Tag Archives: Environment
Reservation schedule set for Sask Parks, new features ahead
Camping season is just a few months away in Saskatchewan and planning can soon begin.The province announced Wednesday that reservations at Saskatchewan's provincial parks are set to begin in April, wi...
Jan 19, 2022
Industrial development giving coyotes an edge in wolverine habitat: study
EDMONTON - Industrial development is helping coyotes move into wolverine country and edge out the rare carnivore despite its fierce reputation, newly published research suggests. "Roads and seismic li...
Jan 19, 2022
Ottawa and First Nations in P.E.I. sign agreement to establish national park reserve
LENNOX ISLAND, P.E.I. - A pristine chain of islands with white-sand beaches, described as Prince Edward Island's last coastal wilderness, could soon become Canada's next national park. Parks Canada si...
Jan 19, 2022
New year, old issues: Enbridge, state of Michigan renew Line 5 hostilities in court
WASHINGTON - Enbridge Inc. and the state of Michigan are renewing their legal hostilities over the future of the controversial Line 5 pipeline - and their latest court battle looks an awful lot like t...
Jan 18, 2022
'It gets better': Roberta Bondar reflects on being first Canadian woman in space
Most memories, after 30 years, start to fade. But if that memory is of blasting off to become Canada's first woman in space, it only becomes richer. "I talk about it a lot, so a lot of it's fresh," sa...
Jan 18, 2022
Scientists study trajectory of meteorite that landed in B.C. in October
VANCOUVER - Scientistsstudying a meteorite that landed next to a British Columbia woman's head last year say it was diverted to that path about 470 million years ago. The small meteorite broke through...
Jan 17, 2022
Iqaluit sets up filling station with river water after complaints of fuel smell
IQALUIT, NUNAVUT - The City of Iqaluit has set up a water-filling station after traces of fuel were found in the Nunavut capital's drinking water last week for the second time in recent months. Iqalui...
Jan 17, 2022
Plan to use crossbows to kill nuisance deer in Nova Scotia town challenged by critics
HALIFAX - Fed up with nuisance deer raiding gardens and colliding with vehicles, a town in central Nova Scotia has hired four crossbow hunters to kill up to 20 of the animals inside town limits. "Ther...
Jan 16, 2022
City of Iqaluit confirms trace amounts of fuel found in drinking water
IQALUIT, Nunavut - Iqaluit resident Kinguatsiaq Kinguatsiaq says he smelled fuel in his water a couple of days ago but assumed it must be something else. "I figured I was wrong because I thought the s...
Jan 14, 2022
Delays push cost to rebuild fire-damaged Lytton, B.C., to $102M: insurance bureau
VANCOUVER - Insurance losses from a wildfire that wiped out most of Lytton, B.C., have surged to $102 million. The Insurance Bureau of Canada says the amount has risen from an original estimate of $78...
Jan 13, 2022