Above photo: The Magpie River in Côte-Nord, Que., is the first in Canada to granted legal personhood rights. Boreal River. In a first for Canadians, a river in Côte-Nord, Que., has been granted legal personhood by the local municipality of Minganie and the Innu Council of Ekuanitshit. The Magpie River, (Muteshekau-shipu in the Innu Coet) […]
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Magpie removed after attack on boy
A magpie that blinded a four-year-old boy in one eye has been relocated from the Toowoomba park in which the attack occurred last weekend. The male bird that swooped Seth McInnes on Sunday afternoon was yesterday trapped and moved away from the area, a Toowoomba Regional Council spokesman said. The spokesman said officers were confident […]
Magpie may have blinded boy in eye
Updated: 21:36, Thursday September 22, 2011 Parents of a four-year-old boy at risk of losing sight in one eye have spoken of their horror at the attack and say they want the bird killed. ‘(I) dropped everything. Ran to the hospital. No words can explain how you felt,’ the boy’s father Chris McInnes told the […]
Magpie blinds boy in one eye
Four-year-old Seth McInnes has been left blind in one eye after a vicious magpie attack in a Toowoomba park. His distraught father Chris McInnes told The Toowoomba Chronicle yesterday Seth was riding his bicycle near the playground in the West Creek Reserve on Sunday about 4pm when the magpie swooped. “He was riding his bike […]