>Dough
>reminds one of CA "wildfires"
and the St George summer of "love"
>1 year delta folks
<World War Z
>https:// cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/interactive-map
why even have that shit page with no info
https:// www.ciffc.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=59&Itemid=129
Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre
The Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre (CIFFC) is a not-for-profit corporation owned and operated by the federal, provincial and territorial wildland fire management agencies to coordinate resource sharing, mutual aid, and information sharing. In addition, CIFFC also serves as a collective focus and facilitator of wildland fire cooperation and coordination nationally and internationally in long-range fire management planning, program delivery and human resource strategies.
1 fire in New Brunswick
>Being held
vs
Location of Reported Dec 2020 "earthquake" in Maine
all PB
>>18970972 , >>18970979, >>18970991, >>18971158, >>18971168, >>18971159, >>18971182, >>18971193 CCP in Canada
Crews make headway as Saint Andrews-area forest fires force evacuation of 300 homes
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The number of evacuations has been revised downward from the initial estimate of 400
Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon · CBC News · Posted: May 29, 2023 7:17 AM EDT
Seven firefighting airplanes have been flying continuously over the area since 9 a.m. Monday, said Saint Andrews fire Chief Kevin Theriault. (Roger Cosman/CBC)
Crews are "getting a good handle" on a Saint Andrews-area forest fire that has spread over 600 acres, or about 250 hectares, destroyed one home, and forced the evacuation of about 300 others since it started Sunday, according to the fire chief.
"Under-control time might be … later today or tomorrow," Chief Kevin Theriault told reporters during a news conference Monday afternoon.
"But this will be a long, drawn-out firefight for everybody, for hotspots."
An evacuation order remains in place for Bocabec, Chamcook and surrounding areas in southwestern New Brunswick, and part of Highway 127 between Bocabec and Saint Andrews remains blocked off.
Bocabec is about 17 kilometres northeast of Saint Andrews, and Chamcook is about six kilometres north. They're both small rural communities on the highway leading into the seaside town.
Saint Andrews Mayor Brad Henderson initially told CBC about 400 homes had been evacuated, but he met with the chief later in the day and revised the estimate to 300.
According to the province, 160 people from 67 households had registered with the Red Cross as being evacuees, as of mid-afternoon. "It is expected that some people have evacuated without registering," the government noted in a statement. Only a fraction of the displaced residents have registered at the emergency centres, according to Henderson.
Residents won't be able to return to their homes Monday, "for sure," Theriault said. Tuesday night might be possible, however, if crews can knock down enough of the fire and manage to keep it away from housing.
Firefighters from 13 departments from as far away as Oromocto, and seven provincial firefighting airplanes are battling the blaze, which started with an ATV fire in the woods off South Glenelg Road in Chamcook, just outside Saint Andrews, around 1:30 p.m. Sunday. The fire got out of control because of the combination of high winds, dry conditions and hot temperatures, said Theriault.
Among the positive signs, he said, is that the fire — known as the Stein Lake fire — is not "crowning," or getting into the trees. It's remaining as a ground-cover fire. "So it's more of a smouldering fire now than actual live-flame and running."
In addition, the smoke has died down quite a bit, so crews can better see each individual hotspot.
>hich started with an ATV fire in the woods off South Glenelg Road in Chamcook, just outside Saint Andrews, around 1:30 p.m. Sunday.
New Brunswick
Chinese culture program removed from 18 New Brunswick schools
Confucius Institute to be gone from elementary and middle schools this September and from high schools by 2022
CBC News · Posted: Aug 26, 2019 2:38 PM EDT | Last Updated: August 26, 2019
The province plans a two-stage removal of the Confucius Institute from New Brunswick schools, beginning with an end this month to the Chinese cultural program in 18 elementary and middle schools.
Education Minister Dominic Cardy made it clear earlier this year that he was determined to get rid of the program, which he called Chinese propaganda that prevented discussion of topics that cast China in a bad light.
But Premier Blaine Higgs, concerned about jeopardizing New Brunswick exports to China, later said the province would respect its contract with the Confucius Institute and keep the Beijing-funded program through 2022.
