The federal government is shilling for small modular reactors as a climate change solution, but environmentalists fear nuclear waste makes the risks too great.
Life is already tough for Toronto’s elementary students, who have been learning virtually since the city’s schools closed in early April. It may get even tougher for those in the Catholic system, where teachers will work-to-rule starting on Tuesday.
Dr. Samantha Green is part of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment, a group that believes the health of patients and their families depends on a healthy planet.
U.S. District Judge James Boasberg made his decision after attorneys for the pipeline's Texas-based owner, Energy Transfer, argued that shuttering the pipeline would be a major economic blow to several entities, including North Dakota, and the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation tribe, in the heart of the state’s oilpatch.
Green Party MP Paul Manly is calling on the federal government to protect threatened western screech owls spotted in the Caycuse Valley area, where RCMP have arrested old-growth activists at the Fairy Creek blockades this week.
Tensions are escalating at old-growth blockades on Vancouver Island as chainsaws started up in the Caycuse region Friday and a clash between protesters and police the day before was posted to social media.