Monthly Archives: December 2025

‘Like dog poo’: Historic N.S. garden gets a smelly surprise from tree

Annapolis Royal Historic Gardens staff initially dismissed a suggestion by a visitor that their 40-year-old ginkgo tree had suddenly started producing stinky seeds.

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Flying Air Transat? Here’s what customers need to know as strike looms

 Air Transat announced on Sunday it will gradually shut down operations over the next three days in response to a 72-hour strike mandate issued by the union representing its 750 pilots. Here’s what travellers need to know.

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Air Transat, pilots’ union say ‘progress’ being made in talks as strike deadline looms

Air Transat says that “progress has been made” in negotiations with the union representing its pilots, just a day after the Air Line Pilots Association, Intl. issued a 72-hour strike notice.

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Paramount Skydance makes $108B hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery after Netflix move

Paramount Skydance on Monday launched a hostile bid worth $108.4 billion US for Warner Bros Discovery, throwing a wrench into the deal with Netflix in a last-ditch effort to create a media powerhouse that would challenge the dominance of the … Continue reading →

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Avian flu kills dozens of Niverville geese

Dozens of Canada geese are dead in Niverville as a result of a confirmed avian flu outbreak.

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Winnipeg moves to scrap bird-friendly window bylaw developers argue is barrier to development

Conservation groups are raising concerns as the City of Winnipeg considers changing a development bylaw designed to help save birds from fatal window strikes.

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Air Transat pilots’ union issues 72-hour strike notice to Montreal-based airline

The union that represents Air Transat’s pilots said on Sunday that it has issued a 72-hour strike notice that could see pilots striking as of Wednesday. 

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Want to see a snowy owl? This could be your winter

This could be an unusually good year to spot snowy owls in southern Canada. Here’s why, and how to see these Arctic visitors without disturbing them.

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New restrictions placed on hunting, farming ‘incredibly destructive’ wild boars in Alberta

Wild boars have been declared “a pest in all circumstances” by the Alberta government effective Dec. 1, meaning new restrictions have been placed on keeping them in captivity and hunting them in the wild.

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First Nations wonder if Canada’s decision on eels is best for future of species

After Canada announced Tuesday it wouldn’t list the American eel under the Species at Risk Act, some First Nations people with cultural and spiritual ties to the species are questioning the decision. 

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