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Tuesday: Nova Scotia home settlement, grasshopper swarm, ancient pants, and more...

The Nova Scotia government finally agrees to compensate people who were abused at the province's so-called Home for Colored Children...Everyone in Albuquerque knows about it,but they're keeping their mouths shut. It's not a cover-up, though: it's just an instinctive reaction to an unthinkably enormous swarm of grasshoppers flying everywhere...and archaeologists uncover a pair of pants that have survived for more...
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The Nova Scotia government finally agrees to compensate people who were abused at the province's so-called Home for Colored Children...Everyone in Albuquerque knows about it,but they're keeping their mouths shut. It's not a cover-up, though: it's just an instinctive reaction to an unthinkably enormous swarm of grasshoppers flying everywhere...and archaeologists uncover a pair of pants that have survived for more than three thousand years -- the oldest pair of pants ever.

Part One

Nova Scotia home settlement
Survivors of Nova Scotia's Home for Colored children are finally being compensated for years of abuse suffered at the institution.

Graduation record
 After several tough years, the number of graduates from Sheshatshiu Innu School in Labrador reaches a record high of twelve students.

Grasshopper swarm
 A swarm of grasshoppers, the worst to hit the area in 20 years, is splattering windshields, ruining picnics, and generally ruining everything.

Part Two

NDP mailout
A parliamentary committee finds NDP MPs broke the rules by sending out partisan mailings on the taxpayer's dime -- but the party says it followed the law of the letters.

3,000 year-old pants
A recent discovery allows scientists to finally answer the vexing question, "What is the oldest pair of pants in the world?" And the answer is: "These ones we found."

Part Three

Float plane pilot
A pilot named Rick Johnston of Nanaimo, B.C. describes the moment when the engine in his floatplane quit -- and how he survived.

Irish mass grave of babies
In a septic tank at a home for unwed mothers in Ireland, a mass grave has been unearthed with the bodies of almost eight hundred children. Some of the dead were newborns, others as old as nine years old. Now there are calls for an inquiry to find out who those children were and how they died.

USask student
Students at the University of Saskatchewan continue to push for change at their tarnished school, including an ongoing battle to drop its controversial restructuring plan.

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