Tag Archives: Environment

OTTAWA - Last May, when Jenny Saulnier was home alone with her dog in Nova Scotia while her son and husband were at hockey, she scrolled through social media and saw there was a house fire some nine k...

An oil salvage operation is underway on the fragile wreckage of a U.S. army transport ship that sank almost 80 years ago off coastal British Columbia in a race to head off an eruption of thousands of ...

HALIFAX - The estimated population of North Atlantic right whales increased in 2023, but marine scientists say human behaviour still poses a significant threat to the critically endangered species. Th...

TORONTO - A new report says many Canadian business leaders are worried about economic uncertainties related to the looming U.S. election. The survey by KPMG in Canada of 735 small- and medium-sized bu...

MONTREAL - A new public health report says economic inequality has wide-ranging effects on Montreal children's health and development, affecting everything from high school graduation rates to screen ...

A new international study co-authored by a Canadian researcher says climate change is contributing to thousands more wildfire smoke-related deaths than in previous decades. The modelling study estimat...

The Yukon government says groundwater samples at the site where a mine's ore containment facility failed in June "continue to reveal high levels of cyanide." In a written update, the Yukon government ...

VANCOUVER - British Columbians go to the polls on Saturday after a too-close-to-call campaign that saw David Eby's New Democrats and John Rustad's B.C. Conservatives tangle over housing, health care a...

EDMONTON - Alberta's government has launched a national ad campaign targeting the federal government's incoming emissions cap for the oil and gas sector. Premier Danielle Smith said Tuesday it's a de ...

HALIFAX - The Nova Scotia government says that in the coming days it will start building a 500-metre-long berm to protect a low-lying land link between the province and New Brunswick. The Chignecto Is...