Tag Archives: Environment

Prof. Nick Dulvy recalls when the northern cod fishery collapsed back in 1992. "That was nothing short of a social and economic disaster for Canada," Dulvy said, who's a biology professor at Simon Fra...

An influx of funding for the Agricultural Clean Technology (ACT) Program will keep farmers on the cutting edge. The Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food announced more than $97 million for the progra...

RICHMOND - If you ask the "King of Succulents" Johnny Tai how his plants are doing, do it gently. The 80-year-old Richmond, B.C., gardener hasn't recovered yet from what he calls the "crime scene" he ...

EDMONTON - An Alberta First Nation has filed a sweeping lawsuit against the province's energy regulator and the government over releases from an oilsands mine, alleging the agency acted in bad faith a...

Health Canada says it plans to completely ban a powerful poison used to control predators after completing public consultations on use of strychnine. "All uses of strychnine are cancelled," Lynn Lee o...

Women who run farms and rural households in poor countries suffer more from climate change and are discriminated against as they try to adapt to other sources of income in times of crisis, the United ...

OTTAWA - Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says Ottawa has to take action against Saskatchewan for breaking the federal carbon-pricing law. Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe said last week his provi...

FREDERICTON - Maine's state legislature has called for a new investigation into the use of herbicides, including Agent Orange, in the 1960s on a southern New Brunswick military base, describing a Cana...

While the North West area including the Battlefords and Meadow Lake continues to dig its way out after the weekend's snow storm, weather conditions will be dropping overnight to a low of minus 30 C.Be...

March weather was both lion and lamb in Canada on Monday, with Toronto residents dining al fresco in sun-splashed parks while Saskatoon residents carved paths through snow drifts deep enough to swamp ...