A brief look at weather and road conditions in the village Highway 99 through Pemberton at Portage Rd, looking south. May 17, 2023. DriveBC Listen to this article Welcome to another blazing hot, sunny day: and to your Pemberton roads and weather outlook for Wednesday, May 17. Be sure to consult your favourite weather app for up-to-the-minute info. Temperatures will again touch 30 C  today, with the sun dominating the skies. A thunderstorm risk is predicted for Thursday, along with a high of 29 C.

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A Christina Lake couple clad in pirate outfits, tricorn hats and swords has become the first in B.C. to tie the knot under the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (CFSM). Dani Magnussen and Jaromir Pavlat said their vows Sept. 19 before Dread Pirate Higgs, also known as Gary Smith, leader of the church in the province. Smith has been locked in a dispute with the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC) about being allowed to wear a pirate hat for his driver's licence photo. ICBC has repeatedly turned down his requests.

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The costs of Canada's toxic drug crisis keep piling up. In 2020, Canadians' use and abuse of opioids resulted in an estimated $7.1 billion in health and productivity costs, or 14.4 per cent of the $49 billion in costs caused by alcohol, tobacco, opioid and cocaine use. The same year, drugs resulted in the loss of over 200 lives per day, according to a report compiled by the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction and the University of Victoria's Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research.

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On his way from photographing a juvenile northern goshawk earlier this year, local ecologist Bob Brett happened to run into a forester and mentioned the rare sighting of the protected, red-listed species. His response? 'Well, that's bad for forestry.' But to Brett, a vocal environmental advocate and co-founder of the Whistler Naturalists, it was anything but negative. 'It's a good news story if we have northern goshawks and those other animals that require specialized habitat,' Brett said. 'It's a sign that we're doing things well.

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