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Salmo, a small mountain village in interior B.C., has seen average property values increase by 60 per cent from $199,000 before the start of the pandemic to $319,000 in July 2021, upending years of a relatively flat market Salmaan Farooqui/Tausi Insider For years, Salmo, B.C., was the kind of place travellers would drive by without noticing. It isn’t even on the main highway tourists use in the province. Nestled at the bottom of the Kootenay Pass, one of Canada’s highest mountain pass highways open year-round, the southern B.C. village of roughly 1,000 people was mostly a place to fill up with gas after a hair-raising drive. With an out-of-the-way location that is roughly eight hours of mountain driving from Calgary or Vancouver, property has always been cheap. But like a gentrifying neighbourhood in downtown Toronto, the sense that things are changing is palpable. More young families with strollers can be seen walking through the village centre. A craft brewery opened in 2020 that w...

An explosion occurred Friday in a gas pipeline in central Lithuania, officials said. Baltic media reported that it caused no injuries but sent flames up to 50 meters (164 feet) high and forced the protective evacuation of a nearby village. The operator of Lithuania’s natural gas transmission system, AB Amber Grid, said there are two parallel pipelines, and “initial data indicate that the explosion occurred in one of them. The other pipeline was not damaged” The gas supply through the damaged pipeline in the Pasvalys area was immediately interrupted. “We immediately started to investigate the circumstances of the incident and ensure gas supply to consumers,” Nemunas Biknius, Amber Grid CEO said in a statement. He said the government had been informed. Lithuanian broadcaster LRT said the village of Valakeliai, with about 250 inhabitants, was being evacuated as a precaution. According to the Baltic News Service, the pipeline carries natural gas from Klaipeda in Lithuania to Latvia. Klai...

A freight train has derailed in southwestern Saskatchewan. The Transportation Safety Board says 47 cars holding 95 containers left the tracks late Sunday near the village of Chaplin. A spokesman with Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. CP-T says none of the cars were carrying dangerous goods. There were no injuries reported. Investigators from the safety board are on their way to the site and Canadian Pacific has dispatched crews and equipment to it. Chaplin is located about 150 kilometres west of Regina. https://www.tausiinsider.com/forty-seven-train-cars-derail-in-southwestern-saskatchewan/?feed_id=324094&_unique_id=63ea42d64ba63