A local state of emergency has been declared in a western Manitoba municipality after homes in Ochre Beach were destroyed and seriously damaged by a wave of lake ice.

Updated: Sat, 11 May 2013 22:42:04 GMT | By CBC News, cbc.ca

Wall of ice destroys Manitoba homes, cottages

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Area officials told CBC News the wind pushed built-up ice off Dauphin Lake on Friday evening and caused it to pile up in the community, located on the lake’s southern shore.

The piles of ice, which were more than nine metres tall in some cases, destroyed at least six homes and cottages, according to the Rural Municipality of Ochre River.

Another 14 homes suffered extensive damage, with some structures knocked off their foundations.

Clayton Watts, Ochre River’s deputy reeve, said it’s a miracle no one was hurt.

He told CBC News one minute people were watching hockey in their living rooms, the next they heard something that sounded like a freight train near their homes.

“It happened so quick,” said Watts. “And you can’t predict it — not like water that slowly comes up.”

Watts said there are several cabins that were completely flattened by the wall of ice that came at them.

“The ice is over top of them, they’ve been crushed, there’s nothing left,” he said.

“There are other cabins that have been knocked right off their footings,” he continued. “There’s ice right over top of some of the cabins, coming over the roof on the other side.”

 

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Updated: Sun, 12 May 2013 20:48:20 GMT | By CBC News, cbc.ca

Ice wall damage leaves Manitoba community devastated

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A massive cleanup effort is underway in Ochre Beach after a wave of lake ice swept up by strong winds destroyed or seriously damaged 27 homes in the community on Friday night.

Winds gusting at 80 km/h pushed ice off Dauphin Lake and caused it to pile up along the lake’s southern shore where the community is located.

A local state of emergency was declared in the Rural Municipality of Ochre Beach after the piles of ice, which in some cases were more than nine metres high, destroyed 13 homes and cottages and severely damaged 14 others.

Several homes were completely crushed, others knocked right off their foundations.

Many devastated homeowners are still in disbelief about what happened.

Myles Haverluck was outside barbecuing when he noticed something was wrong. He said he could hear a big roar as he saw the wave of ice coming.

“By the time we went around the front the cabin, next door was moving 10 feet off its foundation,” he told CBC News.

“Then we heard these cracks, and we went inside the house and the ice had come through the windows of the kitchen and living room” Haverluck continued.

Andrew Barnet was also working outside when the wind storm came towards the lakeshore homes.

“Looked out and the ice started coming out over the house and the ice started shifting,” Barnet told CBC News.

 

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Monarch butterfly numbers drop by ‘ominous’ 59%

 

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Posted: Mar 16, 2013 4:22 PM ET

Last Updated: Mar 16, 2013 4:21 PM ET

The decline in the Monarch population now marks a statistical long-term trend and can no longer be seen as a combination of yearly or seasonal events, experts say.

The number of Monarch butterflies making it to their winter refuge in Mexico dropped 59 per cent this year, falling to the lowest level since comparable record-keeping began 20 years ago, scientists reported Wednesday.

It was the third straight year of declines for the orange-and-black butterflies that migrate from the United States and Canada to spend the winter sheltering in mountaintop fir forests in central Mexico. Six of the last seven years have shown drops, and there are now only one-fifteenth as many butterflies as there were in 1997.

In the Hamilton region, Monarchs have been faced with a loss of habitat for many years said Jen Baker, Head-of-the-Lake Land Trust Program co-ordinator for the Hamilton Naturalists’ Club. Milkweed, the Monarchs’ main food source as well as where they lay their eggs, has been decreasing in the region.

“Milkweed can’t necessarily grow in fields that are sprayed for weeds. It might be good for crops, but it’s bad for milkweed,” she said, adding that invasive species also pose a risk.

“Dog Strangling Vine is an invasive plant that is a cousin of the milkweed. We’ve found some females will lay their eggs on the vine and the babies die because that’s not their food.”

Both planting milkweed and trying to control the Dog Strangling Vine population are both efforts the Naturalists’ Club encourages, Baker added.

The decline in the Monarch population now marks a statistical long-term trend and can no longer be seen as a combination of yearly or seasonal events, the experts said.

But they differed on the possible causes.

There are issues facing Monarchs south of the border, too, according to experts. Illegal logging in the reserve established in the Monarch wintering grounds was long thought to contribute, but such logging has been vastly reduced by increased protection, enforcement and alternative development programs in Mexico.

The World Wildlife Fund, one of the groups that sponsored the butterfly census, blamed climate conditions and agricultural practices, especially the use of pesticides that kill off the Monarchs’ main food source, milkweed. The butterflies breed and live in the north in the summer, and migrate to Mexico in the winter.

“The decrease of Monarch butterflies … probably is due to the negative effects of reduction in milkweed and extreme variation in the United States and Canada,” the fund and its partner organizations said in a statement.

Monarchs ‘a shared responsibility’ Omar Vidal, the World Wildlife Fund director in Mexico, said: “The conservation of the Monarch butterfly is a shared responsibility between Mexico, the United States and Canada. By protecting the reserves and having practically eliminated large-scale illegal logging, Mexico has done its part.”

