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Should Canada mandate sales targets for electric vehicles? Report says 'yes'
OTTAWA - Whether Canada should introduce a national mandate requiring the auto industry to make or sell more zero-emission vehicles is a question facing the Liberal government as it's not on the road ...
May 06, 2021
Report finds climate change rarely part of Atlantic Canada's fisheries management
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Climate change is rarely factored into management decisions for fisheries in Atlantic Canada and the eastern Arctic, according to a report released Wednesday from a national marine ...
May 05, 2021
Tories vote against bill on net-zero emissions as it clears legislative hurdle
OTTAWA - Proposed legislation to support Canada reaching net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 has cleared its first legislative hurdle. Members of Parliament voted 210 to 122 in favour of sending...
May 04, 2021
Group of Canadian youth fighting climate change take case to Federal Court of Appeal
VANCOUVER - Fifteen young climate activists are taking their court battle to the next level as they try to compel the Canadian government to develop a climate recovery plan based on science. The group...
May 04, 2021
Green thumbs up from households having food and yard waste collected by City of Regina
Households that have had their food and yard waste collected by the City of Regina for the past six months through a pilot program are giving it a green thumbs up. The compost that has resulted from t...
Apr 30, 2021 (Britton Gray/980 CJME file photo)
B.C. First Nation joins calls for Ottawa to step in on review of Alberta coal project
A British Columbia First Nation has joined calls for the federal government to step in on the environmental review of a proposed open-pit coal mine in Alberta's Rocky Mountains. The Ktunaxa First Nati...
Apr 30, 2021
Liberal tree-planting pledge still sparse on details after two years: critic
OTTAWA - The Conservatives' environment critic says almost two years after promising to plant two billion trees within a decade, the Liberals have provided little in the way of detail on how that will...
Apr 30, 2021
Alberta, B.C. caribou lose twice as much habitat from fire and industry as they gain
Threatened caribou herds in Alberta and British Columbia have lost twice as much habitat as they've gained over the last twenty years and the pace of loss is picking up, new research says.It concludes...
Apr 29, 2021
Montreal suburb's plan to charge for picnic table reservations draws backlash
MONTREAL - A Montreal suburb's plan to charge its citizens to reserve picnic tables in city parks is stirring up debate over how best to manage the increased demand for green space amid the COVID-19 p...
Apr 29, 2021
B.C. Supreme Court rejects Wet'suwet'en bid to toss LNG pipeline certificate
VANCOUVER - The British Columbia Supreme Court has rejected a bid to quash the extension of the environmental assessment certificate for the natural gas pipeline at the centre of countrywide protests ...
Apr 28, 2021
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