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As an American I don't get to hear about Canadian news here in the United States from any of our news outlets. So today I'd like to take a look at the current news and events happening in Canada right now. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
Love it when Tyler says, “Am I missing something?” and you can hear the Canadian viewers collaboratively saying, “Yes, Tyler, you are.” 😜
He misses a lot..
🤣🤣🤣
You're coming to little bit rude, he's American, he doesn't live here. He's learning about Canada. Whilst americans can't even identify Canada on a map
@@personincognito3989 Do You think Tyler receives nothing $$$ from RUclips for his ramblings while "learning"? Btw, my children have lived in Manhattan for 20 years, and they tell me Americans can identify Canada on a map and much more.
@@personincognito3989 Once you've listened to his schtick for a few months, you realize that it's somewhat of a schtick and there are some things he keeps "forgetting" and acts surprised about every single time he reads or hears about it.
The fires never ended - there have been fires burning all year. Unfortunately now things are escalating. We have already been under a smoke alert for several days in Alberta.
That is true..alot have been burning underground.
My city always gets all the smoke from fires its horrible, I hope everyone stays safe.
Yup,here in in the north,there has already been one
"I didn't think there would be forest fires in Canada. I thought it would be too cold."
Tyler Bucket. 2023
This was made over a year after he started "learning" about Canada.
nope and I think there will always be fires up here. hopefully we can turn it around sooner rather than later cause it's gotten pretty bad the last few years. though I do find it odd how arson(whether it be accidental or not) has risen a lot the past few years. We also should be done with this current El Niño (warmer and dryer than average for a decent chunk of canada) and transitioning into an La Niña around august(which should bring colder and wetter than average weather). It'd be nice to see some public service announcements and/or ads (remember the house hippos telling us not to believe everything on the internet? like that, lol. or the recent anti-vaping ones) for people to clean up after themselves thoroughly when outdoors, especially when you have anything that could start a fire. Personally I'll bring some herbs with me camping and I can already see someone carelessly tossing there roach or bowl out.
There is a push in Canada to treat addiction as a medical condition and not as criminal activity.
There was one in BC and it failed so catastrophically that they are going extra hard on enforcemeent instead.
@@robertsmith4681 From what I was reading on multiple news sites it was just an adjustment to prohibit recreational drug use in public places such as parks due to the fact that police often couldn't address complaints since the amounts people held often fell below the 2.5 gram limit.
@@robertsmith4681 That's not what's happening at all. Yes, there is currently a program in BC. They have re-criminalized but that's only to give the police the power to move addicts along. The police in BC are loath to just jail them and they're not going back.
There is also a big push to get as many treatment beds open as possible to get help needed to anyone who wants it. Police will only arrest an addict if they give them no other choice.
As for the safe injection kits and drug testing centers it’s largely due to the opioid crisis in Canada.
You should google that if you’re interested in understanding the drug segment. In BC alone in 2023 over 2,500 people died of toxic drug overdose. Mainly due to fentanyl or tainted drugs being introduced to the streets. The kits and safe/testing sites are meant to keep the people with addiction a little safer from overdoses or toxicity poisoning. While of course drug addiction is an issue, one that our governments have been struggling to get to the heart of for years. At least intervening on this level will hopefully help addicts stay alive, need less EMR/EMT intervention, and out of hospitals.
@@robertsmith4681 That's not what's happening at all. Yes, drugs have been re-criminalized in BC. That's only to give the police the power to move addicts along. They will only arrest them when left with no other options. They are loath to just jail them anymore and they're not going back. The "extra hard" part is nonsense.
We are also opening as many treatment beds as possible to get help to anyone who wants it. The old ways of dealing with addicts is ending, as is the war on drugs.
Many many people were evacuated. Fort McMurray in alberta is going to get it again. They are STILL rebuilding from the devastation a few years ago.
that was 8 years ago, it really sucks to hear it hasn't fully recovered. though i think after an incident like that it might always feel as if there's more recovering
Abasand and beacon hill have been evaluated now I just heard... Almost to the day 8 years ago! May 3rd 2016...it's crazy!
Yes including my cousin and her children. Her husband is RCMP who can't leave.
@@mienafriggstad3360 Similar here - my cousin, her children and parents have been evacuated but her husband is also still there, he works for the oil company, I think he's trained as one of their firefighters.
