Tag Archives: Environment
Country singer Corb Lund gets OK to launch anti-coal petition drive in Alberta
CALGARY - Singer Corb Lund has been given the go-ahead to soon start collecting signatures for a petition to ask the Alberta government to pass a law banning new coal mining on the eastern slopes of t...
Dec 08, 2025
Quebec announces plan to cut environmental assessment times in half
MONTREAL - Quebec's will reduce the amount of time it takes to complete an environmental assessment by about half in order to speed up major projects such as mines and energy sector development, Envir...
Dec 08, 2025
Document reveals approval to harvest remnant old-growth in B.C.'s northwest
British Columbia's logging agency has changed a policy that conserved remnant old-growth forest in the province's northwest, with a government briefing note showing a plan to open those areas for harv...
Dec 07, 2025
Document reveals approval to harvest remnant old-growth in B.C.'s northwest
British Columbia's logging agency has changed a policy that conserved remnant old-growth forest in the province's northwest, with a government briefing note showing a plan to open those areas for harv...
Dec 07, 2025
Search for grizzly behind 'extraordinary attack' on B.C. school group is called off
Conservation officers in British Columbia are no longer actively trying to capture the grizzly bear responsible for last month's "extraordinary attack" on a group of schoolchildren and teachers that l...
Dec 05, 2025
Search for grizzly behind 'extraordinary attack' on B.C. school group is called off
Conservation officers in British Columbia are no longer actively trying to capture the grizzly bear responsible for last month's "extraordinary attack" on a group of schoolchildren and teachers that l...
Dec 05, 2025
Net-zero advisory body members say Ottawa risks more resignations
OTTAWA - The four remaining members of Canada's independent net-zero advisory body are calling on Ottawa to change how the group functions, and two of them say it risks more resignations if things don...
Dec 05, 2025
B.C. judge finds murderer in contempt over 'inmate code' refusal to answer questions
VANCOUVER - A British Columbia judge says a man convicted in the notorious Surrey Six murder case is guilty of contempt of court for refusing to answer questions out of fear of violating the "inmate c...
Dec 04, 2025
B.C. judge finds murderer in contempt over 'inmate code' refusal to answer questions
VANCOUVER - A British Columbia judge says a man convicted in the notorious Surrey Six murder case is guilty of contempt of court for refusing to answer questions out of fear of violating the "inmate c...
Dec 04, 2025
Feds facing climate criticisms action amid resignations on net-zero advisory body
OTTAWA - Two founding members of Canada's net-zero advisory body have resigned, accusing the Carney government of not seeking the group's advice on key policy decisions, including the Alberta energy d...
Dec 04, 2025