The World Events Thread

[Gurn]

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/man-in-critical-condition-after-vehicle-falls-at-tsawwassen-ferry-terminal/ar-BB1bxrqQ?ocid=msedgdhp

 

"A man has been seriously injured after the pickup truck he was driving fell from a ferry exit ramp at the Tsawwassen Ferry Terminal, plunging about nine metres to the pavement below.

 

The incident occurred just after 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, during what a B.C. Ferries spokesperson called a “routine discharge” of a Nanaimo-to-Tsawwassen sailing.

“The last vehicle to be unloaded off the upper car deck drove off the ship, accelerated rapidly and smashed through a concrete wall,” said Deborah Marshall, “The vehicle fell approximately 30 feet to the lower holding compound of the terminal, landing on its roof.”

The driver, who hasn’t been identified, was the only person in the car.

According to Marshall, he was conscious and speaking with witnesses when paramedics loaded him onto a stretcher, but according to B.C. Emergency Health Services, the driver was transported to hospital in critical condition.

A photo posted to Twitter shows an upside-down vehicle with emergency crews.

No other injuries to passengers or crew have been reported.

The Coastal Renaissance has been moved to another berth and is running about one hour behind schedule.

The incident is under investigation, B.C. Ferries said.

[RUPERTKBD]

1 minute ago, gurn said:

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/man-in-critical-condition-after-vehicle-falls-at-tsawwassen-ferry-terminal/ar-BB1bxrqQ?ocid=msedgdhp

 

"A man has been seriously injured after the pickup truck he was driving fell from a ferry exit ramp at the Tsawwassen Ferry Terminal, plunging about nine metres to the pavement below.

 

The incident occurred just after 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, during what a B.C. Ferries spokesperson called a “routine discharge” of a Nanaimo-to-Tsawwassen sailing.

“The last vehicle to be unloaded off the upper car deck drove off the ship, accelerated rapidly and smashed through a concrete wall,” said Deborah Marshall, “The vehicle fell approximately 30 feet to the lower holding compound of the terminal, landing on its roof.”

The driver, who hasn’t been identified, was the only person in the car.

According to Marshall, he was conscious and speaking with witnesses when paramedics loaded him onto a stretcher, but according to B.C. Emergency Health Services, the driver was transported to hospital in critical condition.

A photo posted to Twitter shows an upside-down vehicle with emergency crews.

No other injuries to passengers or crew have been reported.

The Coastal Renaissance has been moved to another berth and is running about one hour behind schedule.

The incident is under investigation, B.C. Ferries said.

Are those Alberta plates?

[Gurn]

The brake pedal is on the left, while the gas pedal is on the right. Would not be surprised to see video of this guy talking away on his hand held phone as he drove off.

[Gurn]

8 minutes ago, RUPERTKBD said:

Are those Alberta plates?

Curves are scary for flat earthers.

 

No plate visible at the front so most likely an Alberta truck.

 

Edit, from the story, it is possible to be alert and talking while in critical condition, so no conflict of info between Ferries and paramedics.

Edited December 2, 2020 by gurn

[RUPERTKBD]

1 minute ago, gurn said:

Curves are scary for flat earthers.

I was thinking maybe there was a Trudeau poster on the wall......

[RUPERTKBD]

Commercial of the year....(from Ryan Reynolds' production company):

 

 

[bishopshodan]

9 minutes ago, RUPERTKBD said:

Commercial of the year....(from Ryan Reynolds' production company):

 

 

That's amazing.

Love that they use the Satan from Legend. 

[RUPERTKBD]

Just now, bishopshodan said:

That's amazing.

Love that they use the Satan from Legend. 

Jeanne Moos of CNN gives the backstory for the ad:

 

https://www.cnn.com/videos/business/2020/12/04/satan-hot-date-2020-ryan-reynolds-moos-pkg-vpx.cnn

[bishopshodan]

4 minutes ago, RUPERTKBD said:

Jeanne Moos of CNN gives the backstory for the ad:

 

https://www.cnn.com/videos/business/2020/12/04/satan-hot-date-2020-ryan-reynolds-moos-pkg-vpx.cnn

It's really good.  Satan looks to have gotten shorter since the Legend movie though.Then again I hear that happens as you age

[RUPERTKBD]

3 minutes ago, bishopshodan said:

It's really good.  Satan looks to have gotten shorter since the Legend movie though.Then again I hear that happens as you age

I wouldn't know....

[RUPERTKBD]

Hard to believe it's been 40 years.....

 

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/entertainment/music/news/paul-mccartney-ringo-starr-yoko-ono-remember-john-lennon-on-40th-anniversary-of-his-death/ar-BB1bKiFf?li=AAggNb9

 

[bishopshodan]

I don't know what is more disturbing. The coach or the mother of the 9yr old victim that didn't want to press any charges...

 

At least the sheriff's office is filing charges, he also deservedly lost his job and the team and football league has cut him as a coach. 