“It is now necessary for the United States and Canada to do their part and protect the butterflies’ habitat in their territories,” Vidal said.

 

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The forces of evil are currently running wild in Canada, where the government-run healthcare machine and the mainstream media are currently engaged in a vicious assault on the safe and effective breast cancer screening tool known as thermography.

Health Canada protects mammogram racket by criminalizing thermography for breast cancer detection

by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer

 

(NaturalNews)  A recent “investigative” report aired by CBC News that claimed to have uncovered the so-called “fraud” of thermography has prompted Health Canada to issue an arbitrary ban on the use of the procedure in several provinces throughout the country.

Health Canada, which on its website claims to “respect individual choices and circumstances” as they pertain to healthcare, decided to play the hypocrite by issuing several cease and desist orders against clinics that offer thermography almost immediately after CBC News ran its hit-piece on the screening procedure on November 27. Quoting several Health Canada “experts” who arrogantly disregard thermography as “useless,” the biased CBC News report has generated considerable controversy among the health freedom community, as Canadians may no longer have access to the safe, painless, and radiation-free procedure.

CBC News hatchet job on thermography serves interests of cancer industry

It all started when CBC News, possibly with a little financial grease from both the radiology cartel and conventional cancer industry, suddenly decided to target the merits of thermography just weeks after news emerged about the dangers and ineffectiveness of mammograms. The news rag conducted an “undercover” investigation that did not actually reveal all that much, other than the fact that thermography is a viable and preferable alternative to mammograms for many women.

But because the procedure is not officially approved by the Canadian version of “Obamacare,” CBC News saw an opportunity to grovel at the feet of their medical overlords by “exposing” the procedure publicly. Repeatedly insinuating that women are simply unable to make informed decisions for themselves without the government telling them what is safe and what works, the CBC News report suggests that thermography is some kind of deceptive marketing scam that tricks women into avoiding having their breasts crushed inside a mammogram machine and blasted with cancer-causing, ionizing radiation.

CBC News report filled with complete lies about thermography

Such claims are utterly insane and false, of course, as there have literally been hundreds of published studies conducted on thermography over the years showing that it is a highly effective way to detect breast cancer early without the need for radiation. Dr. Christiane Northrup, M.D., a board-certified ob/gyn and bestselling author, wrote a detailed piece for the Huffington Post back in 2010 that explains the science behind thermography, and why it works better than mammograms at safely detecting breast cancer. (http://www.huffingtonpost.com)

But CBC News ignored all this, and blatantly lied to its viewers and readers about thermography, effectively tainting the validity of the procedure in the minds of potentially millions of people. And as a result, the tens of thousands of Canadian women who currently rely on thermography as a safe alternative to mammograms suddenly no longer have access to the procedure, thanks to the blatant pandering of CBC News to the multi-billion dollar cancer industry.

Government, please save us!

What is perhaps most sickening about the CBC News report; however, is the fact that it screams of a mindset that believes the government knows all, and is some kind of societal babysitter that people can use to tattle on those who do not agree with them, and who actually think for themselves. Like good little sheep, the CBC News reporters that conducted the piece, and apparently a sizable chunk of the station’s viewership, have been brainwashed into the idea that, if the government does not officially approve of a treatment, then it must be a fraud. Such thinking is dangerous and, as illustrated by the actions of CBC News, leads to the elimination of other people’s health freedom.

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Flash Flood Canada Province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Epworth

Earth Watch  –  Flooding

12.11.2012

Flash Flood

Canada

Province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Epworth

Flash Flood in Canada on Sunday, 11 November, 2012 at 15:31 (03:31 PM) UTC.

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A flash flood struck Epworth on the Burin Peninsula Saturday afternoon, washing out a bridge and the main road. The flooding came after days of rain hit the same places affected by Hurricane Igor two years ago. Rita Moulton’s shed was flooded and water came within three inches of flooding her house. “Terribly scary,” Moulton said. “It just came up in about ten minutes. I looked and was just surrounded.” “I called my sister and said ‘get on your knees, quick! Pray, pray, pray!” she said with a laugh. Residents say culverts replaced after Igor were the same size as the old ones and resulted in the same trouble.

lash flooding shut main road in Epworth

Residents say culverts replaced after Hurricane Igor caused the same problems as the old ones

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Rita Moulton stands in front of her shed, which was flooded on Saturday. CBC

A flash flood struck Epworth on the Burin Peninsula Saturday afternoon, washing out a bridge and the main road.

The flooding came after days of rain hit the same places affected by Hurricane Igor two years ago.

Rita Moulton’s shed was flooded and water came within three inches of flooding her house.

“Terribly scary,” Moulton said. “It just came up in about ten minutes. I looked and was just surrounded.”

“I called my sister and said ‘get on your knees, quick! Pray, pray, pray!” she said with a laugh.

Residents say culverts replaced after Igor were the same size as the old ones and resulted in the same trouble.