Surfboard-stealing Otter 841 keeps outsmarting California authorities trying to catch her
July 21, 2023
The otter has evaded authorities' attempts to use surfboards to lure her. But she might now be growing skeptical of the boards.
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It may be the most famous photograph ever taken. On June 8, 1972, in a small village in southeastern Vietnam, a nine-year-old girl named Phan Thi Kim Phuc was running along the road, screaming and naked, having torn off her burning clothes after a napalm strike by South Vietnamese forces. With one click of a camera, the image, officially called The Terror of War but more widely known as “Napalm Girl,” travelled around the globe via the Associated Press with stunning speed and impact, altering the world’s perspective on the Vietnam War almost overnight.
November 28, 2025 - 04:30 | Barry Hertz | The Globe and Mail
OTTAWA — Deciding how long it will take for Alberta’s industrial carbon tax to hit its new “minimum” of $130 per tonne should be based on what “industry can afford,” says Alberta Premier Danielle Smith.
Smith made the comments fresh off the signing of a new energy and pipeline deal with Prime Minister Mark Carney, which throws the Liberal government’s support behind the construction of a new Alberta-B.C. bitumen pipeline and exempts the province from a set of clean electricity regulations.
Chief among the wins the prime minister has touted from the deal is Alberta’s commitment to...
November 28, 2025 - 04:00 | Stephanie Taylor | National Post
There are two basic and immutable expectations upon which Ottawa residents insist: we don’t want our property taxes increased, and we want snow removed from our streets and sidewalks, quickly and reliably. Deliver those and a mayor or councillor can do just about anything else. Read More
November 28, 2025 - 04:00 | Bruce Deachman | Ottawa Citizen
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