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Tyler Olsen

1 month

NEW STORY: Can the Fraser River's trusty debris trap stand up to the Chilcotin's flood of logs? A brief 45-year history of a key piece of infrastructure designed to snare all that wood heading toward Vancouver.

The Fraser River's trusty debris trap and its Chilcotin challenge

A trap built to keep Vancouver's shores and waterways clear of wood faces one of its biggest tests

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Tyler Olsen

@ty_olsen

1 month

"It was the pine beetle, not climate change" is an argument that shows stunningly little knowledge of the pine beetle and forestry. The pine beetle, which is historically kept in check by frigid winter temperatures, is a great example of how climate change can lead to fires.

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The fires in Jasper should hold a lessen to decision makers about public policy, effective leadership and the role of science when there is controversy, writes Gary G. Mar.

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@ty_olsen

3 years

THREAD! Nine months ago, I was working on a story connected to the Nooksack River and Mt. Baker. I sought an interview with Mitchell Hahn, BC's Inspector of Dikes, about his involvement in the Nooksack River International Task Force. Let's go back and look at the tape.

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@ty_olsen

3 years

Vaccines are like winter tires, I'm just realizing. And requiring vaccines to go to a restaurant is *just like* requiring winter tires to drive on a highway road. It's a great comparison for, say, certain folks in Hope.

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@ty_olsen

3 years

2017 summer: unprecedented smoke 2018 summer: smoke worse than 2017 2019 summer: actually good! 2020 summer: pandemic 2021: hottest wave ever ‐------ Of the last five summers, three have had major long term events influenced by climate change.

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@ty_olsen

3 years

If you really want to understand all this. Stop scrolling and spend 5-10 minutes reading this feature Grace and I wrote about the historical, geographic and scientific context of this:

Sumas Lake, the Nooksack River, and the historic roots of a 21st Century disaster

Sumas Lake once covered much of the Fraser Valley's fertile farmland. This is the story of how it disappeared, how it could re-appear, and some of the challenge

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@ty_olsen

1 year

this sounds basically like the BC camping problem and the BC hospital bed problem and the BC city park problem and various other BC problems

Justin McElroy

@j_mcelroy

1 year

An underrated part of the problem with B.C. Ferries is that in the last 30 years the province gained an extra 1.5 million people, but the number of sailings and the size of the ships is pretty much what it was in the 1990s

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Tyler Olsen

@ty_olsen

3 years

A reminder that our public broadcaster doesn't have any reporters based in the Fraser Valley, a region of 400,000 that is not at all identical to Metro Vancouver. CBC folks have been doing their best. But it would be better if their bosses paid for reporters who lived here.

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Tyler Olsen

@ty_olsen

3 years

The Horgan vacation thing isn't optics. It related to the idea that a leader - be it a boss or otherwise - inspires with the idea that they are "In it together" with those they lead. When that facade collapses, the people who are going through The Thing feel hurt.

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@ty_olsen

5 months

Lytton burned down three years ago and not a single home has been fully rebuilt yet.

Justin Trudeau

@JustinTrudeau

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If you think Canada’s Housing Plan is ambitious, that’s because it is. We’re going to build almost 4 million new homes by 2031. We’re going to change the way homes are built in Canada. And we’re going to create a new generation of homeowners. Let’s get going.

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Tyler Olsen

@ty_olsen

3 years

It's still fucking Tuesday

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@ty_olsen

3 years

It's only Tuesday.

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Tyler Olsen

@ty_olsen

3 years

DING! DING! DING!

Rishi Maharaj

@9x19

3 years

@ty_olsen So to be clear, the government which says it's the public's responsibility to inform themselves about the risk of complex geohazards during extreme weather events also prevents any of the government officials working on those files from speaking to the media?

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Tyler Olsen

@ty_olsen

1 year

🔴 STORY: BC's River Forecast Centre has issued an alarming & bleak drought prediction We are in an 'outlier' season: In many places the snow is gone a month earlier than normal. And it's been so hot and dry, it's hard to predict what will happen next.

