In California homes must resist earthquakes, in Florida hurricanes, and in China cities build against floods. In Canada we build houses out of wood in forest fire zones, allow ember-trapping wooden decks, lack bylaws preventing combustible materials being stored against structures, or distances trees must be from homes. Many communities in the US build municipal golf courses as fire breaks and utilize their underground water storage if there's a fire. Not in Canada. When wildfire fighters hastelly install structural protections, it's basically sprinklers on rooftops. Anyone could do it in advance from home hardware, but nope. Eventually insurance companies will force change because we're too stupid to protect ourselves.
Why, you can always find an inexpensive way to visit, eg. Camping instead of stayingin a hotel, buying food from a supermarket instead of eating in a restaurant...@happyfisherman4432
Our parents spent their honeymoon in Jasper. Went by train from Montreal. Stayed at the Jasper Park Lodge. This tradition will not end. Jasperites are tough mountain people. All our hearts go out to them, be strong!
20 000 of us residents and visitors made it out alive. That what truly matters. When the dust settles we will return to rebuild our beloved town. Decades of horrible forest management caused this perfect storm. We in Jasper all saw it coming. It was a “when”not “if” I called it back in April looking at those mountains of dead timber. “The first week of hot weather, this valley will light up.”And here we are. our wonderful community displaced and watching our town and businesses go up in flames.
Imagine you found out that this tragedy was in fact calculated and committed through full support of the Canadian government and some of our citizens, in order to grab the land from the long time residents is Jasper. That’s Gaza. Except Gaza is a lot worse.
How about the government uses our carbon taxes to buy water bombers to put out the fires before it gets that out of control? Instead, sparkle socks is sending our money to Ukraine.
Our taxes should go towards a bill that puts the people that did this in jail, government departments have been putting up laser satellites for decades waiting to do this once they lost control of the population. How many weapons are in space for this purpose?
@@philster6383 Do you think its a coincidence these extreme events keep happening amid political turmoil? A regime stealing elections in Canada doing everything it can to stay in power and distract the people? Alberta is their primary enemy.
And as usual the MSM ignores the real question. Why wasn't the fuels reduction work done around this town years ago? Not just Jasper, but dozens of other towns. Lots of talk and lots of urban based 'xspurts' and endless studies but nothing actually happening on the ground.
Ask Trudeau, Jasper National Park is federal jurisdiction! He probably gave to Ukraine all the funds for National Park forest management. This is where your CARBON TAX GO, at the pocket of Zelensky!
@@JBonhomme-n4m They don't near fully cleared guards. Just thinning and removeable of ladder fuels and permanent tracks/ trails that can also double for recreation will reduce the hazard dramatically.
if only that cat could talk, imagine the stories it would tell from its 8 year adventure. and do you think someone kept it indoors for 8 years and only let it go now?
That's only for emergency response, by Emergency Support Services standards. People are expected to carry insurance beyond that and should rely on their insurers. I am not sure what happens to those with no insurance. This is awful indeed.
Here in BC right now we have 406 wildfires every summer peoples homes burn so we know how the people in Jasper feel I lived in Jasper for 20 years and it is a shame to see what has happened and I feel sorry for the people who lost there homes I think it is time the Fed Gov helps us it is so bad we can not handle this by ourselves the fires are to big and there is to many of them
There is no coordinated emergency response agency in Canada yet. Right now the need is becoming obvious, especially in shared federal and provincial or territorial jurisdictions.
Since 2019, the UCP has gutted Alberta's fire fighting capability by a whopping $30-million, roughly a 25% reduction. The UCP eliminated Alberta's elite wildfire-fighting crew of 63 firefighters stationed across the province. The program had been in service for over 40 years. The UCP made the cuts and ignored warnings from experienced firefighters. The UCP is leading Alberta into literal disaster.
@outinspace8760 Nice try. You sort of wasted your time writing that. Jasper is a national park. It falls under federal jurisdiction. Alberta is willing to lend a hand. But it's the federal government who has the final say on how it's handled.
Both Notley NDP and UPC had cut firefighting budgets. Regardless, the fire started on the "national" park, managed by Parks Canada, a federal jurisdiction. Trudeau government fails big time, spending more money on the east than the west, creating an enormous national deficit, sending money to foreign aids, spending money recklessly in ArriveCan scandal, WE foundation scandal, and scandal after scandal. Now impose new Carbon Tax and Capital Gain Inclusion Rate Tax, but the money still goes to greedy bureaucrats and their associated organizations, and useless public service agencies.
@@-Ordinary-Average-Guy 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. More often than not first responders are a local detachment. As you can imagine, they are most concerned with putting out the fire ASAP so the closest detachments respond.
It’s pretty sad that our government can give billions of dollars to fund war in Ukraine but can only spare $1250 per person in Jasper considering it’s there fault this happened. Government should be rebuilding it all free of charge ! In fact every born Canadian citizen should be entitled to their own property and home free of charge !
