Massive Bridge Plan Draws Thousands in Sicily to Protest

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Massive Bridge Plan Draws Thousands in Sicily to Protest

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Thousands of people have marched in Sicily to protest against a government plan to build a bridge that would connect the Italian mainland to the Mediterranean island, and would be the world’s longest single-span bridge. Some 10,000 demonstrators recently marched in the Sicilian city of Messina to stage their opposition to the 13.5-billion-euro ($15.7bn) infrastructure project.

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Canada's remote islands are reclaiming their future

Photo Credit: Diane Selkirk for bbc.com

Looking up at the weathered figures carved into a memorial pole in SG̱ang Gwaay Llnagaay – an ancient First Nations village on a remote island in Canada's Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve – a young woman from the Haida Gwaii Watchmen programme explained how she had recently identified one of her own family crests etched into the centuries-old totem pole.