[ISL] Five islands links: Toronto Islands, Vancouver Island, Newfoundland, Louisiana, Jersey

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• The idea of making the Toronto Islands an officially designated bird sanctuary makes sense on a lot of levels. The Toronto Star reports.


• The community of Saanich, on Vancouver Island, is expected to host the biggest marijuana farm in Canada come legalization, making many there unhappy. Global News reports.


• Trump tariffs may doom a pulp and paper mills in the western Newfoundland city of Corner Brook. CBC reports.


• Wired features this heartbreaking choices facing the inhabitants of the Louisiana town of Isle de Jean Charles as their island submerges beneath rising waters. What will they do? Where will they go? Can the community survive?


• CityMetric tells the story about how people on the Channel Island of Jersey wanted to build a bridge to France, why this didn't happen, and how this relates to Brexit.