Tag Archives: Environment

OTTAWA - Some of Canada's leading environmental groups are pushing the federal government to change aspects of proposed legislation to speed up development of major projects before it's tabled this fa...

MONTREAL - Jrme Dupras spent much of his twenties on the road, playing bass guitar across Quebec and beyond. In 1997, he joined a band with friends. That summer, the folk rock group anonymously releas...

TORONTO - Two more whales have died at a Chicago aquarium, including one that recently moved there as part of the massive undertaking to relocate 30 belugas and four dolphins from Marineland. The whal...

FREDERICTON - The New Brunswick government says Carleton AgriSolutions Inc. will take over the province's large animal veterinary services beginning next spring. A news release says the company based ...

MONTREAL - Teams of workers will be spreading sweet-smelling baits containing a rabies vaccine through Montreal's parks in the coming weeks, as the province battles the biggest outbreak of raccoon rab...

Geologist John Joseph Clague said when he first heard that a floating island, bigger than a football field, had been spotted on a lake in British Columbia's northern Interior, he dismissed it as an "A...

NIAGARA FALLS - Tofino, a massive beluga weighing more than 1,500 kilograms, has made history as the last captive whale in Canada to be plucked out of Marineland's waters. The shuttered tourist attrac...

EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is pushing her message for an end to the fierce U.S.-Canada trade war directly to Americans. Smith, appearing on the Fox Business Network on Monday, was asked...

OTTAWA - The federal government is asking a Federal Court judge to toss out a lawsuit accusing Ottawa of having no intention of meeting its 2030 greenhouse gas emissions target. In recent court filing...

OTTAWA - Premiers are sharply divided over whether to use Canada's natural resources as leverage in the trade war with the U.S., and potash has emerged as a key point of contention. Canada is a major ...