Category Archives: Environment
Citizens of city south of Montreal protest plan to cull half the deer in city park
LONGUEUIL, Que. — Protesters gathered in a city south of Montreal on Saturday to urge their elected officials to reconsider a plan to cull half the deer in a local park in a bid to control overpopulation. About 100 people, some
Report suggests Alberta students want more education on climate change
An Alberta non-profit organization says there's a gap between the education students receive in schools and the information they want about energy and the environment. The Alberta Council for Environmental Education has published a report providing tea...
Ottawa plans to move from open-net fish pens to ‘sustainable technology’ in B.C.
VANCOUVER — The federal government says it has a game plan to transition away from open-net fish farming on British Columbia's coast. Terry Beech, a Burnaby MP and parliamentary secretary for the minister of fisheries, said the government is comm...
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
