October 12, 2026 — October 18, 2026
A border crossing and a cave camera
Two newly catalogued sources follow reported cannabis trade in Canada and the unexpected visitors to wildlife bait stations on Guam.
Numbers about a border crossing and pictures from a cave seem far apart. Both, though, ask a familiar question: what happened beyond what was planned? This week's two new library entries put official records beside that question, while showing exactly where each record stops.
01 / Health Canada / Open Government Portal
What crossed the border after a permit was issued?
Canada · medical and scientific cannabis imports and exports · current English CSVs sampled for 2022–2026
Health Canada records how much a permit allowed and how much licence holders later reported moving. The federal portal says the system began in 2018; the English files we sampled currently show rows from 2022 onward. The figures are grouped by product class, month, direction, unit, and purpose—not by shipment or individual permit.
Why it's worth exploring
Pick a product class and follow the gap between authorised and reported quantities over time. Does that gap change by season or trade direction? It is a starting question, not evidence that a particular permit went unused: the two files need careful matching, units differ, and absent years are not zero trade.
Canada Cannabis Import and Export Quantities02 / USGS Pacific Island Ecosystems Research Center
Who else comes to a snake bait station?
Two swiftlet caves on Guam · camera observations from March to June 2025 · three downloadable CSV tables
Researchers placed cameras near bait stations intended to control invasive brown treesnakes around Mariana swiftlet nesting areas. They transcribed pictures of snakes, ants and other invertebrates, and bait being taken, then assembled separate snake-presence and location-factor tables.
Why it's worth exploring
The records let you ask which visitors shared a station and when. That matters when a conservation tool could affect more than its intended target. But a missing animal in a camera frame is not proof it was absent; two caves cannot describe all Guam, and sensitive nest locations deserve care.
Guam Cave Bait-Station Wildlife Observations, 2025Both sources are new to this library, not observations collected this week. Health Canada's dataset first appeared in the federal portal this week. The Guam files were published in September and appeared on a USGS data page this week. We also looked for newly opened live feeds, but found only routine updates to existing services that met our initial screen.
These reports cover additions to our library, not necessarily newly published data. Check the dataset notes and official sources for coverage dates, licensing, and limits on use.