Word: canadians
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...American national emblem. But in the mid-1990s they were nearly wiped out in the lower 48 American states by chemical pesticides like DDT. While many U.S. populations have recovered, the majority of the world's 100,000 bald eagles still live in Alaska and B.C., says Canadian biologist Richard Cannings. And while the B.C. eagle population is thriving, large-scale poaching in the province threatens American bird populations, because eagles from throughout the western U.S. migrate to B.C. each winter...
...nearly two-thirds of Canada's exported seafood, a boycott will inspire the industry to end the hunt. They also contend that Newfoundland, a former whaling hub that now makes a bundle from whale watching, can overcome the economic disruption. "That kind of cultural shift has happened before," says Canadian environmental activist Rick Smith. "We can do the same with seals." --By Julie Rawe. With reporting by Tom Duffy
...were nine years old when Corriero came to her first tryout practice with the Scarborough Sharks, a local Canadian pee-wee team for girls...
...ACQUITTED. RIPUDAMAN SINGH MALIK, 58, and AJAIB SINGH BAGRI, 55, of the 1985 Air India plane bombing that killed 329 people, most of them Canadian Hindus; by a Supreme Court judge in Vancouver. The terrorist bombing, of a New Delhi-bound flight from Toronto, was believed to have been carried out by Sikh separatists in retaliation for the Indian Army's 1984 storming of a Sikh holy shrine in Amritsar. Prosecutors were hampered by a lack of physical evidence and credible living witnesses. Only one person has ever been convicted in the bombing...
...March 11, The Toronto Star reported Canadian women’s national team scout Wally Kozak’s criticizing Corriero’s skating abilities—giving her a rating of 1.5 on a scale of 0.5 to 5—and indicated that this was one of the primary reasons she has been left off the roster. The Toronto Star also quoted Kozak as saying that, “she would have to literally learn to skate” in order to be considered for Team Canada’s roster...