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    Ryan Gemser on rescuing cattle by Sea-Doo during the B.C. floods in November (Jennifer Gauthier/Reuters)

    Ryan Gemser on rescuing 40 cows by Sea-Doo during the B.C. floods

    ‘We didn’t lose any cows. If they had stayed there, they probably wouldn’t have made it.’

    Farms surrounded by floodwaters in Abbotsford, B.C., on Wednesday (Darryl Dyck/CP)

    The B.C. floods are a mere hint of what climate change could do to the food supply

    Barren store shelves will refill, and farmers will rebound in the short term, says food security expert Lenore Newman. But the system just can’t take disaster after disaster.

    A car lies submerged in a ditch on a flooded stretch of road after rainstorms lashed the western Canadian province of British Columbia, triggering landslides and floods, shutting highways, in Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada November 15, 2021. (Jennifer Gauthier/Reuters)

    A harrowing image of the B.C. floods that caused mudslides and trapped motorists

    Image of the Week: An unusually heavy ‘atmospheric river’ drowned cars like this one and follows record-breaking wildfires earlier this year. The West Coast can’t catch a break.