Theres no concept in canada of suing for millions of dollars
I was in San Diego this weekend, having a conversation about this with someone from Flordia. They did not belive me that, while you can sue someone, it is not like winning the lotto that a US case can be.
Tell that to my brother’s baby mother who’s living off a $2 million dollar settlement after she was brain damaged in a car accident at the age of 16.
@@jenniferlindsey2015they most likely got to sue for so much because she was a minor and a woman
This is way different circumstances this man is black and grown plus he looks like a hip-hop fan which the public might not have as much empathy for unfortunately.
Safe injection kits are meant to reduce the risk of aids or hepatitis. People have to be READY to seek help before rehab can even have a chance to work.
When Americans see drug use they see dollar signs... because they can put human beings in cages and corporations can make money of them. That is why the US has 3% of the world's population and 25% of the world's prisoners.
You can just look at the stats. The US has the worst crime in the Western developed world, despite being the most hard assed about drugs. Social issues need to be dealt with using social programs. Turing social issues into criminal issues just creates an entire underclass of perpetually impoverished people who are statically more likely to fall into addiction and commit crimes.
and to save them if they OD from fentanyl, because it's in everything now
30% or more of Northern Canada is coveredin boreal forest, so is always susceptible to fires. The combination of drought conditions and the explosion of the mountain pine beetles destroying the forests has not helped. In Alberta and BC there have been wildfires for 68 years of my life.
That incident with Gatineau police is NOT an isolated incident. Some Canadian police are of good character but many are not. Police are rarely disciplined, fired, or jailed. At most they may receive a temporary suspension and allowed to keep their jobs. Quite predictably, I'm instantly on alert (as are many Canadians) when I see the police. I try not to make eye contact and some times I'll just cross the street. You never know when you'll run into the wrong one. Sadly, my position is that police are thugs/dangerous unless proven otherwise.
100%. The RCMP and police here being nice is a myth way too many believe.
This, I am south asian and I am EXTREMELY on guard when I see police. its honestly very sad.
Ahahahahah no. Police in Canada is safe and well trained. Respect to our peace officers.
@@mrowniiiyou don't know what your talking about apparently
@@brokefangmagepunk3685 yes I know, you obviously dont.
Here in Toronto we have a wildfire smoke warning on effect. Very early but the winds do blow across the country from west to east usually.
Needed that winter snow cap and we did not get.
Have to remember a huge part of Canada is Boreal Forest...all it takes is one bolt of lightning with the dryness and some areas are difficult to reach.
We don’t have the snow to help us with dryness.🇨🇦
Yep, and barely any rain. I think only one tiny area of Canada had their precipitation level in the green. Even part of Vancouver Island was red, which is usually one of the wettest places. I went to Tofino in the summer and it was the first time I’ve been where it didn’t pour…
"he could sue them for millions" NOPE Canada don't work like that
Maybe a voucher for TImmy ho's and some hockey tickets but nope no huge American payouts here.
"You have the right to sue the police if: a police officer searched, arrested or detained you (you were “jacked up”) without a legal reason; a police officer took your property or damaged or destroyed it without a legal reason; or a police officer used more force against you than was needed." you can sue the officer and the police department in civil court.
@@robertjulianagnel1100 yup but our payout limits are way way lower then in usa
Nurses are burnt out from Covid so some quit . Also some go to USA for the money
Because provinces won't pay nurses the money they deserve! Their leaving in droves in Ontario because the Ford Government is welcoming for Profit medical clinics in!
Also, there were huge cuts back in 1990s that had nursing schools close for years. Now that nurses are retiring, there is a generation that weren't able to become nurses. Government has no foresight.
@@noadlorWhen and where did nursing schools close? I don't think that's a thing.They stayed open even during covid. I work in the medical profession.
They did cut funding! And many programs at smaller colleges were canceled! They did it in the 90s and early 00s for many medical education programs..nursing lab tech and radiology programs! Doctors!...my friend is doing his residency for surgeon in the states right now cause it was easier to get into the program!
@Sara-zx2wm it's the money! The best Doctors in the USA are Canadian and they go for the Money!
its not canadian government it is province of ontario gov (nurses)
As of today there is currently 130 active wildfires in BC alone. While 115 are currently under control and only 15 are serious. It’s only May and it’s expected to get much worse through the summer.
Up here in Norther Alberta the fires burn hundreds of feet down year around. It's muskeg in the forest floor and it is so so dry here also. Thank you to all the fire fighters out there doing a great job!! 🙏🏼
I'm from Quebec. And I find it VERY sad that forest fires are the only times when Alberta thinks of us as a friend.
