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Joanne Hammond @joannehammond.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Kamloops rn
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alexander solsten @solsten.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
My relatives live in Summerland. No word from them yet. The official government position is to accept these fires as new reality while simultaneously building more pipelines & gas plants. Absolutely unreal @danielbachman.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Full evacuation order of Summerland, B.C., issued due to out-of-control wildfire | CBC News
The Bald Range fire grew to 50 square kilometres in three hours after it was first detected at 5:30 p.m. PT on Friday evening, said Erick Thompson with the Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen's ...
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Me Ow @emilysnake.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
@mark-carney.bsky.social @davidebybc.bsky.social Thanks guys for doing nothing to prevent forest fires. We love not having a home! Double thanks for Eby for the absolute most dog shit evacuation centre. No one in charge no direction. Disorganized chaos.
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Castanet.net @castanet.net · 08/08/2026
Tactical evacuations underway after wildfire west of Summerland explodes to 1,000 hectares #SummerlandBC
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Tactical evacuations underway after wildfire west of Summerland explodes to 1,000 hectares - Summerland News
Fast-moving wildfire spotted on Princeton-Summerland back road
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BC Wildfire Weekly - Wildfires + More @bcwildfirewkly.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
“EVACUATION ORDER District of Summerland, in its entirety” www.summerland.ca/docs/default... - District of Summerland #BaldRangeWildfire #BCWildfire #Okanagan #Summerland 1/2
District of Summerland

EVACUATION ORDER
District of Summerland, in its entirety
Date: August 8, 2026
Whereas a state of local emergency was declared on August 8, 2026 by District of Summerland
pursuant to Section 95 of the Emergency and Disaster Management Act due to the Bald Range
Wildfire within the area of the District of Summerland, in its entirety.

And whereas Section 107 (1)(c) and (d) of the Emergency and Disaster Management Act authorizes
requiring evacuations in relation to a declared state of local emergency, making arrangements for
the adequate care and protection of evacuated persons and animals, and controlling travel to or
from an area;

And whereas the Bald Range Wildfire is a significant threat to the health, safety, and welfare of
persons, such that an evacuation and controlling travel is necessary to minimize threats;

This Evacuation Order has been issued by District of Summerland and is effective immediately
as of 12:10am on August 8, 2026.

YOU MUST LEAVE THE AREA IMMEDIATELY

Members of the RCMP, Search and Rescue and BC Wildfire will be expediting this action.

A person must not enter any of the area(s) identified above and in the attached map for purposes
of residing, occupying, or visiting the area(s).

Further information will be issued on the District of Summerland’s website at www.summerland.ca.

