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[whereifindsanity]

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[allthecanadianpolitics]

The main contractor in charge of constructing the Site C hydroelectric dam project near Fort St. John in northeastern B.C. has been hit with a $1.1 million fine for dumping contaminated drainage water into the Peace River.

The penalty was imposed after Peace River Hydro Partners pleaded guilty in provincial court in Fort St. John on Monday to depositing a deleterious substance into fish-bearing waters, a violation of the federal Fisheries Act, according to Environment and Climate Change Canada,

The federal agency says its enforcement officers discovered that in 2018, the contractor discharged 3,300 cubic metres of drainage water with a high concentration of metals into the Peace River due to their water treatment system's inadequate capacity.

"A sample of the drainage water collected on Sept. 9, 2018, determined that it contained a concentration of aluminum that was acutely lethal to fish," said Environment and Climate Change Canada in a news release on Wednesday. [...]

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[the-quotable-alberta-hansard]

December 5, 2023

Mr. Williams: Mr. Speaker, rent control is not an option. We know that rent control does not work.

[livinginbeauty-net]

Airstreaming to Alaska - Chapter 10: The Alaska Highway

We finely made it to the Alaska Highway! The AlCan was born to be a military supply route, but it grew up to be a story-teller. This unforeseen attribute – like an E-ticket ride at Disneyland – had us riveted from Mile-0.

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[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“Big Trucking Job Underway In the North,” Vancouver Sun. January 17, 1942. ---- 1500 Tons of Airport Material Being Moved Into Fort Nelson ---- Special to The Vancouver Sun DAWSON CREEK, Jan. 17. - A week of above freezing temperatures which has made the Peace River crossing at Taylor Flats hazardous, has failed to prevent the truck shipments of 1500 tons of airport material to Fort Nelson from going on its way north from railhead here. No major incident has been reported since the first convoy of 10 trucks left here on January 9. 

The temperature has not dropped below the freezing point since last Saturday, and the Taylor crossing fell under a warning order from the Department of Public Works at Pouce Coupe last Monday. There is still traffic across it, in apparent defiance of the warning. 

Air mall is coming down from Fort St. John airport on schedule. The late development has forced the heavy trucks, each bearing an average load of five tons of asphalt or other transport materials to unload on the south side of the Peace, cross empty, reload on the opposite side after teams of horses haul the freight across the hazardous crossing. The trucks are streaming out of here, ten at a time, dally. 

E. J. Spinney, who was awarded the $90,000 hauling contract from Western Construction Co., building the port for the Dominion Government, received word from Ottawa Thursday telling him to get the freight across the river thaw or no thaw. And that is what lie is doing. Since the freight started moving last Friday, it is estimated 200 tons have been trucked across the ice and on up to Sikanni about 200 miles from the Dawson Creek railhead. It is being cached there, as the road from that point to Fort Nelson Is not yet fit for travel. 

Between 50 and 75 trucks are being used for the work. Each convoy has a caboose lor sleep mg quarters and a cookhouse, Airport equipment and asphalt for airport runways are included in the freight.

[uroko]

Enbaru River, Yamagata City, Japan // 癒しの自然風景 ♡

[pinktwingirl]

I went to a pro-Palestine protest and I later saw that one of the local newspapers had written about it calling it a “pro-Hamas” rally. I left a lengthy comment on the article telling off the author for journalistic malpractice because not one of speakers at the rally ever said that they supported Hamas. He also conveniently omitted the fact that Jewish Voice for Peace was a major organizer of the event to try and make it seem like every single person at the rally was a Muslim. A few days later, the article got taken down. Keep calling out the mainstream media on their hypocrisy and dishonesty - your advocacy DOES make a difference!

[newsbites]

News from Nanaimo and Beyond.

NANAIMO — Life hasn’t been the same for a young Nanaimo man since he was hit and thrown into a ditch by an impaired driver on Gabriola Island.

Josh Marsh was walking home from work during a clear evening on June 28, 2020, at 6:30 p.m. on the shoulder of North Rd. when the then 17-year-old was hit by a truck which veered off-road, according to an agreed statement of facts outlined in Nanaimo provincial court.

