Topic: Dog Info - 'Dog-strangling vine' invades west Quebec - CBC.ca
Dog strangling vine changes the pH of the soil, making the environment hostile for other plants. Local resident and gardener Colleen Wallace is sounding the alarm about dog-strangling vine, a plant from Europe that doesn’t actually strangle dogs, but does kill the plants around it. Rachel Deslauriers, a spokeswoman for the municipality of Chelsea, is asking local residents to watch for the plant do their part to remove the plant while it is still small. Canadians should not expect big tax cuts or big spending this year, federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said Wednesday as Conservative MPs met in Quebec. Driver fatigue was a major factor in a collision in northern New Brunswick that killed seven high school basketball players and a local teacher, according to a report by Transport Canada. read more…
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