Tag Archives: Environment
Expedition team recovers sunken truck from remote Arctic waters
GJOA HAVEN, Nunavut - An international team has recovered a submerged truck from remote Arctic waters using divers, airbags and a helicopter. The long-planned recovery mission of the Ford-150, which f...
Aug 31, 2022
Toxic chemicals commonly found in dollar store items, testing shows
OTTAWA - Canada needs more transparency and better enforcement to protect Canadians from unlimited exposure to toxic chemicals like lead and cadmium, an analysis from Environmental Defence said Wednes...
Aug 31, 2022
Elizabeth May joins Green leadership race, says party has been in disarray
OTTAWA - Elizabeth May launched her bid to reclaim the leadership of the federal Green Party on Wednesday saying she wanted to rebuild the party and turn it into an influential political force, includ...
Aug 31, 2022
Bogus information online, climate change top Canadian fears in latest Pew survey
WASHINGTON - Canadians consider the online disinformation epidemic and climate change as the most serious threats of the modern age, edging out pandemic-era concerns about the global economy and infec...
Aug 31, 2022
Nunavut ends state of emergency over water shortage in Iqaluit
IQALUIT, Nunavut - The Nunavut government says it has ended a state of emergency intended to address a water shortage in Iqaluit. The territory declared the emergency earlier this month to ensure its ...
Aug 30, 2022
Canada formally initiates challenge of 'unfair' U.S. duties on softwood lumber
OTTAWA - International Trade Minister Mary Ng says Canada is formally initiating a challenge of "unwarranted and unfair" U.S. duties on Canadian softwood lumber. The Canadian government filed notice o...
Aug 29, 2022
Ottawa invokes 1977 pipeline treaty in separate Line 5 dispute, this one in Wisconsin
WASHINGTON - For the second time in a year, the federal government is invoking a little-known 1977 energy treaty between Canada and the United States in an effort to prevent a federal court from shutt...
Aug 29, 2022
Floods, drought, storms could cost Canada's economy $139 billion by 2050: report
OTTAWA - Floods, droughts and major storms that wash out highways, damage buildings and affect power grids could cost Canada's economy $139 billion over the next 30 years, a new climate-based analysis...
Aug 29, 2022
'From leaf to space': N.W.T. youth join NASA flight surveying climate change effects
YELLOWKNIFE - Two Northwest Territories youth joined NASA researchers aboard a Gulfstream III jet earlier this month as it soared above Great Slave Lake and parts of Nunavut and Alberta. "It was reall...
Aug 28, 2022
Banff National Park plan focuses on climate change, traffic, Indigenous relations
Canada's busiest national park aims to look for better ways to help visitors get around in the coming years as it works to address climate change and strengthen Indigenous relations. Those were among ...
Aug 27, 2022