Tag Archives: Environment
Emergency alerts when severe weather happens can be improved: Guilbeault
OTTAWA - Emergency weather alerts that are broadcast over the mobile network should be improved to make sure they are getting to the right people at the right time, Environment Minister Steven Guilbea...
May 25, 2022
Weekend storm: Quebec says some parts of province won't get power back until Saturday
MONTREAL - Quebec's hydro utility says more than 80,000 customers are still without power following last weekend's violent storm that left a trail of damage from Gatineau to Quebec City. Hydro-Qubec p...
May 25, 2022
About 76 per cent of homes in Quebec back on the grid after powerful weekend storm
MONTREAL - Thousands of Quebecers were still in the dark on Tuesday after a powerful weekend storm that hit Quebec and Ontario killed at least 10 people and left a trail of damage across large swaths ...
May 24, 2022
More than 500 animals and birds could be lost or extinct, says study
VANCOUVER - A study shows a less colourful and quieter world with the possible loss of more than 500 species that haven't been seen in over 50 years. Arne Mooers, Simon Fraser University biodiversity ...
May 22, 2022
Cumberland House learn hands on about water quality with U of S ambassadors
Last week Grade 9 and 10 students at Charlebois Community School in Cumberland House collected data on water quality with science ambassadors from the University of Saskatchewan for their Indigenous s...
May 19, 2022
Time ticks away: SPCA encounters season's first pests
The on-again off-again end of winter has delayed the arrival of several pests we normally see this time of year. The first of those have started to rear their heads, however.Tick season is upon us, an...
May 18, 2022
Animal welfare advocates ask court to stop white-tailed deer cull south of Montreal
MONTREAL - A Quebec lawyer will ask the Superior Court next month to block a cull of white-tailed deer living in a suburban park south of Montreal and approve an alternative plan to relocate them. Ann...
May 18, 2022
A report on wildfire in Lytton, B.C., says more community fireproofing needed
VANCOUVER - A wildfire that destroyed the British Columbia village of Lytton couldn't have been stopped, even with an area-wide emergency response, says a new report. Published this month by the Insti...
May 17, 2022
Research group says whales that turned up in Montreal haven't been seen since Sunday
MONTREAL - A marine mammal research group is reporting that the two minke whales spotted near Montreal last week haven't been seen for more than 48 hours. Robert Michaud of the group Reseau qubecois d...
May 17, 2022
Alberta premier urges U.S. senators to convince Michigan to stop Line 5 shutdown
WASHINGTON - Alberta Premier Jason Kenney found mostly allies Tuesday as he brought his pro-pipeline pulpit to Capitol Hill, urging a largely Republican cadre of U.S. senators to get behind the idea o...
May 17, 2022