Tag Archives: Environment

Boreal Heartland looking forward to busy 2021 growing season
Online sustainable harvester training begins next week as the growing season starts in northern Saskatchewan.The training is being offered through a partnership between Northlands College and Boreal H...
May 04, 2021

Group of Canadian youth fighting climate change take case to Federal Court of Appeal
VANCOUVER - Fifteen young climate activists are taking their court battle to the next level as they try to compel the Canadian government to develop a climate recovery plan based on science. The group...
May 04, 2021

'We were just overjoyed,' Peat moss group happy with growing opposition to proposed project
A member of a local group opposed to peat harvesting in northern Saskatchewan was happy to hear Cumberland NDP MLA Doyle Vermette speak against the proposed project last week. Vermette stood in the Le...
May 03, 2021

Melfort Communities in Bloom planning several special projects this season
The Melfort Communities in Bloom (CiB) committee is getting ready for another busy season.Peggy George with CiB gave some insight into the projects the group has underway for this year as they continu...
Apr 30, 2021

B.C. First Nation joins calls for Ottawa to step in on review of Alberta coal project
A British Columbia First Nation has joined calls for the federal government to step in on the environmental review of a proposed open-pit coal mine in Alberta's Rocky Mountains. The Ktunaxa First Nati...
Apr 30, 2021

Liberal tree-planting pledge still sparse on details after two years: critic
OTTAWA - The Conservatives' environment critic says almost two years after promising to plant two billion trees within a decade, the Liberals have provided little in the way of detail on how that will...
Apr 30, 2021

Alberta, B.C. caribou lose twice as much habitat from fire and industry as they gain
Threatened caribou herds in Alberta and British Columbia have lost twice as much habitat as they've gained over the last twenty years and the pace of loss is picking up, new research says.It concludes...
Apr 29, 2021

Montreal suburb's plan to charge for picnic table reservations draws backlash
MONTREAL - A Montreal suburb's plan to charge its citizens to reserve picnic tables in city parks is stirring up debate over how best to manage the increased demand for green space amid the COVID-19 p...
Apr 29, 2021

SK 4 Dorintosh named worst road in Saskatchewan
The 2021 CAA's Worst Roads Saskatchewan campaign results were announced today, with Saskatchewan HWY 4 through Dorintosh at the number one spot.The campaign is designed to highlight roads in need of r...
Apr 28, 2021

B.C. Supreme Court rejects Wet'suwet'en bid to toss LNG pipeline certificate
VANCOUVER - The British Columbia Supreme Court has rejected a bid to quash the extension of the environmental assessment certificate for the natural gas pipeline at the centre of countrywide protests ...
Apr 28, 2021