Tag Archives: Environment
Economists hope to dispel myths as carbon tax increase approaches
It has its critics and its supporters, but who is right and who is wrong when it comes to the debate over the federal carbon tax?As of April 1, that levy will rise from $65 to $80 a tonne, representin...
Mar 27, 2024
Climate change expected to drive shifts in urban birds, animals, bugs
The mix of urban birds, bugs and other critters that humans have grown familiar with is due for a big shift because of climate change, a new study says. "The nature that people interact with isn't wha...
Mar 27, 2024
Conservative premiers are lying about carbon pricing: Trudeau
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accused conservative politicians across Canada, including premiers, of lying to Canadians about the carbon price. Trudeau's government is buckling as attacks mou...
Mar 27, 2024
Conservatives blast pro-carbon price economists as 'so-called experts'
OTTAWA - Conservatives won't be taking advice from "so-called experts" when it comes to carbon pricing, the party said in a statement Wednesday after more than 200 economists signed an open letter cha...
Mar 27, 2024
B.C. orca calf rescue team considers changing tactics to save stranded whale: DFO
ZEBALLOS, B.C. - A rescue team working to coax a stranded killer whale calf from a lagoon off northern Vancouver Island is prepared to change tactics to save its life, including the possibility of lif...
Mar 27, 2024
Trudeau says premiers complaining about carbon price didn't pitch better ideas
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is pushing back against premiers who are asking him to cancel an upcoming increase to the federal carbon price, saying they have not proposed better ideas to fig...
Mar 26, 2024
Stranded orca was pregnant, while efforts to save her other calf turns on rising tide
ZEBALLOS, B.C. - A killer whale calf stranded in a lagoon without its mother to guide it to the open ocean off northern Vancouver Island appears traumatized as a rescue team tries to coax it to move t...
Mar 26, 2024
Economists defend Liberals' carbon price as political rhetoric heats up
OTTAWA - Dozens of Canadian economists issued an ardent defence of Canada's price on pollution Tuesday, as the government faces increased pressure from the Conservatives and provincial premiers to can...
Mar 26, 2024
'He understands Canadians': Inside what 'axe the tax' means to Poilievre's supporters
OTTAWA - When Sarah Morin hears the phrase "axe the tax," what enters her mind is "freedom." The 41-year-old is a stay-at-home mother of two who has been using a food bank amid cost-of-living pressure...
Mar 26, 2024
Time of essence amid efforts to reunite orphaned B.C. orca calf with its pod
ZEBALLOS, B.C. - Intense efforts are underway to reunite an orca calf with its family pod after its mother was stranded and died in a tidal lagoon near the remote northern Vancouver Island village of ...
Mar 25, 2024