Dire drought warning for BC amid 'outlier' weather, rapid snowmelt

Unprecedented early snowmelt could impact fish, water users, and wildfires, scientists warn

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Tyler Olsen

@ty_olsen

14 days

SCOOP: BC's health authority board directors made $1,400/day (and sometimes much more) after a massive pay hike approved by the provincial government last year. The province OK's a 72% increase in annual retainers and 44% boost to daily meeting fees.

BC's health authority board directors made $1,400/day after 53% pay hike

Some health authority directors made as much as $2,000 for every day of meetings they attended

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Tyler Olsen

@ty_olsen

5 years

Whistler guy takes his own turban and uses it to help save the life of a stabbing victim. Just ethnic diversity helping save a man's life. cc That Mt Royal guy h/t @jonnymac68

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Tyler Olsen

@ty_olsen

4 years

This is going to be a rant about some very stupid B.C. highway distance signs. • Look at these signs. They are on the same highway in the Fraser Valley. Do you see how stupidy stupid they are?

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Tyler Olsen

@ty_olsen

3 years

Remember, always call ahead to ask if the place is full of gangsters.

CKNW

@CKNW

3 years

"Don’t go to that patio if it’s full of a bunch of gangsters," is one former police officer's advice for patrons who may be feeling gun-shy after Metro Vancouver’s rash of shootings in public places.

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Tyler Olsen

@ty_olsen

3 years

If you call 8-1-1 right now (like many government websites suggest you should do to get help), you will be told that there is no one to talk to you and to call back some other time. Two years into the pandemic, here we are.

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Tyler Olsen

@ty_olsen

3 years

🚨🚨THIS IS A SOME-PERSONAL-NEWS THREAD. I can now reveal why I left my old job, what I've been working on since New Year's Day, and how I hope to help grow journalism in the Fraser Valley. YOU can skip it by just clicking the link below (and subscribing)

Fraser Valley Current

Local news, events, people. A 5x weekly newsletter made for Abbotsford, Chilliwack, Langley, Mission, and the rest of the Fraser Valley.

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@ty_olsen

3 years

Love a COVID emergency press conference that starts with a 2021 storm/disaster update. Just a great year we're having here.

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@ty_olsen

3 years

🚨 BREAKING: This worst-case scenario is starting to become reality. Water is pouring over a large dike separating the bulk of lands currently flooded from the former bed of Sumas Lake. Highway will likely be closed for days.

Tyler Olsen

@ty_olsen

3 years

This U.S. river should be what everyone in the Lower Mainland is watching. When the Nooksack floods, it frequently runs north into Canada and Abbotsford. It has the potential to shut down Highway 1 between Chilliwack & Abbotsford and refill Sumas Lake.

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Tyler Olsen

@ty_olsen

3 months

STORY: "I didn't, like, curse out the administration or say anything bad. I just wanted them to do what they said that they were going to do.” Officials barred an 'art activism' student from mentioning her school's accessibility barriers at an event. 👇

School officials censored an ‘art activism’ student’s speech about accessibility barriers

Lexis De Meyer was told her teacher could be punished if she spoke about challenges she faced after breaking her ankle

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Tyler Olsen

@ty_olsen

3 years

This is a Canada problem

Robyn Doolittle

@robyndoolittle

3 years

Finally, this investigation took us 4 months, purely because of Canada's archaic culture/policies on access to information. Records that took months to locate in Canada were available with a few clicks in Florida when we needed the US equivalent.

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@ty_olsen

3 years

My final email. I said I was going to push hard and that if the province wouldn't allow officials to talk to reporters, I'd point that out in my subsequent story. I didn't QUITE expect it to be in this fashion. But here we are, 8 months later. Would still love that interview.

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Tyler Olsen

@ty_olsen

1 year

Your regular reminder that human caused basically means "non-lightning." If a place has no lightning in a certain time period, all fires will be classified as human caused. But "human-caused" is not the same as "idiot-caused." It includes a whole host of industrial activity.

CHEK News

@CHEK_News

1 year

All 46 wildfires on Vancouver Island this year are human caused: Coastal Fire Centre

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Tyler Olsen

@ty_olsen

4 years

Personal news: At the end of this cursed year, I'll be leaving the Abbotsford News. I'm going into government communi..... HA. No, I'm not doing that. I'll be doing journalism. And this feed will (repeatedly and annoyingly) ensure you know where to find the stuff in 2021

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@ty_olsen

2 years

There is no (good) reason the police needs to say anything about what was in the driver's mind. Especially in the same sentence in which they say the investigation just began. Also, who hits 4 pedestrians while trying to pass them impatiently?

