Ongoing efforts to stop unfold and severe an infection

California has mobilized a complete cross-agency response to Chook Flu in dairy cattle and poultry farms to reduce farm employee exposures, cut back uncooked dairy product contamination, and mitigate the unfold of the virus. The state has enlisted native, state, and federal authorities technical and operational experience to help all aspects of the response; labored to coach the general public, well being professionals, employers, and employees on prevention and management measures to scale back the danger of publicity to Chook Flu; offered complete data for employers and employees on private protecting gear (PPE) necessities; and distributed thousands and thousands of items of PPE to high-risk employees at dairy farms. 

By way of coordinated public consciousness efforts between the California Division of Public Well being (CDPH), the California Division of Meals and Agriculture (CDFA), California Workplace of Emergency Providers (CalOES), and different companies, the state is main a cross-agency response that features well timed public updates, multilingual outreach to dairy and poultry employees, focused social media efforts to advertise preventive practices, on-line and printed assets for the general public, and media interviews to maintain Californians knowledgeable. Moreover, the state is making certain that agriculture employees have entry to further doses of seasonal flu vaccine from the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention (CDC) to scale back concurrent flu dangers.

Officers have additionally been working in shut collaboration with the Facilities for Illness Management, the U.S. Meals and Drug Administration, the U.S.  Division of Agriculture, and native well being and agricultural officers, as a part of a whole-of-government effort to coordinate, implement, and guarantee well timed surveillance and investigation of potential instances of Chook Flu.

Saskatoon police say the variety of reported bear spray incidents is up virtually 25 per cent, to shut to 300, from final 12 months.

The acrid spray has been discharged all over the place from the road to mall shops to metropolis buses, and getting a grip on its unlawful use is a main policing problem heading into 2025, Saskatoon Police Service Chief Cameron McBride mentioned.

By means of October, there was been a median of practically one incident per day. At one level, there have been 5 circumstances over two days.

This pattern is troubling sufficient that one of many yardsticks McBride is utilizing to evaluate the province’s Protected Public Area Act is whether or not the brand new legal guidelines will assist management the sale and use of bear spray.

“How will we management it on the level of sale? How will we management it because it travels from one hand to the opposite? How does it get into the fingers of an individual who’s going to make use of it for a legal goal,” he mentioned.

“As we’re trying on the new laws and the way it may implement change and the way efficient it is likely to be … is it successfully going to make a distinction?”

McBride mentioned he had not but studied the brand new laws, launched by the federal government on Dec. 5. The province mentioned the Protected Public Areas (Road Weapons) Act will enhance security by regulating the possession, transportation and storage of things which may be used as avenue weapons, and permitting police to grab them with out laying fees.

That features massive knives, machetes and bear spray.

McBride is open to having a brand new device for police to make use of.

“If there’s optimistic change on account of laws, I am all for it,” he mentioned.

Municipalities should decide in for the legal guidelines to use.

Police flagged bear spray as a stay concern earlier this 12 months once they famous a “troubling rise” in bear spray-related incidents, in line with SPS Supt. Tonya Gresty, particularly in weapons assaults and theft experiences.

“The juices have by no means dried up,” the musician mentioned throughout an interview on the late-night present

The actor and mannequin Cara Delevingne performs Sir Elton John in a brand new video for his track Step Into Christmas.

Within the video, a behind-the-scenes reimagining of the one launched greater than 50 years in the past, Delevingne, 32, wears an identical-looking go well with and glasses as worn by the singer-songwriter within the unique.

On its preliminary launch in November 1973, Step Into Christmas reached No 24 within the UK prime 40 and the highest of the Billboard Christmas singles chart.

Delevingne, who’s a detailed pal of John’s, stated: “Elton has at all times been an idol of mine. To say his music has had a deeply profound impact on me is an understatement. To be requested by him to play him on this recreation was a dream that I didn’t know I had till it occurred. Truthfully, I want I might fake to be Elton day-after-day.

“I hope that Elton could someday return the favour and comply with play me in my not but developed, written, pitched or funded biopic. Fingers crossed.”

Within the new video, a manufacturing workforce is getting ready the set for the star’s arrival, attempting to make sure it’s “Christmassy sufficient”.

John stated: “I noticed Cara at Glastonbury final summer season, and we talked about how a lot we’d like to work collectively if the best concept got here up. She’s hilarious to spend time with, we each have fairly a self-deprecating sense of humour.

“When somebody urged the thought of her taking part in me in a riff on the 1973 Step Into Christmas video, I simply thought it was the right alternative. Thank God Cara thought the identical, as a result of it got here out nice.”

John’s documentary titled Elton John: By no means Too Late was launched on Disney+ on 13 December. Final month, the star launched the track By no means Too Late, which he co-wrote with the US singer and Grammy-winner Brandi Carlile.

Theodore Too, the beloved life-sized duplicate of Theodore Tugboat, has partially sunk whereas in port, its proprietor says.

The 20-metre vessel, which moved to the Port of Hamilton from Halifax Harbour in June 2021, by some means took on water Tuesday night time whereas on the Ontario Shipyard in Port Weller.

Its proprietor, Blair McKeil, CEO of Breakwater Monetary, stated in an announcement Wednesday {that a} staff of execs is devising a plan to refloat the tugboat.

“Right now, the reason for this unlucky incident stays unclear,” McKeil stated.

“Nonetheless, we’re dedicated to executing a protected and profitable refloat of our beloved Theodore Too.”

Kayla Graham, government assistant at Breakwater, informed International Information that Theodore Too is partially submerged within the shallow water. The remainder of the vessel is resting within the mud beside a dock.

Pictures shared with International Information present Theodore’s iconic pink ball cap, bulbous nostril and pleasant smile above water.

