Tag Archives: Environment
Ottawa announces $3.16 billion to plant two billion trees over the next decade
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - The Canadian government says it will spend $3.16 billion to plant two billion trees over the next ten years. Natural Resources Minister Seamus O'Regan made the funding announcement ...
Dec 14, 2020
Wildfires take over from industry as major source of cancer-causing air toxins: study
Wildfires have taken over from industry as a major source of a group of cancer-causing chemical toxins in the air, Environment Canada says. The first national assessment of polycyclic aromatic compoun...
Dec 14, 2020
Researchers aim to use artificial intelligence to save endangered whales in B.C.
VANCOUVER - Researchers are aiming to "teach" a computer to recognize the sounds of resident killer whales in order to develop a warning system for preventing ships from fatally striking endangered or...
Dec 13, 2020
Ship that sank 52 years ago off B.C.'s coast now polluting marine park
VANCOUVER - A cargo ship that sank off the west coast of Vancouver Island more than 50 years ago is now polluting the waters of a popular marine park. The Canadian Coast Guard says a fuel-like sheen w...
Dec 11, 2020
'It can no longer be free to pollute:' Updated climate plan includes carbon tax hikes
OTTAWA - The federal government has released a $15-billion plan to meet its climate change commitments that includes steady increases to its carbon tax in each of the next 10 years."It can no longer b...
Dec 11, 2020
Senate Democrats speak out in defence of Canada's plan to ban single-use plastics
WASHINGTON, D.C. - A prominent group of Senate Democrats is speaking out in defence of Canada's plan to ban single-use plastics. Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal and Verm...
Dec 11, 2020
Tipping point? Experts say the Paris agreement changed the climate on climate
Five years after it was passed, the Paris agreement may finally be changing the climate on climate change. "I've always known we're not going to act as soon as we could have," said Mark Jaccard, a wid...
Dec 11, 2020
Crackdown on land protests in 2020 infringes on liberties, future activism: experts
TORONTO - Months after a group of Haudenosaunee people set up camp on a construction site near Caledonia, Ont., an provincial court granted Haldimand County an order permanently forbidding people from...
Dec 10, 2020
Permanent fishway to be built at Fraser River landslide: Fisheries and Oceans
VANCOUVER - Fisheries and Oceans Canada has awarded a contract that would see a permanent fishway built to help fish migrate past a massive landslide on a remote stretch of British Columbia's Fraser R...
Dec 09, 2020
Wildfire mitigation work starting soon in La Ronge
A tender for forest vegetation thinning and brush pile burning services in La Ronge has closed and Mayor Colin Ratushniak expects the wildfire mitigation work to begin as soon as possible. "I think it...
Dec 09, 2020