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Fires in cargo ship off B.C. coast may take days to put out: coast guard
VICTORIA - It may be several days before fires can be put out inside containers on a cargo ship anchored off Victoria, Canada's coast guard says. Meanwhile, about 40 containers that fell off the ship ...
Oct 26, 2021
Jim Carr out of cabinet, no more special envoy to Prairies for Liberal government
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau cut his special representative for the Prairies from cabinet, signalling the Liberal government will take a different approach to its relationship with the West....
Oct 26, 2021
Environment, energy files get new ministers in cabinet shakeup ahead of COP26 summit
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is sending a signal that combating climate change and transforming Canada's economy will fall to more than just one department in his government, say environment...
Oct 26, 2021
Visitors to national parks can now take 'coasties' to track coastal erosion
Visitors to some Parks Canada locations can now be a part of the organization's research into coastal erosion by taking a so-called coastie. The agency recently launched a citizen science program call...
Oct 26, 2021
Federal Court rejects Manitoba's argument against carbon price backstop
WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government has lost a two-year-long court battle against the federal government's carbon pricing plan. A Federal Court judge has rejected Manitoba's argument that Ottawa should...
Oct 26, 2021
No visible flames seen from containers on ship off Victoria: coast guard
VICTORIA - Some of the containers that caught fire on a cargo ship off Victoria contained hazardous materials, but air quality monitoring along the city's waterfront had found no negative results, the...
Oct 25, 2021
Trudeau headed to Europe as G20 leaders meet in person for first time since pandemic
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is flying to Europe later this week touting Canada's climate plan and post-pandemic recovery progress at leaders' summits in Italy and Scotland. Trudeau's six-da...
Oct 25, 2021
$100B global climate finance goal three years behind schedule: report
OTTAWA - The world's wealthiest countries didn't meet a decade-old goal to provide the developing world with US$100 billion in climate aid by 2020 and won't actually get there for another two years, a...
Oct 25, 2021
British envoy seeks Canada's climate change help at UN talks in Glasgow
OTTAWA - Britain's new envoy to Ottawa says Canada still has credibility as a reliable partner on fighting climate change despite a domestic rise of greenhouse gas emissions in recent years. Susannah ...
Oct 24, 2021
Fire on cargo ship in B.C. under control but not known how many containers burned
VICTORIA - Officials don't yet know how many containers burned aboard a cargo ship in a still-smouldering blaze off the coast of Victoria, a spokesman for the Canadian Coast Guard said Sunday. The fla...
Oct 24, 2021