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Operation: Highway Pig
And more information about the victims of the logging road bus crash
A recent study finds that seeing stories of kindness helps counteract the impacts of reading bad news, of which there is plenty. With that in mind, here’s the story of a pig being rescued off the side of the highway:
Hegel now has "the rest stop pig," as she has come to be known until she can be properly named, at PG Tickled Pig Rescue, which has been in business for about six years. She says the newest addition is happy and wants to get in there and mingle with the other oinkers.
I’ve written about Tickled Pig in these pages before but look at this face:
The injured workers in the pipeline camp bus rollover were primarily immigrant women from Ethiopia and Somalia:
The union represnting the women, who worked as camp cleaners, has spoken out about the accident and their concerns about the safety of their members:
Travis said the employees had previously lived at Parsnip Lodge but were moved off site to live in Prince George earlier this year, so more pipeline workers could stay at the work camp.
The union raised concerns earlier this year about the housekeepers having to bus up to four hours a day to and from work.
"These were women who clean rooms and were sent to stay off site because they weren't prioritized to actually have housing on the site. And, so, the fact that they would be moved two hours away, travelling on these precarious roads, makes us concerned that the company didn't value their work or their safety," said Travis.
That’s a four hour round trip to do their jobs, down a logging road.
It was just a few years ago that Unite Here campaigned to unionize support workers at various work camps and one wonders how much we’d be hearing about this had they not been successful.
Quick news:
As Prince George continues to record toxic drug deaths, the POUNDS Project, which offers supervised consumption and advocacy work, is going on hiatus.
The province has approved a Dakelh language curriculum to be taught in local schools.
If you’re driving east, prepare for ridiculous amounts of snow, I guess?
The restaurant that had mouse droppings on site seems to have improved in followup inspections.
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