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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
In 2014, British Columbia authorities approved the environmental assessment of the project, then approved permits to construct the project in 2015 and 2016. TC Energy was given final approval by its partners to begin construction of the project in 2018, still without the consent of all of the Wetʼsuwetʼen hereditary chiefs.
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.
A magnitude 4 earthquake rattled Southern California before dawn Sunday morning — the strongest in a series of modest earthquakes to strike near the Ontario International Airport in the last month.
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 ...
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]
2024 British Columbia general election; October 21: 2024 New Brunswick general election; 2024 Northwest Territories municipal elections; October 26: Municipal by-election in Stewart, British Columbia; October 28: 2024 Saskatchewan general election; Referendum by-election in South Bruce, Ontario [42]