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Flooding of Bonaparte River means more evacuation orders for Cache Creek, B.C.
The village of Cache Creek, British Columbia, shown in a handout photo, is maintaining a state of local emergency due to flooding. More evacuation orders have been issued for residents of Cache Creek over the risk of flooding. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Sheila Olson *MANDATORY CREDIT*
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About 50 people remain out of their homes due to B.C. flooding
The village of Cache Creek, shown in a handout photo, is maintaining a state of local emergency due to flooding.THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Sheila Olson *MANDATORY CREDIT*
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Flooding threat recedes in B.C., but several communities still under evacuation orders
The British Columbia border community of Grand Forks is scrambling to get ahead of a deluge of water from melting snow and heavy rainfall after learning a terrible lesson five years ago about flooding. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-City of Grand Forks **MANDATORY CREDIT**
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Hundreds of residents in B.C.’s Interior on evacuation alert as more rain threatens new flooding, mudslides
The village of Cache Creek, shown in a handout photo, is maintaining a state of local emergency due to flooding.THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Sheila Olson *MANDATORY CREDIT*
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Western Canada: Alberta election campaigning begins; wildfires near Drayton Valley; flooding in B.C.
United Conservative Leader Danielle Smith says she won't be campaigning on some of her party's more contentious ideas — sovereignty legislation, a provincial police force and an Alberta pension plan — ahead of the May 29 election. Smith makes an election campaign announcement in Calgary, Alta., Thursday, May 4, 2023.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
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Forecasters warn hot spell hikes risks of flooding, avalanches and fire across B.C.
A property affected by November flooding of the Nicola River is seen along Highway 8 on the Shackan Indian Band, northwest of Merritt, B.C., on Thursday, March 24, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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Great Reads: Life-and-death decisions about extreme preemies; Struggle to rebuild after B.C. floods; Japan town fights population decline
Kevin Nadarajah with Adiah at their home in Ajax, Ontario in March. Twins Adiah and Adrial Nadarajah were born 126 days early, at 22 weeks and zero days, at Mt. Sinai Hospital in Toronto on March 4, 2022. Now one-years-old (corrected to eight months due to extreme prematurity) they both wear a helmet 23-hours of the day to help their skull grow into the correct shape, after five months lying down in the hospital after birth. The two little Canadians now hold the Guinness World Record for the most premature twins to have survived to their first birthday and the lightest twins at birth. March 12, 2023 (Melissa Tait/The Globe and Mail)
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Federal disaster aid program for 2021 B.C. floods now tops $1-billion
Minister of Emergency Preparedness Bill Blair rises during question period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Monday, Feb. 28, 2022. Canada's emergency preparedness minister is going back to the epicentre of a flood that devastated British Columbia's Fraser Valley in November 2021.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
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Flood watches lifted in B.C., but Environment Canada forecasts more rain
People walk in downtown Vancouver as freezing rain falls, on Friday, Dec. 23, 2022. No weather warnings or watches were posted across British Columbia on Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2022, for the first time in weeks, but Environment Canada says more heavy rain is on the way while flood watches are still up for large parts of Vancouver Island and the inner south coast. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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B.C.’s Coquihalla Highway reopens to four lanes as repairs continue after 2021 floods
A collapsed section of a bridge sits in the water after severe flooding and landslides on the Coquihalla Highway south of Merritt, B.C., as seen in an aerial view from a Canadian Forces reconnaissance flight on Monday, November 22, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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B.C. agriculture minister says sector is recovering well on flooding anniversary
B.C. Minister of Agriculture Lana Popham speaks during a news conference regarding the approval of 23 project proposals focused on restoring wild salmon populations in the province, in Vancouver, on Friday July 5, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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Urgent need for spending on B.C. dikes to head off future flooding, say Senators
