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The push to change lawn laws
Municipalities have the power to help pollinator-friendly gardens flourish — but first they need to nix restrictive bylaws, environmental groups say.
After promise to end subsidies, feds loan Coastal GasLink up to $200 million
Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chief Namoks is accusing the federal government of violating Indigenous rights as it provides hundreds of millions of dollars to a controversial fossil fuel project snaking through the nation's unceded territory.
Climate disasters put oil and gas assets and production at risk
Suncor Energy Inc. filed a disclosure document last year laying out what would happen if extreme weather were to force a 10-day shutdown of its massive Base Plant oilsands mine in northern Alberta.
Mom wants quicker reform on disaster preparations, one year after flood took son
The mother of a boy who died a year ago in a Nova Scotia flood says her grief returns daily, along with frustration over what she considers the province's slow pace in reforming its preparations for climate disasters.
Climate crisis is making days longer, study finds
Melting of ice is slowing planet’s rotation and could disrupt internet traffic, financial transactions and GPS
A new gas pipeline for Ontario's greenhouses?
Enbridge Gas is starting construction of its $358-million natural gas pipeline in southwestern Ontario, which critics say “doesn’t even make economic sense” given the need to transition away from fossil fuels.
Canada's energy infrastructure needs better protection against cybersecurity attacks, feds say
Energy infrastructure is an attractive target for cyberattacks but the experts needed to protect this critical infrastructure are in short supply, according to the federal government.
Heat is deadly. Why does our culture push us to ignore it?
Our attitudes about enduring extreme heat have to evolve.
ATCO seeks to delay regulatory hearing on excess profits for appeal process
A prominent Alberta utility is seeking to delay a hearing on appropriate remedies for gas and electricity rates the province's utilities regulator says were neither reasonable nor justified.
'Challenging' wildfire conditions in B.C. as hot and dry weather persists
Over 250 wildfires are burning in British Columbia as much of the province continues to bake under a heat wave that is expected to last into next week.
BC’s latest ‘old growth’ conservation announcement is mostly not about old growth
All but one of the forests included in this purchase announcement do not contain old-growth trees. Instead, seven of the eight purchased properties contain what’s called “recruitment” old-growth — that is, forests that have been logged.
Experts warn of deluges to come without infrastructure upgrades
Experts and advocates say a combination of climate change, outdated infrastructure and policy gaps are to blame for the severe flooding that shut down roads, critical buildings and services.
Youth use fire to stop fire
Cultural burning is the use of controlled fire to generate new growth and prevent large, destructive wildfires. Long used by Indigenous people throughout what is now B.C. and other parts of Canada, the practice was criminalized in 1874. However, as Canada suffers record-breaking wildfires, a growing number of Indigenous people and advocates are calling for those restrictions to be removed.
Feds release flood of conservation funding
Nearly $90 million in federal funding for a slew of nature conservation projects intended to reverse Canada’s biodiversity loss and protect more land and waters was announced Thursday.