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A brief look at carbon taxing by province
OTTAWA - As of Jan. 1, every Canadian and all Canadian businesses are paying a price on carbon. The federal Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act means provinces that do not have their own price o...
Jan 20, 2020
Supporters of northern B.C. pipeline protest end blockade at ferry terminal
VICTORIA - BC Ferries says demonstrators opposed to a liquefied natural gas pipeline across northern British Columbia ended a protest today that tied up traffic at a terminal ...
Jan 20, 2020
McGill principal defends decision not to divest after prof's resignation
MONTREAL - The principal of McGill university is defending the institution's commitment to reducing carbon emissions after a professor resigned over its refusal to divest from the fossil fue...
Jan 20, 2020
Growing natural-disaster response risks dulling Army's fighting edge: Commander
OTTAWA - Canada's top soldier is warning that as the Army gets called out to a growing number of floods, wildfires and other natural disasters, there is a risk that work will hurt the force's ability ...
Jan 20, 2020
Trudeau cabinet tries to focus on domestic agenda amid unforeseen emergencies
WINNIPEG - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his cabinet ministers are trying to concentrate on the Liberal government's domestic agenda and how to see it to fruition in a minority Parl...
Jan 19, 2020
Edmonton fire chief says people must adapt to more wildfires in their lives
EDMONTON - In a few weeks, Ken Block will hang up his uniform as head of Edmonton Fire Rescue and head Down Under to assume command of 5,000 firefighters in Australia. "I'm really looking forward...
Jan 19, 2020
Studies question assumptions on industrial damage to Wood Buffalo park
New research suggests Canada's largest national park is not drying out from upstream hydro dams or being contaminated by the oilsands. Recently published papers from scientists at the University ...
Jan 19, 2020
B.C. forest industry grasps for hope amid seven-month strike, shutdowns, changes
VICTORIA - The crisis facing British Columbia's forest industry is intensifying as markets decline, mills shut and a strike involving 3,000 forestry workers enters its seventh month. Th...
Jan 19, 2020
New fisheries minister visits B.C. slide site, says it's her 'top priority'
LILLOOET, B.C. - Federal Fisheries Minister Bernadette Jordan visited the site of a massive landslide in British Columbia's Fraser River on Friday in her first official trip since being appointed to t...
Jan 18, 2020
Disrespectful that Horgan won't meet during northern B.C. tour: hereditary chief
HOUSTON, B.C. - One of five hereditary chiefs of the Wet'suwet'en Nation who oppose a natural gas pipeline in northern British Columbia says it's disrespectful that Premier John Horgan isn't plan...
Jan 18, 2020
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