A motorist drives on a service road along the closed Trans-Canada Highway as floodwaters fill the ditches beside the highway and farmland in Abbotsford, B.C., on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021. The Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry is calling for a comprehensive flood control plan for B.C.'s Fraser Valley following last year's historic floods. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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B.C.’s ‘vulnerable’ Fraser Valley needs flood control plan, Senate committee warns
A motorist drives on a service road along the closed Trans-Canada Highway as floodwaters fill the ditches beside the highway and farmland in Abbotsford, B.C., on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021. The Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry is calling for a comprehensive flood control plan for B.C.'s Fraser Valley following last year's historic floods. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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Atmospheric river forecast in B.C. days after high temperature records, drought concerns
Pedestrians carry umbrellas as light rain falls in Surrey, B.C., on Friday, October 21, 2022. The first showers since September began falling in parts of Metro Vancouver before dawn, but officials in many coastal communities doubt a series of incoming weather systems will relieve the drought gripping parts of British Columbia. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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Globe Climate: Mercury in the Arctic puts Indigenous communities, wildlife at risk
Ice patterns are seen in Baffin Bay above the arctic circle from the Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker Louis S. St-Laurent on July 10, 2008. Weather matters in the Arctic like it does in few other places, but Environment Canada's forecasts for the North have long been hampered by poor data. Now, the end of a five-year program has installed two new Arctic "supersites" in Whitehorse and Iqaluit to give northerners a more accurate sense of some of the country's most extreme weather -- and improve scientific understanding of the entire changing Arctic. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
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Ottawa pledges $870-million to B.C. after flooding
The levels of the Coldwater River in Merritt B.C. rise slightly in early June under the flood-destroyed Voght Street bridge. After heavy rains in November 2021 the river broke through its banks and flooded much of the town, while carving a new path through some neighbourhoods. Seven months after that catastrophic flooding forced the evacuation of the town, signs of destruction dot the low-lying areas along the river. Property owners and the municipality continue clean-up work and consider whether to stay and rebuild as climate disaster frequency increases in the B.C. Interior. June 2, 2022 (Melissa Tait / The Globe and Mail)
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Evacuation alert issued for Barnston Island along B.C.’s Fraser River due to possible flooding
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B.C. releases long-awaited climate adaptation plan following catastrophic flooding, wild fires, severe heat last year
Floodwaters are seen from the air in Abbotsford, B.C., on Nov. 23, 2021. November's floods in British Columbia that swamped homes and farms, swept away roads and bridges and killed five people are now the mostly costly weather event in provincial history. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
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Flood stage in B.C. could remain for weeks with prolonged snowmelt or rain: expert
A property affected by November flooding of the Nicola River in southern B.C. is seen along Highway 8 on the Shackan Indian Band, northwest of Merritt, B.C., on Thursday, March 24, 2022. A high streamflow advisory and flood warning the River Forecast Centre issued earlier this week for northern British Columbia are being continued. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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Thunder showers, rain could mean flooding for part of B.C. southern Interior
Members of BC Wildfire Service carry sandbags to help with flooding mitigation efforts near Mission Creek in Kelowna, B.C., on June 14. (Aaron Hemens/Globe and Mail)
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Kelowna latest to declare local state of emergency due to possible flooding
A flooded backyard facing Mission Creek in Kelowna, B.C., on June 14. (Aaron Hemens/Globe and Mail)
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Heavy rains prompt state of emergency in Calgary, flooding fears in B.C.
A trio of people watch the Bow River in downtown Calgary on 14 June, 2022. Calgary Mayor Jyoti Gondek declared a state of emergency as a precautionary measure in the city in response to heavy rainfall.
