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Niverville transforms obsolete lagoon into a healthy wetland

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Ducks Unlimited Canada is celebrating World Wetlands Day by highlighting a success story in Niverville, Man.

In 2007, the growing town was faced with the task of decommissioning its old lagoon wastewater system in favor of a more modern one.

“One of the challenges they had, there was approximately 53,000 tons of bio-solid material that would have had to have been removed,” said Lisette Ross, head of Wetland Services for Ducks Unlimited Canada’s Native Plant Solutions.

She said often in these cases, bio-solid materials are physically removed by trucks and spread out over farmlands to provide nutrients. However, a lack

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Euthanasia Soon to Be A Leading Cause of Death in Canada?

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February 7, 2023 · 7:00 AM

From DailyMail:

Last year, more than 10,000 people in Canada – surprisingly that’s over three percent of all deaths there – ended their lives via euthanasia, an increase of a third in the previous year. And it’s likely to keep rising: next year, Canada is set to allow people to die exclusively for mental health reasons.

Only last week, a jaw-dropping story emerged of how, five years into an infuriating battle to obtain a stairlift for her home, Canadian army veteran and Paralympian Christine Gauthier was offered an extraordinary alternative.

A Canadian official told

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Centura Health splits in half after quarter-century serving Colorado | business

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Centura Health, one of the state’s largest hospital systems, is splitting in two after serving Colorado communities for more than 27 years.

CommonSpirit Health, a Catholic-run ministry, and AdventHealth, a Seventh-day Adventist Church-run ministry, will part ways to manage each of their care sites respectively, Centura Health announced Tuesday.


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“The partnership has accomplished so much; yet, it has reached its natural maturity,” the release read.

During the transition Centura Health will continue to serve in the management role for all 20 hospitals as well as clinics and care sites, the release said.

“There will be no disruption to patient

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Atrium Health site down after Killnet hacking threat

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Atrium Health’s website experienced outages Monday afternoon as a Russian hacking group shared a threat against the Charlotte-based health care system and other US groups.

The company’s “hospital systems and patient portals” weren’t affected, Atrium said.

Killnet listed Atrium Health’s Cabarrus County location in a post on the social media platform Telegram along with more than a dozen other hospital systems, Observer news partner WSOC reported.

Killnet is a pro-Russian hacking group known for its cyberattacks, primarily on European governments and infrastructure. They commonly use “denial of service” attacks to disrupt business, Politico previously reported.

Denial of service attacks “occur

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