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As warming threatens polar bear tourism, a Canadian town adapts and thrives

September 11, 2024162 Views

Change has broken, remade and continues to reshape this remote town where tundra meets forest on the shore of Hudson Bay. The economic base collapsed when the military left town. Rail service and cargo ships — the lifeblood of supplies for a town not connected to the rest of the world by roads — blinked out. The weather is warming, signature animals are dwindling and even the ground is shifting. Through it all, Churchill has adapted. The town turned to tourism, luring people eager to see its plentiful polar bears. Leaders figured out ways to revitalize its port and railway. As climate change has edged into the picture, they’ve begun designing more flexible buildings and seeking to entice more varied visitors if, as scientists fear, shrinking sea ice crashes the bear population. T...

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A solar eclipse after 45 years, good reason for Burgeo to throw a party

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April 7, 2024192 Views

A Newfoundland island discovered by Captain Cook prepares to celebrate rare celestial event In the remote town of Burgeo on the east coast of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, some residents are enthusiastically waiting to view Monday's rare solar eclipse and recreate the history of an island named by Captain James Cook. British explorer Captain Cook, who was in Newfoundland in 1766 witnessed the solar eclipse of Aug. 5 while conducting astronomical observations and called the place Eclipse Island. The seaside town of Burgeo, Newfoundland, Canada is seen two days before a total solar eclipse April 6, 2024. Michael Ward/Handout via REUTERS On Monday, the residents of the fishing town near the now uninhabited Eclipse Island will gather to celebrate the celestia...

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World’s largest natural ice rink reopens in Canada

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January 21, 2024544 Views

Canada's renowned Rideau Canal Skateway, the world's largest natural ice skating rink, will open for skating on Sunday morning for the first time in two years, the National Capital Commission (NCC) said. The 7.8-km (4.9-mile) Rideau Canal Skateway, which first opened over 50 years ago, opens new tab, is part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Canada's capital city Ottawa and is also a top attraction for skating enthusiasts seeking outdoor thrills during Canada's usually biting cold winters. The frozen 7.8-km (4.9-mile) Rideau Canal Skateway, the world's largest natural ice skating rink, lies empty on the eve of its re-opening for skating for the first time in two years, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada January 20, 2024. REUTERS/Ismail Shakil The canal did not open to skating last...

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Canada on track for its worst-ever wildfire season

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June 6, 2023739 Views

Canada is on track for its worst-ever year of wildfire destruction as warm and dry conditions are forecast to persist through to the end of the summer after an unprecedented start to the fire season, officials said on Monday. Blazes are burning in nearly all Canadian provinces and territories, and federal government officials said their modeling shows increased wildfire risk in most of Canada through August. Smoke billows upwards from a planned ignition by firefighters tackling the Donnie Creek Complex wildfire south of Fort Nelson, British Columbia, Canada June 3, 2023. B.C. Wildfire Service/Handout via REUTERS. "The distribution of fires from coast to coast this year is unusual. At this time of the year, fires usually occur only on one side of the country at a time, most often ...

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Polar bears near ‘bear capital’ dying at fast rate

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December 23, 2022943 Views

Polar bears in Canada’s Western Hudson Bay — on the southern edge of the Arctic — are continuing to die in high numbers, a new government survey of the land carnivore has found. Females and bear cubs are having an especially hard time. Researchers surveyed Western Hudson Bay — home to Churchill, the town called ‘the Polar Bear Capital of the World,’ — by air in 2021 and estimated there were 618 bears, compared to the 842 in 2016, when they were last surveyed. A mother polar bear huddles with her two cubs near Churchill, Canada, in this undated handout photo. Dick Beck/Polar Bears International/Handout via REUTERS “The actual decline is a lot larger than I would have expected,” said Andrew Derocher, a biology professor at the University of Alberta who has studied Hudson Bay polar ...

