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FIVE SNOWMOBILERS HAVE died after being buried in an avalanche in Canada’s British Columbia (BC) province.
The deaths were confirmed by the BC Coroner’s office, which said the accident occurred yesterday afternoon in the western Canadian hamlet of McBride, some 800km northeast of Vancouver.
Officials told AFP that six other people trapped by the avalanche were rescued alive.
Rescuers said the snowmobilers had strayed to a part of the area that was off-limits to skiers and other winter sport enthusiasts.
Barbara McLintock, a spokeswoman for the BC Coroners Service, said the site of the disaster “is not a resort” area.
Avalanche Canada said the disaster was likely caused by human activity.
The non-profit group said the area had just received about 30cm of fresh snow and conditions in the region were windy, which, combined with recent mild temperatures, created an unstable snowpack.
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For as long as we don’t have control of our currencys value and hang our economic performance solely on exports instead of growing our domestic economy, we will only ever know ‘uncertainty’.
The sad reality of the system is werejammin that any export performance is devoured by our debts owed due to bonds, bailouts and guarantee schemes.
The countries citizens, politicians, civil servants (and economists from what I hear them advise), are completely ignorant of the rules of the money game. We are being cleaned out at the poker table.
Back to Basics once again. If you think going back to the markets is a good thing, contact your local psychiatrist immediately. Going back to the markets is selling bonds – literally increasing our bondage – to bankers. It is getting into even more debt and paying back bankers in chunks of our countries real physical assets – infrastructure, water systems, airports, oil and gas etc.
The public demand their free “entitlements”, politicians will not say no. The borrowing continues. Our debt spirals.
There’s nothing good about piling up borrowing, getting deeper in debt. The whole monetary system is a racket, and at this stage none of the worlds public debt can ever be paid back.
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