@@TheJimprez Yup. They want to separate but sure need the rest of Canada when things get tough.
Here in central Alberta on the weekend, opening your windows or going outside was like sticking your head into a campfire. The smoke was strong indeed. It was reported that northern Alberta had the worst air quality in the world due to the fires.
The seasons seem to be getting reversed in AB - one used to stay inside in the winter due to extreme cold, and enjoy the short but beautiful sunny summers. In the past 4 or 5 years, we're often shut in summer due to the smoke, and the winters are getting warmer and it's much easier to get out.
Tyler, you should do a search for zombie fires and that might help you understand why so many of these fires are starting early now. They're truly scary.
I’m in Northwestern Alberta, and I can say that my city was sepia coloured on Saturday. Ash was ‘raining’ down on us. I needed to do some running and couldn’t see the traffic lights ahead and when I was at the top of a hill I couldn’t see anything but smoke below. It was a little unnerving. Nothing like last year when the evacuation zone was less than a 5 min drive from my subdivision but still surreal.
There are fires in Alberta as well. This year is going to be really bad.
I hope it won't be as bad as last year.
@@corriveau21 it is going to be worse than last year.
My son is fighting the fires in northern Alberta, it is early in the season, however it is a lot already. This is going to be a long summer, all the best for everyone up north.
My son is also with Alberta Wildfire, both please stay safe.
Mine too. 🙏❤
Ty for ur concern. Yes it’s hard on. Us Canadians but it’s more worst for the people with breathing problems like myself. I have chronic bronchitis which here in Canada they catagery has c.o.p.d which I have to use oxygen tanks on everyday to just to breathe. With all the smoke from the fires it makes 2 to 3 times harder on my lungs to breathe.
Yeah, and many other health conditions as well. I have a few and living in Smokanagan in the summer is hard. I basically just have to stay inside and sometimes even wear a mask indoors
No, the Canada Health Act does not cover dental care. There was a separate piece of legislation which did introduce dental care for those who don't have dental insurance through their employer and can't afford it out-of-pocket. So the dental issues would be for those who could not afford to see a dentist and many would be at, or more likely below, the poverty line.
Continuing on this subject You can't force someone into rehab they will only become worst or not do what is explained to them. Going to rehab the person needs to want to go themselves. If you force someone to go or do something they don't want to do they will walk out of the program within 5 minutes.
Most of Canada is forested area, one impact of higher C02 levels in the air is that trees grow faster but tend to be easier to burn than trees of previous years, combined with all around dryer conidtions it is a regular thing to have forest fires all ove the place. And of course we don't have enough people to fight fires that appear all over the place. Dental is not covered, there is a new benefit that is being worked on for dental care but I wont have access to it untill next year, even though I am disabled and recieve next to no money in disability benefits and I don't have a choice to not go to a dentist because of a comprimised immune system.
I love when you guys write essays for Tyler that he will never even look at, let alone understand or remember...
@@damonx6109 Who said I wrote it for him to read. From MS my life has become segregated from most human conection. I had an opinion and I wanted to express it regardless of who reads it.
We had a nursing shortage here in Ontario prior to the pandemic. During the pandemic our government made the Covid vaccine mandatory for medical professionals and as a result many left their jobs. Personally I believe that spoke volumes to the validity of the vaccine considering the effort put forth to have such careers!!! Love your videos Tyler!!!
Substance abuse is a public health issue. Treating it as a criminal activity is counter-productive, un-constructive, and doesn't address the root cause of substance use. Many can't get past that its drugs so would rather arrest/jail people than offer treatment. Once they have a criminal record it gets even harder for substance abusers to recover. Some jurisdictions like BC have rightfully decided to treat this as a public health issue (de-criminalize) but have gotten strong kick back from segments of society who just want to punish people instead.
You obviously don't work in health care
It’s a mix of variables.
Natural fires that occur every year, human carelessness - cigarettes, improper smothering of camp fires, ect - and arson.
Last year from PEI and Quebec to BC, there was confirmed arson in multiple places, some arrests.
We call it arson season over here in Canada because that’s what it is.
In BC we have 5-Seasons now. Summer shrunk to a single month in May and then 4 months of Smoke Season.
