Tag Archives: Environment

MONTRAL - Extreme cold forced Hydro-Qubec to temporarily suspend its energy exports to Massachusetts just one week after inaugurating its new line. Hydro-Qubec and the Massachusetts Executive Office o...

OTTAWA - The federal government scored a win at the Federal Court of Appeal on Friday, which upheld Ottawa's 2021 decision to list "plastic manufactured items" as toxic, allowing it to continue with i...

As Canadian Food Inspection Agency workers prepared for a cull of hundreds of ostriches at a British Columbia farm, they came under a variety of harassment from opponents of the operation, said a seni...

WINNIPEG - A coalition of environmental, labour and other groups said Thursday the Manitoba government must spend more money on climate protection in order to meet its emissions and land-protection ta...

New research shows less snowpack in certain regions of Canada can have wide-ranging effects on everything from farms and wildlife to the broader economy. The Concordia University study, published in t...

Melody Leinweber's latest tattoo is a stylized portrait of an ostrich with a colourful beak, pink and turquoise stars around its head and a twinkle in its eyes. The mother of four from West Kelowna, B...

ST. JOHN'S - Dozens of people in eastern Newfoundland are still displaced and living in temporary housing after a series of wildfires destroyed their homes more than five months ago. Marie Kennell is ...

MONTREAL - A Montreal engineering school says it has removed beef from its cafeterias to reduce its carbon footprint. Polytechnique Montral started removing beef options in September from its six food...

TORONTO - Marineland has a "solid plan" to move Canada's last remaining captive whales and dolphins to several parks in the United States, Fisheries Minister Joanne Thompson said Tuesday. On Monday, t...

Last June, landscapers working on a site in Kamloops, B.C., came upon a troubling discovery - two human skulls and jawbones. Police and the coroner were informed, but after an inspection that swiftly ...