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“The Manitoba government is paying a company to bulldoze a provincial park and bulldoze boreal caribou habitat,” said Eric Reder, director of The Wilderness Committee’s Manitoba field office.

Once a weekend getaway for wealthy residents of Mexico City, Valle de Bravo has been reduced to a shrinking and increasingly polluted puddle.

"The stakes are high: billions of dollars at issue, with Trans Mountain's (costs) having more than quintupled since 2017 — and its costs are still growing by billions, seemingly unchecked," the oil companies stated in a motion filed with the Canada Energy Regulator earlier this week.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pushed back on Wednesday on growing demands from premiers to dump the planned April 1 hike to the consumer carbon levy, saying leaders must tackle both affordability and climate change.

Ian Sam Yue Chi, the president and CEO of the Corporation des concessionnaires d'automobiles, the province's auto dealers association, said that without the rebate, currently worth up to $7,000, some consumers won't be able to afford zero-emission electric vehicles. 

The commitment comes after a devastating cold snap in January that is feared to have wiped out almost the entire 2024 wine vintage in B.C., and slashed harvest forecasts for stone fruit by 90 per cent. 

An online obituary says Rudd died of ovarian cancer on Tuesday at a hospice in Cobourg, Ont.

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.

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

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.