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@ty_olsen

3 years

Have experienced a temperature (as measured by Enviro Canada) variation of 78 C (49 C June 30 to -19 C now) in 6 months this year. Fun.

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Tyler Olsen

@ty_olsen

3 years

This is going to be a scary thread. But first, the possibility that follows is very unlikely. You should not worry about it too much. But we live in unprecedented times, so if you live in the area, it's time to now be aware of it.

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@ty_olsen

3 years

Our public safety infrastructure is fundamentally set up to deal with local emergencies, not natural disasters. Have seen this over and over and over again this year. Can't possibly handle an earthquake.

DriveBC

@DriveBC

3 years

⚠️ We are aware that the DriveBC website is experiencing intermittent difficulties. We are seeing an incredible amount of web traffic right now. The servers are overwhelmed trying to keep up with requests. Give it a few minutes and it should come back for you on its own. ⚠️

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@ty_olsen

1 year

A Fraser Valley community has started a local program providing air conditioners to residents at a per-capita rate 20 times that of the much-criticized provincial program, at half the per-unit cost, with no paperwork cost barriers. Story this week in @currentfv .

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@ty_olsen

1 year

The answer is 13. If humans stopped all activity near forests and ceased to spark wildfires, our wildfire problem would still exist.

Tyler Olsen

@ty_olsen

1 year

235 wildfires began in the last week. How many do you think were human caused?

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Tyler Olsen

@ty_olsen

3 years

Telling retail workers on December Effing 24th that they are at a non-minimal risk of acquiring Omicron at work is certainly something.

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@ty_olsen

3 years

NEW STORY: Engineers predicted the Sumas dike would fail. Then it did. But the Sumas dike didn't die from individual neglect. It's part of a system that is likely to fail in the face of a major Fraser River flood. Today's big @currentfv story

A doomed Sumas dike failed as predicted. Many other levees could be next.

A critical Sumas dike failed inspection six years ago. Then it failed those it was meant to protect. Thousands of other Fraser Valley residents live behind 'una

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Tyler Olsen

@ty_olsen

3 years

On reaching testing capacity, it isn't something that just is because of Omicron. It is because we didn't spend the last two years significantly ramping up testing capacity. Other places are testing 10x more. Hitting the capacity is a result of choices.

Justin McElroy

@j_mcelroy

3 years

Consider this clearer language: was this tone prominent at Monday’s press conference? Or anytime last week? Did anything about the virus or its fairly predictable trend lines changed? Instead, we’re saying it on Christmas Eve, when the ferries and road trips have happened.

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Tyler Olsen

@ty_olsen

4 years

special place in hell for those who design websites for municipalities and make people use a form to contact people rather than just providing actual email addresses.

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@ty_olsen

1 year

The big Q facing @Dave_Eby : He said tonight the gov't will be w/ those who need help. But rebuilding has yet to begin in Lytton. Can he promise that the gov't will ensure anyone who loses their home this week won't have to wait two years to rebuild?

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@ty_olsen

10 days

So this is often framed in abstract ways that obscure the importance of this. He has no framework to prepare for disasters in this province. Why would you boost flood/fire protections warming if you have no framework for understanding if the warming will continue?

Lou

@loumusac

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John Rustad with the BC conservative party in plain lingo on #pnpcbc denies #climatechange Despite the scientific consensus on the matter. The cons are all in for short term gain and will lie straight to Canadians’ faces. Ready to sell out Canadian children’s futures for profit

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@ty_olsen

2 years

The fact that a huge % of provincial non-flight transit is dependent on a single private company was a huge problem before Greyhound left and is still a huge problem but nobody really thinks about it or cares because politicians and bureaucrats never ride the bus between towns.

CTV News Vancouver

@CTVVancouver

2 years

The company involved in a deadly bus crash near Merritt, B.C., over the weekend suspended operations across the province for a second day on Monday.

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@ty_olsen

2 years

Looking through these, it's astonishing how prevalent press releases about crimes in Chinatown or the DTES are before the election, and how they dry up right IMMEDIATELY after.

