Tag Archives: Environment
COP26 to accelerate climate action already underway in Canada, experts say
The delegates are trickling home and Glasgow's streets are clearing of protesters. Now, experts say, the real work begins of putting meat and bone to the pledges and commitments made by world leaders ...
Nov 13, 2021
Quebec builds fences around caribou as experts decry lack of habitat protection
MONTREAL - The Quebec government's decision to fence in another endangered caribou herd and to kill any wolves that approach the animals is worrying environmentalists, who say the province is again de...
Nov 13, 2021
Canada, U.S. call to end fossil fuel subsidies as COP26 draft called 'weasel words'
OTTAWA - Canada's environment minister fended off accusations Friday that UN climate negotiators are resorting to "weasel words" on addressing fossil fuel subsidies. As United Nations negotiators wres...
Nov 12, 2021
Canada's new foreign affairs minister meets in D.C. with U.S. counterpart Blinken
WASHINGTON - Canada won't shy away from defending its national interests when North America's three leaders sit down together next week, Mlanie Joly said Friday as she wrapped up her first stateside v...
Nov 12, 2021
Military faces cold weather issues as it pumps clean drinking water in Iqaluit
IQALUIT, Nunavut - A flowing river that turns to solid ice in October, freezing pipes and frosty arctic temperatures are all routine for Nunavummiut. But those issues were a first for a water treatmen...
Nov 11, 2021
Weather wreaking havoc on roads in northeast Saskatchewan
The latest Saskatchewan Highway Hotline report suggests travel is not recommended on a few highways within the northeast region of the province.On Thursday morning, reduced visibility and icy or slipp...
Nov 11, 2021
Zero-emission cars, shipping routes latest Canadian promises at COP26 climate talks
OTTAWA - Canada was among 19 countries promising to eliminate greenhouse-gas emissions from some international shipping routes at the COP26 climate talks in Scotland Wednesday. Transport Minister Omar...
Nov 10, 2021
Trudeau to join Biden, López Obrador in D.C. at first North America summit since 2016
WASHINGTON - Canada, the United States and Mexico are getting the band back together. U.S. President Joe Biden will host Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Andrs Manuel Lpez Obrador a...
Nov 10, 2021
Wide-ranging analysis finds negative overall impacts from coal mining in Rockies
CALGARY - Coal mining on environmentally sensitive slopes of Alberta's Rocky Mountains wouldn't be an overall benefit to the province, a wide-ranging analysis from the University of Calgary has conclu...
Nov 10, 2021
B.C. study shows sustainable management of salmon fishery before colonization
VANCOUVER - A new study confirms what Michelle George's family has told her about their Tsleil-Waututh ancestors' fishing practices of targeting male salmon both for their meat and to sustain the fish...
Nov 10, 2021