Does eating pork 'sweep away the dirt'? Thursday, April 3, 2014 Many South Koreans subscribe to the traditional belief that eating pork helps cleanse the body of pollutants. Korea AgraFood magazine reports that, after doing a particularly dusty piece of work, many South Koreans will eat pork to "sweep away all the dirt in the throat."The South China Morning Post cites this old belief as the driver behind a 32 per cent increase in pork belly and leg sales in the first week of December, when air pollution in Seoul reached a level three out of six. South Korean media call the smog that drifts east from China an "air raid," and inhabitants are increasingly concerned about its hazardous effects.Unfortunately, there is no scientific proof that eating pork will actually help. At least it's not as harmful as jamming cigarette butts up your nose, another bogus cure that The New York Times reports is spreading over the Chinese Internet.Meanwhile, the smog in China is so bad that Bloomberg News reports Chinese pilots at domestic airlines must now be qualified for blind landings before they can fly into the country's 10 most congested airports. BP Pulling savings from the air Behind the Lines - April 2014
Alberta ROCT makes drug and weapons busts Thursday, June 25, 2026 A team of RCMP officers dedicated to keeping rural communities safe made significant drug and weapons busts recently. On June 20, the Rural Organized Crime Team (ROCT), which the provincial government provided $2 million of support for earlier in the month, found drugs and firearms during... Read this article online
Canada’s only commercial olive farm up for sale Thursday, June 25, 2026 A rarity in Canada, the only commercial olive farm in the country, is going up for auction in August. CLHbid.com will oversee the sale of The Olive Farm and its almost 74 acres of land in Salt Spring Island, B.C. Canadian olive production is very low because of its cold winters, and... Read this article online
Manitoba grain elevators listed as endangered Thursday, June 25, 2026 Grain elevators in the RM of Brenda-Waskada are considered some of the top 10 endangered structures in all of Manitoba. The Manitoba Historical Society on June 23 published its annual list of “historically significant buildings around our province that deserve to be preserved and better... Read this article online
NOAA Declares El Nino, Raising Key Weather Risks for Agriculture Thursday, June 25, 2026 The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has officially declared the onset of El Niño, confirming that ocean temperatures in the central Pacific have risen high enough to trigger one of the world’s most influential climate patterns. The declaration follows sustained... Read this article online
Anti-Dumping Probe Targets Wheat Gluten Imports in Canada Thursday, June 25, 2026 The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) has opened an anti-dumping investigation into certain wheat gluten imports entering the Canadian market from Italy, Poland, and the United Kingdom. The inquiry will examine whether these products are being sold in Canada at unfairly low prices,... Read this article online