Break the fake – Purple haze in Kelowna and Okanagan Valley

This article was about how residents in Kelowna and Okanagan Valley woke up one morning to mysterious purple/pink haze.

1. The first thing that I did was I was scrolling through the news and clicked on this article where I saw these two pictures with purple/pink haze.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2. The next thing that I did was I went on Snopes to see if they had any articles on this topic and to see if it was real or not. Unfortunately, there were no articles on this topic. I think that the reason behind that is because it was a relatively new article and wasn’t very popular. The original  article only states two provinces is Canada and I think that maybe not enough people had seen it yet.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3. The next thing i did was a google search with the key words from the original article. I searched up “Purple haze Okanagan” and nothing came up. I then went back to the article and re-read it to find some new key words to use. I searched up “Pink fog Kelowna” and found 4 different articles.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4. The next thing that I did was read the new articles. All of the information was mostly the same stuff. The news outlets also seemed pretty trustworthy. Since all of the information was the same and I didn’t have much to go off of, I went back to the original article again to check the author. I wanted to search him up to see if he had been involved in any prior hoaxes which he hadn’t.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So, after all of this research and no evidence proving that it isn’t real, I believe that this article is a true article.

 

 

 

Take your kids to work day

On take your kids to work day, I went to CSIS (Canadian Security Intelligence Service). I went with my mom and dad because they both work in the same building. During the day, we went through multiple stations and went through all of the different jobs at CSIS. The first station we went to was Internal Security. We learned about how CSIS is a secure environment and talked about all of the different factors that help everybody stay safe. We were not allowed to bring in our phones and that is why I have no pictures from inside but I have pictures from google from the outside of the building. Then, we went to the Physical Surveillance unit, which is my dads unit. He is the chief head of Physical surveillance. In that station, we all got walkie talkies and earphones, we each got a “target” that we had to follow around the mall by my parents work. Next, we went to Special Technical services (STS) where we learned about the different kind of locks and how to pick them. Then, we went to Tactical Internet Collection Officer (TICO) where we learned about how they can find anybody online based on their pictures and their surroundings. Finally, we went to Counter Terrorism and Counter Intelligence where my mom is the Chief Counter Terrorism. There we had a presentation about some of the trips and missions that the people of that unit went on. And then we went home.

1. What did you hear, see, smell, and feel in the work environment on Nov. 1st?

I smelt fresh air when I went to do some surveillance, I saw a woman in a green, floor length jacket that I had to follow around the whole mall, I heard voices in my walkie-talkie reporting back to me on where my target was and what she was doing. I felt super cool walking around the mall with the other parent’s children and making new friends.

2. What about the environment would motivate you to wake up every day to attend work?

Something that would encourage me to go to work every day is how friendly and welcoming the people are.

3. What about the work environment would discourage you from waking up every day to attend work?

Something that would discourage me from going to work every day are the weird hours.

4. What is ONE thing you found interesting about your workplace visit?

I found it interesting how fun it really was to go to work with my parents and really get to know what they do in a day.