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Tofino residents worry as Japanese tsunami debris reaches Canada’s West Coast
The Link's Lorn Curry reports that residents of the West Coast community of Tofino, on Vancouver Island, have begun finding bottles and other flotsam swept into the ocean by the Japanese tsunami last March. And scientists say it's likely just the beginning of a problem that will unfold for many years to come.
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