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Vancouver Sun
15 hours ago
- General
- Vancouver Sun
When summer jobs go horribly wrong: This B.C. man has a warning for young workers
When Darcy Kulai was a 20-year-old university student and aspiring athlete, he made the fateful decision to take a summer job at the local sawmill in Ladysmith. Working alone one night in the clatter and hum of the mill, he tried to clear sawdust building up beneath the chain driving the lumber conveyor belt — without first turning off the machine. The glove on his left hand caught in the chain and, when he tried to free it with his right hand, his predicament got worse. Now both hands were stuck and he was trapped in a Christ-like pose, badly injured and screaming for help with no response. When the shift ended an agonizing 15 or 20 minutes later, the machines went quiet and Kulai's co-workers finally came to his aid. Stay on top of the latest real estate news and home design trends. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. A welcome email is on its way. If you don't see it, please check your junk folder. The next issue of Westcoast Homes will soon be in your inbox. Please try again Interested in more newsletters? Browse here. The injuries were life-changing. His right hand was amputated that night and he endured months of surgeries that included rebuilding the thumb on his left hand using bone from his right. Kulai slowly healed and tried to adapt, but everything was different now. Sports were 'kind of my life,' says Kulai now. 'You realize you can't do that stuff anymore. It messes with your self-image. ''Freak' is a strong word, but you definitely feel different from everybody else.' Understandably, Kulai has tried to forget about the accident and move on with his life in the nearly three decades since. But these days, Kulai has a college-age son of his own, and he's grown reflective about the moment that altered the course of his life. 'What would it be like if my son went through what I went through?' he found himself thinking. 'He's 20 now, the same age as when I got hurt.' Kulai — who now coaches basketball and golf at private Brentwood College and lives in Cobble Hill on Vancouver Island — decided he would do whatever it takes to 'inspire kids to be safe at work.' WorkSafeBC says summer jobs are especially risky for young adults. Nearly 7,000 young workers are injured on the job in B.C. every year, with serious injuries remaining steady at about 800 annually. 'Over the past five years, 34 young workers have tragically lost their lives due to workplace incidents,' says Angelique Prince, director of prevention programs and services at WorkSafeBC. While Kulai was hurt in an industrial setting, Prince says most injuries last year were in service-sector jobs, with 1,282 claims to WorkSafeBC, followed by construction (1,063 claims) and retail (492 claims). 'Young workers are highly vulnerable to workplace injuries,' says Prince. 'Inexperience, inadequate training and supervision, and unfamiliarity with workplace hazards can all increase the risk of injury — especially when workers don't feel empowered to ask questions or raise safety concerns.' 'If there's anything I can do to reduce the numbers of those injuries,' says Kulai, 'I'll do it.' Kulai recently decided to tell his story, with kids like his own top of mind, in a video for WorkSafeBC. 'It was an emotional ride, but I was happy with how it turned out, and have been getting good feedback,' he says. His key message to young workers: 'There are guidelines and procedures in place to protect you, and if you don't follow them, bad things can happen.' The worst thing a young employee can do is try to look 'cool' for his bosses. 'If there's anything that makes you feel uncomfortable or unsafe, bring it up with your supervisors.' Kulai knows it can be uncomfortable to raise safety concerns, and that questioning superiors is not always looked upon favourably. 'But there's no reason to ever compromise your safety — ever.' 'Every worker in B.C. has the right to refuse unsafe work,' says Prince. 'The first step of course is to talk to your supervisor and let them know a task feels unsafe or makes you uncomfortable.' Deadlines, quotas, trying to get the work done quickly to impress the boss? 'If you get hurt, none of that stuff matters,' says Kulai. More WorkSafeBC resources are available: Advice for new and young workers , how to ask questions about safety, and support for employers on their responsibilities and how to train new employees. jruttle@
Yahoo
4 days ago
- General
- Yahoo
Sebastião Salgado, photographer who cast an unflinching gaze on oppression and environmental destruction
