IN brief Quebec woman reaches summit of Mount Logan
Second mate fell asleep on grounded tug off Vancouver Island: TSB report
VANCOUVER - The Transportation Safety Board says the second mate on a tug that ran aground off Vancouver Island missed a planned change of course because he fell asleep while he was alone on watch.
About 107,000 litres of diesel and more than 2,200 litres of lubricants, including gear and hydraulic oils, leaked into the Pacific Ocean after the Nathan E. Stewart ran aground in October 2016.
The second mate had been working a schedule that didn’t allow for sufficient rest while off duty, the board said Thursday.
The safety board is recommending that watchkeepers be trained to help identify and prevent the risks of fatigue, and that all vessel owners have fatigue-management plans tailored to individual operators.
Girl dies after backyard fire spread to her hair in B.C.
TERRACE, B.C. - A 13-yearold girl has died after catching fire at a backyard fire pit in British Columbia. Lynn Peerless says she looked out her backyard window in Terrace last week when she heard her daughter Grace screaming and saw her hair on fire.
She says she told her daughter to stop, drop and roll, while her son grabbed a hose to put out the flames. Peerless says doctors told her that Grace had a 95 per cent chance of living when she was transported to B.C. Children’s Hospital in Vancouver for treatment. She says the B.C. Coroners Service is investigating the exact cause of death, but she was told Grace had mostly second-degree burns to between 25 and 30 per cent of her body and died on Saturday when medical complications put her into cardiac arrest.
Health minister favours warnings on individual cigarettes
MONTREAL - The federal health minister says she’s in favour of putting health warnings directly on individual cigarettes in what she calls a “bold” idea.“The proposed measure is being studied by Health Department officials, Ginette Petitpas Taylor said Thursday as she announced Canada’s tobacco strategy. “Some people have suggested the idea of putting a warning on individual cigarettes and using what we call sliding shell,” she told the Tobacco Control Forum on World No Tobacco Day. MONTREAL — A Quebecer has become the first woman to climb to the top of Canada’s highest mountain in a solo trek, her agent said Wednesday. “Monique just reached the summit,’’ Francois Masse said in an email message to The Canadian Press, referring to Monique Richard. Richard had to deal with harsh weather, equipment woes and delays in her ascent of the 5,959-metre Mount Logan in Yukon’s Kluane National Park. Parks Canada says there is no record in its data stretching back to the late 1800s of any woman having reached the summit in a solo climb.