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'About 70 per cent of wildfires in the last five years have been linked to human causes'

Proposed amendments to legislation would substantially hike fines for people or companies that cause forest fires by ignoring fire bans or improperly extinguishing campfires.

The changes are contained in Bill 24, the proposed Forest and Prairie Protection Amendment Act.

Maximum fines under the amendments would jump from $5,000 to $1 million for corporations and up to $100,000 for individuals

Companies could be fined up to $10,000 for not having a proper wildfire plan and inadequate firefighting equipment on site.

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“Try counting sheep,” they said. “It’ll help you fall asleep,” they said.

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RCMP are investigating death, but family of Cree woman say her missing person case was mishandled

The body of Deanna Desjarlais, a young Cree woman who went missing nearly five months ago, was found this week in a wooded area in Surrey, B.C.

Desjarlais, 27, was originally from Saskatoon. She had travelled to Vernon, B.C., in late April, and that’s the last time her family heard from her.

Family friend Dana Morenstein says Desjarlais’s relatives are absolutely devastated.

Family of Indigenous woman missing from Vancouver area desperate to find her

“It’s such a tragic ending, but I guess it’s good to have closure for the family,” said Morenstein, who is currently a spokesperson for the grief-stricken family.

The Desjarlais family is now working to get her body home for a funeral, on top of struggling to find answers to how she may have died.

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Reading further into the article shows just how badly Canada’s police forces treats indigenous people who go missing.

One of the Vancouver Police detectives suggested that she was still in Saskatoon and was collecting welfare under a false name (WTF). The Vancouver Police also didn’t release a photo of Deanna Desjarlais to the public or put the information on her case on their website:

“We never felt like they were taking her case seriously,” Morenstein said.

“One of the detectives told us not to worry because they think she is in Saskatoon, and is probably living under a false name collecting welfare.”

She added that the family also had a difficult time getting in touch with detectives for information, and that Vancouver police did not release a picture of Desjarlais to the public nor was a missing person’s bulletin on the RCMP website.

“It was like they were dismissing her case, because she is an Indigenous woman,” said Morenstein.

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When you realize you’re a bird…

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What if Canada wants to join the USA? - WTF fun facts

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Woman Turns Down Arranged Marriage After Man Asks To Give Up Her Dog

New Dehli-based woman Karishma Walia without any hesitation turned down her arranged marriage, when her potential husband made it clear that she would have to give up her dog.

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My aunt Halima Khaddash, from Al-Jalazon refugee camp, in front of Jaffa’s sea after not seeing it for 78 years, and she is a child once more. She took her shoes off as she played in the waves like a child. Words fell from her mouth, ones I could not understand. I asked her what she said, and she replied “nothing amti, nothing.”

As we got into the car to drive back to Ramallah, she asked me and Tarek “Why didn’t you leave me by the sea a little longer?”

Tarek cried; and I didn’t respond.

عمتي حليمة خداش( سكان مخيم الجلزون) ، أمام بحر يافا بعد 78سنة من رؤيتها له وهي طفلة لأول مرة، أيام البلاد. خلعت حذاءها، لعبت بالموج كالاطفال،حدقت كثيرا في البحر، وسقط من فمها كلام لم أفهمه، كلما سألتها ماذا قلت عمتي، ردت: ولا اشي ولا اشي يا عمتي . داخل السيارة في الطريق إلى رام الله قالت لي ولطارق بكري: ليش ما خليتوني كمان اشوي في البحر يا عمتي . بكى طارق. لم أجب أنا.

(Photos and caption by Ziyad Khaddash)

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this body was passed down to me through so many generations of women, it is the body of my mother, my grandmother, and her mother. We have the same hips and the same hands and the same strong legs, this is my only home, I wish I could love it more than I do

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One guy’s hilarious post is exactly how we all feel about this photo of Obama, Trudeau, and Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto.

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My face is breaking out again, despite my strict Clinique skin care regimen. Oh well.

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Sir Nicholas Winton is a humanitarian who organized a rescue operation that saved the lives of 669 Jewish Czechoslovakia children from Nazi death camps, and brought them to the safety of Great Britain between the years 1938-1939.

After the war, his efforts remained unknown. But in 1988, Winton’s wife Grete found the scrapbook from 1939 with the complete list of children’s names and photos. Sir Nicholas Winton is sitting in an audience of Jewish Czechoslovakian people who he saved 50 years before.

WATCH FULL VIDEO HERE

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This post gained more than 100,000 notes in over a day. One of the most powerful things I ever posted.

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Have you ever wondered what your love style is? What makes you feel most loved or unloved? Take this 7 question quiz to find out! You don’t have to have a partner or significant other to take this quiz. Just answer the questions as if you do.