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City of Timmins is asking for residents to curb water use to help prevent overwhelm of wastewater overflow treatment facilities, during winter melt and flood warning conditions.
News from the city and info on overflows here 🇨🇦 🍁 #onpoli #timmins
www.timmins.ca/our_services...
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Official Flood Advisory page, Mattagami Region Conservation Authority
mattagamiregion.ca/flood-adviso...
🚧 Our self-serve sandbag stations are ready to go at three convenient locations: the Whitney Arena, Mountjoy Arena, and Confederation Arena parking lots. Each site is stocked with sand, empty bags, fill cylinders, and shovels to help prepare sandbags as needed. Follow the Mattagami Region Conservation Authority (MRCA) for up-to-date information on watershed conditions and public advisories. Updates can be found online at www.mattagamiregion.ca. #Timmins #shovelsup #springmelt
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SANDBAG POINTS, Timmins Area: the Whitney Arena, Mountjoy Arena, and Confederation Arena parking lots.
"Each site is stocked with sand, empty bags, fill cylinders, and shovels to help prepare sandbags as needed."
INFORMATION AND RESOURCES THREAD
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A red sign that says flood warning
FLOOD WARNING MATTAGAMI RIVER
#timmins #ontario #onpoli 🇨🇦 🍁
Text of warning from Mattagami Region Conservstion Authority in PDF in link, affect Timmins and other communities along the river
mattagamiregion.ca/wp-content/u...
While we're talking percentages, let's talk about the proposed cuts to NASA's science budget.
NASA is currently 0.36% of US federal spending. www.planetary.org/space-policy...
The proposed budget cuts NASA science by 47%.
NASA science is already on a shoestring, and that string is about to break
there are going to be people who say, take a wait and see approach to how the Court will treat the next Dem president
and those people are wrong, we know exactly how they will treat that person and it is the polar opposite of how they treat Trump
strike at them immediately, first order of business
Um ok
Can't imagine so?
Not sure where this is coming from given the context of my post is that disabled and chronically ill kids will be at a disadvantage in an attendance-based marking system
Please keep comments to something related to the content in the thread, thanks
I need to stop reading the news before bed
At the end of the article they mention the likelihood of Greenland's melt waters is actually probably making the situation even worse than the most pessimistic models, ....so there's that
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
DENMARK AND FRANCE 🇩🇰🇫🇷 bans all Microsoft products from all public offices.
The phaseout is expected to be completed before autumn 2026.
Their products are being replaced with customer versions of Linux and LibreOffice.
This is digital sovereignty being taken back
A photo of a garden with pink lilies, white hydrangeas, yellow and pink blossoms, green trees, and a stone gazebo with a wrought iron dome
Happy Earth Day! Our garden will not look this lush until July, but I snapped this pic last year.
AOC is all sensible Americans right now, Americans who have completely lost patience with the wildly incompetent, lying loons currently running things who undermine our sanity, wealth, and wellbeing.
In honor of earth day my dog is releasing methane into the atmosphere. It’s not great for the planet.
Legitimate point our provincial government should consider before making attendance mandatory portion of grading
#onpoli 🇨🇦 🍁 #ontario
How can a data driven society function when the data is garbage?
We are facing a GIGO-future.
Agreed... From your keyboard to the eyes of those who can enact change
Soon we'll have ai written papers corrected by ai editors. Journals should strictly forbid this kind of behavior
new AI use case just dropped
Drake should have to foot the bill for wasting emergency resources on a publicity stunt
Bartenders are particularly skilled at dealing with assholes
I have a VERY controlling mother who is best handled from a distance.
I'm finally pushing back and she is NOT taking it well and melts down when she doesn't get her way.
Solidarity. Stick to your guns.
The DS9 crew hanging out in Vic's, a holographic simulation of a 1960's lounge in Vegas.
Starting sometime in season 6, about 25% of DS9's plot entails the crew renting holosuite time from Quark so they can simulate going to a nicer bar. And Quark can't shut it down because it's his nephew's emotional support bar.
Forecast calls for sunshine and above-seasonal highs across northeastern Ontario over the coming days. Shower chances arrive Friday into Saturday with fog patches and mixed precipitation possible in the far north. Rick Wyman has all the #weather details you need to know.
Euphoria remains a great show.
Admittedly a bit behind, just going through S2 now
Still
Holy FUCK, the cinematography is outstanding
if you must know, this is my preferred album by the band
A $1 packet of fruity gummy candies from Walmart. Because heck with it 😆 I never let myself have those. Ever. Was awesome.
