#Chilliwack | North of FERRY RD, West of HEATH RD, East of LOUGHEED HWY | Out since Aug 5, 12:05 p.m. with 1071 customers out | Crew status: No crew assigned | Cause: Under investigation | For more information, see the outage details:...
Worldofhiglet
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Just making connections. Same as the Goose place. Writing, creating, teaching, surviving. Likes cool science, nature, art, music, food, tech, healthcare, games stuff. Thankful to be on the unceded territories of the Stó꞉lō peoples. 😷🌈
“An air quality advisory is now in effect for Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley due to wildfire smoke drifting across the region.” globalnews.ca/news/1201054... - @globalnews.ca #Abbotsford #Chilliwack #AirQuality #BCWildfire #FraserValley #MetroVancouver #YVR
Metro Vancouver, Fraser Valley under air quality advisory due to wildfire smoke - BC | Globalnews.ca
Some parts of Metro Vancouver have air quality ranked at a Level Nine, with the Eastern Fraser Valley ranked at a Level 10 plus, which means very high risk.
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Chilliwack has suspended mail delivery because of the smoke.
Definitely staying inside, taking meds and hydrating. Hope people are keeping safe.
Worldofhiglet@worldofhiglet.bsky.social · 4h agoHeat and smoke mean a day indoors with air filters blasting. Mask if you’re outdoors if you can - even though the heat can make masking more unpleasant. Keep windows and doors closed if you can. The heat and pollution kills - all our communities will suffer because of the fires.
Their intention was clear when they sent out a "consultation" survey that was designed to generate and depict support for the plan. They were really hoping to generate some. 😂 But they're gonna do it anyway, because what are we gonna do about it? They don't work for us.
Carney will approve jets at the Island airport. He's just not going to do it until after the Beaches-East York byelection at the end of August. Right next to that airport, David MacNaughton (Liberal bagman and Prez of Palantir Canada) is building a big ol' secret something at Ontario Place.
Toronto Star@thestar.com · 2h agoMark Carney has declined to rule out ever having commuter jets fly into Billy Bishop airport, but said his government is focused on improving Toronto’s transport network in other ways — including an expansion at Pearson airport.
“UPDATE 1:10 p.m. Highway 97 has reopened at the north end of Okanagan Lake after the Bradley Creek wildfire forced its closure days earlier.” www.castanet.net/news/Vernon/... - @castanet.net #BCHwy97 #BCWildfire #BradleyCreekWildfire #OkanaganLake #VernonBC
Highway 97 reopens at north end of Okanagan Lake
UPDATE 1:10 p.m. Highway 97 has reopened at the north end of Okanagan Lake after the Bradley Creek wildfire forced its closure days earlier.
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im begging you doofuses to learn one thing about how space travel works so you can hate on him Correctly, as i do
The Verge@theverge.com · 2h ago"SpaceX remains its own biggest customer. There just aren’t enough other people who want its rockets. And, I dunno, maybe if the rockets were a primary focus of the company, SpaceX wouldn’t be in danger of blasting a new crater into the Moon with its space trash." Read more: buff.ly/d9lBTQN
Yep. Yesterday JSTOR was unreachable. Aaron Swartz was hounded to death for far less.
Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦@merz.bsky.social · 2h ago#AI #LLM Something I've not seen commented on is the explosion of bot-impeding pages (e.g., via Cloudflare) that now appear before web pages load. The cumulative time waste for human users has got to be in the billions of person-hours. An immense burden imposed on everyone by the AI-bro assholes.
Heat and smoke mean a day indoors with air filters blasting. Mask if you’re outdoors if you can - even though the heat can make masking more unpleasant. Keep windows and doors closed if you can. The heat and pollution kills - all our communities will suffer because of the fires.
“The Pear Lake wildfire is the largest burning in B.C. right now, at roughly 1,247 square kilometres. The Thompson-Nicola Regional District says about 120 properties, not including the Village of Clinton, have suffered structural loss…”
What you need to know about B.C. wildfires on Aug. 5 | CBC News
Thousands of people remain under evacuation order and several hundred properties are estimated to have been damaged or destroyed. Here is what you need to know about B.C.'s wildfire situation today.
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BC residents impacted by wildfires www.ibc.ca/news-insight...
British Columbia Wildfires: Insurance Bureau of Canada provides insurance guidance
With out-of-control wildfires across British Columbia forcing evacuations and destroying properties, Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC) is providing affected residents with key insurance information and...
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Great Canadian Casino Resort Toronto (Previously named Casino Woodbine) 👥 WHO: Unifor Local 1090 ℹ️ WHAT: Locked out; fighting for fair wages. 📍 WHERE: 555 Rexdale Blvd., Etobicoke, ON
Saint-Gobain 👥 WHO: Unifor Local 12 ℹ️ WHAT: On strike for decent wages and a secure pension. 📍 WHERE: Saint-Gobain Plattsville, 28 Albert St W, Blandford-Blenheim, ON
Unifor members are fighting for decent wages, fair working conditions, and job security. Here’s how you can support active picket lines 🧵 👇
"Each of these books aims to explain how technology, politics, money & power are reshaping our world... In reading them together, I’m looking for common themes, patterns & novel questions about data politics." #GiftLink 🎁
Puff the Magic Hater@mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 7h agoI've read most of the books on @tressiemcphd.bsky.social's proposed reading list and plan to read the rest. These are excellent recommendations. In fact, @gilduran.com (author of The Nerd Reich) will be a guest on Movement Memos soon.
And it's true of most moms outside formal workplaces that I know right now, we are just constantly jumping to catch people in our lives before they fall. Because (as @jessicacalarco.com rightly puts it) women are the social safety net in this country
What to do with the time we have? Philosophers, poets, and religious have pondered this for centuries. Bees just get on with the things that bring them joy and life - visiting favourite places, tasting new flavours, and bumbling and tumbling out of drinking establishments with abandon.
Since Hamilton introduced its Vision Zero plan in 2019, collisions in which people were hurt or killed fell 34 per cent, from 1,483 to 978, city staff said last week. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Hamilton updates road safety plan after injury, fatal collisions fall 34% since 2019 | CBC News
The City of Hamilton updated its Vision Zero plan to improve road safety. At a committee meeting last month, staff told councillors collisions dropped 34 per cent through the first six years of the pl...
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Peruvian cardinal hails $150m lead poisoning settlement for 1,300 people as a ‘historic milestone’
Peruvian cardinal hails $150m lead poisoning settlement for 1,300 people as a ‘historic milestone’
Cardinal Pedro Barreto received death threats and harassment during his almost 20-year campaign against a US mining company’s operations in the Andes
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Everyone’s expectations got skewed over the past week but Abdul El-Sayed getting $70 million spent against him in a state he lost a primary by like 20 points eight years ago and still winning last night is probably the most impressive electoral accomplishment of the decade.
if establishment candidates want to start winning primaries again all you have to do is say that rich people have too much money and that youll prosecute trump admin staffers and republicans that have broken the law
This is 💯 not true. It is never a choice between ‘taking big tech’s money and doing nothing’. A stronger moral imperative is NOT to take the money and the strings attached to it - particularly if you do not and cannot yet understand the implications
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 10h ago“Teaching educators about AI is a ‘moral imperative’, said Randi Weingarten, the AFT president.” “And without outside funding, it was a choice between taking big tech’s money or doing nothing, she said.”
I’ve been screening our documentary with organizing communities in the South. So far, the organizers mention data centers first at every single event. From racial justice orgs to old school activists who don’t usually think about tech policy. This has legs.