An apocalyptic red midsummer sun and not being able to go outside in August is new normal
And yet people still insist climate change is fake /shrug
Central Ontario has been flooding for over a month now, extremely high water levels but it's a matter of time before the fires start in Ontario and Quebec and I'm smoked out again.
We have some already.
sadly we don't have free dental or optical care.
why are you making this political?
@@prevosfrthey quite literally weren’t.
Isn't the NDP working on a dental care program.
The story was about the people who have used the new dental coverage. It's being phased in slowly, starting with those who are lowest income in the eldest and youngest age cohorts.
They've already started to roll It's not free to seniors that it's gonna be kids.That's gonna be low income then it might be everybody. You can google it
Last year, the wildfires were especially bad. Not a lot of snow over winter combined with a dry spring.
In Canada we have free health care so we try to do preventative method treatment. Helps to keep long term costs down.
'Wild' in wildfire is suggestive up here. A good portion are man made, presumably for employment. Just the other day in Alberta ~30 fires were started over night
Yes, we're shaping up for another bad wildfire season, since we're still in a drought.
All that snow here in Calgary late didn’t do much
@@nicksbits Nope. We've got green lawns for a while, but it's not enough to lower the risk of fire much.
Wildfires are a good thing. This is just normal nature.
The drug thing is a recognition that drug use is an illness not a crime - so the idea is, SELLING drugs is a crime, go after the sellers, but for the users, provide anonymous free rehab for them if they want it and give safe locations where users can get clean equipment and a safe spot to use drugs [generally I believe the idea is that using drugs in other places would be a minor offense but using the drugs in a safe place is legal and there are people on duty to keep an eye on people to reduce the risk of ODs]
It is very controversial and although there are a number of variations on the idea, I believe in all cases, dealers are still breaking the law and can be arrested and jailed, but users are encouraged to get rehab and until they do, as long as they bring their drugs to a "safe" place they are not asked any questions and can have safe disposable needles, etc, and someone around to make sure they don't OD.
I've heard a lot of mixed things about it. As it isn't something I have a direct interest in, I have not kept up with all the details.
A couple of years ago in fire season, Lytton was burned to the ground, but amazingly only 2 people lost their lives. Another year, Merritt, also in BC, became isolated because bridges burned out. In southern BC, we also had a ton of landslides, and flooding in the Fraser Valley. Living in SuperNatural BC is amazing. I love living in this province, but we do get a lot of natural disasters.
I missed out on the lights due to wildfire smoke! A buddy of mine took some really spectacular photos from BC.
Parts of Fort McMurray have been evaluated since that news was released as well! ..The same areas that got hit May 3rd 2016 😢
This nursing shortage issue in Ontario is because of Ford's conservative governance, during the beginnings of the pandemic he cut funding to Healthcare. He and his cabinet ministers are still to this day trying to cut funding to Healthcare.
His government is currently fighting in the courts a back pay for female Healthcare workers who where proven to be paid less than their male coworkers.
I know about this because my mom is was a psw and she would be one of the people getting some of that backpay, her union and some of the other Healthcare based unions (not sure which ones) are working on the case with their lawyers.
Not really, this is a structural shortage that affect all provinces and most developed countries, not only Ontario lol.
Some of these fires are actually from last year. In Western Canada especially, we've been suffering drought conditions for a long time with much lighter rain and snow over the winter. As a result, fires can smolder under the soil surface all winter and reignite when the weather warms up, which seems to be earlier every year.
Many nurses quit instead of being experimented on a few years back but it's also hard work on your body
Wildfires have become much worse.☹️ my brother-in-law and 12 other truckers were stuck at a brake check and couldn’t leave until a road was reopened for them near Fort Nelson. Luckily, they all made it out safely.
The nursing shortage story is an Ontario story. The government involved is not the Canadian Government (Federal) but is the provincial government. Provincial governments have certain jurisdictions such as education and health care is one of them. The money comes from the federal and I think provincial tax coffers.
There is a worldwide nursing shortage since the 80's But much worse now of course. Here in bc. We are starved for nurses.
No it is not. I wish people from Ontario would realize that they are not the only place in Canada.
Until recently, dental coverage was not included in provincial health plans. Now that it is, people are finally visiting the dentist that they may not have seen since childhood. Children up to the age of 18 have basic dental care, and up to the age of 25, have prescription coverage. Thankfully, our seniors also have prescription coverage with a minimum co-pay based on their income.
