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What happens when a rose doesn’t smell as sweet?

Monologues about the federal carbon tax abound on social media, but few are quite like Saskatchewan's Karl Hren's. Posted to TikTok on Monday, the clip shows the self-described "uneducated, white, blue-collar, oilpatch-working truck driver" clad in coveralls and nestled in the cab of his Kenworth truck ranting about the carbon tax.

A beer maker in Dartmouth has found a way to save money and help the environment by reducing the use of a gas critical to the brewing process.

Jason Brolund, the fire chief in West Kelowna, B.C., says he's seen thick smoke turn day to night in his years as a firefighter, but the opposite happened when a fast-moving blaze tore through his community one night last August.

"Assuming all renewable development locates on (some of Alberta's best) land, the percentage of (such) agricultural land loss is estimated to be less than one per cent by 2041," says a report released Wednesday.

The couple behind the Hakai Institute and Tula Foundation fulfilled a longtime vow to exhaust their fortune on Wednesday — gifting 55 acres of land to BC Parks and a final $ 92 million to the charity they founded decades ago that leverages science and technology to help people and the planet.

Lenore Newman, director of the Food and Agriculture Institute at the University of the Fraser Valley, said many in Western Canada have an "Old MacDonald image" of farming that is no longer realistic or sustainable.

Half of respondents said they are wary of the government's ability to protect free speech, and a majority said they support the controversial proposal to introduce stiffer sentences for hate speech crimes. 

Political support for the controversial agricultural framework has endured, despite the country's ongoing affordability crisis and critics who persistently warn that it's Canadian consumers who pay the price.

The head of the U.N. atomic agency told local Japanese representatives at a meeting in Fukushima on Wednesday that the ongoing discharge of treated radioactive wastewater at the ruined nuclear power plant has met safety standards and that any restrictions on products from the region are “not scientific.”

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will meet up face-to-face in Calgary today.

"The truth is, the Ford government has neglected the fire program so badly that there is little that can be done to protect Ontarians this upcoming wildfire season,” said Noah Freedman, vice-president of Ontario Public Service Employees Union.

Data collected by birdwatchers reveals that the iconic white-tailed tropicbird is arriving earlier and earlier.

Two new reports find B.C.’s old-growth forests are still on the chopping block despite claims to the contrary by the provincial government and a U.K.-based corporation.

The findings from Leger come approximately one month before the federal government unveils its next budget. And environmental advocacy groups are urging Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland to respond to public support by taxing the record profits of the fossil fuel sector.