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Conservation officer shoots antlers to break apart two deer locked together
A whitetail deer is alive thanks to the marksmanship of a Saskatchewan conservation officer after its antlers became locked together with another deer’s. The Saskatchewan Association of Conserva...
Jan 07, 2020
Trapped cougar in northern Sask. draws mixed reaction
By Nicole Reis A photo circulating on social media has sparked mixed opinions about a cougar trapped in northern Saskatchewan last month. A licensed trapper caught the animal in a power snare sometime...
Jan 07, 2020 This Facebook post shows a person posing with the cougar. The Conservation office said numerous people had been photographed with the animal and they could not confirm if the person in this image was the trapper.
UN racism committee calls for halt to Site C, Trans Mountain and LNG pipeline
VANCOUVER - A United Nations committee working to end racism is urging Canada to immediately stop the construction of three major resource projects until it obtains approval from affect...
Jan 06, 2020
B.C. LNG pipeline project to resume work despite opposition, says company
VICTORIA - The company building a natural gas pipeline as part of a $40 billion liquefied natural gas project in northern British Columbia says it plans to resume construction desp...
Jan 06, 2020
Federal natural-disaster bills now average more than $430 million a year
Ottawa's bills for dealing with natural disasters neared half a billion dollars in two of the last three years amid a warning to Canadians that this country was one of the worst affected by climate ch...
Jan 06, 2020
New industry develops around sucking carbon dioxide out of atmosphere
Somewhere in west Texas, amid one of the most productive oilfields in the continent, a Canadian company is building a plant that it hopes will eventually suck from the air a million tonnes of carbon b...
Dec 29, 2019
Sask. environment minister 'jovial' after meeting with federal minister
Seeming in fairly high spirits Thursday afternoon, Saskatchewan's environment minister spoke to the media after his meeting with his federal counterpart. Dustin Duncan said he's now looking forward to...
Dec 19, 2019 Dustin Duncan, minister responsible for SaskPower, speaks with the media on Dec. 2, 2019. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Feds approve Alberta’s carbon tax on big industrial emitters
OTTAWA - The federal government is giving the Alberta government a passing grade for its industrial carbon tax, avoiding at least one showdown with the province over climate change. In late October, A...
Dec 06, 2019
Environment champions want voters to make climate their main priority this fall
OTTAWA - Two leading Canadian activists say voters need to think about climate change as if we are country at war against greenhouse-gas emissions. "There's never been a moment quite like this in huma...
Sep 03, 2019 THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
Environment groups warned saying climate change is real could be seen as partisan
OTTAWA - A pre-election chill has descended over some environment charities after Elections Canada warned them that discussing the dangers of climate change during the upcoming federal campaign could ...
Aug 19, 2019
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