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@ty_olsen

4 years

This is my last day at the Abbotsford News and, in all likelihood, in newspapers. (I'll still be a journalist hereabouts so.) Sorry (I'm not sorry), but I have Things To Say.

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@ty_olsen

3 years

NEW STORY: What we learned from the flood: • Hope needs help • Hwy 7 can't handle the traffic • The Nooksack lurks • Self-organized volunteers were an army unto themselves • A bit of governmental panic may have saved Barrowtown • A Tiger dam!

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@ty_olsen

1 year

Lytton: 2 years to the hour it burned.

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@ty_olsen

6 years

Just talked to Abbotsford-area Liberal MP Jati Sidhu: He said @Puglaas is not "a team player," speculated whether her father or somebody else was "pulling the strings." He said: "The way she's acting, I think she couldn't handle the stress." #SNCLavalin #cdnpoli

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@ty_olsen

3 years

Cut the barge into pieces; this is the last resort .... sorry

The Vancouver Sun

@VancouverSun

3 years

English Bay Barge will have to be deconstructed for removal: Owner

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@ty_olsen

3 years

I asked for the number of births and deaths in each Fraser Health hospital (nothing nefarious suspected, just tracking how health care treatment/population is changing). But apparently that simple request requires an FOI request. Example why fees are bad.

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@ty_olsen

3 years

View of Lytton fire from Lillooet

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@ty_olsen

11 months

2023. Just people sharing tips on how to be a homeless student on Reddit.

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@ty_olsen

1 month

One notable thing about the Chilcotin River: the lack of ongoing media coverage for something ppl are very interested in. 3 reasons: holiday Monday; in the Interior; which makes a lack of resources by media outlets very pronounced. At presser only 3 reporters had questions.

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@ty_olsen

3 years

No more questions. This was gonna be mine:

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Tyler Olsen

@ty_olsen

2 years

NEW: The COVID death toll for each BC city, revealed. I obtained community level death figures through April for each city and town through an FOI request. I believe it's the first time this info has been published. STORY: In today's @currentfv

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@ty_olsen

1 year

STORY: In 2003, a BC judge declared that health authority board meetings must be open to the public except in limited circumstances. A law exists that says as much So why are all Fraser Health board decisions made in private?

Inside Fraser Health's secret health care meetings

Despite a court ruling, public remains locked out of most Fraser Health board meetings

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Tyler Olsen

@ty_olsen

3 years

I'm glad we've learned absolutely nothing from wildfire season. Great. Just fucking great.

Sonia Aslam

@SoniaSAslam

3 years

Reached out to the Ministry of Transportation very early this afternoon for a response to the floods, mud/landslides. It's been nearly 12 hours and still nothing. So many people are being affected and nothing from BC gov't. #BCStorm

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@ty_olsen

2 years

It's bad form to brag. It's worse form to not always-be-self-promoting so: @currentfv is a finalist for a Jack Webster Award for feature/enterprise reporting for this story. Published the day after the Sumas dike broke, it's our most-read story ever.

Sumas Lake, the Nooksack River, and the historic roots of a 21st Century disaster

Sumas Lake once covered much of the Fraser Valley's fertile farmland. This is the story of how it disappeared, how it could re-appear, and some of the challenge

fvcurrent.com

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@ty_olsen

3 years

Like having at a server at a restaurant take your order for the steak and nod along, only for them to return to your table 30 minutes later holding a bowl of Kraft Dinner and expecting you to be fine with it.

Nick Wells

@nickwellsy

3 years

I once asked for an interview with a minister and three days later (at 9 p.m. at night), I got sent a two line statement. Did I ask for a statement? No, I wanted an interview. I never did get that interview...

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@ty_olsen

3 years

Meanwhile, I asked for an interview with Whatcom County's point person on the issue. After a comms person forwarded my email to the right guy It took LITERALLY 60 seconds to set up.

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@ty_olsen

1 year

Tomorrow is the second anniversary of the fire that burned down Lytton. Over the last two years, neither the BC Premier nor the Prime Minister has actually visited the townsite. Neither will be in town tomorrow.

