Category Archives: Environment
Alberta auditor flags $1.6B in government accounting blunders, oversight problems
EDMONTON — Alberta’s auditor general has flagged $1.6 billion worth of accounting blunders along with oversight issues by Premier Jason Kenney’s government on big-ticket files including the Keystone XL pipeline and the so-called energy war room. Audito...
Ottawa finalizes methane reduction deals with Alberta, Saskatchewan and B.C.
OTTAWA — The federal government has finalized deals with three provinces to reduce emissions of a potent greenhouse gas, saying methane proposals from Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia will achieve the same cuts as rules suggested by Ottawa. B...
Canada names first research chair in aquatic restoration, to study salmon population
HALIFAX — The federal government is announcing the country's first research chair in aquatic restoration, which will focus on growing the Atlantic salmon population. Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson said today the research chair will be located ...
Canada ‘watching very carefully,’ Trudeau says of U.S. election cliffhanger
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Wednesday said he is keeping a close eye on the political drama unfolding in the United States, where the presidential election remains too close to call. "I want to reassure Canadians that the Canadian
Parks pop wars: Alberta politicians use duelling tunes to make parks arguments
EDMONTON — Alberta politicians are reaching deep into pop music's memory bank in the hope their messages about the province's parks stick in people's ears. On Monday, the United Conservative government released a social media campaign called "My Parks ...
Recipe for relaunching aerospace sector missing public support, sector report says
MONTREAL — The aerospace industry is calling for government funding to help it weather the turbulence caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, even as some in the sector say it must also work to change public perceptions and rally taxpayers to
No budget yet for Liberals’ promise to plant two billion trees by 2030
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's massive tree-planting promise from the 2019 election has yet to be allocated a single dime. Trudeau pledged a year ago that the government would plant two billion more trees by 2030, or about 200 million
Parks Canada plans first captive breeding program for Jasper National Park caribou
EDMONTON — Caribou herds in Canada's Rocky Mountains are now so precarious that Parks Canada is preparing a plan to round up females from nearly vanished herds and pen them in a captive breeding program to replenish others. The highly invasive
Cross-country skiers to pay for parking to use groomed trails in Kananaskis, Alta.
KANANASKIS, Alta. — The Alberta government says skiers will need to pay for parking to have groomed cross-country trails in the popular Kananaskis Country. Minister of Environment and Parks Jason Nixon says the province has entered into a one-year part...
Cross-country skiers to pay for parking to use groomed trails in Kananaskis, Alta.
KANANASKIS, Alta. — The Alberta government says skiers will need to pay for parking to have groomed cross-country trails in the popular Kananaskis Country. Minister of Environment and Parks Jason Nixon says the province has entered into a one-year part...
