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Saskatchewan allows motorized wheelchairs for disabled hunters

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Evan Radford – Local Journalism Initiative Reporter (Regina Leader-Post) / Yorkton This Week

JULY 4, 2020 01:57 PM

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Bobbie Cherepuschak a disabled hunter sits holding his rifle at his home in Lumsden in June. Certain allowances have been made by the province of Saskatchewan to to facilitate hunting by those with physical disabilities.
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It’s a small bullet point in a list of ten items from a March 25 provincial order in council, but the regulatory change will make a big difference for Bobbie Cherepuschak, an avid hunter who was born with spina bifida.

“Authorize permits to use tracked wheelchairs for hunters with mobility impairments,” the bullet point states.

Now 32 years old and living in Lumsden, Sask., Cherepuschak mostly uses a wheelchair to get around. It’s a task easier said than done for his favourite pastime, hunting out in the bush.

After he…

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There’s been 119 bear calls to police this year: report

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Wildlife management not core responsibility, public safety is, says chief
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Asking for a report on bear calls in Timmins has led to action from the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry, according to Mayor George Pirie.

A report from Timmins Police Chief John Gauthier updated council on the history of bear calls locally.

The report is after Coun. John Curley questioned what could be done about bears in city limits at the last council meeting.

Pirie said he’s happy it was brought up “because we got some immediate action from the…MNR, which we didn’t seem to be getting before.”

So far this year, there have been 119 bear calls, according to the report. That’s an increase of six calls since the last council meeting June 16. With support from MNRF bear technicians some bears have been trapped and relocated, and none have been destroyed this…

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WHO underplaying risk of airborne spread of Covid-19, say scientists

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/05/who-underplaying-risk-of-airborne-spread-of-covid-19-say-scientists

Open letter says there is emerging evidence of potential for aerosol transmission

Wearing masks indoors could help protect against airborne transmission

Wearing masks indoors could help protect against airborne transmission. Photograph: Kent Nishimura/Rex/Shutterstock

Hannah Devlin Science correspondent
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The potential for Covid-19 to spread through airborne transmission by lingering in the air is being underplayed by the World Health Organization, a group of scientists have said.

In an open letter due to be published this week, 239 scientists from 32 countries call for greater acknowledgement of the role of airborne spread of Covid-19 and the need for governments to implement control measures.

WHO guidance states that the virus is transmitted primarily between people through respiratory droplets and contact. Aerosol transmission involves much smaller particles that can remain in the air for long periods of time and can be transmitted…

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Scientists say WHO ignores the risk that coronavirus floats in air as aerosol

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Scientists say WHO ignores the risk that coronavirus floats in air as aerosol

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Choir members wear masks during a May 31 service at the Yoido Full Gospel Church in Seoul. (Ahn Young-joon / Associated Press)

Six months into a pandemic that has killed over half a million people, more than 200 scientists from around the world are challenging the official view of how the coronavirus spreads.

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The World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention maintain that you have to worry about only two types of transmission: inhaling respiratory droplets from an infected person in your immediate vicinity or — less common — touching a contaminated surface and then your eyes, nose or mouth.

But other experts contend that the guidance ignores growing evidence that a third pathway also plays a significant role in…

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Stop making sense: why it’s time to get emotional about climate change

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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/05/stop-making-sense-why-its-time-to-get-emotional-about-climate-change

The science has been settled to the highest degree, so now the key to progress is understanding our psychological reactions

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 Rebecca Huntley, an Australian social researcher and expert on social trends, at home in Sydney. Her new book is How to Talk About Climate Change in a Way That Makes a Difference. Photograph: Carly Earl/The Guardian

It took me much longer than it should have to realise that educating people about climate change science was not enough. Due perhaps to my personality type (highly rational, don’t talk to me about horoscopes, please) and my background (the well-educated daughter of a high school teacher and an academic), I have grown up accepting the idea that facts persuade and emotions detract from a good argument.

Then again, I’m a social scientist. I study people. I deal mostly in feelings…

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Newly identified swine flu could become a human pandemic

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https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/newly-identified-swine-flu-could-become-a-human-pandemic#Forward-planning

Researchers in China have identified an influenza virus called G4 that can infect both pigs and humans. While G4 is not yet able to spread from person to person, the scientists say that it has “all the essential hallmarks” of a future pandemic virus.

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A newly discovered virus may have the potential to become a pandemic.

Scientists have likened pigs to “mixing vessels” for generating pandemic influenza viruses because they host both mammalian and avian flu viruses.

When different strains of a virus occupy the same animal, they can swap genes to create new strains with the potential to infect new hosts.

Research led by Honglei Sun at China Agricultural University (CAU) in Beijing has identified such a strain in pigs that has already begun to infect humans.

Called G4, it incorporates genes from three distinct influenza strains:

  • a strain similar to viruses present in European…

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Cubs rescued, hunter fined after sow shot in Skagit Valley

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Two orphaned bear cubs were rescued June 15 from the Skagit, they will now stay Critter Care Wildlife Society in Langley until next summer. Their mother was shot by a hunter in the Skagit Valley on June 13. Hope Mountain Black Bear Committee photo

Cubs rescued, hunter fined after sow shot in Skagit Valley

Officers opt for fines, as hefty punishment could prevent hunter cooperation in future

  • Jul. 4, 2020 12:00 a.m.

A hunter has been fined after shooting a mother bear in the Skagit Valley June 13, leaving two cubs orphaned yet safe and cared for at a Langley wildlife rescue.

The shooting took place during the annual spring black bear hunting season from April 1 to June 15 said Sergeant Don Stahl with the Conservation Officer Service (COS). The hunter, who had a licence and tags to hunt black bears and assisted the conservation service after the…

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A new strain of swine flu has raised pandemic concerns – we spoke to an expert

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Gabi Zietsman | Health24 03 Jul 2020, 02:45

https://m.health24.com/Medical/Flu/News/a-new-strain-of-swine-flu-has-raised-pandemic-concerns-we-spoke-to-an-expert-20200703-5

New Virus With Pandemic Potential Discovered in China

According to CNN, Chinese researchers say the G4 virus descends from 2009’s H1N1 swine flu.

  • Researchers have identified a new strain of flu in pigs in China, which could potentially lead to another pandemic
  • The new virus has similar genes to the 2009 strain that spread throughout the world
  • However, local experts assure us that these findings are no cause for panic

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COVID-19 is 10 times more deadly than swine flu: WHO

The novel coronavirus is 10 times more deadly than swine flu, also called H1N1, which caused a global pandemic in 2009, the World Health Organization says, calling for control measures to be lifted “slowly”.

The discovery of anew type…

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