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Flooding and power outages are causing headaches in some parts of Quebec after summer storms and rainfalls. In Quebec City, a pair of vehicles are stuck in an underpass that quickly filled up with water. The city received up to 50 millimetres of water in just two hours this morning. According to …
Read More »End coming soon for Calgary’s notorious bus traps
The last of Calgary’s original model of bus traps could be gone in the next year or so. The traps — essentially a pit dug into a road that prevents anything but a transit bus from passing through — have been a fixture in Calgary since the 1970s. The City of Calgary …
Read More »Climate change turned my nest boxes to help birds into deadly heat traps
This First Person article is by Melissa Hafting who is an avid birder from Richmond, B.C. For more information about CBC’s First Person stories, please see the FAQ. Swallows are an iconic bird of summer across Canada. They swoop and dash gracefully over water showing off magnificent colours akin to …
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