It s unclear whether the TikTok video was staged or not.
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A TikTok video uploaded by Janelle Elise Flom in late November shows a woman repeatedly flipping her long blonde hair over her seat back, blocking the TV screen for the passenger behind her.
Things quickly escalate when the woman behind her squishes a wad of gum into her hair, followed by a lollipop. She then dunks the hair into a mug of coffee and uses nail clippers to cut some of it. Whose side are you on?! Flom captioned the video, which has been viewed more than 115.1 million times at the time of writing.
Dan Kraus is a senior conservation biologist with the Nature Conservancy of Canada / Submitted
The following column was submitted to PrinceGeorgeMatters from Dan Kraus, senior conservation biologist with the Nature Conservancy of Canada.
A year ago, there was much anticipation in the conservation community that 2020 would perhaps be the most important year ever for nature.
Canada’s Nature Fund promised to accelerate the conservation of our wild spaces and species.
There was a buzz about the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s World Congress. The World Economic Forum had made a call to stop the loss of biodiversity.
And then, everything changed.
Winnipeg Free Press By: Dan Kraus
A year ago, there was much anticipation in the conservation community that 2020 would perhaps be the most important year ever for nature. Canada’s Nature Fund promised to accelerate the conservation of our wild spaces and species. There was a buzz about the new global initiatives to be shared at the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s World Congress. The World Economic Forum had just made a call to stop the loss of biodiversity.
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A year ago, there was much anticipation in the conservation community that 2020 would perhaps be the most important year ever for nature. Canada’s Nature Fund promised to accelerate the conservation of our wild spaces and species. There was a buzz about the new global initiatives to be shared at the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s
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The history of western Canada is a history of glaciers and mountains. Lynn Martel s latest book,
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Martel is at her best when telling stories about people interacting with glaciers. The book begins with the pre-colonial history of western Canadian glaciers and describes how Assiniboine, Blackfoot, and the Ktunaxa tribes travelled east over the glaciated passes of the Continental Divide to hunt bison on the plains. Martel also mentions Julie Cruikshank s groundbreaking book,
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The snowpack is currently in a precarious state throughout these regions due to the presence of a critical weak layer 60–100 cm below the snow surface. The storms that blew through Western Canada over the past week added sufficient snow above the weak layer to bring the snowpack to a tipping point where large avalanches can be easily triggered by people on snowshoes, skis, or snowmobile.
“With indoor gatherings restricted by the pandemic, we recognize many of us will want to spend time outdoors in our beautiful backcountry over the holidays,” explained James Floyer, forecast program supervisor for Avalanche Canada. “People must be aware that even though the weather has settled, dangerous avalanche conditions remain throughout much of western Canada. There is a serious potential for large, human-triggered avalanches at this time.”