mastodon 4.8.0-alpha.3+glitchCBC journalist based in Prince George, British Columbia, Canada — Dakelh territory. I live north of most of you.
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"To legislate us back to work 12 hours after we started? I'm sorry, snowstorms have shut down Air Canada for longer than we were allowed to strike."
Air Canada flight attendants to defy back-to-work order, remain on strike, union says
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/air-canada-flights-sunday-1.7611078
Getting push notifications for stories you wrote is so weird
Text chains fill the gap of local news shutting down
“If I want to make sure people know things in the town of Bonavista, Gina is one of the five or six people I text it to and say ‘please disperse this information,’” Bonavista mayor John Norman says in the report. (Gina is “a local entrepreneur who owns businesses ranging from an auto parts distributor to a year-round Christmas store.”) “She will disperse the facts. I’ve also got a few hairdressers and a barber on my list.”
I have seen this obsession with weather apps, from amateur forecasters with huge followings to people in my own life using it to figure out exactly where and when to go picnic. But I never really noticed it - until this pulled it all together
The world's richest man walks into a B.C. fishing village https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/elon-musk-bella-bella-1.7613113
"In a statement to CBC News, provincial Green Party leadership candidate Emily Lowan said the ability of billionaires to build private havens in B.C. while using private jets that fuel the climate crisis is a "stark warning" to governments of the need for action."
Musk wasn't able to get special treatment
"It was quite busy, so the plane had to land on one side and the helicopter on the other, so he had to get out and walk a long way," local Seán Carter said.
"I'm sure he was hoping to kind of come in and out kind of secretly, but there's definitely no secrets here."
First round of results in the Battle River-Crowfoot byelection are in and Poilievre has a sizable lead.
Not pictured is the 200ish independents who are there as part of the longest ballot campaign and have received no votes
One thing that's been really weird for me this summer is not being surrounded by some of the worst wildfires in North America. It's almost the first time in a decade and it is strange to be able to just... stop thinking about them
I hope he also destroys painted rocks https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/british-cairn-kicker-1.7613028
Fascinating cross-border convo on the state of news, Facebook, links and AI in Canada and the United States. One takeaway: in Canada we can't post links to news sites, but in the U.S., links are pretty much dead anyways
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4ihGATlF7YcE116tBEqicp?si=Ot6cdlu3T3SKRZJ5p-sTiA
Coyne: "To recognize Indigenous title is not to abolish property rights, but to uphold them"
"This weekend, militaries deployed to fight wildfires everywhere from Spain to Bulgaria to Colorado to California.
Firefighting (and disaster response more generally) is increasingly a regular activity for militaries, yet they remain underprepared. I explore why in my most recent newsletter:"
Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:kceh54r62i7cqri4pym6q3vr/post/3lw4s3y5nkc2d
This is a good reminder that CRJ has bangers
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/aug/14/slow-jams-smash-hits-and-popeye-samples-carly-rae-jepsens-20-best-songs-ranked
4 years and 3 court cases later, City of Prince George wins case to shut down homeless camp — but judge says city can't ban overnight camping altogether https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/prince-george-homeless-camp-judgement-1.7610290
A French nuclear plant temporarily shut down on Monday due to a "massive and unpredictable presence of jellyfish"
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx299eyg7qko