Sebastião Salgado, who has died aged 81, was a documentary photographer who captured the world at its hardest and most desperate. His subjects, caught in signature high-contrast black and white film, ranged from the destruction of the Amazon and indigenous communities of his native Brazil to famine in Ethiopia, genocides in Rwanda and Congo and wars in the Balkans and Kuwait. 'We humans are terrible animals,' he said in 2014. 'In Europe, in Africa, in South America, everywhere. We are extremely violent. It's an endless story… a tale of madness.' The beauty of his work often stood in contrast to the subject matter, something Salgado faced criticism for. 'They say I was an 'aesthete of misery' and tried to impose beauty on the poor world. But why should the poor world be uglier than the rich world? The light here is the same as there. The dignity here is the same as there.' In 1986 Salgado made his most famous work, visiting Serra Pelada in Brazil's eastern state of Pará, the largest open-pit mining site in the world. In one photograph, hundreds of miners, many dressed in rags, covered head to foot in dirt, navigate wafer-thin paths carved out along a sheer hand-dug excavation. In another, a topless miner climbs a precarious wooden ladder from the vast hole in the earth; Salgado's composition gives the figure a decidedly Christ-like appearance. The Amazon was also long a source of fascination, Salgado spending six years travelling in the rainforest. Aerial images depicting rivers and tributaries carving through the trees to the horizon contrast with more intimate pictures of indigenous communities: a shaman from the Maturacá people waves his hands midway through a ceremony, for example, or two hunters show off the brown woolly monkeys they have slain with poison darts. Sebastião Ribeiro Salgado Jr was born on February 8 1944 near Aimorés, in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, the only son of eight children. His parents owned a cattle ranch that lay eight hours by horse to the nearest village. At his father's insistence Salgado studied economics at the Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo in the city of Vitória, graduating in 1964. It was there that he met Lélia Wanick, whom he married, and the couple moved to São Paulo, where Salgado took a masters at the university there. Then committed Marxists, the couple left for France in 1969 as Brazil's Right-wing dictatorship entered its darkest years. Salgado gained a PhD from Ensae Paris while Lélia was training to become an architect. For her course she bought a Pentax camera, and Salgado's first noted photograph was of his wife, sitting on the window sill of their apartment. Salgado would continue to shoot into light, to gain the high-contrast quality that characterised his work, throughout his career. In 1971 Salgado took a position with the International Coffee Organisation in London, which involved frequent trips to Africa. He started to take photographs along the way. 'I realised snapshots brought me more pleasure than economic reports,' he recalled, and he turned down a job at the World Bank to pursue his passion. He joined Sygma and the Paris-based Gamma photo agencies and then, in 1979, Magnum Photos. In 1994, he and Lélia established Amazonas Images, their own agency. On 30 March 1981 Salgado was in Washington covering a routine speaking engagement by Ronald Reagan. As the president was leaving his hotel, a would-be assassin pulled out a gun and fired, leaving a presidential staffer, a secret service agent and a policeman injured. Salgado captured the chaos, his photographs landing on front pages around the world. With the money, he was able to fund his first self-initiated project, spending 18 months documenting famine in the Sahel of Africa, producing two books in aid of Doctors Without Borders, Sahel: Man in Distress and Sahel: The End of the Road, the first of many. Other Americas was published in 1986, a continent-wide portrait of poverty in Latin America, followed by Workers, a record of global manual labour between 1986 and 1992, picturing men digging canals in Rajasthan or tarred with oil at the Greater Burhan oil field in Kuwait. Exodus (1994) was the result of six years documenting refugees globally. 'I saw deaths by thousands every day. I lost my faith in our species… I went to see a friend's doctor in Paris, and told him that I was completely sick. He made a long examination, and told me: 'Sebastião, you are not sick, your prostate is perfect. What happened is that you saw so many deaths that you are dying. You must stop.'' Crossing into Rwanda at the height of the country's genocide, he was surrounded by a group of seven or eight men with machetes. They wanted to kill Salgado, believing him to be French, in retaliation for France's backing of the Hutus. Salgado persuaded them he was Brazilian, producing his passport, and he only relaxed once one of the militia asked him about the footballer Pele. 'I'm not a hero,' he told the Telegraph. 'I know when I'm very afraid because I have no more saliva in my mouth. It's completely dry – I'm afraid. But I was there to do my pictures.' In 2014 he was the subject of the Oscar-nominated film The Salt of the Earth, directed by Wim Wenders and Salgado's son, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, and he leaves an archive of more than 500,000 images. His death from leukaemia was the result of contracting malaria while on a reporting trip to Indonesia in 2010 which impaired his bone-marrow function. Sebastião Salgado is survived by his Lélia and their sons Juliano and Rodrigo. Sebastião Salgado, born February 8 1944, died May 23 2025 Broaden your horizons with award-winning British journalism. Try The Telegraph free for 1 month with unlimited access to our award-winning website, exclusive app, money-saving offers and more.
