#manitoba — Public Fediverse posts
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Manitoba's Narcisse Snake Dens 🐍
Each spring near Narcisse, Manitoba, tens of thousands of red-sided garter snakes emerge from their winter hibernation in limestone caves, creating the largest snake gathering in the world. This wildlife spectacle features writhing 'mating balls' where dozens of males compete for each female. The snake dens are now a protected wildlife area. 🇨🇦 #Canada #Manitoba #Wildlife
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Mapping Snow On Northern Winter Roads - A Dual-Frequency Polarimetric Radar Approach For Snow Characterization Over Land, Lake And Sea Ice
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-4367-2026 <-- shared paper
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H/T @Monojit Saha | Geospatial Analysis | Remote Sensing | Satellite Altimetry | Cryosphere
“Winter roads are essential transportation links for many remote northern communities, but their safety and reliability depend strongly on snow conditions and ice growth. In this study [link above], [the authors] evaluated a fully polarimetric, dual-frequency Ku- and Ka-band radar approach for retrieving snow depth across landfast sea ice, lake ice, and tundra.
Using field measurements near Churchill, Manitoba, and Resolute Bay, Nunavut [Canada], [they] found that the approach produced snow-depth retrieval bias and error within 3 cm over landfast ice, with encouraging Ku-band performance over frozen ground as well. [They] also developed an interface-detection approach for lake ice that can retrieve both snow depth and ice thickness - a promising direction for characterizing conditions relevant to winter-road planning and safety…”
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“Winter roads are lifelines for remote northern communities. Built over land, lakes, rivers, and sea ice, these travel routes are increasingly vulnerable to warming temperatures and variable precipitation. To ensure safety and adapt to these changes, operators require high-resolution monitoring of snow depth across these diverse surfaces, as natural snow accumulation dictates ice growth rates, route viability and road stability. This study extends our polarimetric radar method, previously demonstrated on pack ice, to landfast sea ice, tundra, and frozen lakes and assesses how well we can retrieve snow depth over these surfaces. Results indicate consistency with earlier sea ice analyses, maintaining a mean snow depth retrieval bias and error within 3 cm over the landfast ice. Promising performance is also found over frozen ground using Ku-band (mean biases less than 6 cm). To address the specific challenge of lake ice, which includes strong returns from the ice/water interface, we present a new interface-detection technique that simultaneously retrieves snow depth and ice thickness. While current validation focuses on undisturbed snow, this approach could provide a path forward for characterizing the cryospheric environment in a way that can directly support the optimization of winter roads…”
#Cryosphere #RemoteSensing #Snow #SeaIce #LakeIce #WinterRoads #characterisation #ArcticResearch #EarthObservation #PolarScience #maintainence #ploughing #winter #roads #transportation #northern #communities #mines #FirstNation #canada #remotesensing #polarimetric #radar #snowdepth #ice #landfastice #iceroad #tundra #Churchill #Manitoba #ResoluteBay #Nunavut #monitoring #planning #safety #trucking #freight -
til: Arthur Agee of the Hoop Dreams documentary once got drafted to the Winnipeg Cyclones and enjoyed a single bitter winter in our national bball capital
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD525TDkKx8
reporter peter jordan gets my award for being the most canadian human being possible in this clip from the cbc archives
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🇨🇦 Manitoba Government Agrees to Open Community Court in Opaskwayak Cree Nation as Part of Justice System Reconciliation
"This court is an essential addition to OCN’s broader justice initiative, the Kenanow Onusawawin Ekweskeet Community Court Centre, an Indigenous restorative justice model that focuses on culturally appropriate crime prevention, healing and reintegration into the community."
#Manitoba #Indigenous #Canada #Legal
https://news.gov.mb.ca/news/index.html?item=74798&posted=2026-08-13 -
There’s a boom of butterflies in the Prairies this summer, including among monarchs and Poweshiek skipperling
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/monarch-butterfly-boom-canada-9.7305314
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Il y eu une explosion de papillons dans les Prairies cet été, incluant parmi les monarques et les Hespéries de Poweshiekhttps://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2275589/manitoba-prairies-papillons-monarques-biodiversite
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Mounit el Bait brand Tahina and Halva recalled due to undeclared peanut. It was sold in Manitoba :flagmb:, Ontario :flagon: and Québec :flagqc:
https://recalls-rappels.canada.ca/en/alert-recall/mounit-el-bait-brand-tahina-and-halva-recalled-due-undeclared-peanut
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Rappel de Tahina et Halva de marque Mounit el Bait en raison de la présence non déclarée d’arachides. C'était vendu au Manitoba :flagmb:, en Ontario :flagon: et au Québec :flagqc: -
The Canola Revolution 🌱
In the 1970s, Baldur Stefansson from the University of Manitoba was one of the originators of canola, a crop derived from rapeseed but with reduced erucic acid. This innovation transformed agriculture worldwide, creating one of Canada's most valuable crops. It contributes over $26 billion annually to the Canadian economy. 🇨🇦 #Canada #Manitoba #Agriculture
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/baldur-rosmund-stefansson
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Here's a better idea, buy a billion dollars of history's cheapest energy source, onshore wind, and then a half billion in batteries, then spend a billion dollars upgrading hospitals and schools.
Bin.bam, reelected.
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Jack Layton while a Toronto City Councilor, arranged a million dollar wind generator at the CNE, it's provided energy for 500 families ever since.
$1 million = 500 families
10 million is 5,000 families
100 million of wind provides 50,000 families.
A billion dollars is enough for 500,000 families.There are 500,000 families in Manitoba.
Shame on Manitoba
What a waste of money gas is. What betrayal. What a waste on world wrecking gas.
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RE: https://journa.host/@winnipegfreepress/117074018166713694
Call your MLAs tell them theyll be defeated, just pure no.
Argue if you want.
20,000 climate dead in Europe. Your country is ON FIRE.Call them, and express your shock at their stupidity.
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Throw them out of office.
Remove them. Fire them, arrest them.
If necessary occupy Hydro headquarters until a new governing board is appointed.
20,000 dead from climate heat in Europe, 30 million burned hectares in Canada
Occupy government MLA offices, camp on the steps of the Legislature.
No.
Not lets talk, or negotiate, YOURE FIRED.
NO
Let the MLAs know, they'll fired too.
https://www.gov.mb.ca/legislature/members/mla_list_alphabetical.html
#KINEW #NDP #manitoba #manpoli #cdnpoli #canada #gas #wildfires