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Family favourites highlight outdoor summer movie nights at London, Ont. parks – London

Descrease article font size Increase article font size Shrek, Aladdin and Marty McFly are coming to London city parks on the big screen this summer as outdoor movie nights will be returning. The city unveiled its 2023 summer movie night lineup, with lots of classics and family favourites to catch …

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Be fire-smart when visiting parks this long weekend: RDCO – Okanagan

Plan on visiting a local park this long weekend? If so, be fire-smart. That advice from the Regional District of Central Okanagan on Wednesday proved timely, as smoke from wildfires from northern B.C. and Alberta drifted into the region. It also comes with moderate or high fire danger ratings blanketing …

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‘Loved to death’: Balancing recreation and conservation in Alberta’s mountain parks

The number of annual visitors to Alberta’s parks has been steadily rising, sparking a question of how to balance the desire for recreation with environmental concerns. “Places like Banff National Park and Waterton are being loved to death,” said Jody Hilty, president of Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative. The number …

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Parks Canada seeing ‘three-fold increase’ in abandoned pets at Toronto area park

Parks Canada has issued a plea for people to stop abandoning their pets and exotic animals after a three-fold increase at Rouge National Urban Park in recent years. In a statement to Global News, the government agency says in addition to domestic dogs, park staff are seeing rabbits, cats, reptiles …

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Proposal to ban sledding at all but two Oshawa parks draws criticism

By Staff The Canadian Press Posted January 19, 2023 8:26 am Descrease article font size Increase article font size A proposal to ban tobogganing at all but two municipal parks in a city east of Toronto is drawing criticism from lawyers who say the plan won’t boost safety but could …

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How B.C. Parks is rebuilding a world-famous hiking trail to survive climate change

B.C. Parks is in the midst of repairing Mount Robson Provincial Park’s Berg Lake Trail — ruined by extreme flooding caused by 2021’s heat dome. The time-consuming, complicated work is intended to protect the park from the damaging effects of climate change. News Source link

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Northern crayfish continues its Alberta invasion, this time, in the mountain parks

If you haven’t spotted a northern crayfish in Alberta already, there’s now one more spot where you might see one swimming about.  Parks Canada recently caught one of the mini-lobster looking critters near a stream flowing into Bow Lake in Banff National Park.  It’s the first time they’ve seen the …

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City warns against taking bushes, plants from parks and green spaces

The City of Calgary is reminding residents there are hefty fines for those who take plants and shrubs home with them from city parks and green spaces  — and that includes berry bushes too. Faye Wythe said berry bushes are disappearing from a local walking spot near her home in Aspen Woods in southwest …

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