Tag Archives: Environment
Federal climate plan to meet new targets will be delayed until March: Guilbeault
OTTAWA - Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says the new federal climate plan won't be ready until the end of March. The net-zero accountability law passed in June requires the government to make ...
Dec 03, 2021
Most popular EV in Canada, Tesla Model 3, no longer eligible for federal rebate
OTTAWA - The Tesla Model 3 will no longer top the list of Canada's most rebated electric car. In a notice posted on its website, Transport Canada said the popular car ceased to be eligible for the fed...
Dec 02, 2021
Worst of B.C. weather over; massive cleanup, rebuild ahead, says government
VICTORIA - The successive storms that brutalized southern British Columbia with floods and slides caused by record amounts of rainfall were declared over Thursday, but now the cleanup and costly rebui...
Dec 02, 2021
Indigenous leaders concerned over B.C. government's old-growth deferral process
Indigenous leaders and experts in British Columbia outlined their concerns Wednesday over the provincial government's process to defer logging in old-growth forests, while underscoring the urgency to ...
Dec 01, 2021
Trade minister Ng chats with U.S. counterpart as continental trade tensions fester
WASHINGTON - Canada's trade minister has headed back to the U.S. capital for discussions on festering trade irritants, just two weeks after joining Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on his visit to the Wh...
Dec 01, 2021
Fall floods, summer heat in B.C. in line with climate change: meteorologist
VANCOUVER - Flood warnings were issued Wednesday for several major rivers in British Columbia as a federal scientist says record-setting rainfall and alpine temperatures are consistent with climate ch...
Dec 01, 2021
Michigan abandons Line 5 challenge to focus instead on 2019 state court lawsuit
WASHINGTON - Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has abruptly abandoned her federal court case aimed at shutting down the cross-border Line 5 pipeline. Instead, Attorney General Dana Nessel says Whitmer wi...
Nov 30, 2021
Vice-president swears in David Cohen as newest U.S. ambassador to Canada
WASHINGTON - David Cohen has been sworn in as the new United States ambassador to Canada - the first full-time American envoy since 2019. Vice-president Kamala Harris presided over the process in her ...
Nov 30, 2021
Montreal suburb revives plan to kill majority of deer herd in local park
LONGUEUIL, Que. - A city south of Montreal announced Tuesday that it has revived a controversial plan to kill most of the deer in a local park, about a year after it backed off from a similar initiati...
Nov 30, 2021
Turtleford honoured with provincial Communities in Bloom award
TURTLEFORD, Sask. - The Town of Turtleford is thrilled to have a new feather in its cap after receiving a Saskatchewan Communities in Bloom ‘Special Recognition’ award this year. The award...
Nov 30, 2021