Yahoo
08-05-2025
- Yahoo
Man accused of crashing into Jennifer Aniston's gate is charged with stalking and vandalism
The man accused of crashing a car into the gate outside Jennifer Aniston's home has been charged with felony stalking and vandalism, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office said Wednesday. Jimmy Wayne Carwyle, 48, of Mississippi, is accused of "repeatedly harassing the victim ... sending her unwanted social media, voicemail, and email messages," from Thursday to Monday, the DA's office said in a news release. The situation culminated Monday, when Carwyle crashed his car into Aniston's front gate, the DA's office alleged. Aniston's security guard detained Carwyle before police arrived and booked him into jail on suspicion of felony vandalism in connection with the crash. The crash, which happened at about 12:20 p.m. in the Bel-Air neighborhood of Los Angeles, caused "substantial damage," the release said. Aniston was home but was not hurt, law enforcement sources said Monday. Carwyle also faces an aggravating circumstance of the threat of great bodily harm, the DA's office said. Prosecutors will ask the court to set bail at $150,000. Carwyle is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday. If he is convicted of all charges, he faces three years in state prison, the DA's office said. Carwyle repeatedly posted about Aniston on social media, in recent months sharing online his belief that unnamed forces were keeping the two apart. "If someone out there can reach Jennifer Joanna Aniston Carwyle, let her know about the corruption going on trying to keep Me from her, you will be Blessed!" he wrote in October. Carwyle's longtime friend told NBC News that Carwyle left Mississippi in September to live out of his car at a Walmart Supercenter in the Los Angeles suburb of Burbank. The friend, Steve Rhea, said Carwyle quit his job five years ago and has since been on a downward spiral, including having delusions that he is a Christ-like figure who is married to Aniston. Another friend told NBC News he has been concerned about Carwyle since the pandemic, when, he said, Carwyle's personality changed. "I really hate that this happened to Miss Aniston; this was terrible," Marty Merritt said. "But since it did, the only thing I hope is this would get enough attention, attention that could get Jimmy some help. He needs some serious help. This is rock bottom." This article was originally published on
NBC News
08-05-2025
- NBC News
Man accused of crashing into Jennifer Aniston's gate charged with stalking and vandalism
The man accused of crashing a car into the gate outside Jennifer Aniston's home has been charged with felony stalking and vandalism, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office said Wednesday. Jimmy Wayne Carwyle, 48, of Mississippi, is accused of "repeatedly harassing the victim ... sending her unwanted social media, voicemail, and email messages," from May 1 to May 5, the DA's office said in a news release. The situation culminated on Monday, when Carwyle allegedly crashed his car into Aniston's front gate, the DA's office said. Carwyle was detained by Aniston's security guard before police arrived and booked him into jail on suspicion of felony vandalism in connection to the crash. The crash, which happened at about 12:20 p.m. in the Bel-Air neighborhood of L.A., caused "substantial damage," according to the release. Aniston was home at the time but was not hurt, law enforcement sources said Monday. Carwyle is also facing an aggravating circumstance of the threat of great bodily harm, the DA's office said. Prosecutors will ask the court to set bail at $150,000. Carwyle is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday. If convicted of all charges, he faces three years in state prison, according to the DA's office. Carwyle repeatedly posted about Aniston on social media, in recent months sharing online his belief that unnamed forces were keeping the two apart. "If someone out there can reach Jennifer Joanna Aniston Carwyle, let her know about the corruption going on trying to keep Me from her, you will be Blessed!" he wrote in October. Carwyle's longtime friend told NBC News Carwyle left Mississippi in September to live out of his car at a Walmart Supercenter in the L.A. suburb of Burbank. The friend, Steve Rhea, said Carwyle quit his job five years ago and has since been on a downward spiral, including having delusions that he's a Christ-like figure who is married to Aniston. Another friend told NBC News he's been concerned about Carwyle since the pandemic, when he said Carwyle's personality changed. "I really hate that this happened to Miss Aniston, this was terrible," Marty Merritt said. "But since it did, the only thing I hope is this would get enough attention, attention that could get Jimmy some help. He needs some serious help. This is rock bottom."
Yahoo
06-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
In California, immigrant Catholics hope the next pope sees them
In America's largest Catholic parish, you can feel the intimacy of grief left after the death of Pope Francis. "All eyes are on holy mother church. Her shepherd is gone and now we're seeking a new shepherd," said Father Alex Chavez, pastor of St. Charles Borromeo in Visalia, California, where Sunday services routinely fill all 3,200 seats. Since the death of Pope Francis, many Catholics around the world are faced with the same question: What are the qualities they hope to see in the next pope? "Just convey the truth clearly, allowing us, those on the front lines, to deal with the obstacles that people come with," Father Chaves hopes. Father Jose Maria Carrillo, 29, is among the church's next generation of clerics. When asked what personal attributes he's looking for in the next pope, Carrillo said, "The same humility that our Holy Father portrayed." As for Deacon Nemesio Santana, who is set to be ordained later this month, he's looking for someone who emulates the late Pope Francis. Hoping whoever is anointed has, "that love for the people, to take care of the people," Visalia sits in California's San Joaquin Valley. Rich in farmland, it's one of the world's breadbaskets. At St. Charles, the majority immigrant congregation is why two of the three Sunday masses are always held in Spanish. Many of the congregants saw Pope Francis as their spiritual champion. Chavez estimated that roughly 15% to 20% of the congregation is in the country illegally. He said their hope is that the next pope "conveys the same Christ-like message that the pope is there to voice their concern in a global setting." As for the search who will be in charge of delivering that message, "We could be just as political as our nation's politicians, but we trust at the end of all that politics that the Holy Spirit will prevail," Chavez said. In this profound moment of faith, priests and parishioners alike look for light in the shadows of the conclave. Bessent says there could be substantial progress on China trade talks in coming weeks How locals revolted when it took nearly 3 years to choose a pope Reporter's Notebook: Living up to a calling