Scrapping the program in kindergarten to Grade 8 this school year is consistent with the contract, according to Education Department spokesperson Danielle Elliott.
Education minister pulling plug on Chinese education program in schools
The Confucius Institute's Mandarin language training, but not its offerings on Chinese culture, will continue as an elective subject at eight high schools until 2022.
Elliott said this approach was allowed by the contract as well.
The Confucius Institute has made partnerships with different academic and governmental bodies around the world, teaching Mandarin and promoting Chinese culture.
The Chinese culture program will no longer be offered in New Brunswick elementary and middle schools, but the Mandarin language training will still be available in high schools until 2022.
But the program has been dropped in some jurisdictions, including Toronto and Manitoba, because of concerns it provided a one-dimensional, uncritical look at China.
"I always have concerns over anyone attempting to limit freedom of expressions in New Brunswick classrooms, and that is certainly heightened with a government that has not demonstrated much respect for those," Cardy said in an interview.
Earlier this year, Cardy said he received at least five complaints from students who said certain topics in Chinese history were off-limits in Confucius programs.
Wants it out of high schools
Bronwyn Bonney, a Fredericton woman who pulled her daughter out of the program at her neighbourhood elementary school, said she is relieved to know the institute will no longer be offered, but she continues to opposed the program having a role in any public school.
"I expect that New Brunswick high school students who believe in human rights and transparency in education will vocalize their concerns regarding the Confucius Institute," she said in an emailed statement.
"I sincerely hope the premier listens to and responds appropriately to those concerns."
Cardy said the province has made it clear to the institute that its classes in high school are to be restricted to language training.
"I would've been happier if we could've gone all the way, right away," Cardy said.
"But it's politics and also in New Brunswick we respect the law. We respect contracts."
Feared penalties
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>Chinese culture program removed from 18 New Brunswick schools
>Confucius Institute to be gone f
If the government had ended its contract with the program, he said, the province could have experienced economic penalties from China, although the contract doesn't specify any figures.
"In 2022, we will completely resume our education system, without any connection with a foreign government with values that are not necessarily ours," Cardy told Radio-Canada.
China is New Brunswick's third-largest export market, where it ships large quantities of lobster.
China's Consul General in Canada, Chen Xueming, met with Cardy in February in Fredericton to discuss Confucius programs in New Brunswick.
"They invited me to go to China to see the executive office of the Confucius Institute," he told Radio-Canada. "I do not have much interest in going to China, and I said no politely to the conversation."
Promoting language and culture
According to the Confucius Institute of New Brunswick website, more than 5,000 students have taken part in the program since 2016.
It was introduced to New Brunswick in 2008, when Shawn Graham was the Liberal premier.
At the time, the New Brunswick government said the mandate was to teach and promote Chinese language and culture.
Seven years ago, CSIS also issued warnings about the program. The agency suspected Confucius Institutes are used as spy satellite offices by China, according to a veteran Canadian operative.
Beijing-funded classes on China for Canadian kids are a lesson in propaganda: expert
According to Guy Saint-Jacques, who was Canada's ambassador to China from 2012 to 2016, the New Brunswick government's compromise to keep the high school program is an acceptable compromise.
"I hope it will be perceived as such by the Chinese government and that there will be no retaliation against New Brunswick products or businesses," he said in an emailed statement to Radio-Canada.
"I also hope that New Brunswick's educational institutions will continue to receive Chinese students in the future."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/confucius-institute-programs-china-school-1.5259963
So…..
New Brunswick Canada removing Confucious Institutes from Canadian schools is
Interfering in China's Internal Affairs
https://news-ltn-com-tw.translate.goog/news/world/breakingnews/3581667?_x_tr_sl=en&_x_tr_tl=de&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp
>1 fire in New Brunswick
>Being held
>vs
>Location of Reported Dec 2020 "earthquake" in Maine
>whichstarted with an ATV fire in the woods off South Glenelg Road in Chamcook, just outside Saint Andrews, around 1:30 p.m. Sunday
>Confucius Institute to be gone from elementary and middle schools this September and from high schools
>Canada removing Confucious Institutes from Canadian schools is
>Interfering in China's Internal Affairs
>South Glenelg Road in Chamcook