 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Israeli troops launched an attack to seize a key south Lebanon town from Hezbollah fighters holed up inside …
Read More »Irish town ‘shell-shocked’ after 15,000 crabs escape from overturned truck
Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. LISTEN | Full interview with Odhran McLaughlin: As It Happens5:25 15,000 crabs escape from overturned truck …
Read More »Small Sask. town rallies to preserve historic bridge a decade after its closure
A historic bridge in Saint Louis, Sask., has been given a second life as a walking path after having been shut down over ten years ago. Access to the former railway bridge was closed in 2014 due to concerns about its structural soundness. But now, it has become a tourist …
Read More »In the shadow of the Himalayas, this town is sinking, a casualty of the past and the present
It was the middle of the night when the call from a family friend came, warning Abhishek Nautiyal and his family that they had to immediately leave their home in Joshimath, a small Himalayan mountain town in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand. The message was simple: Get out — …
Read More »This town wants to give away its 100-year-old convent. Could it be a housing solution?
CBC’s virtual road trip series Land of Living Stories explores the hidden gems across Saskatchewan. Reporter Janani Whitfield hit the road to Gravelbourg in search of inspiring stories of community spirit. This is the second of a four-part series from that community. From the window of the historic home she manages as …
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