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Globe: New Brunswick seafood plant shutting down after repeated complaints about unbearable stench
Coastal Shell Products suspended its operations this weekend, laying off 20 staff owing to what the company says are provincial government limitations that have made it financially impossible to continue.
For the last two years, the province has restricted the company from running its propane-burning dryer during the day after complaints from residents about the putrid smell that some said was ruining their lives in the Acadian fishing town of Beaurivage, formerly Richibucto.
Globe: World’s first weekly insulin injection coming to Canada in two weeks, manufacturer says
Many people with diabetes in Canada will soon be able to take insulin once a week instead of daily, drug manufacturer Novo Nordisk announced on Monday.
Insulin icodec, which will be sold under the brand name Awiqli, is the first once-a-week basal insulin injection in the world and it will be available across the country starting June 30, the company told The Canadian Press ahead of the announcement.
Canada is the first country to get the product, which was approved by Health Canada in March for the treatment of adults with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes.
Globe: Here are three great books about maritime history
If, like me, you’re one of the many people who felt a sense of deflation after reading David Grann’s enthralling book The Wager last year, knowing that it would be nigh impossible to find a worthy follow-up, then I have good news for you. Hampton Sides’s The Wide Wide Sea (Knopf Doubleday, 432 pages), about Captain James Cook’s third and final expedition, is, like Grann’s book, an epic, magisterial, morally complex work about the Age of Sail that reads better than any thriller.
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Personal and political dynamics are also at the heart of Eric Jay Dolin’s Left for Dead (Norton, 320 pages), a Robinson Crusoe-level tale of survival shot through with mind-boggling, Russian-doll levels of treachery and betrayal. Massachusetts-based Dolin does an excellent job of bringing clarity to a story with permutations as complex as the coastline of the Falkland Islands, where the chance encounter that drives it takes place, shortly after the events of The Wide Wide Sea, in the early 19th century.
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Unlike the previous two books, David Gibbins’s informative A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks (St. Martin’s Press, 304 pages) reads more like a straight work of history, the maritime archeologist using each wreck as a springboard into the civilization from which it hearkened.
UPI: Indian national accused of murder-for-hire plot pleads not guilty in New York court
Nikhil Gupta is charged with engaging a hitman to kill Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, a member of a banned Sikh movement that advocates for an independent Sikh state in India’s Punjab region and a U.S. citizen. Gupta also faces a charge of conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire.
According to prosecutors, unbeknownst to Gupta the “hitman” was an undercover U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency officer.
UPI: North Korean soldiers briefly cross DMZ border as South fires warning shots
North Korean soldiers briefly crossed the border on Tuesday morning and were sent back by warning shots, the South’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said, adding that landmine explosions have caused numerous casualties to Northern troops working along frontline areas.
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A JCS official told reporters Tuesday that the crossing appeared to be accidental, as the North has been ramping up activity in frontline areas of the DMZ since withdrawing from an inter-Korean military agreement in November.
“Various types of work are being carried out as part of strengthening security forces, such as clearing land, laying mines, reinforcing tactical roads and installing unknown structures that appear to be anti-tank barriers,” the official said in a background briefing.
TorStar: The Liberals and Conservatives are having a hockey fight
The Conservatives began blasting CBC for what it said was the broadcaster’s failure to offer enough playoff coverage to Canadians.
And the Liberals claimed it was Stephen Harper-era defunding that led to CBC showing fewer games.
Here’s what both sides are saying, what they’re getting right, and what they’re getting wrong. …
TorStar: Olivia Chow says workers returning to office would help city
Toronto’s mayor has been meeting with the CEOs of some of Canada’s largest companies to discuss how to get workers back in the office at least four days a week — and they’re calling on her to set the example.
This seems very wrongheaded to me. Forcing people back into a 1950s model when the world has changed. And employees will bear the cost, not the city.
CP (Globe): Zero-emission vehicle registrations jump 53 per cent in the first quarter: StatCan
The federal agency says 46,744 new zero-emission vehicles were registered in the first quarter, making up 11.3 per cent of total new vehicle registrations.
The agency says battery electric cars made up 73 per cent of total zero-emission vehicle registrations, while plug-in hybrids were at 27 per cent. [Hybrids are not zero-emission vehicles, even plug-ins.]
Overall, the agency says new vehicle registrations were up 16.6 per cent year-over-year in the first quarter, but were down 3.1 per cent compared with the fourth quarter of 2023.
It also adds pickup truck registrations fell just over eight per cent, the first year-over-year quarterly decrease for the category after seven consecutive increases.
The Art Of Not Asking Why (@jtr): Stop or I shoot!
I don’t remember much of my time in the army. There are days I don’t even remember my personal number. Other days, like yesterday, I wake up from a nap and that number is on my lips as if I just used it to identify myself at the base’s gate.
Last Updated: 18.Jun.2024 23:57 EDT
