LimpRimble

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[–] LimpRimble@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 days ago

I thought you only did that with fish.

 

Crofton Mill employee Tawni Marcil tells The National about the moment she helped save a colony of cats at the site before its closure in Crofton, B.C.

 

UBC says they told OneBC to leave

 

That's when Butler went to the store and bought the bird a frozen lasagna.

 

A rescue dog was found in Metro Vancouver's North Shore after being lost in the wilderness for 54 days, after an outpouring of support from the local community and concerted efforts from searchers.

 

Ryan Chilibeck tells the National about the moment he witnessed a pod of orcas rub their bellies on rocks off B.C.'s Sunshine Coast.

[–] LimpRimble@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

rich white dudes

Do you mean Tsawak-qin Forestry Inc.?

 

The company did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but media reports quoted a spokesman suggesting that the proximity of the protest camp wasn't a coincidence.

Tsawak-qin Forestry Limited Partnership and Tsawak-qin Forestry Inc have been logging in the old-growth area since August 2025, and police have made a total of 15 arrests as they enforce a court injunction allowing the logging.

 

An organization that offers free mental health support and substance use care for youth will be able to expand its services to a new building in downtown Vancouver, thanks to the donation of a multimillion-dollar building from a private foundation.

 

James Di Francesco, the director of the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, located just north of Victoria, says previous theoretical understandings were that galaxy clusters don't become so hot so quickly.

 

"We felt we were really underserving those women. So we just had dreamt this up, almost literally on a napkin, at a conference."

 

Now, after gaining knowledge, experience and strength, she shoes massive draft horses on a regular basis — a job not all farriers will do because of how physically challenging it is.

“It is three times as much work. It's a lot more steel to move," said MacDonald. "They're very large horses, so it's a lot harder on the body."

 

The rise of artificial intelligence has raised the possibility of declining job prospects in some sectors — particularly for younger workers — but Abigail Fulton, executive director of the Construction Foundation of B.C., says “skilled tradespeople will be the last ones voted off the island.”

[–] LimpRimble@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

BCNDP lost me when they dropped their 2017 promise of passing proportional representation

The promise was to hold a referendum on PR, a promise they kept in 2018. > 60% voted to keep fptp.

[–] LimpRimble@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

When I saw the thumbnail, I thought they had brought Relic out of retirement for a comment.

 

"While we anticipate numbers to gradually fall over the years from this transportation change, the [province] has regulations to support the collection, or salvage, of loose logs in coastal B.C.," wrote a spokesperson for the Ministry of Forests in an email to CBC News.

The province said there are 53 active licensed salvagers who play an important role in collecting loose logs.

[–] LimpRimble@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

Hmmm, I wonder if my ad-blocker will still work?

[–] LimpRimble@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

In response to questions from The Narwhal, a spokesperson for B.C.’s Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy said, “The Elk River watershed is one of the most intensively monitored and studied watersheds in British Columbia, with detailed programs to detect and assess impacts from coal mining and other development.”

But that isn’t leading to peer-reviewed studies from government scientists. The spokesperson confirmed: “We do not produce publications for peer-reviewed journals.”

[–] LimpRimble@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This is thanks to Ravi Kahlon and a government with the guts to enact his policies.

[–] LimpRimble@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

Brodie’s increasing instability, paranoia, erratic behaviour, and abusive conduct.

Finally, someone the people of Vancouver-Quilchena can really get behind!

[–] LimpRimble@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

He "got quit".

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