Tag Archives: Environment
B.C. company acquiring majority interest in North Sask. uranium project
A clean-energy company based out of Vancouver, British Columbia, is the latest to jump on Saskatchewan's growing uranium market. Atco Mining is acquiring up to 75 per cent interest in Standard Uranium...
Feb 14, 2024
B.C. cherry growers 'reeling' after January cold snap that damaged buds
KELOWNA, B.C. - This season will likely be the most challenging cherry growers have ever experienced in British Columbia, a farmer and industry leader says, after a widespread cold snap damaged trees ...
Feb 14, 2024
Liberals rebrand carbon-price rebates in bid to make policy more palatable
OTTAWA - Quarterly payments to offset the cost of the carbon price will now be called the "Canada Carbon Rebate," federal ministers said Wednesday as they moved to rebrand their signature climate poli...
Feb 14, 2024
First Nations call on feds to oppose nuclear waste disposal site near Ottawa River
OTTAWA - First Nations leaders are calling on the federal government to oppose a nuclear waste disposal site near the Ottawa River that they say threatens drinking water and their rights. Last month, ...
Feb 14, 2024
NDP to move bill calling for ban of coal exports as Canadian output booms
OTTAWA - Canadian exports of the kind of coal used to make electricity hit an eight-year high in 2022 despite promises from the Liberal government to work on banning exports completely by the end of t...
Feb 14, 2024
Ford uses announcement of carbon tax referendum bill to take digs at Bonnie Crombie
Ontario plans to introduce a law requiring any future government to put a new provincial carbon pricing program to a referendum, Premier Doug Ford said Tuesday while using the opportunity to take shot...
Feb 13, 2024
B.C. report says climate change brings health risk, as doctor fears 'colossal harms'
VANCOUVER - Communities across British Columbia needs to prepare for a climate-related health crisis like the deadly 2021 heat dome every year, according to the lead contributor to a report on health ...
Feb 13, 2024
One person taken to hospital after cougar attack in Banff National Park
LAKE LOUISE, Alta. - A cougar attack in a popular wilderness area of Banff National Park has left one person with minor injuries. EMS crews responded to the Rockbound Lake trailhead around 11 a.m. on ...
Feb 13, 2024
Warm weather forces city in Quebec to cancel ice-fishing villages for first time
SAGUENAY, Que. - There will be no colourful ice-fishing huts dotting the frozen water near Saguenay, Que., this year after mild winter weather forced authorities to cancel the popular tradition for th...
Feb 13, 2024
First Nations group criticizes federal fish policies, conflict of interest in B.C.
OTTAWA - An Indigenous-led group is criticizing what it says is the "gross mismanagement" of aquaculture in British Columbia by the Fisheries Department, as it calls for a separation of its regulatory...
Feb 12, 2024