World·2026-08-13T08:00:23+00:00
Chief calls for co-operation to prevent fires as world changes at a ‘rapid pace’
Roughly 20,000 people were forced from their homes last Friday in Summerland and the surrounding communities as the Bald Range fire spread in a matter of hours. PENTICTON — The chief of the Penticton Indian Band in British Columbia says events such as the wildfire that forced thousands of people from their homes in the Okanagan aren’t natural occurrences and more needs to be done to fix the problem. Gabriel has asked the province to address the need for an alternative emergency route out of communities during a crisis, as Highway 97 has been cut off by the wildfire.
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Crime·2026-08-13T10:00:08+00:00
Court documents reveal confusion around number of shooters in Tumbler Ridge killings
“OpenAI voluntarily disclosed to police that they located two ChatGPT accounts they believed belonged to the shooter of Tumbler Ridge. The documents describe the first moments when police responded to the attack, and how different names for teenage shooter Jesse Van Rootselaar initially led police to believe there were two attackers at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School. In another ITO filed in March, RCMP said that artificial intelligence company OpenAI was not under investigation in the mass shooting, as they sought an order for the firm to hand over data about the shooter’s ChatGPT accounts.
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Local·2026-08-13T08:00:19+00:00
‘We will lose a lot of our annual crops’: B.C. farmers face losses due to wildfires
“There will be crops that I won’t be able to get into storage, I don’t know how much, but it could be up to half of my income because I’m not getting the winter crops that are another quarter of my income or so tended and watered, and I bet my carrot and beet crops are feeding the pocket gophers really well right now,” she said. With instances of wildfires becoming more common in recent years, Braden said she had already started to shift to more perennial crops, like rhubarb, asparagus, grapes and berries, which are “crops that even if I cannot access the property and irrigate, they’re going.
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