Tag Archives: Environment
B.C. man wanting public meeting has 'death-watch monitors' on Day 23 of hunger strike
NANAIMO, B.C. - A 68-year-old activist says "death-watch monitors" were ensuring his safety on the 23rd day of a hunger strike over old-growth logging practices in British Columbia. Howard Breen said ...
Apr 23, 2022
First Nations students clean up P.A. for Earth Day
Dozens of students and their families commemorated Earth Day by cleaning up some areas of Prince Albert.The First Nations University of Canada Students' Association took part in the cleanup, picking u...
Apr 22, 2022
Three Canadian companies win $1-million awards each for carbon removal technology
VANCOUVER - Three Canadian companies with carbon capture technologies have won $1 million each from entrepreneur Elon Musk's foundation. The University of British Columbia says in a news release that ...
Apr 22, 2022
More cars, SUVs to qualify for electric vehicle rebates as feds expand program
OTTAWA - The federal government is expanding the number of electric vehicles that qualify for the purchase rebate as it makes good on its promise to include some of the new SUVs and pickups arriving i...
Apr 22, 2022
Swath of boreal forest twice the size of Toronto to be protected in northern Ontario
OTTAWA - The largest private land conservation project in Canadian history is unfolding in northern Ontario. The Nature Conservancy of Canada spent the last year negotiating the purchase of 1,450 squa...
Apr 22, 2022
Electric vehicle popularity grows in 2021 but still not on track for federal targets
OTTAWA - Electric vehicle sales grew almost 60 per cent last year but they need to pick up the pace even more to hit the new federal sales mandates expected by the end of this year. Statistics Canada ...
Apr 21, 2022
Métis Nation looks to re-vamp constitution
A series of public consultations have kicked off as the Mtis Nation - Saskatchewan (MN-S) works to re-vamp its constitution. Changing the document was part of an agreement struck with the federal gove...
Apr 21, 2022
Ottawa making good on pledge to unilaterally protect Quebec caribou: minister
MONTREAL - Ottawa is moving forward with plans to unilaterally protect Quebec caribou after the province failed to meet a deadline to provide an acceptable proposal, federal Environment Minister Steve...
Apr 21, 2022
Ottawa feared repeat of 2020 rail blockades before B.C. pipeline arrests last fall
Federal officials feared a repeat of the 2020 rail blockades one month before RCMP enforced an injunction last fall against protests that cut off access to a pipeline construction site in northern Bri...
Apr 21, 2022
Avian flu: Quebec duck farm says it has to kill 150,000 birds, lay off 300 staff
MONTREAL - A Quebec duck-farming operation says three of its facilities have been devastated by avian flu, forcing it to slaughter 150,000 birds and lay off nearly 300 employees. It will likely take s...
Apr 20, 2022