The $10 bill is purple, contains polymers, and is vertically oriented. It features the first image of a Canadian woman on the country's currency.(Image credit: Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images) via New Canadian Currency Features Civil Rights Activist, Wins Innovation Award — News : NPR
Emerald Lake, Yoho NP / Canada — Documented Wanderlust
Emerald Lake, Yoho NP / Canada via Emerald Lake, Yoho NP / Canada — Documented Wanderlust
“It’s the great, big, broad land ’way up yonder” — The Orkney News
https://www.youtube.com/embed/3xtYEfc8z-g?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent Scotland’s links with Canada stretch back for centuries via “It’s the great, big, broad land ’way up yonder” — The Orkney News
‘Life is not the same’: Manitoba couple forced to live apart after 71 years, care home won’t take them both – CBCNEWS
by Erin Brohman Two Manitoba couples who have been married for decades are calling on government to help keep them together despite health needs forcing them apart. After 71 years of marriage, Dorothy and Allen Smith have only spent two weeks without each other. That changed in May when Dorothy, 92, was admitted to hospital, then …
Big pig problem: What to do after Yukon’s wild boar fiasco? – CBCNEWS
by Heather Avery - CBCNEWS A Yukon group is calling for wild boars to be wiped from the territory, fenced or not, after a fiasco this summer. Seven wild boar escaped from their enclosure into the wilderness, prompting fears the animals could reproduce and become an invasive species. The Yukon Fish and Game Association, a wildlife …
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Ottawa bearing witness to unusual influx… of bears – The Canadian Press
By Andy Blatchford (via msn.com) OTTAWA - High population density is a feature of most Group of Seven capitals — but Ottawa stands out among its international peers these days with an unusual demographic situation: a sudden influx of bears. Black bear sightings surged of late in Canada's national capital region. Conservation officials say they've already …
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NAFTA negotiations ‘hang over heads’ of Canadian farmers, U.S. counterparts – CBCNEWS
by Kaitie Fraser (via msn.com) As the sun comes up on farmers across Essex County, Ont., it's not their livestock or crops they check first thing in the morning — it's the markets. The tough talk between Canada and the U.S. around NAFTA negotiations is having real-life consequences for those working in the industry every day. …
These Canadians flew in a secret WWII mission to destroy German dams – thestar.com
by Ted Barris - Excerpt from Dam Busters - via msn.com On May 16, 1943, an unprecedented operation was launched by Squadron 617 of the Royal Air Force. The mission was to destroy three German dams in the Ruhr Valley with a new kind of bomb, dropped from a low-flying Lancaster, to cause flooding and …
Alberta’s Free Roaming Horses Society takes legal action to save Canada’s wild horses (wildies) — Straight from the Horse’s Heart
Source: Alberta’s Free Roaming Horses Society Alberta’s Free Roaming Horses Society and have just begun legal action against the Alberta Provincial Government for, what appears to be, a violation of their Statutes and Regulations with regards to capturing and removing the wild horses from Public Lands. They have been gathering documentation from Freedom of Information …
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