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Yukon joins UNWTO network of sustainable tourism observatories

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May 31, 2022982 Views

UNWTO has welcomed the Yukon Sustainable Tourism Observatory into its growing International Network of Sustainable Observatories (INSTO). The Yukon Sustainable Tourism Observatory, hosted by the Government of Yukon, will identify, measure and interpret sustainable tourism conditions to guide evidence-based decision making. This will help the Yukon to better deal with post-pandemic recovery and future growing, ensuring the sector is managed in a sustainable and responsible manner. UNWTO Secretary-General Zurab Pololikashvili said: “We warmly welcome the Yukon into our growing global network of observatories. The Observatory can help Yukon to better manage its tourism sector, recovering and growing back more sustainably for the benefit of visitors and residents alike.” Inclusiv...

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Save Fairy Creek: The battle over Western Canada’s ancient forests

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June 6, 20211085 Views

Nolan Paquette started working part-time at his local sawmill more than 20 years ago while still at school, pushing a broom on the clean-up team. Now 38, Paquette drives trucks and operates machinery at the same Western Forest Products-owned mill in Duke Point, Nanaimo, the third generation of his family to work in forestry on British Columbia’s Vancouver Island. He is one of 38,000 workers in Canada’s westernmost province whose job, according to the industry, depends on the logging of towering old-growth trees, such as cedars, Douglas firs and western hemlocks aged at least 250 years, and in some cases more than a thousand. The dispute over felling British Columbia’s ancient forests has been thrust into the limelight by a months-long blockade of private logging company Teal Jones i...

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Canada extends ban on passenger flights from India

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May 21, 20211308 Views

Canada has extended its ban on passenger flights from India and Pakistan by 30 days to June 21 as part of a campaign to fight COVID-19, Transport Minister Omar Alghabra said on Friday. Alghabra said Canada had seen "a significant reduction" in coronavirus infections among arriving airline passengers since Ottawa first announced the bans on April 22 as the number of cases in India soared. The move does not affect cargo flights. FILE PHOTO: Healthcare workers prepare to test passengers before they arrive at Toronto's Pearson airport in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada February 15, 2021. REUTERS/Carlos Osorio "These ongoing measures will remain in place to help protect Canadians and to manage the elevated risk of imported cases of COVID-19 and variants of concern," he told a briefing. ...

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Love in the time of pandemic: At Canada-U.S. border

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March 21, 2021754 Views

Christina Kelly did not picture marrying her American sweetheart in the Peace Arch Park - a 42-acre (17-hectare) stretch of manicured lawns and neatly trimmed garden beds at an otherwise unremarkable border crossing in the Pacific Northwest. Kelly, a 28-year-old Canadian legal assistant from Vancouver, had been crossing back and forth between British Columbia and Washington state to see her boyfriend without a hitch for two years. The start of the coronavirus pandemic, and the closure of the Canada-U.S. border in March 2020, forced a change of plans. Where many couples have reluctantly put off weddings, Kelly and her now-husband, who is in the U.S. Navy, decided to proceed anyway and tied the knot two months ago in the one place where they have been able to see each other during ...

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ट्रेन से कनाडा के रॉकीज का रोमांच

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January 20, 20212278 Views

रॉकी माउंटेनियर का सफर है दुनिया की सबसे आलीशान यात्राओं में से एक इस ट्रेन में न रॉयल या प्रेसिडेंशियल या महारानी स्वीट है, न आरामदेह बिस्तर है, न कमरे में प्लाज्मा टीवी, म्यूजिक सिस्टम या शानदार शीशे का बना बाथरूम क्यूबिकल- कुछ भी नहीं। दुनिया की राजसी ट्रेन यात्राओं में अभी तक हम जिन तमाम खूबियों का जिक्र किया करते थे, वे सारी इस ट्रेन में नदारद हैं। लेकिन ठाठ इसके भी कम नहीं। यह भी दुनिया की सबसे शानदार ट्रेन यात्राओं में गिनी जाती है, उन यात्राओं में जिनके बिना दुनिया देखने के अनुभव को अधूरा कहा जा सकता है। कनाडा की रॉकी माउंटेनियर की शोहरत में यकीनन उसके भीतर की सेवाओं का योगदान खासा है तो उन कुदरती नजारे का हिस्सा भी कम नहीं जिसकी सैर वो कराती है। दरअसल यह केवल दिन की ट्रेन है। सफर इसमें दो दिन या उससे ज्यादा के भी होते हैं लेकिन हर सफर में यह ट्रेन रात में किसी शहर में प...