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Search for another Vancouver Island boa constrictor prompts warning about exotic pets
Inspector Drew Milne of the British Columbia Conservation Officer Service likened it to finding a needle in a haystack - the haystack being a 137-hectare park on Vancouver Island, and the needle being...
Jul 03, 2025 Inspector Drew Milne of the British Columbia Conservation Officer Service holds a 1.5-metre-long boa constrictor after finding it at Miracle Beach Provincial Park, B.C., in a Thursday, June 26, 2025, handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Handout - British Columbia Conservation Officer Service
Montreal colleges dispute findings of government investigation
MONTREAL - A recent Quebec government investigation into the climate at two Montreal junior colleges may have had a chilling effect on teachers, according to the director general of one of the schools...
Jul 03, 2025
Disastrous collapse of cyanide-soaked ore at Yukon mine happened in seconds: report
An independent review says last year's spill of millions of tonnes of cyanide-soaked ore at a Yukon gold mine unfolded in seconds but resulted from the "accumulation of a series of adverse conditions ...
Jul 02, 2025
Carney meets with automotive sector CEOs as U.S. trade talks continue
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney met with automotive sector CEOs Wednesday morning to discuss U.S. tariffs and ways to protect Canadian supply chains from the trade war with the United States. A sp...
Jul 02, 2025
Gov. Newsom signs housing bill overhauling California's landmark environmental law
LOS ANGELES (AP) - THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP's earlier story follows below. LOS ANGELES (AP) - Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law an overhaul of California's landmark environmental protection ...
Jul 01, 2025
Pet abandonments in Quebec used to spike around Canada Day; now they're year-round
MONTREAL - Canada Day has traditionally been synonymous in Montreal with moving day: piles of junk on street corners, sweaty bodies carrying couches up and down the city's winding staircases - and a s...
Jul 01, 2025
Orcas sharing prey with humans may be trying to learn 'who we are,' researcher says
Jared Towers was in his research vessel on two separate occasions watching killer whales off the coast of Vancouver Island when the orcas dropped their prey directly in front of him and his colleagues...
Jun 30, 2025
Nova Scotia ministers silent on environmental racism report, to meet with authors
HALIFAX - Nova Scotia government ministers say they will meet with a panel tasked with examining environmental racism in the province, although they remain tight-lipped on the panel's findings, which ...
Jun 26, 2025
Construction to protect Chignecto Isthmus from floods 'several years' away: minister
HALIFAX - Nova Scotia's minister of public works says it will be "several years" until construction begins to protect a low-lying strip of land that links the province to New Brunswick. Fred Tilley to...
Jun 26, 2025
Western Canada glaciers melting twice as fast as in previous decade, research says
Researchers say some glaciers in Western Canada and the United States lost 12 per cent of their mass from 2021 to 2024, doubling melt rates compared to the previous decade in a continuation of a conce...
Jun 25, 2025
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