Tag Archives: Environment
Melfort Communities in Bloom wins first-ever National Championship
Melfort Communities in Bloom (CiB) has now achieved something it had never previously done before...win a National Championship.Melfort won in the up to 6,000 category after beating out fellow competi...
Oct 28, 2022
Deaths of two great whites off Maritimes within weeks 'highly unusual': researcher
FREDERICTON - The discovery of two dead great white sharks washed ashore in Atlantic Canada in less than two weeks is a mystery to researchers. Fred Whoriskey, executive director of the Ocean Tracking...
Oct 28, 2022
B.C.’s 'vulnerable' Fraser Valley needs flood control plan, Senate committee warns
OTTAWA - The Senate committee on agriculture and forestry is calling for a comprehensive flood control plan for British Columbia's Fraser Valley following last year's catastrophic floods. Last Novembe...
Oct 27, 2022
Climate Changed: Quebec farmers improve soil as water supply becomes less reliable
SAINT-OURS, Que. - On the Beauchemin family farm in southern Quebec, the problem used to be too much water. But Raphal Beauchemin says that over the years, his grandfather, father and uncles learned h...
Oct 27, 2022
Air Ronge reallocates $50,000 to address Heritage Trail repairs
Air Ronge council has reallocated $50,000 from the recreation budget for improvements to the Heritage Trail."The immediate work we have been doing is in places where it needs repairs and some upgrades...
Oct 26, 2022
Atmospheric river forecast in B.C. days after temperature records and drought
VANCOUVER - An atmospheric river packing "narrow bands of heavy precipitation" is forecast for parts of British Columbia just a week after numerous high temperature records were set amid concerns of d...
Oct 26, 2022
Rescue team and whale's acrobatics help save it from dangerous entanglement in B.C.
A 10-metre-long humpback whale entangled in fishing gear in British Columbia's Strait of Georgia has been rescued with the help of a team of experts, a drone, a satellite tag, concerned citizens and a...
Oct 25, 2022
Wakaw poachers suspended, fined nearly $17K
A routine hunter compliance check last fall began an investigation that uncovered a family's pattern of unethical hunting practices and offences committed over the last 10 years.Back on November 21, 2...
Oct 25, 2022
Federal minister calls utility's pause on Atlantic energy corridor 'bump in the road'
HALIFAX - Nova Scotia Power's decision to "pause" its participation in a proposed megaproject aimed at ending reliance on coal is just a temporary setback, says the federal cabinet minister charged wi...
Oct 25, 2022
Population of endangered North Atlantic right whales continues decline: study
HALIFAX - The population of critically endangered North Atlantic right whales isn't declining as fast as it was five years ago, but researchers say the latest numbers show the species is still having ...
Oct 24, 2022