Category Archives: Environment
RCMP surveillance, searches breached anti-fracking protesters’ rights, watchdog says
OTTAWA — The RCMP watchdog has uncovered shortcomings with the national force's crowd-control measures, physical searches and collection of social media information while policing anti-fracking protests in New Brunswick. In a long-awaited report issued...
Transit lobby group says electrifying Canada’s bus fleets needs $3 billion a year
OTTAWA — A green-transit lobby group says electrifying Canada's fleet of public transit buses will take a lot more money than Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised in his big infrastructure announcement last month. Trudeau's, three-year, $10 billion p...
Study finds climate-changing methane emissions from oilpatch twice as high as thought
Emissions of a potent greenhouse gas from Canada's oilpatch are nearly twice as high as previously thought, says newly published federal research. The findings on methane from Environment Canada researchers could complicate regulatory attempts to nearl...
Quebec town to cull half of the deer population at local park
LONGUEUIL, Que. — Officials in a city just south of Montreal say they will have to kill half the white-tailed deer living in a municipal green space as efforts to control their population haven't worked. The City of Longueuil says the
Yukon government says it doesn’t support U.S. permit for exploration in Arctic
WHITEHORSE — The Yukon government says it does not support a permit for an oil drilling exploration project in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, although experts fear the United States administration will push ahead with the plan. Yukon
Federal government still working on investments in Fiat Chrysler, General Motors
OTTAWA — Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry Navdeep Bains says that the federal government is in the process of finalizing funding commitments to General Motors and Fiat Chrysler, after announcing a $295 million investment in Ford earlier thi...
President-elect’s long to-do list to include repairing damaged Canada-U. S. ties
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Joe Biden's to-do list just got a whole lot longer — and it's a safe bet it now includes patching the holes in Canada's relationship with the United States. Biden has more pressing priorities to address
Ottawa welcomes president-elect Joe Biden as ally in climate fight
OTTAWA — Federal cabinet ministers are welcoming Joe Biden's election as the next U.S. president as an opportunity to advance the fight against climate change after four tumultuous years dealing with Donald Trump.Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson...
Trudeau congratulates Joe Biden on victory in U.S. presidential election
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau eagerly ushered in a new era of co-operation with U.S. President-elect Joe Biden on Saturday, as Alberta's Jason Kenney made a thinly veiled request to preserve the Keystone XL pipeline.Trudeau's statement of cong...
Five ways Joe Biden’s victory in the U.S. presidential election could affect Canada
OTTAWA — The election of Democrat Joe Biden as the next president of the United States is expected to have wide-ranging implications for Canadian politics and policy. Here are five areas to watch. EnvironmentThe day after the election, the United Stat...
