Tag Archives: Environment
Quebec wildfires: Cree community orders evacuation due to heavy smoke
MONTREAL - A Cree community in northern Quebec was being evacuated Friday because heavy smoke from a nearby forest fire was blanketing the town and threatening to cut off the main road to the south of...
Jun 23, 2023
U.S. Coast Guard to lead investigation into deadly rupture of Titan submersible
DARTMOUTH - The U.S. Coast Guard will lead an investigation into the catastrophic implosion of the Titan submersible, which broke apart with five aboard and sank to the ocean floor during a dive to th...
Jun 23, 2023
Foreign firefighters fight flames, fatigue and get 'eaten alive' by mosquitoes
MONTREAL - Eighteen-year-old Hunter Sousa from Maine celebrated his high school graduation by hopping in a truck and heading to Nova Scotia to fight the biggest forest fire in the province's history. ...
Jun 23, 2023
Ottawa, First Nation sign procurement framework agreement for Giant Mine
YELLOWKNIFE - The federal government and Yellowknives Dene First Nation have signed a procurement framework agreement for the cleanup of Giant Mine, one of Canada's most contaminated sites. Ottawa say...
Jun 22, 2023
B.C. vineyards devastated by winter freeze, slashing wine output up to 56%: growers
KELOWNA, B.C. - Wine growers in British Columbia say a bitter cold snap last winter has devastated vineyards, causing irreparable damage to almost half of the province's planted acreage that may force...
Jun 22, 2023
Canada, United States expand agreement to help each other fight wildfires
OTTAWA - Canada and the United States agreed to replace an "ad hoc" approach to helping each other battle forest fires with a formal agreement Thursday that spells out a plan to more efficiently share...
Jun 22, 2023
Quebec wildfires: Northern city and Cree community ordered to evacuate
MONTREAL - A northern Quebec city and a Cree community have ordered to residents to leave their homes as the areas face the threat of forest fires. The Cree community of Mistissini says residents need...
Jun 22, 2023
Titan submersible torn apart by catastrophic implosion, killing all five aboard
A catastrophic implosion ripped apart the Titan submersible, killing all five people aboard as it was descending to the bottom of the North Atlantic during an expedition to the wreck of the Titanic, a...
Jun 22, 2023
Three years too long a wait for Line 5 reroute, Indigenous band in Wisconsin says
WASHINGTON - Three years is more than enough time for Line 5 to suffer a catastrophic rupture and far too long to make an Indigenous band in Wisconsin wait for the controversial cross-border pipeline ...
Jun 21, 2023
Cost of search for missing submersible 'irrelevant,' fisheries minister says
HALIFAX - As the search for a missing submersible with five people aboard continued about 700 kilometres south of Newfoundland, two federal cabinet ministers came forward Wednesday to say the Canadian...
Jun 21, 2023