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Los Angeles Votes to Ditch Styrofoam With Citywide Ban
Los Angeles officials voted to ban styrofoam and other single-use plastics on Thursday in a move to become a “zero waste” city. The 12 city council members who were present at the meeting voted unanimously in favour of the ban, prohibiting the distribution and sale of expanded polystyrene products, more commonly known as Styrofoam.
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A Boy Captured for His Dreams Fights to Survive in Cherie Dimaline’s Follow-Up to The Marrow Thieves
In Hunting By Stars, Canadian author Cherie Dimaline — who hails from the Georgian Bay Métis Community — returns to the world of her award-winning 2017 novel The Marrow Thieves. The setting is a dystopian near-future where dreams have disappeared — except among North America’s Indigenous people, who are persecuted and even tortured for retaining…