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UPDATE: 8:30 pm
Both lanes are cleared as a result of a vehicle accident earlier near Craigellachie.
ORIGINAL: 19:15
Highway 1 is closed in both directions 10 kilometers east of Craigellachie, outside of Revelstoke.
Drive BC reports that there are no detours available and that a vehicle incident has been the cause of the shutdown.
According to them, the incident was close to the center of activities of the Enchanted Forest.
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Although the recent Shuswap Road Forest Fire near Kamloops caused a great deal of damage, an eagle family was saved.
The 500-acre fire did not destroy the tree on which the eagles had built their nest and raised several babies.
The tree is tall and alone now, after the firefighter's efforts throughout the weekend.
According to BC Wildfire, eaglets were seen trying to learn to fly on Saturday, after the fire around their area was extinguished.
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A woman from Surrey says she wants to help educate the public about racism after a staff member of her townhouse complex has asked for her piece family identity when using the pool
Guerda Henry, who is black, says that she believes that the incident in her complex is an episode of racial profiling against her family, adding that this was not the first case.
She says that she was devastated and that she felt "ambushed" after checking and confirmed They then interviewed a 12-year-old family friend about people who jumped over the barrier to enter the pool.
Henry says that when she moved from the Bahamas to Surrey five years ago, she knew "the waters (she) would swim" as a visible minority. She says that she was not surprised by the actions of the staff member, but that she was "incredibly disappointed" by Thursday's event.
She would like to receive an official apology from the Strata badociation, which manages the complex.
Neither the badociation of Brookland strata nor their management company, Leonis Management, could be consulted immediately
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Wildfire Service of British Columbia are currently fighting about 10 acres of fire near the small village of Cedarvale, BC They say no structure is currently threatened, although a strong smoke is visible on the along Highway 16.
The Cedarvale-Kitwanga secondary road along the north side of the river is affected.
The fire department does not know the cause at this time and continues to investigate.
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A climber was flown to hospital after breaking his leg during a fall on Mt. Ogilvie near Hope, Colombia -British.
Capt. Zlatko Neral of the Joint Rescue Coordination Center reported that the establishment had received a request for badistance around 22.30. Saturday:
Neral says that the 26-year-old man was alone in the ravine of the mountain and proved hard to reach for ground search and rescue teams.
But he says that the man had a bang flare – that rescuers could see, and he was also able to communicate via a cell phone.
Rescuers aboard a Cormorant helicopter arrived around 1:30 am Sunday and managed to extract the man in half an hour.
at the Abbotsford Hospital
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The British Columbia Ministry of the Environment released a special air quality declaration for the City of Kamloops and surrounding communities, while thermometers continue to increase
. According to the Ministry of the Environment, the area on the north side of the Thompson River could be affected by smoke from forest fires after the fire that declared Thursday afternoon on the side northeast of Kamloops, approximately 350 kilometers northeast of Vancouver. Pre-existing health conditions, infants, the elderly and anyone particularly sensitive to exposure to smoke could be affected.
More than 100 firefighters were working on the Sunday fire, including two helicopters and four calls for water. Jody Lucius of BC Wildfire Service said on Saturday that teams had limited the growth of wildfires by installing firebreaks and setting up a 30-meter perimeter by controlled burning of potential fuel for the fire.
Forest fires are estimated at 545 hectares, an increase of nearly 45 hectares compared to yesterday's measures, and researchers continue to determine the specific cause of the fire.
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A flotilla of demonstrators gathered in kayaks and canoes on Saturday in Burrard Inlet, near Kinder Morgan's Westridge marine terminal.
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The expansion of the Trans Mountain Pipeline will triple the amount of bitumen transported from Edmonton to Burnaby to 900,000 barrels per day.
More than 200 protesters have been arrested at Trans Mountain facilities in British Columbia since mid-March.
– with records of CTV Vancouver
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An Aboriginal political activist was briefly detained Saturday following a protest against the Trans Mountain Pipeline in North Thompson Provincial Park in British Columbia
Kanahus Manuel, spokesman for the activist group Tiny House Warriors, members of the group belong to the Secwepemc First Nation, which issued a statement Saturday afternoon calling Manuel's arrest a "declaration of war ".
In the press release issued by the Secwepemc Women's Warrior Society, Manuel is considered a political prisoner of "White RCMP Constables and State Park Wardens" who they believe , have the intention to force the Tiny House Warriors lands that Secwepemc consider as ancestral territories. The declaration adds that the territories have never been badigned to a Canadian government.
Dawn Roberts with BC The RCMP stated that members traveled to North Thompson Provincial Park to meet with protesters and discuss the eviction notice. She said that the liaison team continued to have conversations with the protesters after the arrest, and that the other protesters started packing the tiny houses that they had built
" These discussions were extremely positive, very respectful In a telephone interview,
Snutetkwe Manuel stated that his sister had been charged with mischief after the group refused to leave the park, although Roberts did not confirm that charges had been laid
the custody late Saturday afternoon on a series of conditions and a promise to appear in court at a later date.Additional members of the demonstration were informed that they could leave the park by their own means or be arrested themselves.
Manuel stated that the RCMP and BC Parks service did not have jurisdiction in the park. She said there were about six other protesters with her sister when she was arrested, including two elders from the village. Subsequently, she recorded and posted on her Facebook page a video of a conversation with two RCMP officers who prevented her from entering the camp, which she did. said to help his mother pack up
. The tattoo ceremony took place from July 6th to 9th and was turned into a blockade of Trans Mountain before July 11th.
Roberts stated that she did not know exactly why BC Parks had filed the eviction order.
Kanahus Manuel responded earlier this week, claiming that his people had been inconvenienced by colonialism for more than 150 years
"We have been displaced from our lands.") Aboriginal peoples can and exclusively use their land to maintain our culture, our language and our means, "said Manuel in an interview.
In a post on the Facebook group Tiny House Warriors on Wednesday, Manuel said the Trudeau government left the group "with no other choice" than to recover their hereditary lands by occupying the territory crossed by the Trans Mountain Pipeline
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Victoria Police urges the public not to put their hands in places where it has not been verified after a man was stung by a syringe in a fence post.
According to the Victoria Police Service, the victim, whose name was not disclosed, may have acted distractedly when he put his hand in the hollow post.
Osoko says that the syringe was based on other materials. They are now part of their investigation, inside the station located near the intersection of Yates and Douglas streets.
In January, a child was stung with a syringe at a McDonald's restaurant not far from the victim on Friday. Osoko says that in this case, the police believe that the syringe was properly removed following an emergency injection of insulin.
He says it's the fourth or fifth related incident The Victoria Police has been busy for several months, but she could not tell if the investigators believed that there was a offender involved or a series of deliberate stings.
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Ucluelet in January
Seismic activity in recent months has shifted southern Vancouver Island a little further away from the continent, according to an expert seismic
estimates the seismologist John Cbadidy of Natural Resources Canada. Cbadidy says the move was caused by thousands of small tremors that began to occur in mid-May, and he said that moving the island in just a few weeks is a "remarkable" phenomenon.
He added the seismic activity recorded in mid-June, noting that there have been more than 10,000 shocks since then.
On Friday, Cbadidy writes in a Tweet that Vancouver Island was "without tremors" for the first time in weeks. .
– with CTV files Vancouver Island
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A forest fire burns near Kamloops Saturday morning
