Tag Archives: Environment
Federal officials say wildfire forecast shows high risk of more fires in August
OTTAWA - The 2025 wildfire season is already one of the worst on record for Canada, federal officials said Friday, and there is a high risk that more fires will break out in August. More than 55,000 s...
Jul 18, 2025
Scouts Canada selling historic Quebec camp it has owned for more than 100 years
MONTREAL - Scouts Canada says it has accepted an offer to sell a historic camp site north of Montreal that first opened more than 110 years ago. The organization announced Thursday it has sold Tamarac...
Jul 18, 2025
Quebec City region received 75 millimetres of rain in less than two hours on Thursday
QUBEC - Up to 75 millimetres of rain fell over two hours in parts of the Quebec City area on Thursday when severe thunderstorms swept across southern Quebec. Environment Canada says the storms caused ...
Jul 18, 2025
How Vancouver's urban orcas create connections and community among followers
VANCOUVER - Chatchawan Jaksuwong says he used to feel empty when he looked at the ocean. But after encounters with whales in the urban waters of Vancouver the photographer now feels a deep sense of co...
Jul 18, 2025
Pair of rare, multicoloured lobsters new summer stars of Dartmouth ocean centre
DARTMOUTH - Burrowing under seaweed and crawling around a large open-top tank at an ocean centre in Dartmouth, N.S., are two beady-eyed alien-like creatures named Moonmist and Bingo. One of them is ha...
Jul 18, 2025
Ex-pilot called himself Messiah on climate-change mission, day before alleged hijack
VANCOUVER - The day before the suspected hijacking of a light aircraft triggered a security scare at Vancouver's airport this week, former commercial pilot Shaheer Cassim posted on social media that h...
Jul 17, 2025
Slow and steady progress in decade-long project to save B.C.'s only native turtle
Menita Prasad knows that turtles don't rate the same kind of attention from the public as a "cute, fluffy mammal." The director of animal care at Greater Vancouver Zoo says that's one reason why Briti...
Jul 17, 2025
Government, First Nations had been preparing to move problem bear, B.C. minister says
A suitable bear trap had arrived on British Columbia's Texada Island on Tuesday, meant to hold a grizzly that had caused a ruckus among the island's residents. It came too late, B.C.'s minister of wat...
Jul 16, 2025
Smog episodes accumulate and have long-term health effects: Quebec doctors group
MONTREAL - A group of Quebec doctors is warning that poor air quality can cause long-term adverse health effects. The Quebec chapter of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment also ...
Jul 16, 2025
Federal Court of Appeal reserves decision in B.C. ostrich farm's avian flu case
OTTAWA - The Federal Court of Appeal reserved its decision in a case involving two B.C. farmers who are fighting an order from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to destroy around 400 ostriches after...
Jul 15, 2025