Fortis plan to reduce wildfire risk across Southern Interior raises other safety concerns – Okanagan

FortisBC will be implementing a new initiative for the 2025 wildfire season in an effort to reduce wildfire risk. But as the “Public Safety Power Shutoff” initiative aims to decrease the chance of wildfires, it’s raising other safety concerns. “It sounds like a good idea, you know, I still have a few questions,” said Princeton…

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Danielle Smith’s reform is nudging Alberta separation vote from ‘if’ toward ‘when’

One hundred and seventy-seven thousand people. That’s roughly 3.5 per cent of Alberta’s population. It’s also the amount of signatures that will be needed to force a separation referendum designed to take those five million people and their land out of Canada. Alberta independence groups had already been gathering online registrants who were keen to…

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