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A fire that damaged Victoria's Historic Inn on Robie Tufts Drive in Wolfville, N.S., has been deemed suspicious.

Nova Scotia's Municipality of the County of Kings voted to close the Greenwich Volunteer Fire Department and hand its assets to the nearby Wolfville Volunteer Fire Department at a late-night council meeting this week.

Asia Sentinel May 1 By Todd Crowell The government of Japan is caught between a classic rock and a hard place, having kicked off an international furor over what to do with thousands of tonnes of cooling contaminated water now stored in hundreds of tanks on the site of the earthquake-damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi power station, which the government wants to discharge into the …

Asia Sentinel The strips in the South China Sea were built quickly on reclaimed sand Dec 17, 2020 By: Todd Crowell It has been five years since Adm. Harry Harris, commander of the U.S. Pacific Command drew popular attention to China’s efforts to fortify half a dozen reefs and atolls in the Spratly island chain in the South China Sea with the pithy expression: China’s Great Wall of Sand. But that sand isn’t exactly stable, and there are real questions…

Asia Sentinel The first pandemic. Covid was the second. There are increasing fears there will be more Dec 15, 2020 By Todd Crowell In early 2003, when I was working in Hong Kong, I got an email from a friend and former colleague regretting he had to cancel a planned trip to the city. “It’s that pneumonia thing.” Pneumonia thing? What pneumonia thing, I wondered. What was he talking about? I was vaguely aware that some hospital in Kowloon had reported a few cases of what…