You can also visit District’s Facebook Page at https://www.facebook.com/SummerlandBC/ or
www.EmergencyInfoBC.ca for more information.
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Mayor Doug Holmes
District of Summerland
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 06/08/2026
Meta said one of its AI models accessed the internet and hacked into an outside service’s systems during cybersecurity testing, following similar breaches by OpenAI and Anthropic models
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Meta AI Model Accessed Internet, Hacked Outside Firm in Testing
Meta Platforms Inc. said one of its artificial intelligence models accessed the internet and hacked into an outside service’s systems during cybersecurity testing, following other recent incidents across the AI industry that have escalated concerns about companies’ control over their technology.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
This went a little different than his nightly interviews with Sean Hannity.
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
“It seems that their sampling method is seriously flawed and could vastly underestimate the percentage of valid signatories” #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Questions emerge about statistical sampling used on rejected anti-coal petition | CBC News
A statistics professor raises concerns about Elections Alberta's sampling method used to verify Corb Lund's Water Not Coal petition which was deemed to be under the signature threshold last week.
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Politico @politico.com · 09/07/2026
The House’s Epstein investigation will hit the one-year mark later this month, and the saga isn’t ending anytime soon. 🔗 politi.co/4h3mC0z
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Harrison Ford’s commencement address.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
The Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act of 1965 this week. It was a slap in the face to the countless activists who fought for the VRA — and those who died for it. But we cannot give up. Here's how we should respond.
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Good breakdown of many of the implications of the Supreme Court’s destruction of the Voting Rights Act. It didn’t l have to be this way. But this is what White America wanted.
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Econ Analytica @econanalytica.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
"Melania says Congress should do something about the Epstein Files." Cartoon by @rmckee.bsky.social
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
“We always seem to have money for war. But not to feed the poor.”
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RESIST @resist4unow.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Thank You Tom Morello! Open your eyes because the wolves are on our doorsteps.
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Essence of RBG 🦋 @rbgprevails.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
WTF aren’t Americans on the streets demanding an end to this unlawful war launched on behalf of Zionist evil?!
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Castanet.net @castanet.net · 18/03/2026
Most Canadians want to ban or regulate algorithmic pricing, poll shows (Canada)
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Most Canadians want to ban or regulate algorithmic pricing, poll shows - Canada News
Most Canadians want the government to ban or regulate the use of algorithms to set prices, a new poll suggests.
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Castanet.net @castanet.net · 13/03/2026
B.C. appointed them to map old-growth. Now they say province is failing to save it (BC)
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B.C. appointed them to map old-growth. Now they say province is failing to save it - BC News
Every member of a former panel the British Columbia government appointed to identify old-growth for potential protection in 2021 now says they're concerned about continued logging in those same rare and "irreplaceable" forests.
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 02/03/2026
Hugh Gusterson: The #Epstein files are most interesting for what they reveal about a web of gifts, favours and financial transactions that knit together what would otherwise be a disparate sprawl of bankers, developers, tech bros, media personalities and high-profile academics.
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The Epstein Files Reveal How Elites Trade Toxic Gifts and Favours | The Tyee
Financiers, religious leaders, scientists, politicians and princes are tied in a secret self-serving influence network.
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Aunt Patty @auntpatty.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Choose Democrats wisely.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 14/02/2026
Aleksei Navalny was most likely poisoned by a toxin found in a South American frog, five European countries said Saturday, making the most concrete Western accusation yet that Russia’s leading opposition figure was murdered by his government in a prison two years ago. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/w...
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 14/02/2026
“This Valentine’s Day, we’re celebrating hope, belonging and the quiet miracle of choosing each other again and again in a place that chose us too.” 💌
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Love Rules | The Tyee
Fall head over heels for six real-life love stories by Tyee staff and readers.
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
After Tumbler Ridge shooting, false claims about trans people have proliferated online Claims about an 'epidemic' of trans shooters circulating on social media are false, expert says #Canada Stop spreading propaganda!!! Be respectful. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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After Tumbler Ridge shooting, false claims about trans people have spread online | CBC News
Anger and false claims are being directed at transgender people after Tuesday's mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., that left nine people dead, including the suspected shooter, who RCMP identified a...
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 12/02/2026
The response to the #TumblerRidgeShooting from far-right media, online commentators and even an elected official in Canada is another dark example of how pervasive anti-trans misinformation has become, even in Canada. Mel Woods writes. #bcpoli #bced
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As Tumbler Ridge Mourns, Anti-Trans Misinfo Spreads | The Tyee
No good will come from the conservative rush to weaponize the shooter’s identity in this story.
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BC Reality @bcreality.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Just another in a long list of kiddy diddlers in this regime!
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 05/02/2026
If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
“The notwithstanding clause must not be used to entrench human rights violations. If we’re not vigilant, there’s no guarantee that the notwithstanding clause won’t be invoked to undermine women’s rights to choose, for example.” #cdnpoli amnesty.ca/human-rights...
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Amnesty International Canada responds to Pierre Poilievre’s ‘troubling’ notwithstanding clause proposal
Amnesty International Canada urged Pierre Poilievre to walk back his proposal to invoke the notwithstanding clause in the next Parliament.