They give out safe stuff like needles that are not used by other people etc here in Nova Scotia Canada
Ontario just started a new dental program for kids without coverage.
That's federal
Theyre a bit late, canada.launch dental coverage for the entire country now, got my card last week
Provincial government get money from federal government , then the try mot to spend it on things like nurses. Nurse sare always tangling with Their provinces
The purpose of safe injection sites are to provide clean needles to addicts. This helps prevent the spread of diseases like HIV and hep C. In the governments opinion addicts will use drugs whether illegal or legal. Their view is to keep the public safe from these types of infections. It's a hot topic with valid points from both sides.
FYI: Wild fire season is in Washington state and Montana also.
Regarding the shortage of nurses. It was referring to the Gov of Ontario, not the Canadian Gov.
Yes, we used to have fire season, but with hotter weather, less rain, forest dry, fire are all year round!
NO Tyler, its called Arson Season. We've never had a "fire" season before.
Yes we did but no one talked about it because it is just normal. Forests burn since before humans appear on Earth.
Safe injection kit are given out by many agencies in Ontario. It has reduced dramatically the number of HIV cases and hepatitis cases because people are not sharing needles if they can get some for free. Alcohol swabs, reduce the risk of infection at the injection site. Some cats even include vitamin C tablets, because IV drug users also tend to be vitamin C deficient.
Naloxone kits are also available for free at every Ontario pharmacy. Even if you are not an opioid drug user, or know one, it is still good to have one on hand. You never know when someone will overdose in front of you. I keep mine in my purse, thankfully, I’ve never had to use it. So I replaced it when it expired. I also let it be known in my apartment building that I have a kit in case anyone needs one, so it can be administered while waiting for paramedics to arrive.
Wildfires are not a bad thing. They are necessary in the boreal forest cycle. No fire would be concerning.
My parents live in northern BC and they are on evacuation alert almost every summer. The smoke is so bad they don’t even go outside for most of the summer. The fires burn all year but they get much worse during summer from heat, dry and humans. If you want a sad Canadian news story look up 2018 Humboldt Broncos bus crash
My town has been on evacuation alert from a fire for 4 days now. In 2016 we had a big fire that took out almost 2500 homes.
Today ash is falling on the town. Many have already left
Sending rainy, cool, no wind vibes your way!
I was in that boat last year in Kelowna. It’s a stressful and scary time to say the least 😔
@@melissastory1993Same, got evacuated
Why do you build in boreal forest?
Wildfires are ongoing every year. Sometimes started by ppl, sometimes by lightning strikes, sometimes by accident, sometimes not. It's like the California wildfires but across the country. (Majority on the western side)
My local hospital had the highest mortality rate for a few years (I haven't seen the numbers for 2023) mainly because most of our funding, equipment, and workers are sent to the capital of NS instead of other places that need ppl. I know there's other places that have similar problems, our health care system needs an overhaul.
They have a safe use center here, in the middle of town, and the needles are usually left on the ground. Great for tourism.
It’s spring. What snow we had is long gone but there’s lots of fuel on the ground (dead trees, tall dry grass) and not enough motion the ground to green things up. So fires are exploding.
Wait until you find out how many family doctors we need! When I was in college in the mid-90s, we were training nurses and the job postings board was full of American hospitals recruiting nurses with incredible wages, and signing bonuses that you would never find in Canada. Especially after the pandemic, many nurses left the profession after finding themselves burnt out. Many retirement or long-term care, facilities, refuse to offer full-time positions because then they would have to pay benefits which led to many PSW‘s and nurses taking multiple jobs at multiple facilities. This let Covid spread even faster among these facilities because they were taking the virus from one home into another. Ontario nursing facilities had one of the highest mortality rates anywhere during Covid because of old HVAC systems, windows that wouldn’t open, shared accommodations and sharing staff with other facilities. This is one of our biggest COVID failures. You had President Trump, we had nursing facilities. Covid was a wonderful time to live in New Zealand!
We have fires here in Manitoba as well. That in itself is not unusual but it seems like since 2018 we've gained a "smoke" season due to the amount of wildfires that pop up throughout the country in the summer. 2018 is also when I was diagnosed with Asthma so that's fun!
No, dental care is not included in health care in Canada, we have to pay for it ourselves and it's VERY expensive! or with some employees you are covered but not on everything only from around 50 to 80% 🤷 but for children under 12 years old and under it's free. the same things for eyesight.. glasses ect..

