Chinook

• Volunteers harvest thousands of eggs as salmon return to South Surrey river

  On Wednesday, volunteers were conducting their annual egg take, collecting Chinook salmon eggs from the Little Campbell River for their breed stock.

  Environment

  Oct 25, 2023
  
• Massive project launched to protect Vancouver Island estuary from sea level rise

  The project will see more than 70 hectares of estuary in Cowichan Bay restored and adapted in anticipation of sea level rise.

  Environment

  Jun 6, 2023
  
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• Calgary police seeking public assistance after string of robberies, sexual assaults in the city

  In each instance, a man entered the personal care business, demanded money at gunpoint and later sexually assaulted female employees.

  Crime

  Feb 23, 2022
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• Dry January: Alberta farmers appeal for help as feed supply dwindles

  Alberta cattle producers say 2022 seems to have begun much the same way the 2021 season ended. Whether bracing against the bitter cold, or a chinook wind, conditions are dry.

  Weather

  Jan 28, 2022
• Climate change makes Okanagan dam ‘inadequate for managing future floods’

  'It is inadequate for managing future floods in its current state, given the increased volume and frequency of floods as a result of climate change.'

  Canada

  Oct 1, 2021
• Chinook Regional Hospital adds midwifery services

  The changes are in response to a 50 per cent increase across the province in the number of families using midwives during their pregnancies and births.

  Health

  Sep 27, 2019
• 12,000 salmon have now cleared Big Bar landslide under their own power: officials

  An additional 44,000 fish have been flown over the obstruction by helicopter.

  Aug 28, 2019
• Nearly 1,500 salmon being taken by helicopter past Fraser River landslide daily: DFO

  The Department of Fisheries and Oceans and the B.C. government said the daily haul has helped bring 17,391 fish upstream to spawn.

  Aug 17, 2019
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• Crews in B.C. helping salmon navigate Fraser River landslide

  More solutions are being found to get thousands of salmon past a landslide in the Fraser River, provincial and federal officials said this week.

  Aug 4, 2019
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• Officials may soon install salmon ladders to help fish blocked by B.C. landslide

  Officials are optimistic they will be able to save thousands of salmon effected by the Big Bar landslide.

  Canada

  Jul 31, 2019