times when an apology is trite, and this is one of those times....

The federal government says it will close several commercial Pacific salmon fisheries in British Columbia and Yukon beginning this season to conserve fish stocks that are on the “ verge of collapse.” The Fisheries Department said in a news release Tuesday that 79 of 138 commercial and First Nations communal fisheries will be affected, which amounts to about 60 per cent. Fisheries Minister Bernadette Jordan said these closures will reduce immediate pressure on fragile stocks that have drastically

Portugal has banned tourist boats from approaching pods of orcas after a series of incidents saw the animals ram into vessels.In May, a group ofso-called killer whalesrammed into a sailing boat off the Spanish coast in the early hours of the morning.... Boats are also instructedto move away from the animals to avoid interactions and to stop moving if the orcas manage to approach the boat unnoticed. Why are orcas ramming into boats in Spain and Portugal?... That’s up from 197 in 2021, and 52 be

Their counsel argued that the prosecution failed to prove the charge against the appellants beyond reasonable doubt.... He said the appellants had already disassociated them from the trust way back in the mid 2000s.An additional prosecutor general opposed the appeals and argued that the trust was working as a proxy for the LeT owing to which the government proscribed it in 2019.... The CTD had registered as many as 41 FIRs against the JuD leaders in different cities. Published in Dawn, Novembe

( Reuters)-As Britain's Prince Charles and his wife Camilla prepare to visit Canada this week, some members of the indigenous community are calling on the British royal family to formally acknowledge the harm colonization did to First Nations people.... The royal couple will arrive in St.... John's Mayor Danny Breen, who told Reuters that the province of Newfoundland and Labrador is looking forward to the arrival of Charles and Camilla." People have respect for the queen and have respect for t

‘Old roles given specious new titles’ She challenged the Trust’s claim that they had doubled the number of curators in the past five years, saying that this was in part because they had given old roles “ specious new titles ”.... But his claims were also challenged by Roger Carr-Whitworth, a National Trust curator for more than 30 years, who told the AGM that the claims on the number of curators was “ misleading ” because “ previously called visitor experience consultants are now called curator

US President Donald Trump intends to sign a budget bill on Friday, February 15, simultaneously announcing a state of emergency in connection with the humanitarian crisis on the border with Mexico, the White House announced. This will allow Trump to increase allocations for the construction of the w

close Video Fox News Go On Tuesday night, the American people spoke.... In California, a majority-minority state, voters refused to greenlight the racist Proposition 16, which would have repealed a state constitutional provision banning racial discrimination, paving the way for reparations and affirmative action.... They did so by a margin of over 10 points and despite the fact that Prop 16 advocates spent 12 times the money their opponents did. All of this has sent woke thinkers into spasms o

He added: “ We have done very few proper randomised controlled trials of public health interventions.... If there are things that government would do if they knew they worked, then they are the priority, ” he said.... His call was backed by Carl Heneghan, professor of evidence-based medicine at the University of Oxford....

The Coast Guard said it was too dark to go out and search for the spill by the time they received a report about it.... 2 alerted controllers about a possible spill.... Fishing in the affected area resumed only recently, after testing confirmed fish did not have unsafe levels of oil toxins.If convicted, the charge carries up to five years of probation for the corporation and fines that could total millions of dollars. ———Brown reported from Billings, Montana....