Tag Archives: Environment
There are lessons to be learned from Canada’s wildfire season and evacuations
WINNIPEG - Governments and non-profit groups are taking time to review this year's wildfire season and the unprecedented challenges posed by evacuating tens of thousands of people across wide swaths o...
Oct 12, 2025
University of B.C. launches mushroom-powered toilet, turning waste into fertilizer
VANCOUVER - A "beautiful experience" isn't a term often used for a trip to an outhouse, but researchers at the University of British Columbia say the description fits for their mushroom-powered waterl...
Oct 12, 2025
Shifting global picture disrupted Canada's national security strategy update: memo
OTTAWA - The Liberal government's efforts to revise Canada's national security strategy hit a snag when it became clear earlier this year that many of the assumptions underlying the work were "no long...
Oct 12, 2025
Canada's first non-beating heart transplant could lead to shorter wait lists: UHN
TORONTO - A Toronto hospital says it transplanted a heart that stopped beating last month in a Canadian first that has the potential to substantially shorten the long wait for a donor. University Heal...
Oct 11, 2025
North Battleford to consider downtown bench removal amid safety, image concerns
City council in North Battleford will debate next week whether to remove most benches from the downtown area for a one-year trial aimed at improving safety, cleanliness and the area's public image.A r...
Oct 10, 2025
Here are the B.C. ministries, provincial agencies and roles affected by job action
About 26,000 members of two unions representing British Columbia professionals and public service workers are participating in escalating job action as they push for pay increases in new contracts wit...
Oct 10, 2025
'It depends': Carney shifts stance on maintaining emissions cap
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney said Friday the fate of the emissions cap on oil and gas producers depends on other efforts to lower emissions, suggesting his government might be open to scrapping...
Oct 10, 2025
What a mesh: elk rescued from entangled web at Prince Albert National Park
One bull elk was freed from an unwanted entanglement yesterday by Parks Canada staff in Prince Albert National Park. Park officers learned about the elk, who has a mat of plastic netting wrapped aroun...
Oct 09, 2025
CEO of new Major Projects Office skirts MPs' questions about tanker ban
OTTAWA - The head of Canada's new Major Projects Office and her staff sidestepped MPs' questions Thursday about whether she has special powers to skirt the West Coast tanker ban. Dawn Farrell was hire...
Oct 09, 2025
As Tropical Storm Jerry churns in the Atlantic, Priscilla and a nor'easter threaten US with flooding
MIAMI (AP) - Tropical Storm Jerry churned Thursday in the Atlantic on its approach to the Leeward Islands as Tropical Storm Priscilla and Tropical Storm Raymond moved along Mexico's Pacific coast, thr...
Oct 09, 2025