Tag Archives: Environment
Developed countries called on to provide meaningful financial support at COP15
MONTREAL - Hard talks on hard targets for saving the world's biodiversity began Wednesday at an international conference in Montreal, with calls for rich nations to pony up to save functioning ecosyst...
Dec 07, 2022
Finance minister replaced in B.C. cabinet shuffle that blends old, new
VICTORIA - British Columbia Premier David Eby unveiled a new-look cabinet Wednesday that elevates several first-time ministers to prominent positions, retains veterans in long-held posts and moves the...
Dec 07, 2022
Nature 'under attack' says Trudeau as UN biodiversity conference opens in Montreal
MONTREAL - In the 73 minutes on Tuesday afternoon that it took for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and five other dignitaries to officially open the 15th global talks to save nature from human destructi...
Dec 06, 2022
Canada 'watching closely' as Biden pressed to fix Inflation Reduction Act 'glitches'
WASHINGTON - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Monday that Canada will be "watching closely" as the United States responds to complaints from Europe about the North American protectionism built into ...
Dec 05, 2022
Aspiring environmental engineer wins scholarship in memory of Polytechnique victims
MONTREAL - A Quebec environmental engineering student intent on researching solutions to the global climate crisis is the latest recipient of a $30,000 prize established in honour of the 14 women kill...
Dec 05, 2022
Canada, China set to co-host global nature talks even as diplomatic tensions persist
OTTAWA - A major UN conference on biodiversity will get underway in Montreal Tuesday with a lofty goal to get every country to agree to protect almost one-third of the world's land and oceans before t...
Dec 05, 2022
'Paris moment:' COP15 conference in Montreal seeks hard targets on biodiversity
If global biodiversity - the subject of a huge international meeting in Montreal this week - is too much of a mouthful, try thinking instead about the white-throated sparrow. Their cheerful "Dear Swee...
Dec 04, 2022
Ontario won't allow homes to be built on floodplains, Ford says after fed warning
CLARINGTON, Ont. - Ontario has no plans to allow homes to be built on floodplains, Premier Doug Ford said Friday after the federal environment minister warned Ottawa would not provide disaster compens...
Dec 02, 2022
'Monstrous Pollution' art collection sends message of environmental concern
Some students in Prince Albert are worried about the future when it comes to caring for the environment, and have illustrated that concern with art. Both Marie Bear and Cassidy McDonald are in Grade 1...
Dec 01, 2022
Progress being made in fight to save North Atlantic right whale from extinction
HALIFAX - The latest official population estimate for the world's most endangered species of whale is grim. A group of international experts recently confirmed there were about 340 surviving North Atl...
Dec 01, 2022