Tag Archives: Environment

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 c...

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 ...

PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. - A bull moose that mysteriously arrived inside the fenced perimeter at the airport in Prince George, B.C., ended up staying for weeks after finding itself alone in what an animal ...

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 federa...

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...

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...

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 Associati...

CALGARY - Projects that qualify to sell federal greenhouse gas emission credits to offset industrial carbon taxes will have to have been started in the past four years and go "beyond business-as-usual...

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...

IQALUIT, Nunavut - A Nunavut judge has granted a mining company an injunction against hunters who stopped its iron ore operation when they protested at the site last month. About a dozen Inuit hunters...