Tag Archives: Canada

Smoke clouds from Canada passing over Maine today

This morning, the US National Weather Service’s Burlington, Vermont branch posted an interesting message on their Facebook page in regards to the devastating fire in Fort McMurray, Alberta this past week. In the post, the Weather Service pointed out that the gray sky hovering over parts of New England today isn’t clouds, it’s smoke from […]

Unmuzzled Canadian scientist’s Facebook post goes viral

Following newly elected Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s defeat of Stephen Harper, who instituted extremely restrictive communications policies that effectively muzzled federal government scientists, a Facebook post from the mother of a biologist from British Columbia has gone viral. The post, which currently has over 13,000 likes and 9,000 shares, shines a light on the […]