The wild fires never stopped from last year. During the winter, fires burned underground, and are now burning above ground once again. It's only May and we already have fires that are out of control. It's really sad. Dental and Prescription Drugs are currently being added to our Universal Healthcare. It's still in its infancy, but is welcomed, that's for sure. Cheers from 🇨🇦.
On the drug thing, it's part of a Harm Reduction strategy so that addicts can go to safe injection sites. These are available in Vancouver, Toronto, Ottawa, and other cities. Yes, people shouldn't do drugs, but burying our heads in the sand about the problem doesn't help anyone. Acknowledging the issue and trying to help in this way does prevent deaths.
Michael Bublé lives in Burnaby BC right across from his kids' public school it's a regular neighbourhood like Drake does in Toronto.
Drake does not live in a regular neighbourhood. The Bridle Path is not a regular neighbourhood.
The fact is that, in general, we treat “celebrity” differently here. That’s their job, not who they are. Perhaps it’s our society that has ingrained in us to treat people equally? 🤷🏻♀️
@@murraytown4It’s a fancy neighbourhood for sure, but it’s no isolated island. I live 2km away on the other side of the DVP and we share the same grocery store.
Some fires from last year, keep burning underground, under snow. You could still see the smoke coming.out of the ground, during winter. We had fire fighters trying to dig them up & put them out, before spring arrives
i’m honestly not surprised about what happened in Gatineau. just a couple years ago someone in Montreal was treated like that just for not holding the handrails of an escalator
I live in BC Canada and it can be up to a six year wait list for a new doctor and up to an eight to ten hour wait list in an emergency room for care
In Victoria, the ER average wait time the other day was over 12 hours 😑
We didn't have phones or internet for a whole week because of a forest fire up in northern Manitoba by Flin Flon, and just got it back this morning. And had to use cash, time travel 30 years almost.
Make sure you got a go bag, and cash always.
My 22 year old grand-nephew went to rehab several times but ended up dead from a fentanyl overdose. With safe legal drugs he would still be fighting is addiction.
We always have wild fires , its become a very significant part of our lives . Has soon as may comes around you can expect fires. In 2019 my town was evacuated for 2 weeks ,its a miracle that it didn't take our town. Every year we have fire bands and off-road vehicle bans last year It was for the whole duration of summer. Yes, you guys had to deal with smoke last year, but when I tell you it was absolutely horrendous here you couldn't even see out of your windows. The wild fires have become a horrible problem that unfortunately has become our normal.
they need to make a nurses hours less than twelve or eighteen hours shifts
Had a fire in Ontario..instead of stopping it they sit back and "observe"
"With the naked eye"??? Seriously, Tyler, that's like asking if we need a telescope to see clouds. Yes, we can see them with the naked eye - provided there aren't too many clouds in the way, provided it's not raining, provided it's not hazy with wildfire smoke, and not too much light pollution.
The single payer system is federal, but it’s implemented by the provincial governments. Initially, the federal government contributed about 50% of the funds needed to operate the system, but successive governments have cut the financing down to about 22% of costs, and most provincial governments are running a permanent deficit because the feds are not pulling their share of the load.
Our government in BC decided to decriminalize all street drugs in an effort to stop overdoses which are a big problem particularly in Vancouver. The number of overdoses in Vancouver has been increasing. Our Provincial government quickly realized they had made a big mistake and certain drugs are now again not decriminalized. Canada legalized pot in 2018 but the hard drugs are still a no no.
Yeah, Canada has been having high drought seasons over the last few yrs, to the point they haven't put out past fires, that have dug in deep, so crews can't get a break, then face evacuations in the spring time. They do give courses for fire safety. They used to do wisdom teeth in the hospital back in the 1970's which was covered under medical then they pulled out of people being able to get dental care done in the hospitals due to making room for more serious patients, then lack of nurses has been building for 2 decades least that's what was told back then. It was suggested that giving the safe needles sites would prevent disease, they could move them to the PNE make safer places to go, make work programs rehab programs bottom line is, they have to want to quit.
why does any government not want problems solved?
Oh, and remember, like any other news - things that shock sell the news - good news just doesn't sell as well.
Dental care just started on 1st May, but you have to qualify financially to get coverage. I got my coverage bc I am a senior and make less than 70k per year.
