The nearly 18 feet long, 3,000-pound female nicknamed ‘Joan of Shark,’ was tagged earlier by fisheries’ officers. When the animal popped up close to shore again, several beaches were shut down for extended periods. Read More »
NASA made a big discovery Thursday. Its Kepler Space Telescope discovered a planet, roughly the same size as earth, about 500 light years away from us. They’re not sure what the mass and composition of the planet are. But they know it’s in the “habitable zone,” an area near a star, where life “could” possibly exist. Read More »
A broad coalition of Christian leaders have taken the occasion of the holiest day on the Christian calendar to release an Easter statement calling for the end of the war on drugs and mass incarceration. They said they chose the Easter season to release their statement because of the spirit of the Resurrection, which Easter commemorates and celebrates. Read More »
A new movement is underway on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus to ensure the sharing of seeds. Founders of the movement distributed the first seed packs for 29 different varieties of vegetables at a launch event Thursday. The Open Source Seed Initiative was created to “free the seed,” organizers said. It’s a movement to ensure some seeds never get patented ... Read More »
Lake Wales, Florida – We have had a bunch of readers contact us here at Canada Journal wanting to know what is the ring around the sun today. Well it’s similar to the affect we saw on June 4, 2012 which we wrote about then. It’s called a 22 degree halo. Read More »
A Portland police officer was wounded, his K-9 partner killed and three suspects captured after a burglary and shooting in Southwest Portland early Wednesday morning. The gunman fled after the shooting and an intense manhunt that followed stretched from Capitol Highway and Southwest Lobelia Street to the 6900 block of Oleson Road. The shooting suspect was eventually captured about three ... Read More »
Ontario is toughening up vaccine requirements for students. All students going back to school this fall must have proof they’ve been vaccinated against two additional conditions — meningococcal disease and whooping cough. Those born after 2010 must also prove they’ve been immunized against chickenpox. Read More »
The B.C. government lacks oversight of an environmental regulation meant to protect the areas that border rivers, lakes and streams, says the provincial ombudsman. Kim Carter’s latest report looks at the Riparian Areas Regulation, which applies to 15 regional districts in populated areas from Vancouver Island to the Interior. Read More »
A northern Manitoba girl died after being mauled by dogs. Thompson RCMP were called to Lac Brochet on Tuesday around 6:00 p.m. Two large dogs of an unknown breed mauled the girl. The 10-year-old was rushed to the local nursing station, where she died. Read More »
Attorney General Eric Holder Wednesday told a group of police leaders it is time for street cops to start carrying the drug Narcan that can reverse deadly heroin overdoses. And this time the police, facing a rising number of overdose deaths, agreed. Police around the country are seeing a dramatic increase in the number of deaths linked to overdoses of ... Read More »
A Chinese herb, called thunder god vine, works better than a widely prescribed pharmaceutical drug at easing rheumatoid arthritis, according to a study published this week. Chinese researchers recruited 207 patients with rheumatoid arthritis and gave them either the herb, the drug methotrexate (marketed as Rheumatrex or Trexall), or a combination of the two. Of the 174 who completed the ... Read More »
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