Perry McGeough's son Sean, left, and two friends give away ice cream using McGeough's electric ice cream trike at an end-of-year celebration at their Windsor, Ont., school.
A lithium-ion battery helps the rider pedal up hills, while a lead-acid battery powers the freezer — no need for the pollution-spewing diesel engines and generators used by ice cream trucks. And the cart can plug into a wall socket for recharging if needed. Muhareb dreamed of using them to sell ice cream in Edmonton parks. "It's a good business … if they give us a permit," he said. "Makes people happy, you know."
Thanks for your question, Bianca. The fire break isn't the entire forest. It's a strip ranging from a few hundred metres to two kilometres wide that's being cleared of fast-burning conifers. It will be largely replanted with aspen, a slower-burning species. Concerns about the impact on wildlife were brought up during the project's environmental assessment by groups such as Ta'an Kwӓch'ӓn Council and Environment Canada.
The spectacular break was captured by satellites in orbit, such as in the above image combining shots taken by the European Space Agency's Sentinel-1 satellite and NASA's Landsat 8. The berg, dubbed A-83, is the third major calving event to affect Brunt in the last four years. The culprit is a fracture ominously named the Halloween Crack, since it was first detected on Oct. 31, 2016.
Mildew has been a problem for winemakers for nearly 200 years. A fungus native to the U.S., it ravaged European grape crops in the 1850s before being controlled with sulphur and other methods. "I think it has promise just because of the layering of those three strategies," said Megan Fisher, a lab instructor in the biology department at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax.
"The spore germinates and it goes down into the berry or into the leaf and does its feeding down where it's protected from surface ."