Tag Archives: Environment
'No one of her stature': Conservationist Jane Goodall remembered in Canada
TORONTO - Jane Goodall's friend Dax Dasilva says one of the most remarkable things about the conservationist was an ability to draw animals towards her. Dasilva, a Vancouver-born entrepreneur and envi...
Oct 02, 2025
Conservation group preparing to perform necropsies on dead sperm whales in P.E.I.
A conservation group is planning necropsies on three sperm whales that died after being stranded off the northern coast of Prince Edward Island. Tonya Wimmer, executive director of the Marine Animal R...
Oct 02, 2025
Environmentalists, politicians, celebrities recall life and influence of primatologist Jane Goodall
Jane Goodall was a pioneer, a tireless advocate and a deeply compassionate conservationist who inspired others to care about primates - and all animals - during a long life well lived, according to tr...
Oct 01, 2025
Jane Goodall, the celebrated primatologist and conservationist, has died
Jane Goodall, the intellectual, soft-spoken conservationist renowned for her groundbreaking, immersive chimpanzee field research in which she documented the primates' distinct personalities and use of...
Oct 01, 2025
Marineland decries Ottawa decision to bar export of remaining beluga whales to China
TORONTO - Marineland says it is "profoundly" disappointed by the federal government's decision to deny its request to ship 30 belugas to China and the park has "no ability to pay" for their care - wit...
Oct 01, 2025
All three beached sperm whales in P.E.I. dead: conservation group
All three sperm whales stranded off the northern coast of Prince Edward Island have died, a marine rescue organization says. Tonya Wimmer, executive director of the Marine Animal Response Society, has...
Sep 30, 2025
Prolonged drought stunts the renowned wild blueberry crop in the Maritimes
HALIFAX - This summer's prolonged drought across Atlantic Canada has had a costly impact on wild blueberry growers in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. Donald Arseneault, general manager of the NB Bluebe...
Sep 30, 2025
A glimpse of Trudeau's congratulatory call that might have been to Kamala Harris
OTTAWA - Justin Trudeau had clear guidance on what to say early last November in the event he should pick up the phone to congratulate Kamala Harris on becoming the first woman president of the United...
Sep 30, 2025
Legal challenges claim B.C. natural gas pipeline hasn't been 'substantially started'
VANCOUVER - Two legal challenges filed in British Columbia claim a liquefied natural gas pipeline hasn't been "substantially started," contrary to a decision made by the provincial government back in ...
Sep 29, 2025
New Major Projects Office absorbing existing team already doing much of the same work
OTTAWA - The federal government's new Calgary-based major projects office to help fast track major infrastructure proposals will absorb a similar division created in Ottawa just over one year ago to d...
Sep 29, 2025