Salish Sea creeps onto maps, into controversy

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Not content with Georgia Strait, Puget Sound and the Strait of Juan de Fuca, move aims to call them call the Salish Sea after a coastal aboriginal tribe It was about twenty years ago when a marine biologist came up with a shared name for the cold waters that separate Vancouver Island from the continental mainland.

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Mayor Greg Phelps has declared a state of emergency for the City of Courtenay. Flooding has closed down the Fifth Street Bridge, as well as the Dove Creek Bridge.

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