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Niverville transforms obsolete lagoon into a healthy wetland

26/02/2023binomo

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

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

19/02/2023binomo

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

Should You Eat With Your Hands and Eschew Cutlery?

14/01/2023binomo

November 22, 2022 · 7:30 AM

DailyMail has an interesting article that promotes eating with your hands instead of forks, knives and spoons. After all, caveman Grok didn’t have eating utensils.

Those who are a stickler for etiquette should look away now.

That’s because we’ve all been eating the wrong way and should be eating with our hands, according to a psychologist.

Professor Charles Spence, from the University of Oxford, said giving up cutlery is the secret to enjoying food.

He says eating with our hands can ‘heighten the dining experience’ – even for meals like pasta and

Canadians fined no less than $15M for breaking COVID quarantine guidelines for 1st 8 months of 12 months: information

02/01/2023binomo

Canadians who have been caught violating federal COVID-19 quarantine guidelines racked up no less than $15 million in fines this 12 months, in line with the Public Well being Company of Canada, but it surely’s not clear how a lot of that cash will really be paid.

The company supplied information to the Home of Commons within the fall in response to a request from Conservative MP Eric Duncan.

Duncan didn’t reply to a request for remark.

This 12 months noticed the widespread lifting of Canada’s COVID-19 well being restrictions. Till October, vacationers have been required to observe testing and