[NEWS] Five links: meat tax, Civilization VI, Mount Washington, Niagara Falls, Soviet fall

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• Is a sin tax to discourage meat consumption a good idea, at least environmentally? CBC considers.


• The use of Chief Poundmaker and the Cree as players in the new game Civilization VI is controversial among the Cree, who wonder why they were not asked first. The National Post reports.


• Mount Washington, in New Hampshire, sounds like a particularly frigid place. The New York Times describes the environment.


• Despite appearing frozen, water still flows underneath the ice of the Niagara Falls. CBC explains.<>/li>
  
• How could the fall of the Soviet Union, and the inclusion of successor states in the international order, have gone differently? What was possible? Transitions Online considers.