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@ty_olsen

3 years

In this seemingly worst-case scenario, all that red is water that is three metres deep or more. This could potentially be worse than that, given how high the Fraser is at the present.

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@ty_olsen

30 days

"Temporary service adaptation" is a hell of a euphemism for an ER with no doctors.

Fraser Health

@Fraserhealth

30 days

Due to physician staffing challenges a temporary service adaption will be in place at Mission Memorial Hospital, between Saturday, August, 10 at 6:00 p.m. to Sunday, August 11, at 8:00 a.m.

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@ty_olsen

3 years

BREAKING: The Province of BC sat on urgent requests for help for days, the Fraser Valley Regional District says in this release. One was a request for help protecting Othello Road. By the time the request was finally approved, the road to a key tourist attraction was washed away

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@ty_olsen

4 years

NEW: B.C.'s Ministry of Health says disclosing the number of COVID-19 cases in cities over a 14-day period would threaten public safety. (That's what the "s.19" on the top of all that black means. The s.22(1) means they say it would also be an unreasonable invasion of privacy)

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@ty_olsen

3 years

More of this please. Admitting doubt, uncertainty and imperfection builds trust.

CBC British Columbia

@cbcnewsbc

3 years

Q: What did BCCDC go back and forth on guidelines? Dr. Henry: To be frank, my staff are tired and we are also being affected by lots of people being sick right now. It was an administrative error. It was my responsibility to communicate better and I'll do that in the future.

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@ty_olsen

3 years

It doesn't seem like a stretch to suggest that BC maybe didn't learn from its mistakes *because* it is so invested in the notion that it deserves credit for early success. Improving requires a level of self-awareness we really haven't seen. (Plus more outside pressure.)

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@j_mcelroy

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@Garossino I mean, I made this argument like 7,000 times in the first year of the pandemic, but in the last six months B.C. has been objectively *worse* than Ontario and Quebec, by a decently wide margin, in part we didn't learn from our shortcomings and adapt in the same way they did.

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1 year

I’m humbled* to be nominated for a National Newspaper Award. You can read the story here, though you'll have to be a newsletter subscriber (see what I did there?) *This is what everyone says but it's a lie: praise is, by definition, not humbling

The Life and Times of the Nooksack River

How the Nooksack River changed course in a day, and how it continues to shape the region—with help from humans.

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@ty_olsen

1 year

Remember folks: the best thinking is short-term thinking. The shorter, the better.

Stephen Taylor

@stephen_taylor

1 year

Canada's worst wildfire season just goes to show that carbon taxes aren't doing much of anything.

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@ty_olsen

2 years

Imagine if tonight Vanvouver residents were told: "There will be no 9-1-1 for 8 hours tonight. Good luck! Hopefully you don't have a heartattack, fire, or other emergency."

Fraser Valley Regional District

@FraserValleyRD

2 years

A temporary planned outage from Saturday at 10 pm to 6 am Sunday will affect Telus service in Boston Bar, Fraser Acres, Yale and Spuzzum. TV, internet, landline and wireless services will be offline including 911 service.

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@ty_olsen

3 years

@j_mcelroy i can do meme and viz

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@ty_olsen

2 months

This is the Mayor of Valemount.

Owen Torgerson

@OwenTorgerson

2 months

I am absolutely disgusted with Valemount (caveat: local mgmt had no say) gas stations! Thank you raising your rates during a multi-provincial evacuation. As long as Esso, Petro Canada and Shell shareholders made a few more bucks

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@ty_olsen

4 years

And, yes, I'm appealing the hell out of this.

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@ty_olsen

3 years

This U.S. river should be what everyone in the Lower Mainland is watching. When the Nooksack floods, it frequently runs north into Canada and Abbotsford. It has the potential to shut down Highway 1 between Chilliwack & Abbotsford and refill Sumas Lake.

The Fraser River doesn’t pose the only flood threat to Abbotsford

Nooksack avulsion poses ‘catastrophic’ danger; earthquake could crumble Vedder dikes

www.abbynews.com

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@ty_olsen

1 year

This is *monumentally* bad. It's far worse than Facebook pulling news, which actually removes a disincentive to create social media crap. On a news-gathering basis, it's horrible since most publs have useless search functions so the best way to find old stories is via google.

