Tag Archives: Environment
Quebec coroner calls public inquiry into Montreal firefighter's drowning
MONTREAL - Quebec's chief coroner is calling a public inquiry into the drowning of a Montreal firefighter last year. Pierre Lacroix, a father of two, died after he was thrown into the St. Lawrence Riv...
May 13, 2022
Parks Canada capital budget falls as agency works on new plan for crumbling assets
OTTAWA - The capital budget for Canada's national parks and historic sites is being slashed by more than two-thirds this year even as more than 30 per cent of the agency's assets remain in poor or ver...
May 13, 2022
NASA releases satellite images of Manitoba flooding; province bracing for more rain
WINNIPEG - Severe flooding that has displaced thousands of people in southern Manitoba has reached levels that are quite literally out of this world. Satellite images of flooding in the Red River Vall...
May 12, 2022
B.C. mine environment safeguards whittled down by amendments, university study says
Some environmental safeguards built into British Columbia mine approvals are being gradually whittled away without enough public or scientific oversight, says new university research. A recently publi...
May 12, 2022
White House, senators have 'sympathy' for Canada's position on Line 5, says Wilkinson
WASHINGTON - White House officials, Capitol Hill lawmakers and the U.S. secretary of energy have all expressed "significant sympathy" for the plight of Canada's Line 5 pipeline, Natural Resources Mini...
May 12, 2022
Parks Canada recovers 45 fossils stolen from Burgess Shale, levies $20K fine
LAKE LOUISE, ALBERTA - A Quebec resident has been fined $20,000 for taking 45 fossils from three Rocky Mountain national parks that include an internationally known fossil collection. Parks Canada sai...
May 12, 2022
Second minke whale spotted off Montreal, marine mammal group says
MONTREAL - A marine mammal research group is reporting a second minke whale has been spotted in the Montreal area in less than a week. Baleines en direct says the whale was seen at around 12:30 p.m. t...
May 11, 2022
Five things about the Montreal minke whale and why saving it isn't easy
MONTREAL - There appears to be little that humans can do to help the minke whale that has been spotted in the St. Lawrence River near Montreal find its way back home. Here are five things to help unde...
May 11, 2022
Inuit fear ruling on Arctic mine expansion could hasten ongoing narwhal decline
Inuit hunters fear an upcoming ruling on an Arctic mine expansion could hasten the ongoing decline of a narwhal population that they rely on for food. Harvesters from Pond Inlet on the northern coast ...
May 11, 2022
Automakers ask government for more detailed EV chargers plan to meet sales targets
OTTAWA - A new analysis of Canada's electric vehicle charging demands suggests we'll need to more than double the number of public chargers within the next three years and then quadruple it by the end...
May 11, 2022