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Stories And Legends From
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Orbs Drift Through The Vatican
Tourists to the Vatican frequently produce
snapshots filled with ghostly orbs. Photo and
paranormal experts claim that the spots appear
due to a camera's flash, or when there is dust on
the camera lens. To some, though, those orbs are
actually souls passing through the sacred space.
A Strange Shape Captured On Film
A 19-year-old tourist captured video inside St.
Peter's Basilica that seems to suggest the
presence of a ghostly apparition. A strange
image appears and floats above the crowd. Is it
simply a flag meant to guide a tour group, or a
spirit, as the teenager claims?
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Peter MacKay says
Magnitsky Act should be
used against China over
handling of COVID 19
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many niche markets across Asia. World health
He’s already put out forward one bold experts have long raised concerns about such
proposition _ that with him, the Conservatives markets, which offer a wide range of farmed and
Among other things, he called for a plan similar would win a majority. wild animals for consumption, including bats,
to what was used in post-war Europe to rebuild pangolins, snakes, dogs and cats.
there, and one that ensures Canada has all the The man he is seeking to replace, Andrew
supplies it needs should the outbreak return or a Scheer, was pilloried by some in his party during “Dogs and cats as pets have established a much
new one emerge. the federal election last fall for suggesting the closer relationship with humans than all other
party could at that point win a majority. animals, and banning the consumption of dogs
He does not lay out how, exactly, that can be and cats and other pets is a common practice in
achieved. The prevailing wisdom was that Canadians were developed countries and in Hong Kong and
still too wary of Scheer to turf the Liberals Taiwan,” the Shenzhen city government said in
Lewis framed some of her own response this altogether and hand the government over to the an order posted on Wednesday.
week also in terms of vision, making the case Opposition, so suggesting a majority was
that a new “normal” is required based on the possible was a political turn-off. “This ban also responds to the demand and spirit
lessons learned from the pandemic. of human civilization.”
Conservative party members will elect a new
“Amidst the fear of COVID-19, we’re learning leader later this year. Shenzhen, a city of 12.5 million people, is a
humility and realizing what we’ve left behind: a major technology hub in southern China and sits
country where we cared about our elderly Shenzhen bans eating across the water from semi-autonomous Hong
neighbour and bought them groceries, shovelled Kong.
their snow and cut their grass,” she wrote. dogs, cats in post-
Chinese officials have started cracking down on
Sloan’s COVID-19 ideas have generated some coronavirus first for China wet markets amid international pressure over the
controversy. He appeared to attack the loyalty of latest outbreak, which comes less than two
Dr. Theresa Tam, the chief public health officer
globalnews.ca decades after SARS emerged under similar
who was born in Hong Kong, by asking whether circumstances.
the fact she relied on the WHO meant she was
Shenzhen has become the first city in China to
actually working for China. He later said he
ban eating cats and dogs as part of a wider effort China’s top legislature said in February that it
wasn’t going after her personally.
to control the wet markets where the first would ban the trade and consumption of wild
animal-to-human transmission of the novel animals. However, Shenzhen officials appear to
O’Toole, seen as running neck-and-neck with
coronavirus likely occurred. be getting ahead of the game with their own ban,
MacKay in the race, is shortly expected to lay specifically targeting the consumption of cats
out a refreshed slate of ideas to tackle COVID-
It’s believed the novel coronavirus disease, and dogs.
19 recovery, contained in the full policy
COVID-19, spread to humans from a bat
platform his campaign intended to roll out
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earlier this year, but delayed.