Mountain lions face the flames in Los Angeles
The city’s elusive cougars will do a lot to avoid people, including getting risky with wildfire.
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Depave Paradise project challenges idea of urbanization
A Canada-wide initiative is showing people it's not too late to return the concrete jungle back to nature.
A deeper dive into the marine protected network plan on Canada’s West Coast
The lack of detailed protection measures for a network of marine protected areas in B.C. means the ambitious project to conserve vital ocean ecosystems risks becoming a string of “paper parks,” environmental groups say.
No gusher of cash for carbon capture in feds’ fall fiscal update
Oil and gas companies that pushed the federal government for more funding for carbon capture technology will be sorely disappointed by the fall economic statement.
‘Bring it on’: Ontario education workers set to strike Friday in defiance of back-to-work law
To howls from opposition critics and growing outcry from those sympathetic to the education workers’ plight, the Ford government got its anti-strike law on the books ahead of a (now illegal) picket by tens of thousands of CUPE staff that will close many of the province’s schools starting Friday.
Federal government moves to cut China out of Canadian critical mineral industry
After a national security review, Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne is ordering three Chinese resource companies to sell their interests in Canadian critical mineral firms.
Cenovus CEO takes aim at oil and gas critics; says sector pays billions in taxes
With oil and gas companies under increased scrutiny for how they choose to use their record-breaking profits in 2022, the chief executive of Cenovus Energy took aim at critics by highlighting the billions of dollars the industry is expected to contribute in taxes and royalties this year.
Fertilizer greenhouse gas cuts may take longer than Ottawa wants, farm groups say
The goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions from fertilizer use by 30 per cent kicked up more dust than a tractor on a grid road when it was first announced by the federal Liberal government last summer.
Pristine Alberta lake contaminated by dust from mountaintop coal mines
New Alberta government research has found windblown dust from mountaintop removal coal mines has polluted a pristine alpine lake to the point where its waters are as contaminated as lakes downwind from the oilsands.
Hunters willing to get the lead out to protect eagles
Evidence of the toxic effects of lead ammunition on wildlife spurs a search for common ground between conservationists and hunters.
Feds and Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami establish an Inuit health research network, but ‘unacceptable reality’ of long travels remain
The funding that supports Inuit-led research could inform future health-care infrastructure priorities.
Teens turn to cannabis to ease their mental pain. But is there a better way?
New statistics on medical cannabis use raise questions about what qualifies as pain management and highlight the need for more open conversations between young people and health professionals, researchers and mental health experts say.
Trudeau staying on sidelines of COP27
Despite other world leaders going, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is sitting out of the UN climate conference in Egypt.
Will Freeland’s fall fiscal update spell relief for sticker-shocked Canadians?
Canada’s finance minister will present a fiscal look-ahead Thursday as Canadians grapple with high inflation and an impending recession.
Speaker rules Quebec politicians must swear oath to King Charles to sit in legislature
The 14 Quebec politicians who refused to swear an oath to the King after the Oct. 3 election must do so or risk expulsion from the legislature, the outgoing Speaker said on Tuesday, November 1, 2022.