A young killer whale that was trapped for more than a month in a lagoon on Vancouver Island swam past a bottleneck at high tide early Friday, reaching an inlet that could take it to the open sea, officials said. The Ehattesaht and Nuchatlaht First Nations said in a statement that a team monitoring the 2-year-old calf saw it swim past the area where its mother had died, pass under a bridge and head down the inlet “all on her own.” The young orca still must leave the Little Espinosa Inlet to reach open ocean.
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Vuntut Gwitchin Chief Pauline Frost expressed disappointment that she did not get to see the proposed Yukon Health Authority Act become law this week.The legislation, which would create a new, arm's-length organization to carry out front-line health care in territory, was tabled last month and has yet to be passed in the legislature.Frost — a strong supporter of the proposed act — believes it should have been voted on this week, but that it was instead delayed by partisan politics. "I think the