@AellaMaude-oy9qn I feel for anyone who undergoes any tragedy. I don’t see where your issue is. ANY hardship in anyones life is horrible. And anywhere you li e has its risks. Tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, heat, fires. No where is anti risk.
If you do the math Increasing payments at the rate of inflation and including compounded interest it comes nowhere near $10 billion We must live up to our agreements but stop bankrupting the country to buy off a community that can never be satisfied. My guess is that annual welfare payments and social assistance and infrastructure payments to these Indian bands will far far exceed the $4 per person including inflation and interest
Your Cat will be & stay much more healthy and will live longer if you keep your Cat indoors. She's now at least 8 yrs old (missing for 8 yrs) so maybe make sure she doesn't get outside again because if she does again, there's a good chance they will never see her again because of her age.
I feel so awful for those Canadians out West who are losing homes and/or businesses to rampant fires. I know the Canadian Red Cross will do all they can to help, and we Canadians not affected must step up to support that effort.
Look up what the CEO's salary is who runs the red cross. You might have second thoughts before donating. I made that mistake when I donated to them during the Fort McMurray fires.
Sending Ukraine aid to fight a totalitarian enemy of our country is cheap compared to putting our own troops on the ground. Are you a Russian sympathizer? Would you want the rest of the world to stand by and let the United States invade us and occupy our land if they wanted?
What a weird thing to say. The news is about hectares of land being on fire and people losing their homes, and your concern is with what the anchor is wearing...? Go outside and get some fresh air, for christs sakes.
Parks Canada wanted a jurisdictional desk top argument while people with more experience and decades of expertise were told they needed to follow orders and plans from people with zero experience.. lol
The two first canada soccer officiel weren't "removed". They got deported back to Canada for flying a drone in a no fly zone after french army deployed jammers to take the drone down for fear of a terrorist attack.
Two million people visit Jasper every year. Surely this has a significant impact environmentally. maybe it’s time for a lottery and restricted access to a pristine area like this? Danielle Smith should be held responsible for not supporting fire prevention and fire fighting in Alberta.
Not doing “us” any good?. You don’t speak for the 97% who don’t benefit from Israel’s violations of international law, or the aiding anabetting of those crimes.
@dembipor ucp voters voting for a conspiracy theorist that cut over 350 million dollars in fire funding citing "climate hysteria" and blaming "unsettled science." These cuts made despite the Province having the contract to complete fire suppression in national parks through the CWFIS and receiving over 300 million dollars for said contract. But hey, they destroyed healthcare, education, infrastructure, and have overseen over 300,000 job losses whilst cutting 44bn in private investment in green energy. Look at that big 4.5bn surplus for all that!
So impressed with Celine Dion battling her affliction to perform once again on the world stage - and with France for allowing a Canadian and an American performer, Lady Gaga, to perform at the Paris Olympics. So generous of France to share the limelight, that sail down the Seine opening ceremony looked spectacular!!
Actually it was the clown before her , she increased the budget for wildfire fighting . All of the carbon tax that you pay should have been kept in province instead of giving it to the Fed's. She does have the option of getting that back and doing something good with the money but that would go against PP 's agenda.
Jasper is a national park. Federal jurisdiction. If you remember, a few years ago, JT promised water bombers to fight future fires. As usual, he was just speaking out of his azz again because he did absolutely nothing.
Both Notley NDP and UPC had cut firefighting budgets at some points. Regardless, the fire started on the "national" park, managed by Parks Canada, a federal jurisdiction. Trudeau government fails big time, spending more money on the east than the west, creating an enormous national deficit, sending money to foreign aids, spending money recklessly in ArriveCan scandal, WE foundation scandal, and scandal after scandal. Now impose new Carbon Tax and Capital Gain Inclusion Rate Tax, but the money still goes to greedy bureaucrats and their associated organizations, and useless public service agencies.
@@kanonhill1688 This is all UCP Danielle Smith"s fault. Quit covering for her! All the UCP voters have now are their excuses for their bad vote! They are just as responsible for the loss of Jasper Alberta as Danielle Smith and her UCP hacks!
When God is not happy then fears comes in universe like covid-19 or war or these things happen, have some faith people. God is watching is in our own heart . God is our in inner beauty. God is in every heart . Don’t believe only in fun , believe in your responsibility it’s religious, take care family or society or country help them if they need. Money is not everything, real money is help souls or connection to inner beauty God if you lose this money you lose everything in life .
So news these days is about a cat?? Unbelievable . Why don't you leave that to the channels that do that? Honestly News is for News. Not syrupy goo at the end. It won't change everything to cotton candy so just stop it. Nauseous
Honestly, I still would not vote Green despite all these wildfires. It’s just not worth the risk of ruining the oil industry because my retirement depends on cheap gas. My kids don’t care either because this is what I teach them.
@johnnolan5579 Wow! What an ignorant use of the word science. Do you have any other lame comebacks ? Convid season is coming up, don't forget to get your bi-annual Vax for the currently unknown strain. Surely your chances of adverse events don't go up with every dose 😀.
