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Yahoo
02-07-2025
- Climate
- Yahoo
Lake Fire burns 478 acres in Southern California: See map
LOS ANGELES – Firefighters were able to stall the Lake Fire burning near Victorville, California, though the blaze continues to burn. The blaze sparked just before 4 p.m. PT June 28, according to Cal Fire, and reached 478 acres burned around midnight. Cal Fire said they were able to achieve 10% containment in an update the morning of June 29. "Fire behavior significantly decreased overnight allowing for ground and air resources to gain some containment," Cal Fire said. "The fire has remained in its current footprint and today's resources will continue to mop up and strengthen containment lines, while active working to defend structures." The department said that the weather would turn unfavorable over the next two days, predicting low humidity and winds gusting up to 25 mph Sunday afternoon and stronger gusts June 30. Evacuation orders were issued for residents south of Highway 138 between Interstate 15 and Highway 173. Warnings also covered north of Highway 138 and 173 from Summit Valley Road to Arrowhead Lake Road. The fire also caused the Silverwood State Recreation Area to close through at least Sunday. "The park may reopen Monday, June 30 after re-evaluation," representatives said in a written statement. Escorts were planned for park visitors and campers to renter the park to retrieve belongings after 9 a.m. Sunday. Contributing: Sheyanne N. Romero and Brian Day – Victorville Daily Press This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Map: Lake Fire burns 478 acres in Southern California
USA Today
29-06-2025
- Climate
- USA Today
Lake Fire burns 478 acres in Southern California: See map
LOS ANGELES – Firefighters were able to stall the Lake Fire burning near Victorville, California, though the blaze continues to burn. The blaze sparked just before 4 p.m. PT June 28, according to Cal Fire, and reached 478 acres burned around midnight. Cal Fire said they were able to achieve 10% containment in an update the morning of June 29. "Fire behavior significantly decreased overnight allowing for ground and air resources to gain some containment," Cal Fire said. "The fire has remained in its current footprint and today's resources will continue to mop up and strengthen containment lines, while active working to defend structures." The department said that the weather would turn unfavorable over the next two days, predicting low humidity and winds gusting up to 25 mph Sunday afternoon and stronger gusts June 30. Fire closes state recreation area, prompts evacuation orders Evacuation orders were issued for residents south of Highway 138 between Interstate 15 and Highway 173. Warnings also covered north of Highway 138 and 173 from Summit Valley Road to Arrowhead Lake Road. The fire also caused the Silverwood State Recreation Area to close through at least Sunday. "The park may reopen Monday, June 30 after re-evaluation," representatives said in a written statement. Escorts were planned for park visitors and campers to renter the park to retrieve belongings after 9 a.m. Sunday. Lake Fire: See map Contributing: Sheyanne N. Romero and Brian Day – Victorville Daily Press
Vancouver Sun
13-06-2025
- Health
- Vancouver Sun
Conversations That Matter: Dr. Brian Day — 'My Fight for Canadian Healthcare'
'Outdated policy decisions, made more than a third of a century ago, helped create our expensive, ineffective and inequitable medicare scheme,' says Dr. Brian Day. Day says he has been challenging Canada's health-care system for 30 years, prodding it to be better and meet the needs of patients. In 1996, Day took a leap out of frustration with our health-care system. He opened the Cambie Surgery Centre, a private surgical clinic that has grown to perform up to 5,000 procedures a year. Stay on top of the latest real estate news and home design trends. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. A welcome email is on its way. If you don't see it, please check your junk folder. The next issue of Westcoast Homes will soon be in your inbox. Please try again Interested in more newsletters? Browse here. 'For that,' says Day, 'despite reducing health care costs and waiting lists, we became a target of the government of British Columbia. The B.C. government set out to shut us down.' The government's action resulted in a 13-year legal battle — a battle Day lost. Day argued unsuccessfully that Canada's public health-care system ban on private operators is unconstitutional. Then, earlier this year, the B.C. Supreme Court ruled that Day must pay the B.C. government's legal costs for the failed case. It's a battle he outlines in his new book, 'My Fight for Canadian Healthcare' — a journey he says takes the reader 'through a failing system that has deviated from its intended purpose, ensnaring patients in long cycles of waiting and suffering.' Day joined a Conversation That Matters about our health-care system and where to go from here. See the video at Learn More about our guests career at Join us June 17 for Conversations Live, The Energy Trilemma: Accessibility, Sustainability, Affordability.
CBC
29-01-2025
- Health
- CBC
Dr. Brian Day's clinic to pay B.C.'s trial costs after failed private health lawsuit
A private medical clinic that launched an unsuccessful constitutional challenge of Canada's public health-care system must pay the B.C. government's legal costs, after what a judge calls a "gruelling marathon" of a case. Cambie Surgeries Corp. — owned by private health-care advocate Dr. Brian Day — launched a lawsuit back in 2009. It claimed B.C.'s Medicare Protection Act was unconstitutionally preventing people from getting private health care when the public system was unable to provide it. The B.C. Supreme Court, the B.C. Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada all shot down the private surgery clinic's case, but the issue of trial costs was left in the air. WATCH | Dr. Brian Day says the patients are left suffering: Dr. Brian Day discusses Supreme Court's dismissal of his case 2 years ago Duration 1:14 B.C. Supreme Court Justice Jennifer Lynn Whately ruled Monday that Cambie Surgeries should pay the attorney general of British Columbia's trial costs, calling the long-running litigation "prodigiously lengthy and complex." The ruling says the lawsuit by Cambie Surgeries was being funded by the Canadian Constitution Foundation. The ruling doesn't specify the province's costs, but the foundation said last year the B.C. government was seeking $1.7 million from the charitable foundation and "its partners." The court ruling says the government argued that Cambie Surgeries was a "well-resourced" party that had a financial stake in the outcome of the case, rather than a public-interest litigant going to bat for patients let down by the public health-care system. It says the B.C. government claimed the private clinic was making "tens of millions" in profit by violating the public health-care protection law. The judge found that Cambie Surgeries' financial interest in winning the case "likely preclude them from being considered true public interest litigants." Whately found that the case "involved matters of great importance to all British Columbians, not only in a legal sense, but in terms of the practical, day-to-day impact on access to health care, the funding of health-care services, and the principles that uphold our public health-care system." The private clinic said the case involved "novel" legal issues and assessing the "government's constitutional obligations to provide public health care within a reasonable time, and the 'practical consequences' that must be associated to the failure to do so." Both sides tried to blame one another for the case dragging on, with the attorney general of B.C. citing "egregious" conduct around document disclosure, experts and witnesses while pursuing a meritless claim under the Charter. Cambie Surgeries and the other plaintiffs, on the other hand, said the B.C. government had its "own 'massive' shortcomings in document disclosure and production, and that it derailed the litigation process. The case eventually went to trial in 2016 and spanned four years before the B.C. Supreme Court ruled against Cambie Surgeries. That decision was upheld by the B.C. Court of Appeal, before the Supreme Court of Canada denied leave for a further appeal.
