Tag Archives: Environment
Canadians want to see carbon price paused on all home heating fuel, poll suggests
OTTAWA - A new poll suggests Canadians are broadly in favour of the federal government's decision to exempt home heating oil from its price on carbon, and would welcome expanding the relief to all for...
Nov 22, 2023
Feds promise long-awaited Indigenous loan guarantee program, but offer few details
OTTAWA - The "next steps" for a long-awaited Indigenous loan guarantee program will be announced in next year's federal budget, the Liberal government promised in its fall economic statement on Tuesda...
Nov 22, 2023
Feds set aside $7B from Canada Growth Fund for carbon-price contract guarantees
OTTAWA - Almost half of the Canada Growth Fund for clean technology investments will be allocated to special contracts intended to give companies the confidence they need to make major investments to ...
Nov 21, 2023
U.S. study finds Canadian mining toxin in American waters; treatment 'a small dent'
A new American study has confirmed southeastern British Columbia coal mines are contaminating waters shared by Canada and the U.S., adding the miner's attempts to remove selenium from wastewater aren'...
Nov 21, 2023
Big game trophy hunters among targets of new ban on importing raw ivory into Canada
OTTAWA - Canadian trophy hunters will be barred from bringing home elephant tusks or rhinoceros horns as Canada adopts new trade controls to help stop the critical decline in the animals' populations....
Nov 20, 2023
Feds to appeal court ruling that struck down cabinet order labelling plastics toxic
OTTAWA - The federal government will appeal a recent Federal Court ruling that struck down a cabinet order underlying Ottawa's ban of some single-use plastics, Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault s...
Nov 20, 2023
Eyes turn to Ottawa to help repair strained talks on global plastic pollution treaty
TORONTO - As the latest talks on a global plastics treaty ended in accusations of deadlocked negotiations, eyes are now turning to Canada, which will play host to the next round of negotiations at a t...
Nov 20, 2023
Saskatchewan squabbles with Ottawa over pavilion presentations at COP28 in Dubai
REGINA - Saskatchewan is squabbling again with Ottawa - this time over an event space at a climate conference in Dubai. The province says because Ottawa rejected most of its proposals, it decided to p...
Nov 20, 2023
Tiny beetle to the rescue of N.S. hemlocks attacked by woolly invasive insect
FREDERICTON - On comfortable beds of wood shavings inside multiple boxes, 3,600 Laricobius nigrinus beetles made overnight journeys last month from the forests of British Columbia all the way to south...
Nov 19, 2023
B.C. stream watchers link 'unprecedented' coho salmon kill to tire toxin and drought
VANCOUVER - John Barker has been volunteering with the West Vancouver Streamkeeper Society for more than 20 years and says he's never seen anything like it, dozens of coho salmon, pre-spawn and silver...
Nov 19, 2023