Youth football coach facing charges after boy punched twice on video

https://globalnews.ca/news/7516099/football-coach-hits-player-youth-video/

[SID.IS.SID.ME.IS.ME]

World’s biggest iceberg heads for disaster

“The mass is now moving straight toward a remote south Atlantic island populated by penguins and seals. Scientists say a collision could cause a local, environmental catastrophe.”
 

https://graphics.reuters.com/CLIMATE-CHANGE/ICEBERG/yzdvxjrbzvx/index.html

 

 

“It’s now headed straight for South Georgia Island, a British overseas territory in the southern Atlantic, where within days it could smash into the remote world teeming with wildlife.

“It is really, really close, less than 50 kilometers away,” making a collision almost inevitable, Tarling told Reuters this week.”

 

“Scientists expect the iceberg to grind over the seabed, crushing the island’s underwater life.

If the berg lodges at the island’s flank, it could remain a fixture for up to 10 years before the ice melts or breaks away, Tarling said. That could block some of the island’s 2 million penguins – including King penguins, Gentoos, Macaronis and Chinstraps – from reaching the waters to feed their young. The melting freshwater could also make the waters inhospitable for phytoplankton and other sea creatures that are crucial parts of the food chain.

“There’s nothing that’s really been that large before in scientific history that we’ve seen coming up to South Georgia,” Tarling said.

The iceberg is larger than 66 countries or territories, including Singapore, Luxembourg and Brunei.”

 

 

 

[bishopshodan]

After 51 years, the Zodiac Killer's cipher has been solved by amateur codebreakers

https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/after-51-years-the-zodiac-killer-s-cipher-has-been-solved-by-amateur-codebreakers-1.5228690

 

"I hope you are having lots of fun in trying to catch me

That wasn't me on the TV show which brings up a point about me

I am not afraid of the gas chamber because it will send me to paradice all the sooner

Because I now have enough slaves to work for me where everyone else has nothing when they reach paradice so they are afraid of death

I am not afraid because I know that my new life will be an easy one in paradice death."

[Lancaster]

 

A list of CCP members being leaked out.... I wonder how many on the list are in Canada....

[Chicken.]

One of the most hypocritical headlines I have ever seen  

 

China urges U.S. to stop abusing state power to crack down on foreign firms (msn.com)

 

China urges U.S. to stop abusing state power to crack down on foreign firms

[Boudrias]

21 minutes ago, 6of1_halfdozenofother said:

Interesting how - at this point, as I type this post - there haven't been any Canadian sources that have reported on the ccp membership leak yet.  You'd figure there'd be at least some mention of it, given the broad exposure a couple of million people could acquire into international organizations and other governments.

 

I truly hope it's not because there's a news embargo on the subject here in Canada.

Not to worry the CBC is now at less than 4% viewership. So bad that maybe the CEO will have to move back from NYC to Canada. 

 

When I saw counter protesters in Van supporting Bejing it was scary. I suspect the CCP has many agents, sympathizers and yes many on their payroll through some means or another. 

[Boudrias]

Just now, 6of1_halfdozenofother said:

Yeah, but it's not just the CBC - I've tried looking at Global News, CTV News, the National Post, and the Globe and Mail - and all give no search results on this membership leak.  I mean, of all the companies, you'd figure at the very least the National Post would have said something about it... but no, not even a peep from them.

Isn't Trudeau giving them money every month?

[RUPERTKBD]

Absolutely horrible news just ahead of Christmas, for six NS families:

 

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/hearts-are-extremely-heavy-as-search-for-missing-ns-fishing-crew-ends/ar-BB1bYtJd?li=AAggNb9
 

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The Maritime Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre said late Wednesday afternoon that it is suspending the search for five missing fishermen in the Bay of Fundy.

The news comes after 36 hours of searching for the crew of the Chief Williams Saulis, a scallop vessel based out of Yarmouth, N.S. The RCMP will now handle the investigation as a missing persons case.

The JRCC said the search covered 260 nautical miles by sea and air. One body was recovered on Tuesday night, but had not yet been publicly identified. 

CBC News has learned that Aaron Cogswell, Leonard Gabriel, Dan Forbes, Michael Drake and Geno Francis, along with captain Charles Roberts, were the six men on board the boat.

'The province just lost six great people'

Lori Phillips said earlier Wednesday afternoon her son, Aaron Cogswell, 29, had been fishing with the captain of the vessel for seven years. She said his body was not the one recovered on Tuesday evening.

"I know he's not coming back alive, but I want him to come back home," she said in an interview.

"The province just lost six great people. Even though I don't know them, they had to be good. They're someone's family. Someone's missing them and I hope they all come home."

Before he went out on his last fishing trip, Cogswell went to do his Christmas shopping, taking his nephew along and wrapping his gifts in preparation for the holidays.

Her son had high-functioning autism, Phillips said, and Roberts, the captain, took him under his wing.

"He was always there for him. He was his protector," she said, adding that her son "had his daily struggles, but he loved fishing and that's what he did."

Phillips said the Chief William Saulis was a newer boat. She said she's been waiting by the phone for news, but so far knows almost nothing about what happened.

