Tag Archives: Environment
'Incredibly impressed': Calgary mayor applauds reduced water use after pipeline break
CALGARY - As crews work to fix a massive pipeline break, Calgary's mayor says citizens are stepping up to draw down on water use to prevent city taps from running dry. Mayor Jyoti Gondek had asked Cal...
Jun 10, 2024
B.C. looks into post-fire mushroom picking rush after First Nation reports conflicts
British Columbia says it is not ruling out regulating wild mushroom picking after an Indigenous community said a rising number of foragers are infringing on its land, with one case involving alleged t...
Jun 09, 2024
Residents against graphite mine fear powering Pentagon, environmental ruin
MONTREAL - In Quebec's Laurentians region, a few kilometres from a wildlife reserve and just outside the town of Duhamel, lies a source of one of the world's most sought after minerals for manufacturi...
Jun 09, 2024
Calgary water conservation progress made as crews repair water main break: officials
CALGARY - Calgary's water conservation efforts have improved but there's still a "high risk" of running dry as crews continue to repair a major water main break over the next five to seven days, city ...
Jun 08, 2024
Animals on the lam: Welfare group documents exotic animal escapes, attacks
OTTAWA - A lot of Canadians have heard of Darwin, the Ikea monkey, who was found wandering a parking garage at the furniture chain's North York store wearing a shearling coat and a diaper. Many were e...
Jun 08, 2024
'We will run out': Calgarians urged to keep cutting water, repairs days away
CALGARY - Calgary Mayor Jyoti Gondek is urging residents to continue cutting their water use or risk having it run out as crews fix a massive break in a feeder line. Gondek says there are 23 water res...
Jun 07, 2024
Dutch Elm Disease spread becoming a concern in Melfort
The City of Melfort is looking to stop the spread of Dutch Elm Disease. Council will vote Monday on whether to approve the appointment of Jeffery Gooliaff of Living Tree Environmental Limited as a Dut...
Jun 06, 2024
Disaster survivors bring pleas for climate change action to Parliament Hill
OTTAWA - Meghan Fandrich's voice shook as she recalled grabbing her five-year-old daughter and fleeing their home as flames descended on the village of Lytton, B.C., in 2021. Darryl Tedjuk was quiet a...
Jun 06, 2024
See a goofy-looking bird on the ground? It's likely a baby and it's fine, experts say
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - It's fledgling season, a time when animal rescue experts say they are inundated with calls about goofy-looking birds stumbling around on the ground. In eastern Newfoundland, Karen G...
Jun 05, 2024
Speed restrictions, B.C. fishery closures, aim to protect southern killer whales
VANCOUVER - The federal government has announced salmon fishery closures and mandatory speed limits in areas where southern resident killer whales forage and travel in the ongoing effort to protect th...
Jun 03, 2024