The Canadian government has ordered firearms dealers to stop collecting personal information from those purchasing long guns in compliance with the scrapping of the registry system earlier this year. Despite the end of the registry, Nova Scotia's firearms office continued collecting the information under federal authority. CBC News. Data released this week indicates that the number of mallards, teal and other ducks has reached the highest level ever recorded, with an estimate of 48.6 million breeding ducks in Canada and the U.S. The number is 7 percent higher than last year, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service survey, and 43 percent higher than the historic average going back to 1955. Delta Waterfowl. |