Category Archives: Environment
Ottawa won’t set new deadline for providing clean water in First Nations communities
OTTAWA — Indigenous Services Canada won't set a deadline for lifting all remaining long-term drinking-water advisories in First Nations communities, but it will create a website to provide estimated completion dates for each one that remains. Indigenou...
B.C. conservation officers find invasive mussel in aquarium moss in retail stores
VICTORIA — For years, British Columbia conservation officers have been checking boats coming into the province for invasive zebra mussels, but now it turns out they're coming through local pet stores. The B.C. government says conservation officers ins...
Northwest Territories sees spike in illegal caribou hunting along ice roads
YELLOWKNIFE — Officials in the Northwest Territories say hunters are illegally killing caribou in vulnerable herds along the territory's ice roads. Earl Evans, chairman of the Beverly and Qamanirjuaq Caribou Management Board, says it's the worst he ha...
First Nations say Alberta review of coal project inadequate, seek federal involvement
EDMONTON — Two of southern Alberta's largest First Nations have asked the federal government to step into an environmental review of a coal mine proposed for the Rocky Mountains. In a letter to federal Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson, the Siksi...
Alberta’s Toews says final bill on defunct Keystone XL not ‘materially’ above $1.3B
EDMONTON — Alberta’s finance minister says taxpayers won’t be on the hook for much more beyond $1.3 billion already committed to the defunct Keystone XL oil pipeline. “Our total exposure is just under $1.3 billion. It’s not expected to increase materia...
‘Truth to power:’ Lab was not enough for renowned scientist David Schindler
EDMONTON — His research in the lab and the field was published in some of the world's top journals, but that was never enough for David Schindler, who died Thursday at age 80. "The importance of David Schindler was his ability
Inuit group’s board says no to proposed expansion of Nunavut iron ore mine
IQALUIT, Nunavut — An organization that represents Inuit in Nunavut's Baffin Island region says it will not back a proposed expansion of an iron ore mine near Pond Inlet. The Qikiqtani Inuit Association's board of directors voted late Friday not to
Ontario NDP launch environmental platform, pledge to bring back cap-and-trade system
TORONTO — Ontario's New Democrats say they would create a new cap-and-trade carbon pricing system if elected in 2022. The official Opposition made the promise in an environmental policy plank of their election platform, released today at a morning news...
Vancouver residents told to avoid feeding Canada geese, report nests as flocks grow
Vancouver's parks board is taking action to control the increasing numbers of messy and aggressive Canada geese. A statement from the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation says it is developing a management plan to reduce the number of geese in
Winter supply of Chinook salmon critical to survival of orcas, says study
VANCOUVER — Endangered southern resident killer whales would have a much better chance of survival if chinook were in their hunting grounds during winter off the coast of British Columbia, a new study says. The whales expand their menu and the
