Happy Winter Solstice! #landscape #BC #VancouverIsland #PacificOcean #winter #solstice
Happy Winter Solstice! #landscape #BC #VancouverIsland #PacificOcean #winter #solstice
The Frozen Gamble of Icewine
Canada's world-famous icewine is high-stakes agricultural art. To earn the 'icewine' title in #Canada, the grapes must be harvested while naturally frozen solid on the vine. Growers anxiously wait for a sustained cold snap, between -8°C and -13°C, then pick the grapes, often at night. This process yields a tiny amount of highly concentrated, sweet juice, making icewine a prized delicacy. #Agriculture #Icewine #Niagara #BC
The Frozen Gamble of Icewine
Canada's world-famous icewine is high-stakes agricultural art. To earn the 'icewine' title in #Canada, the grapes must be harvested while naturally frozen solid on the vine. Growers anxiously wait for a sustained cold snap, between -8°C and -13°C, then pick the grapes, often at night. This process yields a tiny amount of highly concentrated, sweet juice, making icewine a prized delicacy. #Agriculture #Icewine #Niagara #BC
Some British Columbia 
coast’s residents have whale detection equipment installed in an attempt to find them and eventually, prevent tragedies.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/whale-detection-technology-on-b-c-s-coast-9.6990987
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Certains résidents de la côte de la Colombie-Britannique ont installé du matériel de détection des baleines pour tenter de les retrouver et éventuellement de prévenir les tragédies.
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#BC #CB #BritishColumbia #ColombieBritannique #Whales #Baleines
US: urge Congress to support the Right to Contraception Act, which reaffirms the right to use birth control, first recognized by the U.S. Supreme Court more than half a century ago! (via Center for Biodiversity)
https://act.biologicaldiversity.org/yJzDfGN5QEqwTbepVEM3CA2 #contraception #mentalhealth #wellbeing #education #economic #feminism #familyplanning #climate #ClimateAction #endangeredspecies #protections #bc #women #men #freedom
Some British Columbia coast’s residents have whale detection equipment installed in an attempt to find them and eventually, prevent tragedies.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/whale-detection-technology-on-b-c-s-coast-9.6990987
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Certains résidents de la côte de la Colombie-Britannique ont installé du matériel de détection des baleines pour tenter de les retrouver et éventuellement de prévenir les tragédies.
// Article en anglais //
#BC #CB #BritishColumbia #ColombieBritannique #Whales #Baleines
Interactive World History Atlas Since 3000 BC
#HackerNews #Interactive #World #History #Atlas #Since #3000 #BC #WorldHistory #Atlas #InteractiveLearning #Geacron #HistoricalMaps
Watch a wolf, after it swam out to a buoy, pull a crab trap out of the ocean & drag it on to the beach to rob it. #Wolf #Nature #BC
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-bc-wolves-crab-traps-science-tools/
These patches of wild abandon are purposefully crafted #habitats and foraging grounds for pollinating insects, part of the city’s Pollinator #Meadows program: an initiative designed to #rewild city boulevards and parks managed by the City of Vancouver’s Parks Board.
It’s a program that, since its conception in 2020, has paid dividends.
#vancouver #bc #pollinators #rewilding #urbannature #urbanrewilding #cities
https://www.rewildingmag.com/the-city-turning-lawns-into-pollinator-meadows/
These patches of wild abandon are purposefully crafted #habitats and foraging grounds for pollinating insects, part of the city’s Pollinator #Meadows program: an initiative designed to #rewild city boulevards and parks managed by the City of Vancouver’s Parks Board.
It’s a program that, since its conception in 2020, has paid dividends.
#vancouver #bc #pollinators #rewilding #urbannature #urbanrewilding #cities
https://www.rewildingmag.com/the-city-turning-lawns-into-pollinator-meadows/
It's my third #mastodonniversary today! Crazy!!
To celebrate I am getting ready to help host and chair the first #SocialBC and Society of Open Social Servers of BC Annual General Meeting tomorrow with @arbutus and @jrenken
it starts at 5PM! full info in the announcement 📢
If you are in BC and would like to help grow a #regional instance come on over! There is no requirement to be part
of the Society but any SocialBC account holder
can be at the AGM and anyone who has donated at least $20 in the past year is a full member and can vote and volunteer for the Board!
Onward for the #opensocialweb!
#SOSSBC
#mastodon
#fediverse
#volunteer
#community
#society
#bc
#mastodonMigration
#bluesky
British Columbians might be surprised to learn they are among the world’s most aggressive extractors of climate-destabilizing fossil fuels, per capita — and major projects that are already being built aim to make the province’s contribution much worse
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/22/analysis/co2-british-columbians-americans-saudis-lng
#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #IrreversibleOverheating #UpheavalClimate #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassExtermination #MassAtrocity #pollution #ecology #environment #climate
Calling on the #BC #BritishColumbia network and your Black trans friends:
Zara, a Black trans woman refugee from the US needs safe housing in metro Vancouver ASAP.
Her post: https://bsky.app/profile/septembersister.bsky.social/post/3ly2kztfwus2u
This article is about her in the Tyee.
https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/09/17/America-Increasingly-Unsafe-Black-Trans-People/
If you have access to safe, affordable housing, or DIRECT connections to supportive groups or non-profits, reach out directly to her, or to @oldladyplays, who's running the organization working to get Zara and other trans refugees safely settled into Canada.
Calling on the #BC #BritishColumbia network and your Black trans friends:
Zara, a Black trans woman refugee from the US needs safe housing in metro Vancouver ASAP.
Her post: https://bsky.app/profile/septembersister.bsky.social/post/3ly2kztfwus2u
This article is about her in the Tyee.
https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/09/17/America-Increasingly-Unsafe-Black-Trans-People/
If you have access to safe, affordable housing, or DIRECT connections to supportive groups or non-profits, reach out directly to her, or to @oldladyplays, who's running the organization working to get Zara and other trans refugees safely settled into Canada.
➡️ @thetyee - Independent non-profit news site based in Vancouver
➡️ @relay - Community calendar of anti-corporate music events in Vancouver
➡️ @CloudscapeComics - Vancouver non-profit & comic publisher
➡️ @ahvancouver - Advocating for more housing in Metro Vancouver
➡️ @KlahanieResearch - Archive researchers, finding supporting material for Indigenous status
➡️ @pyladies_vancouver - Vancouver women using Python programming language
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North Shore Counter-Info: McElhanney trucks burned in Smithers, BC
https://north-shore.info/2025/08/27/mcelhanney-trucks-burned-in-smithers-bc/
From BC COUNTER INFO On August 10th at around 4am two trucks belonging to McElhanney were burned in Smithers, BC. McElhanney provides consulting services to the PRGT project. You can read more about their involvement in Against Extractivism: PRGT and its Actor and Arson attack in Terrace BC
#NewsandAnalysis#Attack#BC#PRGT
