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9.0 quake in B.C. would kill thousands and cost $128 billion, report foresees

VICTORIA – A British Columbia government report foresees more than 3,400 fatalities and more than 10,000 injuries if an earthquake with a magnitude of 9.0 strikes off Vancouver Island.

The scenario of such a “megathrust” quake also describes costs of $128 billion, the destruction of 18,000 buildings and extensive damage to 10,000.

The analysis is part of the B.C. disaster and climate risk assessment, dated October 2025, and says such a quake is “one of the more likely earthquake scenarios in B.C.”

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Elephants flip and trample British tourists’ canoes in Botswana

A canoe carrying British tourists was capsized and trampled by an elephant in a crocodile-filled river in Botswana.

The bull elephant charged at several canoes which were on a wildlife safari in the Okavango Delta on Saturday. It was believed to have been protecting its young after the guides steering the canoes misjudged how close they could get.

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WTF?

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Smoke from Canada’s wildfires killed nine-year-old Carter Vigh – and 82,000 others around the world

Amber Vigh had taken the usual precautions when bringing her nine-year-old son, Carter, to summer camp in July 2023. There were no fires near their home in British Columbia, Canada. Her air quality app showed low levels of pollution. She could not smell any smoke.

Carter, a music-loving Lego enthusiast who had asthma, brought along his smiling shark tooth-patterned emergency kit that held an inhaler, allergy pill and EpiPen. When smoke did roll in from the north, Vigh took him indoors.

Wow our forests are a mass murderer!

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Mother nature is displeased ….

The town is a stronghold of the Jihadi Abdelwahid rebels.

Afghanistan. A very awful Islamic country.

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‘Fire has always been political’: Why some are pushing back against restrictions in Atlantic Canada

Stay out of the woods. No hiking. No fishing. No camping. Don’t ride your ATV. These were the messages this past summer in Atlantic Canada, as provinces dealt with high temperatures and dry conditions.

But those restrictions caused friction in the region — and across Canada — which Eric Kennedy says shouldn’t be a surprise.

I’m a little surprised the CBC didn’t go all Covid enforcer on this.

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The Peaceful Fault: Canada’s Politeness Masks a Yukon Quake Waiting to Happen

A Crack Beneath the Rug

Canada’s reputation for unfailing politeness is like that neighbor you trust completely, the one you’d invite over to watch the game and have a beer, and you’d feel confident they wouldn’t take off with your favorite beer stein.

That same neighbor might harbor a secret, even him, that he might have a crack beneath his basement. Unseen, that is, until it opens up. That crack doesn’t disrespect your hospitality; it simply IS.

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Canada wildfire season already second worst on record as experts warn of ‘new reality’

With hundreds of wildfires burning out of control, Canada’s 2025 fire season is already the second-worst on record, as scientists report climate change is prolonging and exacerbating the burning, leading to more destruction, evacuations and smoke-filled skies.

More than 470 fires across the country are currently classified as “out of control”, according to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre (CIFFC).

7,318,421 hectares of land in Canada have burned due to wildfires this year – close to 78% more than the five-year average of 4,114,516 hectares, according to the CIFFC’s latest data.

It used to be an ice age was the new normal.

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Canada’s wildfires may be impossible to extinguish?

The Albany Times Union headline read:

 Not so easy: Dousing the Canadian wildfires may not be possible.

It may not be possible to put out the Canadian wildfires?! Humans learned how to fly. Americans and Canadians have won two world wars.

Mankind has been to the moon and sent unmanned craft around the solar system — and beyond.

And Canada can’t put out a fire?

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3 miners trapped in northern B.C. mine, premier says

B.C. Premier David Eby has confirmed three miners are trapped underground in a mine in northern B.C.

The miners work at the Red Chris mine on Talhtan Nation territory near Dease Lake, B.C., about 420 kilometres west of Fort Nelson, B.C.

Two of the miners are from B.C. and one is from Ontario, the premier said at a news conference at the First Ministers meeting in Huntsville, Ont., Wednesday morning.

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Days after Texas floods, at least 161 people are still missing in one county

At least 161 people are still missing in a single Texas county four days after deadly and devastating flash floods hit parts of the state, Governor Greg Abbott said, as hope fades for survivors to be found.

The missing in the hard-hit Kerr County include five campers and a counsellor from Camp Mystic, a Christian all-girls summer camp located on the banks of the Guadalupe River.

At least 111 people have died in the disaster, according to the latest county-by-county tolls published by US media. More than 90 were in the Kerrville area.

Meanwhile in New Mexico

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Flash Flood New Mexico

h/t XC

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