Tag Archives: Environment
'We need to get them out': Beluga trainer fired by Marineland speaks out
TORONTO - Marineland's crumbling infrastructure, staffing shortage and lack of resources have created dangerous conditions for its belugas and they should be moved immediately, a fired beluga trainer ...
Oct 14, 2025
Tropical Storm Lorenzo forms in the Atlantic Ocean and isn't threatening land
MIAMI (AP) - Tropical Storm Lorenzo formed Monday in the central tropical Atlantic Ocean and isn't threatening land, forecasters said. The storm was located about 1,095 miles (1,762 kilometers) west o...
Oct 13, 2025
Southern resident killer whales show signs of slow decline toward disappearance
The latest survey of endangered southern resident killer whales confirms their plateau and gradual slide toward disappearance in the absence of stronger measures to protect them, a director with the C...
Oct 13, 2025
There are lessons to be learned from Canada’s wildfire season and evacuations
WINNIPEG - Governments and non-profit groups are taking time to review this year's wildfire season and the unprecedented challenges posed by evacuating tens of thousands of people across wide swaths o...
Oct 12, 2025
University of B.C. launches mushroom-powered toilet, turning waste into fertilizer
VANCOUVER - A "beautiful experience" isn't a term often used for a trip to an outhouse, but researchers at the University of British Columbia say the description fits for their mushroom-powered waterl...
Oct 12, 2025
Shifting global picture disrupted Canada's national security strategy update: memo
OTTAWA - The Liberal government's efforts to revise Canada's national security strategy hit a snag when it became clear earlier this year that many of the assumptions underlying the work were "no long...
Oct 12, 2025
Canada's first non-beating heart transplant could lead to shorter wait lists: UHN
TORONTO - A Toronto hospital says it transplanted a heart that stopped beating last month in a Canadian first that has the potential to substantially shorten the long wait for a donor. University Heal...
Oct 11, 2025
Here are the B.C. ministries, provincial agencies and roles affected by job action
About 26,000 members of two unions representing British Columbia professionals and public service workers are participating in escalating job action as they push for pay increases in new contracts wit...
Oct 10, 2025
'It depends': Carney shifts stance on maintaining emissions cap
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney said Friday the fate of the emissions cap on oil and gas producers depends on other efforts to lower emissions, suggesting his government might be open to scrapping...
Oct 10, 2025
CEO of new Major Projects Office skirts MPs' questions about tanker ban
OTTAWA - The head of Canada's new Major Projects Office and her staff sidestepped MPs' questions Thursday about whether she has special powers to skirt the West Coast tanker ban. Dawn Farrell was hire...
Oct 09, 2025