Tag Archives: Environment
Kinistino gets recognized for 'Generous Involvement of Past & Present Residents'
The Town of Kinistino and the Kinistino Communities in Bloom recently participated in their first national competition, since 2019.The group participated in the Class of Champions (Small) category, ag...
Nov 02, 2022
Verdict reserved in illegal trapping case
A man accused of illegally trapping and snaring animals in an area northeast of Prince Albert, is now awaiting judgment.Lloyd Slonski's trial wrapped up Monday afternoon at Prince Albert Provincial Co...
Nov 01, 2022
'Money for free': Critics warn proposed Alberta well cleanup plan a royalty giveaway
EDMONTON - Critics fear Alberta's new United Conservative premier is preparing to bring in a program that would use billions of dollars in taxpayer-funded royalty breaks to subsidize energy companies ...
Oct 31, 2022
Climate Changed: Canada's health system isn't ready for new reality, say doctors
Montreal family doctor Claudel Ptrin-Desrosiers sees climate change as an all-encompassing "risk amplifier." She says it raises the potential for hazard across the board, from threatening the most bas...
Oct 30, 2022
Guilbeault slams oilpatch for raking in cash and sitting idle on climate action
OTTAWA - The federal environment minister is calling out Canada's oil companies for failing to put cash behind their promises to tackle climate change. Steven Guilbeault says the country's major oil p...
Oct 29, 2022
Explorer's cameras recovered after 85 years on Yukon glacier
KLUANE NATIONAL PARK AND RESERVE - A cache of equipment belonging to explorer Bradford Washburn, including three of his cameras, has been retrieved from a Yukon glacier after 85 years. Now conservatio...
Oct 28, 2022
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