I live in the Mountains of the town Grande Cache Alberta we have the smoke coming from Grande Prairie fires and smoke coming from the fires just over the mountains in British Columbia .
Decriminalizing drugs means that if you’re caught with a small amount of drugs in your possession, you won’t be charged with anything, and you won’t get a criminal record. The goal is to help people get off drugs rather than punish them.
Sometimes fire will burn through the roots of trees, becoming what is called 'zombie fires'; although they're mostly embers, if they get access to the outside they'll flare up, like opening the door to a room you left a lit candle in, or if they get access to another tree, they'll completely burn through it and start the spread of wildfires all over again. If I got something wrong, pls correct me ^v^
Used to be late summer and fall..very rare now..its srarting in early spring..!
We could see the northern lights in Montreal, even with the light pollution. Amazing!
Most Canadians can see the lights at least occasionally.
Your reaction to the drug decriminalization is the same reaction a lot of us Canadians are having. B.C. ttied the ssme pilot program that was tried in Seattle and it's failing miserably and for whatever reason Toronto wants to try it and fail too. I agree addiction is a health issue but you wouldn't tell a cancer patient to stop treatment and let the cancer take over so why are they telling an addict to treat addiction with more drugs making the problem worse. Doesn't make sense.
You had to use your camera on night mode to see the Northern lights
Using a camera made the colours more vivid but you could definitely see them with the naked eye. And we're located in a metropolitan area
i saw them in colour with my eyes in victoria bc ~
my Go Bag (evac necessities) has been packed for 8 years. I also just bought a car because my evac ride last yr. changed the plan and left before the order was announced
The idea of the safe injection kits is to reduce or prevent the spread of infections exactly like you think. It's not a solution but can theoretically reduce the load on the healthcare system a bit.
Yeah, and you can’t force anyone into treatment if they don’t want it. B/c they won’t try and it’s a waste of a bed for someone who is ready to get clean.
Unfortunately, the Gatineau (formerly Hull) cops have a reputation for violence against suspects / detainees.
In BC and I’m sure other Provinces have forest fire apps so you can track the fires.
Yes, huge swaths of Canada burn EVERY year,; typically an area the size of the Netherlands. The reason Americans are aware is because last year smoke affected US cities, New York City specifically. If the smoke had stayed in Canada (like it usually does), US media wouldn't have mentioned Canadian wildfires at all. So far this year, 730 fires have been recorded with 1.47 million hectares burned. There are currently 87 active fires with 6 out of control, 15 being held, and 66 brought under control. There are ALWAYS wildfires burning in Canada.
It’s just typical of the USA. They don’t care about anything unless it negatively impacts them on some level.
We've had wildfire seasons for years. The sky has been hazy and smoky here in Central Alberta lately. Hopefully this year won't be Fort McMurray 2.0.
We were able to see the Aurora Borealis here in California last friday.
1: the wildfires didn’t stop over winter.
2: the legalization of drugs is so addicts can get safe drugs from the government instead of getting drugs from gangs(it’s to decrease gang activity)
Btw fires are seasonal, every summer the whole country turns into a oven. The whole country is like a huge fire.
Canada now officially has six seasons... Winter, Spring, Wild Fires, Construction, Summer, and Autumn.
Le monsieur a-t-il manqué de respect aux Porcs de la Sécurité ?
They have safe injection sites in BC as well and places you could go to smoke in a safe space.
Forest fires go on always some trees dont seed unless the burn. Other trees have huge root systtems that o on for many miles, and burn under ground and pop up random places. The fires go on all across the coyntry , because we are in large part a boreal forest
Prohibition of addictive substances doesn't work. Look back a hundred years ago when the US tried to ban alcohol and created the basis of the mafia.
Decriminalization has worked wonders in other countries, see Portugal for an example.
Safe injection kits, safe injection sites, drug testing kits, and similar efforts are a cheaper way to deal with addicts who aren't ready to go to rehab than jail, emergency medical attention, or lifelong medical attention would be. It doesn't mean that efforts to provide rehab options don't exist or lose funding in favour of these measures.
in Québec we dont have dental coverage and the dentist are really expensive
So they give the safe injection kits to help with the spread of infections and diseases which puts more stress on the medical system. And the decriminalizing of drugs does not make drugs legal but instead of arrest an addict and making it harder for them to get a home/ job if they get clean they just arrest the dealers.
Arson season is here again. Parts of Fort Mac are evacuating again, our town is setting up an arena and hotels.