Kelly William Jordan, 39, was slumped forward in the prisoner’s box as the damning circumstances were relayed during an emotionally charged sentencing hearing on Wednesday, May 3.

The Crown’s Sabrina Avery told court Jordan, an unlicensed driver, slanted onto the shoulder and hit Marsh with the front right side of his truck, throwing the victim 13 meters and into a roadside ditch.

Three separate out-of-control wildfires burning near the boundary between British Columbia and Alberta, including two in the Peace River region, have prompted evacuation orders and an alert.

The Peace River Regional District has ordered the immediate evacuation of residents near the Red Creek wildfire, covering 1,550 hectares (15.5 square kilometres) — nearly four times the size of Stanley Park — directly northwest of Fort St. John, B.C., about 1,200 kilometres northeast of Vancouver.

CACHE CREEK, B.C. — Much of British Columbia’s Interior continued to be under the threat of flooding triggered by rain and warm weather Sunday, but water levels appeared to be receding at one of the hardest hit communities.

Even so, Cache Creek, a village about 350 kilometres northeast of Vancouver, remained under a state of local emergency, which was expanded to May 13 at midnight.

Village officials said 21 properties remained on evacuation order, while 12 others were still on alert. Crews brought in sandbags, cleared asphalt and put in a berm in a key location along the creek near Quartz Road to prevent further flooding.

The Liberal government is expected to announce the renewal of its multimillion-dollar federal gun and gang violence program today.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he doesn’t expect his government to move on electoral reform, despite his party membership calling for a national council to examine the issue.

United Way BC hopes to "Help Bring the Joy Back to Childhood '' in its spring fundraising campaign calling attention to child and youth mental well-being, featuring emotional renditions of children's video game characters, product mascots, and toys – and challenging popular children's brands to do the same.

[midnightlockhearth]

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Isnotreal returned the bodies of 80 unidentified palestinians taken by its forces.

Some of the bodies were taken by isnotreal forces after they were killed, while others were exhumed from several cemeteries around Gaza, including Al-Shifa cemetery and Al-Nimsawi cemetery in Khan Youins

Pictures were taken of the bodies before burial to facilitate later identification by their families.

[dreamypurplesky]

As there's a genocide going on, we humans complicate things way beyond necessity. I don't want innocent people to die. As simple as that. Not everything is about politics.

[wickedjack81]

My newest Alberta blog! Have a read!!

[bleakbluejay]

you motherfuckers have no concept of what "land back" or "decolonize" even mean. you're too busy demonizing entire groups of people, terrified, shitting yourselves, that they'll do even half of the horrors to you that you've done to them for decades or centuries. this shit comes off as hella racist for real. you hate arabs so much. you hate first nations people so much. you hate black people so much. even if you sympathize with them, you can't fucking bear the idea of them gaining freedom, independence, autonomy, safety, because you're so, so scared they'll hurt you back and cause chaos in the streets. these same people who just want to rebuild. who just want to go home. who just want to see their families again. who just want food. who just want medical care. who just want dry, warm shelter. you're so focused on the ideas of colonization, of "us vs. them", of one people displacing the other for a state to exist, that you cannot comprehend coexistence, and your only idea of peace is if an entire group of people were just gone and dead.

grow the fuck up. for the love of GOD, grow the fuck up.

[the-quotable-alberta-hansard]

March 15, 2023

Mr. Williams: I rise today on a crossparty homage to the Royal Canadian Legion. I know that many members of this Chamber are also members of the Royal Canadian Legion, and so am I. ... To everyone: thank you very much for your service if you’re military members. Thank you to everyone who is a Legion member. Cheers to you, Mr. Speaker. To the Canadian Legion: God bless.

The Speaker: While I share your support for the Legion, I don’t share your commitment to a prop inside the Assembly.

[notyourtoday]

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Weekly roundup of all the important developments in Palestine and around the world from April 22-28. We hope this makes it easier to stay up to date in case you missed any of our daily broadcasts, the least we can do is continue to stay informed and keep talking about Gaza.

By @letstalkpalestine2 on Instagram

[ecoharbor]

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[lasttarrasque]

It’s “listen to Jewish voices” until we start taking a stand against genocide