The ship that has been stagnant on the rocks above Niagara Falls has been around for more than a century and has not been plagued by strong winds and heavy rain.

According to the Niagara Parks Committee, the bad weather on Thursday kept the ship away from the rocky habitat and closer to the waterfall on the Canadian side.

According to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), a subsidiary of CNN, this is the first time in a century.

A major survey found that the lead in the water supply in major Canadian cities exceeds the safety level of hundreds of thousands of households.

Some areas showed lead levels higher than those in the US city of Flint, Michigan, during its 2015 water crisis.

One-third of the 12,000 samples collected between 2014 and 2018 exceeded national safety guidelines. 

Canada has the third-largest per capita freshwater reserve in the world.

Lead pollution is associated with low IQ in children and high blood pressure and heart disease.

Queensland flood victims are waiting on the Supreme Court Justice to make a decision on their almost nine-year class action against Seqwater and the Queensland Government.

The class action alleges that the Wivenhoe and Somerset dams were mismanaged before and during the 2011 floods to a degree that worsened the damage caused by the flood.

The Kurilpa Scout Group in Yeronga has just received $5,000 from the Queensland Government to create a conservation management plan for the community hall they host their meetings in. 

The Baden Powell Memorial Hall is located in the Yeronga Memorial Park, one of Brisbane’s oldest parks and a state heritage landscape since 2005.

The conservation management plan involves creating a planning and expenditure guide to lessen delays and study all undertakings when proposing changes to the heritage site.

A disability advocate group has uncovered serious complaints about the abuse and mistreatment of children with a disability by teaching staff, after filing Freedom of Information requests in every Australian state.

Children and Young People with Disability Australia (CYDA) CEO Mary Sayers described the instances documented as “terrible”.

“There was a case where a child had their hair pulled, and was dragged across a classroom, and was told that they were a ‘stupid boy,’” she said.

A 60-year-old Vietnamese man has been deported from Australia after failing to declare almost four kilograms of pork products he carried with him to Sydney International Airport, sparking concerns of an African swine fever outbreak.

The disease has the power to wipe out pig herds across the world, and is expected to kill more than 200 million pigs this year in China alone.

China announced a series of measures on Monday to further open up Taiwanese autonomous enterprises, including self-financing, to the market, because Taiwan warned its people not to take "temptation" actions before the presidential election in January.

Since President Tsai Ing-wen took office in 2016, China has claimed that Taiwan is a Taiwanese democracy and has put pressure on strategically located islands because she fears that she wants to promote its formal independence. This is Beijing's red line.

Official media said on Monday that Vietnamese police arrested eight people suspected of being linked to 39 deceased in a truck near London last month, all of whom were considered Vietnamese, bringing the total number of arrests in Vietnam to 10.

British police last week charged two men with manslaughter over the deaths of the group. Their bodies were found in a container of a truck on October 23.