The goal of the new rules, potentially in place until Oct. 15, is just to encourage Nova Scotians to stay the hell out of the woods, even if they are the owners of those woods. The province laid down an ordinary fire ban weeks ago, but now it has banned hiking, camping and fishing in all provincial and private forests…just in case, except…
Man walks into Nova Scotia forest, walks out with $28K fine: 'I want to challenge this order in court'
“I’m not trying to make trouble for you guys, I just want a piece of (the premier),” Jeffrey Evely told officers before going into the woods.
Colby Cosh: Homeless people ridiculously exempt from Nova Scotia's forest ban — National Post
How can forest protection be so important that it justifies an extraordinary ministerial fiat — but not so important that it's enforced?
N.S. man gets ticket on purpose for walking in woods to fight fire-safety ban | Globalnews.ca
Jeff Evely, a People’s Party of Canada candidate in the April 28 federal election, was fined almost $29,000 for violating a Nova Scotia fire-safety ban on entering the woods.
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Frustrations from ban on walking in woods addressed by Atlantic Canada premiers
As wildfires rage across much of the Atlantic provinces, frustrations are increasing over government decisions in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick to ban people from the tinder dry forests on crown land.
The CBC has now inquired into the possibility that some members of the Wandering Fire-Bringer class may be testing the Nova Scotia fire ban. Turns out it’s made of vapour. The province’s Department of Opportunities and Social Development estimates that an estimated 137 rough sleepers are still living in the Nova Scotia woods and “cannot be convinced” to leave.
They’ve been visited repeatedly by a team of “outreach workers” who themselves enjoy an exception from the travelling rules. A few of the tent-dwellers, worn down by social-worker nattering, agreed to move on or accept spaces in urban shelters. Most have stayed put as if they’d grown roots.
Forest fire travel ban backlash demonstrates lack of investment in trust post-COVID, says public health expert
The type of outrage seen against the actions in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick will reappear against any collective public health and safety measure proposed by any level of government until officials 'reinvest in the public trust,' says Raywat Deonandan.
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Trudeau announces Amira Elghawaby as Canada's first representative to combat Islamophobia
Their (the Toronto International Film Festival) legal argument seems to be that the terrorists are the copyright owners of their snuff films, and their intellectual property rights are protected under Canadian law via multiple copyright treaties. Putting aside obvious defences to a claim of...
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And the state turns out to be helpless, even though one fire may (?) already have been started at an “encampment.” It seems to be generally agreed that there is no point in fining any of the fairy folk of the forest.
The provision in the provincial fire proclamation that allows for $25,000 penalties is reserved exclusively for those who might conceivably have such a sum to cough up. Well, what about the ordinary police powers of arrest and detention?
After a fortnight of hearing Nova Scotians insist that the current forest-fire risks are unprecedented, and that the traditional mobility privileges of citizenship must necessarily shrivel into abeyance, I am suddenly assured by a legal-aid lawyer that anyone collared for being unlawfully encamped “would have to be quickly released, as the offence would not warrant being detained.”
This ultra-confident prediction leaves me confused. One struggles to understand, from outside N.S., how forest protection can be so important as to justify a ministerial fiat of extraordinary and unprecedented character — but not so important as to be at all enforced…for all, just for some.
As for the rest of Nova Scotians, "I get that people want to go for a hike or want to go for a walk in the woods with their dog," Houston said during a wildfire update with officials.
"But how would you like to be stuck in the woods while there's a fire burning around you?" He said the restrictions will be loosened once enough rain falls to mitigate the risk.
Nova Scotia faces pushback after banning entry to woods over wildfire fears
The strict measures were brought in as Canada faces its second worst wildfire season on record.
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Hurricane Erin: Watching for dangerous surf in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland — The Weather Network
Erin is forecast to remain well offshore of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland on Friday and Saturday. The primary impacts are expected to include dangerous surf and rip currents along Atlantic coastlines in both provinces.
Colby Cosh: Homeless people ridiculously exempt from Nova Scotia's forest ban — National Post
How can forest protection be so important that it justifies an extraordinary ministerial fiat — but not so important that it's enforced?
