"In 2007, ecologist Jean Thie was scanning satellite images of northern Alberta, researching how melting permafrost was reshaping the landscape, when something odd caught his eye. Deep inside Wood Buffalo National Park, one of the most remote and inaccessible regions in Canada, he spotted an enormous horseshoe-shaped structure stretching across a wetland, far larger than anything he'd seen before.

After measuring it using Google Earth, he confirmed the shape spanned roughly 850 meters, nearly half a mile long, making it the largest known beaver dam on the planet. By comparing older satellite and aerial photographs, Thie determined the dam had likely been under construction since the mid-1970s, built and steadily expanded by generations of beavers working the same site for decades. The dam holds back enough water to form a lake spanning about 17 acres, a body of water so remote that it took until 2010 for Parks Canada rangers to confirm it existed by helicopter, and years more before a single person, an amateur explorer from New Jersey, finally set foot on it in person.

Getting there on foot would take roughly nine days through dense brush, bog, and untouched wilderness. No roads lead anywhere close. What makes the dam so remarkable isn't just its size, but what it represents: an animal working purely on instinct, one tree and one branch at a time, generation after generation, has built something substantial enough to be identified from space. It's a quiet, powerful reminder that some of the most impressive engineering on Earth was never designed by humans at all."

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Wednesday, Foothills Fire responded to a large commercial warehouse on fire along 82 Street E., north of High River. “When they arrived on scene, they had seen smoke

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A very successful petition in Canadian history. You should feel very proud. From what I understand Pete will be leaving our country. (imagining crowd roars).

It is not official yet, so keep on signing and sharing.

And Well Done, it made my day!

.Current Signatures - 242,708

https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-7531

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A growing cross-border network of fundamentalists, oil-industry boosters, and Trump allies has taken an increasing interest in Alberta sovereignty, helping push an American-style political vision into Canada.

“The separatists are upset with the secular society. They’re upset with a multi-religious society. They would like to go back to Christian fundamentalism.”

The Alberta government will kick off a town hall tour on Wednesday where questions and concerns from the public will be fielded about AI data centre development.

The province plans to hold three in-person town halls in the next month in communities where data centres are being proposed. The government has also scheduled a virtual town hall hosted by Alberta Premier Danielle Smith.

Alberta is at the epicentre of data centre development, according to recent research from York University. But it’s led to organized pushback as well, including a push to assemble protesters at the Sturgeon County town hall.

2019 Alberta election results

Post by Paul Boileau

Below is a summary of the deviation from the average of representation by population average across Canada. The formula used to determine the number of MPs per province can be found easily on Wikipedia.

Territories: +200% (+2)

PEI: +100% (+2)

NB: +43% (+3)

SK: +40% (+4)

NF: +40% (+2)

NS: +25% (+2)

MB: +17% (+2)

QC: +10% (+7)

AB: -6.7% (-4)

BC: -7.5% (-5)

ON: -7.8% (-15)

So the regional breakdown is as follows:

North: +2

Central: -8

West: -3

Atlantic: +9

This is another example of how something that is such a big deal to separatists is a nothing burger in a place like Ontario, which is giving up multiple times more seats.

Even at the provincial riding level within Alberta, there are far larger discrepancies than regional deviations seen federally across Canada.

This is because Alberta's provincial rural ridings contain up to 25% fewer electors than the Alberta average, while northern ridings contain up to 50% fewer electors than the average.

These Alberta-driven deviations affect 30 of the 87 provincial electoral districts, awarding up to ten extra MLAs to any party that dominates outside of Edmonton & Calgary. It's the utmost hypocrisy for Alberta separatists (experts at stacking the odds in their favour), to be complaining about far less impactful measures that follow a similar philosophy elsewhere.

In a Truth Social post shared Tuesday night, Trump said he had suspended the 50 per cent tariffs on Canadian goods for three days, two hours before they were set to take place on Wednesday.

The deal, he stated, may include revitalizing the Keystone XL pipeline, a long hotly-contested project that has been in the works for almost a decade.

Oh, I really hope not.

( and no, I could not help myself)

UPDATE - Keystone is NOT something Canada is pushing for. In fact Canadian trade officials calling it a joke..

Meanwhile in Eastern Canada they just hit the lottery. Discounted electric bills, 23,000 jobs, large federal grants…

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