What makes a word Canadian? Sometimes it’s origin. “Demoviction.” “Renoviction.” “Trick or treat.” Sometimes it’s frequency. “Down island.” “Atmospheric river.” “Zombie fire.” These are just two of six types of Canadianisms, according to lexicographer Stefan Dollinger. 🇨🇦💬
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Do You Speak Canadian? | The Tyee
Keener linguists are compiling the latest English-language Canadianisms. What do their choices say about us?
Mount Polley mine’s tailings dam had already exceeded the maximum height authorized under its environmental certificate when it experienced a catastrophic failure more than a decade ago, lawyers for Xatśūll First Nation told B.C.’s Supreme Court this week.
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Mount Polley Dam Exceeded Authorized Height When It Failed: Lawyers | The Tyee
The Xatśūll First Nation wants BC to quash the mine’s expansion permits and start over.
Wildfires are making glaciers retreat faster, but not how you might think. Instead of the heat from the flames melting the glacier, the smoke is darkening the snow and ice. This causes the glacier surface to absorb more energy from the sun and melt faster. Kristen de Jager reports. 🗻🔥
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How Wildfires Are Speeding the Shrinking of BC’s Glaciers | The Tyee
Researchers with a new study on smoke and the ‘ice albedo effect’ are startled by the quick pace of melting.
The new right-wing alternative has launched with a remarkably inexperienced staff, despite the extra taxpayer money that comes with its new official party status. And with a hiring focus on political purity that’s quickly going to become a weakness. Paul Willcocks writes. #bcpoli
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OneBC’s Big Hiring Mistake | The Tyee
The new party chose political purity over experience as it recruited key staff.
“It’s a strange thing to find myself more shocked now than at things that the Harper government tried,” said Green MP Elizabeth May. #cdnpoli
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‘Ass Backwards’: Canada’s New Legal Posture Post-Bill C-5 | The Tyee
The Senate-bound law would allow Ottawa to stamp major projects approved before their risks are assessed.
A UBC student has raised $3,000 to make a billboard that says “Abortion is safe, normal and common” to counter the anti-abortion billboard messaging that peppers the Okanagan region. But she’s stumped on where to post her message. Michelle Gamage reports. 🪧
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Kelowna Companies Won’t Run Pro-Choice Billboards | The Tyee
The crowdfunded campaign aims to counter anti-abortion billboards in the region.
What’s the appropriate age for reading graphic novels that depict sex acts or contain frank discussions of sexuality and abuse? That’s the question the Alberta government says it is asking with a new survey about the books stocked on public school library shelves. Katie Hyslop reports.
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Who’s Afraid of Students Reading about Sex? | The Tyee
Alberta’s government thinks sex scenes don’t belong in school libraries. Educators say it’s not that simple.