Tag Archives: Environment
Friendly rivals: with EV tensions in past, Canada poised to compete with biggest ally
WASHINGTON - Friends, partners, allies - and rivals. With cross-border auto tensions now in the rear-view mirror, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is talking about Canada's next big bilateral challenge: ...
Dec 17, 2022
Nature finance impasse deepens between developed, developing countries at COP15
MONTREAL - The Canadian government is promising another $255 million in nature conservation financing for developing countries as the impasse over funding at the COP15 nature talks in Montreal drags i...
Dec 16, 2022
Delegates at COP15 warned to dress warmly and bring extra socks as snowstorm looms
OTTAWA - If the weather outside is frightful, bring some extra socks and build a snowman. For most Canadians such advice ahead of a major winter storm is unnecessary. But for thousands of delegates at...
Dec 15, 2022
Canada's climate action plan underfunded, unclear regarding top risks: report
OTTAWA - Canada's climate adaptation strategy is underfunded and does not clearly align its goals with the country's top climate change risks, a new report says. The Canadian Climate Institute put out...
Dec 15, 2022
Canada-made radar satellite component to be used in global surface water survey
LONGUEUIL, Que. - A piece of Canadian radar technology will play a key role in a satellite mission scheduled to launch Friday that aims to study almost all of the Earth's water surfaces and provide da...
Dec 15, 2022
'Prey-switching' blamed for death of Toronto woman mauled by coyotes 13 years ago
HALIFAX - A new and unusual theory has emerged about the coyotes that killed a young Toronto woman on a Nova Scotia hiking trail 13 years ago. Researchers say that on Oct. 27, 2009, when singer-songwr...
Dec 15, 2022
Environment ministers try to get Montreal biodiversity talks on track in final days
MONTREAL - A successful biodiversity framework to halt the devastation of global ecosystems and wildlife will require compromise from the world's wealthy and developing nations both, Canada's environm...
Dec 15, 2022
Yukon, Canada announce agreement to advance nature conservation and protection
MONTREAL - The Yukon and federal governments have signed a new agreement to advance nature conservation and protection across the territory. The governments announced the Canada-Yukon Nature Agreement...
Dec 14, 2022
Ottawa must hold resource companies accountable to keep Indigenous women safe: report
OTTAWA - A parliamentary committee says resource companies should be held "accountable" for the effect their projects have on the safety of Indigenous women and girls. Members of Parliament on the Sta...
Dec 14, 2022
Canada revoking sanctions exemptions for Nord Stream turbines
OTTAWA - Canada has revoked an exemption to sanctions that had allowed a Montreal company to repair turbines for the Nord Stream pipeline operated by Russian state-owned energy giant Gazprom. The deci...
Dec 14, 2022