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J-Pod returns to Salish Sea after 'unprecedented' 108-day absence - BC News castanet.net - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from castanet.net Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Southern residents were also spotted Tuesday near Sooke travelling eastbound on inland waters toward Victoria, according to Dustin De Gagne, supervisor of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Whale Protection Unit. The pod is being monitored by crews of Straitwatch, which reported the orcas were moving quickly into open water on the Strait of Juan de Fuca late Wednesday afternoon. Rosie Poirier, program co‑ordinator for Straitwatch, has been monitoring the pod since Tuesday. “From what I can see, [their health] looks fine,” she said from the vessel Wednesday. It wan’t immediately clear if the Sooke group was a mix of pods or just J-Pod. ....
CBC Victoria’s Gregor Craigie, host of On the Island, has long been fascinated with the impending “Big One” due for western North America. During his career, he’s interviewed everyone to do with earthquakes: seismologists, engineers, geophysicists, survivors, emergency planners and more. His new book On Borrowed Time, out in late September, revisits the quakes that came and the quakes to come. One threat that Craigie exposes? Our own unpreparedness. Take B.C.’s legislature building. Engineers have deemed it especially vulnerable in a major quake, its giant dome and stone walls at risk of collapse. “[T]he only politicians who ever talked publicly about fixing the building were the ones I asked directly,” writes Craigie. “And all of them, no matter their political affiliation, seemed to speak from the same script: it would not be acceptable, they repeated, to fix this building when so many schools and other public structures remain vulnerable.” ....
Doris Day musical role came at the right time for Linda Kash timescolonist.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from timescolonist.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
by Province of British Columbia on Tuesday Jul 27 2021 Clarifying what is considered single-use plastics. Municipalities throughout the province can now move more quickly to prevent plastics from polluting their communities. Under new rules, local governments can institute bans on plastic bags and certain single-use plastics without provincial approval. “Communities across B.C. have made it clear they want to be environmental leaders by taking steps to ban single-use plastics,” said George Heyman, Minister of Environment and Climate Change Strategy. “We will continue to work with all levels of government to protect our land and waterways from plastic pollution and the harm it creates. Local governments wanted the ability to act without delay, and now they have it.” ....