Anja Karadeglija

@AnjaKaradeglija

1 year

BREAKING: Google announces it will pull news from Google Search and other platforms over the Online News Act. It’s also killing existing deals with publishers:

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3 years

Anyways, while you're here, subscribe to the @currentfv newsletter for Monday's story on the dikes that (don't) protect the Fraser Valley

Fraser Valley Current

Local news, events, people. A 5x weekly newsletter made for Abbotsford, Chilliwack, Langley, Mission, and the rest of the Fraser Valley.

fvcurrent.com

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@ty_olsen

11 months

Lytton residents protesting. Many wearing small cardboard signs with the number 840 - the number of days since the village burned.

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@ty_olsen

3 years

One in 20 Abbotsford residents have now tested positive for COVID over the past year. I can't say how many have died without filing another freedom of information request and waiting a month because BC.

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@ty_olsen

2 years

Mission BC mayor:

Paul Horn 🇨🇦🥍🇨🇦🥍🇨🇦

@bootstrap20

2 years

To those protesting drag performances in our area, know this: Performing in drag isn’t new. It isn’t unwholesome or grooming or pornography. It’s about freedom of expression. If it’s not your thing, you don’t have to go. Live & let live.

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3 years

When you tell people they can gather, they will gather. They may not read the fine print. This should surprise no one. When exponential growth takes place for three months, as it has for variants and little is done to halt it, it will continue. This should surprise no one.

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@ty_olsen

5 months

It's not just that this year's snowpack has been much smaller than normal. It's also melting waaaaaaaay earlier than normal. The BC River Forecast Centre highlights this graph, which shows snow at Brenda Mine will be gone within days, farrrr earlier than ever recorded.

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@ty_olsen

11 months

Every single level of government has made journalism harder today than it was three years ago. Feds: C-18 Provincial: FOI fees Cities: Following province to institute FOI fees. And all these folks would pay lip service to the importance of journalism. It's a sham.

Jen Gerson

@jengerson

11 months

There is a fundamental Canadian cultural complacency we need to break, here. It's not just going to work itself out if we all go along to get along. The government does not mean well. Stop complying.

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Tyler Olsen

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🚨SCOOP: Today I finally received local numbers for the COVID-19 deaths. Because I had to file an FOI request, they're only as of Dec. 11. But they're surprising. 🚨Surrey was NOT the hardest hit city, in terms of COVID-19 deaths. Vancouver had twice as many.

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Tyler Olsen

@ty_olsen

3 years

Corcoran using a historical tragedy to double-down on his climate change idiocy is exactly what this discussion doesn't need right now. The same report he quotes says climate change will dramatically increase risk of flood. Maybe read a goddamn study

Terence Corcoran

@terencecorcoran

3 years

Terence Corcoran: A human mistake — Why the B.C. floods are not a climate change issue

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Tyler Olsen

@ty_olsen

4 months

I've been saying this for years but it's really starting to hit home that journalism in BC is increasingly compromised not just by the lack of reporter jobs but by the lack of trained reporters able to fill the jobs that are available.

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@ty_olsen

2 years

STORY: I agonized over the writing of this story. It's long, but if you want to know why an American river devastated a Canadian farming community (and why it may do so again), you need to understand what it means to be the Nooksack River.

The Life and Times of the Nooksack River

How the Nooksack River changed course in a day, and how it continues to shape the region—with help from humans.

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Tyler Olsen

@ty_olsen

3 years

Sunday flood thread: Huntingdon neighbourhood evacuated overnight; Nooksack forecast improves a bit. Will be updating this story here throughout the day.

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@ty_olsen

1 year

Trying to find how best to describe a person from the Lower Mainland declaring off-hand that Lytton shouldn't be rebuilt. And remember: many homes lost in 2021 belonged to Indigenous ppl, and Indigenous ppl have lived in area for thousands of years.

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@ty_olsen

2 years

Show me a freakier stretch of highway in Southern BC.

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@ty_olsen

1 year

STORY: The Lytton rebuild has thus far been a monumental failure. This is why.

How the Lytton rebuild went wrong

Nearly two years later, rebuilding has yet to begin. Politics, bureaucracy, and Lytton's unique nature have conspired against the village.

