Tag Archives: Environment
Climate change made record-breaking Eastern Canada heat wave 'much more likely'
TORONTO - The heat wave that enveloped Eastern Canada last month was made between two to 10 times more likely due to climate change, federal officials said Tuesday, offering a sobering and rapid analy...
Jul 09, 2024
Trudeau attends NATO leaders' summit as Russia escalates aggression toward Ukraine
WASHINGTON, D. C. - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was on the defensive about Canada's defence spending Tuesday as he gave a speech ahead of the NATO leaders' summit in Washington, D.C. Trudeau spoke t...
Jul 09, 2024
Scorching summer heat hits Canada, but won't touch records set by the 2021 heat dome
Sweltering temperatures stretching from British Columbia to the Ontario border has prompted hundreds of heat warnings, but it's not as intense at the deadly 2021 heat dome in B.C., says a national war...
Jul 08, 2024
Heat records tumble in B.C. as forecast brings new wildfire concerns
VANCOUVER - It was so hot on Sunday in Cache Creek, B.C., that only a "big, cold shower" could bring relief, Chandrika Dasi said. She works at the Historic Hat Creek Ranch and lives on site in a cabin...
Jul 08, 2024
Environmental group buys Fraser River island near Chilliwack, B.C., to protect salmon
VANCOUVER - An ideal natural salmon habitat of gravel beds and side channels on British Columbia's lower Fraser River will be protected by the purchase of a private island by an environmental organiza...
Jul 08, 2024
'Nobody has these stories': Canada's longest river at record low levels
Canada's longest river is at historically low levels, stranding communities that rely on it for essential goods and alarming First Nations along its banks who have never known the mighty Mackenzie to ...
Jul 08, 2024
Living history: grand opening of overnight experience at Doukhobor Dugout House offers visitors insight into ancestor's lives
Against the backdrop of the serenity that only a summer's bucolic environment can offer, the great-great-grandson of a man killed in a train explosion 100 years ago took to the podium to speak of peac...
Jul 07, 2024
After highway death of a beloved bear in B.C., experts look for lessons
FIELD, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA - In the spring of 2023, a Parks Canada team strung electric fence along a section of the Trans Canada Highway from Lake Louise to the B.C.-Alberta boundary. It was par...
Jul 07, 2024
Heat warnings expand in British Columbia as heat wave intensifies
VANCOUVER - A heat wave has settled in, bringing scorching temperatures across more than 40 regions in British Columbia. But, the extreme heat - and a warning from Environment Canada - isn't deterring...
Jul 07, 2024
Montreal failed to address school flushing sewage into river for years
MONTREAL - A Montreal elementary school has been inadvertently flushing raw sewage into a nearby river for years, and the city, despite identifying the problem in 2021, is only now taking action to fi...
Jul 07, 2024