The Chief William Saulis sent out an emergency beacon signal around 5:51 a.m. AT on Tuesday near Delaps Cove, N.S.

Debris was spotted from the air later that morning and two life rafts washed ashore, but no one was on board.

Jacob Jacquard, a fisherman in Yarmouth, N.S., told the CBC's As It Happens on Tuesday that the crew would have had survival suits and life jackets on board. He said he believes most of the men would have been sleeping in their bunks when the boat ran into trouble early Tuesday morning.

"If the guys were in their bunk, and a wave hit them and they rolled, they wouldn't have had time to put on anything really. They wouldn't have had time to even get on deck," he said.

"Even with the immersion suits … With how cold the water is, it would be very slim chances to find anybody alive."

Father of 12 among missing

A distraught Stella Marie McAuley, the girlfriend of 55-year-old Leonard Gabriel, was wearing one of his sweaters when she told CBC News he will be missed by his 12 children.

She said Gabriel had been fishing for over 30 years and described him as kindhearted and giving.

"He was always giving the kids next door treats," she said. 

Gabriel loved to cook, she said, and was always "joking around." 

Michael Drake's oldest sister, Sandra Drake, said her family is devastated by the news. Her brother has two adult children and splits his time between Nova Scotia and his home in Fortune, N.L.

"He was so good. He was a good boy. Would help anybody," she said, describing her brother as very tough, and a good worker who always supported his kids.

Sandra Drake said their father was also a fisherman and that her brother began fishing as a young boy.

"He loved the ocean ... he lived on the water ... He was always so busy, you could never catch him and talk to him, because he was always on the boats or down the wharf working on the boats," she said.

"Now he's gone."

'I just kind of put my head down and just prayed'

Alyjah Ritchie, a fisherman from Yarmouth, N.S., said Charles Roberts, the captain, is a family friend and carries the nickname Hot Dog around the wharf. 

Ritchie said he spoke to Roberts just a few days ago and didn't want to believe it when he heard the boat was missing.

"But when I heard about it and I knew it was true, I just kind of put my head down and just prayed and hoped he was going to come home."

Ritchie said Roberts is a good man and an experienced fisherman. "Whatever happened, it had to have happened quick."

Ritchie was heading out to fish for lobster on Wednesday morning. He said while conditions are much better than they were Tuesday, the dangerous nature of the job sits in the back of his mind.

"But like everybody else, you've got to keep going forward."

One of Canada's deadliest industries

The Nova Scotia fishing community has had its share of tragedies, and the industry remains one of the most dangerous occupations in Canada.

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada said 2018 was the deadliest year in over a decade, with 17 people dying aboard fishing vessels — seven of them in Nova Scotia waters. Between 2011 and 2017, there were 63 fishing vessel deaths across the country.

In February 2013, five young Nova Scotian fishermen were killed when a wall of water crashed into the Miss Ally during a storm, capsizing the boat and rocking the small communities of Cape Sable Island and Woods Harbour.

The bodies of crew members Billy Jack Hatfield, Joel Hopkins, Katlin Nickerson, Steven Cole Nickerson and Tyson Townsend were never recovered.

The RJL scallop dragger also made headlines in 2010, when its four crew members were killed in the Bay of Fundy.

'Trying to make sense out of something so tragic'

People living in the communities along the Fundy Shore are waiting anxiously as the search unfolds.

Susan Robinson-Bernie is a resident of Parks Cove. She has two fishermen in her family who have been helping with the search.

"If you're not close to a fisher on the boat, you certainly know of these individuals around the wharves and in the other communities. Everybody knows somebody in the industry," Robinson-Bernie told CBC's Information Morning.

"So they're coming together, talking to each other, just trying to make sense out of something so tragic."

She said many families of fishermen, both past and present, are at the makeshift command centre at the Hillsburn United Baptist Church on Wednesday to show their compassion and support.

"This comes close to home, hearts are extremely heavy," Robinson-Bernie said.

The Chief William Saulis is owned by one of southwest Nova Scotia's larger shellfish companies, Yarmouth Sea Products Ltd. In addition to scallops, Yarmouth Sea Products is a major buyer of lobsters. 

A news release from the company on Wednesday said "all required maintenance and inspection of safety equipment was current and up to date."

Many of the crew members are from the Yarmouth area.

"Fishing is not a job here, it's a way of life," the town's mayor, Pam Mood, told CBC's Maritime Noon.

"We line the shores just praying as the vessels go out with our friends, our family members on board. This is absolutely the worst news that you could ever get. Ever."

 

Those of us who live in fishing communities know that this sort of tragedy is always a possibility.

 

My heart goes out to those families....

[bishopshodan]

Foreign minister raised troubling U.S. report on ‘Havana syndrome’ with Cuban counterpart

https://globalnews.ca/news/7530964/havana-syndrome-canadian-diplomats-us-report/

Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne says he raised with his Cuban counterpart a troubling new report by leading U.S. scientists that found the most plausible cause of ‘Havana syndrome’ is directed, pulsed microwave energy.

 

 

Scary shiz.