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Iconic smiling tugboat units sail for his new residence

The 24-year-old tugboat has lengthy been an iconic determine to many Canadians. Inbuilt 2000 in Dayspring, N.S., as a life-sized duplicate of Theodore Tugboat — the title character of a CBC youngsters’s TV present that aired from 1993 to 2001 — Theodore Too was usually seen bobbing within the water of the Halifax Harbour or making appearances in photographs.

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Earlier than his transfer to Hamilton, Theodore spent summers internet hosting youngsters’s excursions of the Halifax Harbour, in addition to cruising the Nice Lakes and seaboard within the U.S. and Canada, selling Nova Scotian tourism.

Since arriving in Ontario, Theodore Too has visited greater than 20 ports alongside the St. Lawrence River and Lake Ontario and within the U.S., elevating consciousness concerning the marine trade and conservation, restoration and preservation of water assets, Breakwater stated in a information launch.

“Individuals throughout the nation maintain this little tugboat expensive, and we’ll do all the things doable to maintain everybody knowledgeable of our progress,” McKeil stated.

“Relaxation assured, measures have been take to mitigate any potential environmental affect.”

Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston stated in a put up on Fb it was “unhappy to see our previous good friend in such a broken state.”

“I’m blissful to learn the proprietor is dedicated to repairing Theodore and a protected and profitable refloat,” he stated.

“Keep sturdy, Theodore!”

In an Instagram put up on its official web page, Theodore Tugboat stated its partial sinking was a “mishap.”

“I’m resting safely on my stomach within the mud and my household in Ontario has assembled a staff of specialists to rigorously proper and refloat me. They’re working tremendous onerous to have me ship form in time for the vacations,” it stated.

“Right now of 12 months, when so a lot of my associates throughout the nation are struggling, I would like you to know the way a lot I really like you all and I want you a heartfelt blissful, wholesome and toot-ally magical vacation. Toot Toot!”

&copy 2024 International Information, a division of Corus Leisure Inc.

Returning to the stadium the place he skilled hat-trick glory however eventual heartbreak on the two-year anniversary of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™ remaining, Kylian Mbappé opened the scoring on 37 minutes with the newly-crowned FIFA Finest Males’s Participant Vinícius Júnior offering the help.

The 15-time European champions proved too robust for the Mexican facet – with additional second-half objectives from Rodrygo and Vinícius Júnior – whose penalty sealed the victory.

Regardless of the defeat, Pachuca will return residence with their heads held excessive and carrying two trophies – following a extremely profitable week in Qatar. On 11 December, they overcame CONMEBOL Libertadores champions Botafogo 3-0 to assert the inaugural Derby of the Americas Trophy. Three days later they overcame CAF Champions League winners Al Ahly on penalties to carry the FIFA Challenger Cup.

The FIFA Intercontinental Cup™ conflict in Qatar was the primary ever between the 2 sides, however Pachuca – who have been competing of their first FIFA remaining, won’t have to attend lengthy for an additional likelihood to go one higher towards Actual. The pair have been drawn collectively in Group H of the expanded FIFA Membership World Cup 2025™ – and can meet once more on 22 June 2025 on the Financial institution of America Stadium in Charlotte, United States.

An iconic tugboat that was a fixture in Halifax Harbour for 21 years has partially sunk in Ontario.

Theodore Too, based mostly on the favored kids’s TV present “Theodore Tugboat,” moved three years in the past, travelling greater than 1,900 kilometres and stopping at 15 ports earlier than reaching its ultimate vacation spot in Hamilton, Ont.

A press release from Theodore’s new proprietor, Blair McKeil, reads, “Sadly, Theodore Too took on water whereas tied up on the dock at Ontario Shipyards. The vessel is now partially submerged and resting on backside.”

McKeil says crews are actually engaged on a refloating plan.

“It’s a really unlucky occasion, fortunately there have been no folks concerned and no accidents,” reads the assertion.

A press release from Theodore Too’s proprietor about it being partially submerged is pictured. (Supply: Fb)

Theodore Too is a totally operational 65-foot tugboat. It was constructed at Snyder’s Shipyard in Dayspring, N.S., in 2000 as a reproduction of the primary character of the youngsters’s present, which aired between 1993 and 2001.

In its early years, the tugboat spent summers on the Nice Lakes in Ontario and the japanese seaboard of america and Canada, selling tourism in Nova Scotia.

From the mid-2000s onward, the vessel hosted child-themed excursions of the Halifax harbour, with many passengers being former followers of the tv present.

“Theodore tugboat was a type of Halifax icons,” mentioned Halifax historian Blair Beed. “Folks keep in mind once they have been youthful, their go to to Halifax due to Theodore.”

In March 2021, Theodore was bought to McKeil, who’s the president and CEO of Breakwater Investments in Ontario.

Theodore Too is partially submerged at a dock in St. Catharines, Ont., in December 2024. (Courtesy: Bobby Davidson)

“It meant quite a bit to Halifax, and it related to folks right here,” added Richard Loughery, who additionally lives in Halifax. “It introduced out the children together with it and we went on a few excursions on it, in the course of the summer time.”

“Our youngsters and grandchildren noticed numerous Theodore and so they have been disenchanted once they moved away from Halifax,” mentioned Halifax resident Mel MacConnell.

Dennis Campbell used to personal Theodore Too, and after talking with the present proprietor, is assured the vessel will be saved.

“They’re engaged on it and they’ll get Theodore Too raised as much as the water and get it again in to prime form,” mentioned Campbell, who added it is unhappy to see tugboat on this state however is hopeful Theodore Too will quickly be repaired and seaworthy.

With recordsdata from CTV’s Paul Hollingsworth.

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