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Inside the strange, fragile world of keeping exotic cats as pets

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By Michelle Cyca Verified, Alana Paterson
| Flipboard
5 hours ago The Valencia disaster exposed a deadly gap: two governments, zero lifesaving stations, and a stretch of coast so treacherous it earned the name “Graveyard of the Pacific.” Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The sinking of SS Valencia shocked Canada and the United States into enacting …
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Inside the strange, fragile world of keeping exotic cats as pets

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By Michelle Cyca Verified, Alana Paterson
| The Narwhal Verified
On an hour-long drive from Vancouver to the heart of B.C.’s Fraser Valley, I contemplate the most professional way to ask if I can pet this cat I’m about to meet. There’s journalistic value to being able to describe its fur, I imagine arguing, as I drive past bucolic fields and cheerless industrial parks. In the end, I don’t need to ask at all. “Do you want to feed him?” Mike Hopcraft says, holding out a dish of raw chunks of beef and a pair of long metal tweezers, as the cat glowers beside me.
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Baby, it’s (too) hot outside

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By Michelle Cyca Verified
| The Narwhal Verified
You hear that? It’s the faint roar of Narwhals celebrating a fresh crop of awards from the top national journalism organizations. Yesterday evening, the Canadian Journalism Foundation honoured The Narwhal with its prestigious award for climate solutions reporting. Last year, reporter Chloe Williams and photographer Gavin John spent five days in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, to document an effort to save disappearing sea ice and a way of life that depends on it.
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