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Central Kootenay region in B.C. issues evacuation alert for community of Six Mile
British Columbia's provincial flag flies in Ottawa, Friday July 3, 2020. The River Forecast Centre has upgraded it ranking of the the East Kootenay region to flood watch. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
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Residents of flood-prone areas in B.C. urged to be ready to leave at short notice
A swollen Otter Lake is pictured in Tulameen, B.C., Friday, Dec. 3, 2021. Officials in British Columbia are urging residents of communities at elevated risk of flooding to be prepared if water levels rise due to rapidly melting snow following too much rain. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
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Flood watches for B.C. downgraded in eastern Okanagan, Boundary; upgraded near Fort Nelson
British Columbia's provincial flag flies  in Ottawa, Friday July 3, 2020. The risk of flooding has dropped in British Columbia's southern Interior while rising in the province's north, thanks to changing weather conditions. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
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Communities across B.C. brace for potential flooding this weekend and next week
Highway 1 is pictured during a fly over the flood damage in Abbotsford, B.C., November 23, 2021. Another patch in British Columbia's damaged highway system has been completed as the province reopened Highway 1 through the Fraser Canyon on Monday. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
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Terrace, B.C., prepares for potential flooding as Skeena River forecast to rise
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Delayed snowmelt, potential rain and warm weather raises flooding risk in B.C.
An eastbound Canadian Pacific Railway freight train travels beside the high and fast moving Fraser River, near Agassiz, B.C., on Monday, July 6, 2020. The B.C. River Forecast Centre issued a high streamflow advisory for the lower Fraser River with it expected to peak on Monday. Flood warnings and watches have also been issued for parts of the province. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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B.C. overhauls disaster program with upgrades to help flood victims, quickly aid in other disasters
A woman and children who were stranded by high water due to flooding are rescued by a volunteer operating a boat in Abbotsford, B.C., on Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021. The British Columbia government is overhauling its program that provides assistance after a disaster meaning more people and businesses affected by last November's catastrophic flooding across southern B.C. are immediately eligible for help. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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Nooksack River, source of B.C. and Washington flooding fears, to get new plan
Workers with the U.S. Geological Survey take measurements of the Nooksack River from a bridge near the Cedarville gauge near Everson, Washington using an acoustic doppler current profiler on December 1, 2021. The device that looks like a miniature boat, uses beams to detect the river bottom, particles in the water, as well as the speed and direction those particles move. The scans provide a detailed profile of the river bottom. Image from 4K drone video footage by Nathan VanderKlippe / The Globe and Mail
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Cattle ranchers in B.C., Alberta experience hay shortage as flooding is replaced by drought
Wayne MacDonald, who owns the Bar FX Ranch with his wife Rhonda, a cattle and hay farm northwest of Merritt watched “a lifetime of work wash down the river and disappear,” when the Nicola River spilled its banks on Nov. 15. This came just three months after they lost 20 per cent of their herd — and all of their rangeland — to the Lytton Creek Wildfire.
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Residents of Princeton, B.C., left in limbo following November’s catastrophic flooding
Princeton flood refugee, Debbie Gauvin, sitting on her bed watching videos at a motel in Penticton. Caillum Smith/The Globe and Mail
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Parkland fourth-quarter profit down, hurt by refinery pause due to B.C. floods, raises dividend
Gas prices are displayed as a motorist prepares to pump gas at a station in North Vancouver, B.C., Tuesday, May 10, 2011. Shares in Parkland Fuel Corp. rose by as much as 5.5 per cent after Canada's largest independent fuel marketer reported strong fourth-quarter results driven by higher refining profit margins. The Calgary-based company that sells fuel through brands including FasGas, Esso and Chevron is reporting net earnings of $77 million in the last three months of 2018, up from $49 million in the year-earlier period. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
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Western Canada: Globe analysis shows B.C. floods likely the most-costly disaster in Canadian history
Highway 1 is pictured during a fly over the flood damage in Abbotsford, B.C., November 23, 2021. Another patch in British Columbia's damaged highway system has been completed as the province reopened Highway 1 through the Fraser Canyon on Monday. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
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Cost of rebuilding B.C. after flooding nears $9-billion
Collapsed sections of bridges destroyed by severe flooding and landslides on the Coquihalla Highway north of Hope, B.C., are seen in an aerial view from a Canadian Forces reconnaissance flight on Monday, November 22, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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Study suggests climate change made B.C. floods at least twice as likely
Rising flood waters are seen surrounding barns in Abbotsford, B.C., Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021. A recovery package is expected to be announced today for British Columbia's agriculture industry after devastating floods last November. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward