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A new organization aims to spur Canadian development of sustainable aviation fuel, a technology advocates say is the airline industry’s best shot at reducing its greenhouse gas emissions.

Once nonexistent in northwest Alaska, beavers are both benefiting from and changing a warming tundra.

Alex Cedrone helps keep the Toronto Transit Corporation’s growing fleet of hybrid and fully electric buses on the road. A graduate of a technical college’s truck and bus program, Cedrone is a case study of the shift in schooling and the workforce towards sustainability.

In late January, a temporary halt was placed on logging in an area of Crown land in the Annapolis Valley after three types of lichen classified as “species at risk” were spotted and reported to the Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources and Renewables.

Putin on Monday signed a decree recognizing the regions of Donetsk and Luhansk in Ukraine’s eastern industrial land as independent republics. He then ordered Russian troops to cross the border into those areas, saying they were being deployed as “peacekeepers.”

Initially, 32 environmental infractions were laid against the company, but that number was reduced during the plea process.

Tamara Lich was denied bail and at another bail hearing for Patrick King a woman who acknowledged she had only met him four weeks ago offered to be a surety, pledging half the value of her Alberta home to guarantee his bail.

Quebec will distribute more than $3 million over three years to 11 police forces across the province to help them support victims of domestic violence and enhance surveillance of offenders, Public Security Minister Geneviève Guilbault said on Monday, February 21, 2022.

Perks in the vaxxed only room include private washrooms, servers who are also fully vaccinated, and a ventilation system separate from the restaurant’s main room, which can seat another 200 people both vaccinated and non−vaccinated.

B.C. Finance Minister Selina Robinson says making sure communities have the resources they need to deal with the effects of climate change will be a focal point of her budget on Tuesday, February 22, 2022.

"Even though the blockades are lifted across border openings right now, even though things seem to be resolving very well in Ottawa, this state of emergency is not over," Trudeau said at late morning news conference.

An Ottawa judge is expected to decide today, February 22, 2022, whether to grant bail to Tamara Lich, one of the leading organizers behind protest against COVID−19 restrictions and the Liberal government on Parliament Hill.

The House of Commons has passed a motion to approve extraordinary, time−limited measures in the Emergencies Act, which Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked last week in a bid to end blockades in Ottawa and at several border crossings.

The White Rock Lake wildfire hammered B.C.'s Paxton Valley last summer, levelling houses, destroying ranchland and killing cattle. But even after the worst of the fire had moved on, residents knew one nasty wind could whip up the flames again.

The My Vaxx Journey project invites young Indigenous people across the country to share their stories of facing fears related to getting the vaccinations.