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Tara Setmayer @tarasetmayer.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
🚨BREAKING: Don Lemon arrested by Trump’s DOJ The Trump admin is snatching people off the streets. Killing protestors Threatening invasion of allies Seizing ballots. And now arresting journalists. This is Trump’s America. THIS IS HOW DEMOCRACY DIES. Are we going to just let him destroy us?
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Warnock on the arrest of Don Lemon: It’s chilling, and I think that is the intent. They intend to send chills down the backs of journalists. The authoritarian march is happening in real time, and it’s way past the time to wake up.
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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 28/01/2026
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Alberta chief justices pen rare statement defending judicial independence
They spoke out after Premier Danielle Smith said she wished she could ‘direct’ judges
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 28/01/2026
Bovino had apparently become so accustomed to lying that he pushed the DHS falsehood that Pretti appeared to have “wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement.” Pretti, a VA ICU nurse, was too sympathetic to be smeared so brazenly. Trump recognized that and sent Bovino packing.
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How Bovino proved too openly fascistic for Trump
And what it means—or doesn't—that border czar Tom Homan is taking over.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
A Canadian-made armoured vehicle was spotted on Minneapolis streets the day ICE murdered Alex Pretti. The company that sold ICE that monster as part of a $10 million deal? Roshel. What’s more: Canada’s government brought Roshel’s CEO on a trade mission SIX DAYS AFTER Renee Good was murdered.
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Timothy Gray @canadagray.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
How big grocery stores killed the best way to clean up our streets and rivers: Inside the politics and lobbying that helped derail Ontario’s deposit-return system for cans and bottles www.thestar.com/politics/pro... via @torontostar #onpoli #plastic
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Inside the politics and lobbying that helped derail Ontario’s deposit-return system for cans and bottles
The province is one of only two in Canada without a bottle return system that has long been the norm in Europe.
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Frank Figliuzzi @frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
DOJ has said the quiet part out loud to a federal judge. They don’t want any oversight of compliance with the law mandating release of the Epstein files. Check out Substack for the full take: substack.com/@thefrankfig...
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
I questioned their Christian values so now they threaten me with death
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Black Panthers Chairman Paul Birdsong urges people to "legally arm yourselves and unify or you will die"
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
May we all have the audacity to believe… -Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. accepting the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964
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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 19/01/2026
B.C.’s EAO took more than four months to publicly post records showing Woodfibre LNG was out of compliance during construction in Squamish after failing to monitor for juvenile salmon. The company says monitoring continued and no harm was observed. No fines were issued thenarwhal.ca/woodfibre-ln...
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Woodfibre LNG failed to properly monitor salmon | The Narwhal
Woodfibre LNG ‘failed to monitor for juvenile salmon during in-stream construction’ in Squamish, B.C. The infraction wasn’t made public for 4 months
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Castanet.net @castanet.net · 17/01/2026
Dozens rally in Iqaluit for Greenland as Trump renews threats to control island (Nunavut)
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Dozens rally in Iqaluit for Greenland as Trump renews threats to control island - Canada News
Dozens of people rallied in Nunavut's capital today in solidarity with Inuit people in Greenland who are concerned about U.S. President Donald Trump's renewed threats to take control of the island
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Me Ow @emilysnake.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
@davidebybc.bsky.social Can you pipe up bud? Why are we targeting legal PAL holders instead of criminals? Stop banning our sporting rifles, and tell the feds to use 700m to tackle actual illegal firearms being brought from the US.
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Krista D Ball is Canada's Spooky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
CBC posted some chickpea recipes (but a lot of them honestly you can use lentils or any other beans IMO) www.cbc.ca/life/food/ch...
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12 chickpea recipes to make right now | CBC Life
Cold weather, tight budgets and meat-free cooking have made chickpeas the MVP of winter meals.
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Castanet.net @castanet.net · 16/01/2026
WestJet reversing move to install tight seating layout #Calgary
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WestJet reversing move to install tight seating layout - Alberta News
WestJet is cancelling a new seat configuration that squeezed an extra row on board many of its planes and left passengers with less legroom.
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Me Ow @emilysnake.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
A year ago, U of T’s Laura Tozer was adding climate policies to her lecture slides. This year, she’s deleting them, and asking Prime Minister Mark Carney to explain the rollbacks directly to her students. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/24/n...
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This University of Toronto Professor wants Carney to answer to her students
Each year, University of Toronto professor Laura Tozer updates a slide deck that she presents to her graduate students on the state of climate policy in Canada. This year, she is deleting everything.
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
scheduled post DJ Sunny The Cockatiel
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Kellee aka IrishJayhawk66 @kelleepratt.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
This crazy world got you feeling down? Just listen to a little perspective from Monty Python’s Meaning of Life: #MontyPython #meaningoflife
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John Ackermann @jackermann.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
New: The Ministry of Transportation and Transit has closed major highways between the Lower Mainland and the Interior due to flooding, falling rock and debris, and high avalanche hazards. #BCStorm @citynewsvancouver.bsky.social
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Vancouver Sun @vancouversun.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
B.C. Flood Warning Live: Evacuation alerts issued for Abbotsford's Sumas Prairie West and Clayburn Village vancouversun.com/news/local-n...
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