Tag Archives: Environment
After court cases and death threats, Montreal suburb's deer cull to go ahead in 2024
LONGUEUIL, Que. - A Montreal suburb announced Wednesday that its long-delayed cull of deer that have overrun a local park will finally go ahead in the fall of 2024. The City of Longueuil plans to depl...
Dec 13, 2023
New N.W.T. premier to focus on emergency readiness, working with Indigenous leaders
YELLOWKNIFE - Few understand better the growing need for communities to be prepared for emergencies and disasters than the new premier of the Northwest Territories. R.J. Simpson, elected premier by fe...
Dec 11, 2023
Tories have 'successfully' scapegoated carbon price in affordability crisis: Trudeau
OTTAWA - The Liberals' signature climate policy to put a price on pollution is not unravelling, and it is not the main reason for inflation, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says, despite what the Conser...
Dec 11, 2023
Long-awaited bill would give First Nations 'tools and powers' to protect water: Hajdu
OTTAWA - The Liberal government tabled much-anticipated legislation Monday that aims to improve water quality in First Nations communities, improve collaboration on water protection and codify a new F...
Dec 11, 2023
Climate change battering municipal finances across Canada
MONTREAL - The hamlet of Gore, Que., had the foresight to start preparing for more intense annual flooding due to climate change a decade ago. That's when the rural township 60 kilometres northwest of...
Dec 11, 2023
Indigenous services minister to table First Nations water bill as early as Monday
OTTAWA - Indigenous Services Minister Patty Hajdu is expected to table much-anticipated legislation to improve water quality in First Nations communities as early as Monday. The bill comes more than a...
Dec 10, 2023
Fields of anxiety: Overcoming stigma to address mental health struggles of farmers
Christi Friesen remembers her husband saying he knew that the cloud of depression over her was finally lifting when he saw her smile at the end of the gruelling 2016 harvest season. That October had b...
Dec 09, 2023
Batoche home to first bison herd since 19th century
A bison herd has found a new home in Batoche. The animals are now under the supervision of the Mtis Nation-Saskatchewan (MN-S) after Parks Canada agreed to transfer them from Grasslands National Park....
Dec 08, 2023
Saskatchewan's methane emissions underestimated, rate of releases high: research
Saskatchewan's oilpatch emits a potent greenhouse gas at a higher rate than almost anywhere else in North America, indicates new research from one of Canada's premier climate labs. A published paper f...
Dec 08, 2023
Fossil from Alberta badlands finds prey inside the stomach of young tyrannosaur
CALGARY - A dinosaur fossil found in the Alberta badlands has revealed new details about the diet of young meat-eating tyrannosaurs. The research, published Friday in the journal Science Advances, is ...
Dec 08, 2023