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              The Spookiest Ghost


        Stories And Legends From
                     The Vatican




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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?
        https://youtu.be/wH-5Dh4MNGA




               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
                                                         consumed at a wet market in  Wuhan, one of                              (Continued on Page 77)
        earlier this year, but delayed.
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