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The country experienced an unusually long fire season in 2023 that lasted into the autumn; these fires smouldered through the winter and about 150 re-ignited as early as February 2024. [2] [3] By early May, large wildfires had broken out in Alberta, British Columbia, and Manitoba.
British Columbia Emergency Program Act [39] [40] COVID-19 pandemic: Ontario: Emergency Management and Civil Protection Act [41] Nova Scotia: Health Protection Act [42] New Brunswick: Emergency Measures Act [43] Alberta: Public Health Act [44] Pacific Northwest floods: British Columbia Emergency Program Act [45] 2022 Freedom Convoy protest: Ontario
Moderate-to-severe drought conditions from British Columbia to northern Ontario also continued into fall. [17] Though most of the fires were extinguished by winter, some in northern Alberta and British Columbia continued to smoulder in peat, reigniting the following February and starting the 2024 fires. [3]
February 14 - A 100-car train carrying crude oil derails approximately 30 kilometres from Gogama, Ontario. [5] February 15 - 50th anniversary of the National Flag of Canada [6] February 23 - A Fort McMurray, Alberta family was poisoned after attempting to kill bedbugs using illegally imported phosphine tablets. An eight-month-old child died and ...
From January to March 2020, a series of civil disobedience protests were held in Canada over the construction of the Coastal GasLink Pipeline (CGL) through 190 kilometres (120 mi) of Wetʼsuwetʼen First Nation territory in British Columbia (BC), land that is unceded.
Every part of the entire province of British Columbia, including the coastal temperate rain forest and Haida Gwaii, has been in drought throughout the summer months of 2023. Two-thirds of BC's water basins were in extreme to exceptional drought, with the hardest-hit areas being across the south and in the northeast Peace River region.
On 11 February 1978, Pacific Western Airlines Flight 314, a Boeing 737-200, crashed at Cranbrook/Canadian Rockies International Airport, near Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada, killing 43 of the 49 people on board. [1]
4 February 2019: Field Hill, British Columbia: 3: 0: A CP freight train being operated by a relief crew derailed on Field Hill near Field, British Columbia, on a section of track with a steep descending grade and several sharp curves. The 3 crew members were fatally injured in the derailment. [68] Levack truck-train collision: 22 May 2020: near ...