Tag Archives: Environment
2025 was the third warmest year on record. What does that mean in Canada?
This past year was the third warmest on record and stood on the cusp of surpassing a major climate threshold globally, according to new data from the European climate agency. The Copernicus data indic...
Jan 14, 2026
Prime Minister Mark Carney looks to reset Canada-China relationship in Beijing
BEIJING - Prime Minister Mark Carney landed in Beijing on Wednesday for the first visit by a Canadian prime minister to China in eight years - part of his government's efforts to rebuild Canada's frac...
Jan 14, 2026
Fact File: Canadian store's security photo manipulated to show mountain lion break-in
Social media posts this month claimed a mountain lion played with toys and got high on catnip after breaking into a Colorado pet store. In fact, the shop pictured in the post appears to be an Edmonton...
Jan 13, 2026
Coastal First Nations call on Carney to defend the B.C. tanker ban in pipeline talks
PRINCE RUPERT - Coastal First Nations president Marilyn Slett said she called on Prime Minister Mark Carney in a meeting Tuesday to maintain and protect the oil tanker moratorium in his government's p...
Jan 13, 2026
Coastal First Nations call on Carney to defend the B.C. tanker ban in pipeline talks
PRINCE RUPERT - Coastal First Nations president Marilyn Slett said she called on Prime Minister Mark Carney in a meeting Tuesday to maintain and protect the oil tanker moratorium in his government's p...
Jan 13, 2026
One new case of chronic wasting disease confirmed in deer in B.C.'s Kootenay
JAFFRAY - A new case of chronic wasting disease has been detected in deer in British Columbia's Kootenay region, bringing the total cases discovered in the province to nine. A statement from the Minis...
Jan 09, 2026
Quebec chemical firm hit with $1.4-million fine over substance discharged in river
GATINEAU - A company that operated a chemical manufacturing plant in western Quebec has been fined $1.35 million for discharging a harmful substance into the Rivire du Livre in 2019. Superior General ...
Jan 09, 2026
What Trump's aspiration to conquer Greenland means for Canada
OTTAWA - Canada's closest physical neighbours are in an escalating dispute that risks breaking the military alliance that has protected the nations of the North Atlantic for decades. U.S. President Do...
Jan 08, 2026
Fisheries Department grants authorization for port expansion in Contrecoeur, Que.
MONTRAL - Fisheries and Oceans Canada has granted authorization to the Montreal Port Authority to expand a container port terminal northeast of the city in the habitat of an endangered fish species. T...
Jan 08, 2026
Cleanup underway after oily spill in waters near Nanaimo, B.C.
NANAIMO - Jackie Wasyluk says she walks along the shores of Cable Bay near Nanaimo, B.C., almost every day, and was shocked when she visited Tuesday after hearing of a spill. "I went to the shore, and...
Jan 08, 2026