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Tyler Olsen

@ty_olsen

1 month

Final note since some seem to forget. But let me say it slowly: Multiple. Things. Can. Be. True. At. The. Same. Time. It is possible for forests to be poorly managed in ways that contribute to fires AND It is possible for climate change to contribute to fires.

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Tyler Olsen

@ty_olsen

2 years

The "wear a mask, if you choose" messaging is the clearest example of how governments will say something that means nothing just to say something. Hard to think of any less useful public health advice out there.

Justin McElroy

@j_mcelroy

2 years

Today's advice is to get vaccinated, wash your hands, wear a mask (or not!) and have a big heart

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@ty_olsen

1 year

For Nova Scotia fire novices, you can use NASA's FIRMS database to monitor fire progress. Keep in mind the data will be a little behind, depending when the satellite passed last... #Halifaxfire #Tantallon #TantallonFire Find it here:

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Tyler Olsen

@ty_olsen

3 years

NEW STORY/THREAD: Monday Fraser Valley flood thread. But will start with this: my story on the volcano feeding the floods, the Nooksack's three forks, why snow is good, rain is bad, and a grad student's suddenly urgent thesis

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Tyler Olsen

@ty_olsen

2 years

With all due respect to the writer, who is doing his best, Maclean's should not be flying in someone from Toronto to write about how BC is "learning to live with wildfires." There are writers here who, you know, have first-hand experience.

The Age of Wildfires - Macleans.ca

Wildfires are hotter, bigger and deadlier than ever. And they’re getting worse.

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Tyler Olsen

@ty_olsen

3 years

Forgive me, but it's clear now: We are 13 bloody months into this and nobody in government with the power (or willingness) to change has learned shit about the fact that you can't persuade people without giving them more than the bare minimum of info.

Justin McElroy

@j_mcelroy

3 years

In the middle of a third wave, with record high cases, with variants circulating fairly widely in the community, B.C. is not providing new data on variants, or new numbers on hospitalizations. I'm at a loss.

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Tyler Olsen

@ty_olsen

2 years

It should be noted: It looks very possible that not only will Barry Neufeld lose, but that he will be replaced by Teri Westerby, who is trans and whose election signs feature him wearing a rainbow bow-tie.

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Tyler Olsen

@ty_olsen

12 days

just pointing out that it's more than a little weird for a political party's core "founding principle" to be simply to keep another political party out of government. Usually it's something that occurs in tandem w/ some positive desire for a certain goal, not the essential thing.

Katy Merrifield

@katy_merrifield

12 days

I imagine this was a gut wrenching decision for BCU leader Kevin Falcon. The reason the free-enterprise coalition BC Liberal Party was formed was to fight the NDP and keep them out of government. Kevin’s decision today proves his commitment to that founding principle. #bcpoli

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Tyler Olsen

@ty_olsen

3 years

Here's Highway 11 in Abbotsford. I'm no expert, but I've circled the bit that seems like the problem to me. @City_Abbotsford can use this one too at tomorrow's press conference if it helps simplify the matter. (Photo from Abbotsford Police.)

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@ty_olsen

1 year

STORY: After a prison guard caught COVID at work and died, the federal government tried repeatedly to avoid having to pay his family compensation. @JotiGrewal_ in today's @currentfv

Feds fought family of prison guard who contracted COVID at work and died

After a Mission corrections officer contracted COVID at work and died, the federal government fought his family to try to avoid paying compensation.

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Tyler Olsen

@ty_olsen

1 year

Such a good BC lake, nobody narced to @j_mcelroy about it.

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Tyler Olsen

@ty_olsen

3 years

The Minister of BC's Bad Weather passing things over to the This Goddamn Pandemic Won't End Officer.

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@ty_olsen

2 years

STORY: Newly unredacted FOI documents reveal the exasperation of those tasked with telling the BC government every year that its schools are 'deteriorating' and that it spends far too little on maintenance. #bced

Funding insufficient to save BC’s ‘deteriorating’ schools, province warned repeatedly

An annual assessment found that current levels of funding are insufficient to keep up with mounting school repair bills in newly unredacted documents released t

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Tyler Olsen

@ty_olsen

4 months

The failure of the NDP here is just staggering.