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British Columbians will receive warning up to 10 seconds before an earthquake strikes, allowing them time to take vital safety measures, thanks to a new early warning system.

Of the 1,500 policies in 41 countries, researchers found only a small fraction actually had impact — and usually as part of a larger strategy that included multiple angles of attack.

The study published Wednesday in the journal Nature says only China, India and the United States release more carbon per year than Canada's 2023 wildfires did from May to September.

Marc-André Bourgeois-Gaudet was in his boat off the shores of Îles-de-la-Madeleine, Que., last Friday when he saw several funnel clouds descending from the sky like tornadoes.

Saskatchewan's two largest school divisions say they’ve addressed concerns from teachers and are enforcing the province’s pronoun law as children head back to classrooms next week.

The political landscape in British Columbia has shifted with John Rustad's Conservatives now carrying the centre-right banner heading into a fall election campaign.

The collaborative effort, run through the B.C. Parks Foundation, protects more than 250 acres of previously privately-owned land on the Salish Sea — home to a rare ecosystem of endangered coastal Douglas fir.

When the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) announced Imperial Oil had to pay a $50,000 administrative penalty, it said this was the maximum base amount allowed under the Environmental Protection and Enhancement Act. This is "absolutely not" accurate, according to experts.

A battle over Canada’s clean electricity future is heating up as the David Suzuki Foundation accuses a prominent electricity industry lobby group of misleading the public.

Sabotage. Property destruction. For Léna Lazare and her cohort, radicalized by years of inaction on the environmental crisis, these aren’t dirty words. They’re acts of joy.

One of 39 nations that pledged to end non-domestic support for fossil fuels at the COP26 climate change conference in 2021, Canada spent $6.75-billion less last year backing new sector projects, according to International Institute of Sustainable Development

Falcon says nominations of BC United candidates will be withdrawn to allow the Conservatives to draw from them for its election slate, less than two months before the provincial election on Oct. 19.

Energy Minister Stephen Lecce says energy companies must get municipal support in order to proceed and banned solar installations on prime agricultural land.

A judge convicted Jeremy Skibicki last month of first-degree murder in the 2022 slayings, which put another spotlight on the issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in Canada.

Cellphone use will be restricted in all British Columbia school districts when pupils return next week, as the province becomes the latest to curtail the use of the devices by students.