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If you thought 2020 couldn’t get any worse, Asian giant hornets have appeared in the United States for the first time. Two of the giant hornets have been spotted in Washington State and a full hive across the border in British Columbia.
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The B.C. government is sending an inspector to a Vancouver Island fish processing plant after new video emerged showing bloody discharge being dumped into seawater near Campbell River.
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As B.C. politicians continue to argue in the legislature about the ongoing job losses in the forest industry, thousands of laid-off workers and the communities they live in are left facing an uncertain future.
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The impacts of the climate crisis on the food chain are already evident in British Columbia, Canada. With winter fast approaching, one family of starving grizzly bears are being fed farm-raised salmon by First Nation people.
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A Canadian law passed this summer bars oil tankers from carrying more than 12,500 metric tons along the northern B.C. coast. However, two Calgary-based companies, Melius Energy and BitCrude, have found a way around the law.
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Vancouver -
High log prices and dwindling timber supply are driving the crisis in British Columbia's forestry industry that has devastated communities and kneecapped the provincial economy, observers say. However, there is more to this story.
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The B.C. lumber industry has its plate full — grappling with tough market conditions, a diminished domestic timber supply, U.S. softwood import tariffs and what many perceive as a lack of support from the provincial government.
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Quesnel -
British Columbia's forest industry started out 2019 with several temporary closures of sawmills for between one and six weeks. Six months later, about 20 temporary (and a few permanent) closures are having a direct effect on employees and communities.
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Vancouver -
The City of Vancouver says nine illegal marijuana dispensaries must close down while they wait for the outcome of a legal challenge at the B.C. Court of Appeal.
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The Weather Network has released its summer forecast for the months of June, July, and August - and it's a mixed bag - with two opposing summer patterns.
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Warm and windy conditions have fanned the flames of a wildfire believed to be human-caused in British Columbia, Canada, near the community of Lejac, about five kilometers east of Fraser Lake.
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Alberta Premier Jason Kenney reached out to British Columbians frustrated by high gasoline prices at a news conference in Edmonton Wednesday to confirm Bill 12 has been enacted into law.
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Vancouver -
British Columbia's auditor general says the number of inactive oil and gas wells in the province has risen dramatically and warns the price tag for decommissioning them is $3 billion and rising.
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Vancouver -
B.C. First Nations and the provincial government have agreed to shut down 17 open-net fish farms in the Broughton Archipelago in what may be the biggest shake-up in the history of the controversial fish farm industry.
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A bill that would make it easier to kill sea lions that feast on imperiled salmon in the Pacific Northwest has cleared the U.S. Senate.
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While doing an aerial caribou count in east-central British Columbia in April, officials from Canada’s ministry of national resources, quite by accident, came across a massive cave never seen by humans before — possibly the largest in Canada.
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The six remaining members of the South Selkirk caribou herd remaining in the lower 48 states are being moved further north into British Columbia, Canada, a desperate measure to try to save the mountain caribou's most southerly herds,
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Fisheries and Oceans Canada confirms the findings of independent research that says sea lice on salmon farms are becoming resistant to SLICE, a pesticide used to kill sea lice.
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Vancouver -
For several years now, cannabis users in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, have been able to buy just about any kind of pot, along with accessories and all the cannabis-infused products they wanted. But that is all going to change on October 17.
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Scientists and students from the University of Northern B.C. spent three years conducting a field study of the province's Ancient Forest/Chun T'oh Whudujut Provincial Park, the only inland rainforest in the world. They found over 2,400 plant species.
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Shell Canada Ltd. has voluntarily given up it offshore exploration rights, clearing the way for the creation of Canada’s first protected marine area under the Canada Wildlife Act.
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When wildfires get as ferocious as the ones ravaging Western Canada right now, firefighters can't do much more than letting them run their course, says a risk management expert. But what if this is now the "new normal?
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Thick smoke from wildfires in the western United States and Canada have clogged the skies across western North America, blotting out mountains and city skylines from Oregon and Colorado to British Columbia and Alberta.
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Vancouver -
On Wednesday morning, he B.C. government declared a provincial state of emergency to support the province-wide response to the ongoing wildfire situation.
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There are nearly 600 fires burning across B.C. with the danger rating rated at ‘high’ or ‘extreme’ in virtually every part of the province. Of those fires, 47 are considered to be serious, and a potential threat to public safety.
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A new radio telescope in British Columbia, Canada is doing its job picking up mysterious signals from deep space known as "fast radio bursts" (FRBs).
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Anywhere from five to 22 million sockeye salmon are nearing the mouth of British Columbia's Fraser River, heading home to spawn. But the waters of the river are so warm right now there is a good chance the salmon will die.
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Some 123 fires are burning across the province, of which 41 are in the Kamloops Fire Centre, which includes the Okanagan. There are also significant wildfires raging in central and southeast B.C. and in Ontario.
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The British Columbia government has filed a lawsuit and is prepared to ask for an injunction and damages against Alberta over that province’s recently passed fuel restriction law that would allow the province to shut off oil and gas shipments to B.C.
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The craft cannabis industry in British Columbia is very concerned over the federal government's lack of progress in creating a promised "micro-cultivation" license for those in their industry and they are demanding action.
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Lorraine Aitken, executive director of the Comox Valley Child Development Centre, explains that money raised from the CVCDC's 2013 telethon will help to create a special room to aid children with sensory issues.
Clutesi Haven Marina on the Somass River in Port Alberni, British Columbia. The pulp mill can be seen in the distance. Kevstan
Dragon Boat Festival 2014, Vancouver BC Canada. Welc2bc
Part of the fully accessible Centennial Loop found at the Strathcona Provincial Park, Paradise Meadows Trail Head as it heads back toward the Strathcona Wildlife Institute parking lot.
Over 240 wildfires are raging through central British Columbia. British Columbia Government
Ben Marr kayaking down a drainage ditch into Lions Bay, British Columbia at 34 miles per hour Screengrab
A Gray Jay or Whiskey Jack perches on a hand to feed on some seeds from lunch while hiking in Strathcona Provincial Park.
The incapacitated 135-metre Russian cargo ship Simushir is under tow off Haida Gwaii, of British Columbia, Canada CBC
Harmac Pacific Pulp Mill, Nanaimo, BC in August 2011. David Stanley from Nanaimo, Canada (CC BY 2.0)
BC Wildfire ServiceVerified account
May 4, 2016 footage of Siphon Creek fire in BC. Early snowmelt, coupled with hotter than normal temperatures increases the possibility of a record fire season. Vancouver Sun online
Log booms on Fraser River, New Westminster, BC, Canada.
Euchiniko lakes Fire on July 9,2014
© Wildfire Management Branch Wildfire Management Branch
The High Creek #BCwildfire, between #HopeBC and #Agassiz just west of #BCHwy7, is ~50 ha. Firefighters are building helipads for access, and working to build control lines. More firefighters and helicopters will be on site today. B.C. Wildfire Service
Current map for snowfall in BC. ECCC
The Elaho Giant. Truly spectacular. YouTube screen grab Bas Rijniersce
The number of wildfires in British Columbia, Canada have dropped to 169, from 177 earlier today. CTV News
The B-36 crashed into a mountain in British Columbia on February 13, 1950. Goleta Air and Space Museum
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