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Canada loses 20 times more forested land to fires and invasive bugs each year than it does to harvesting wood for industry — and Canada's lumber association says climate change is making it worse.

This week scientists, industry, Indigenous groups, government officials and others meet Oct. 11-12 in a symposium in Vancouver looking for solutions for the recovery effort of the whales.

As Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr explores avenues in China to expand foreign investment in the oilsands, his government is being accused of allowing Chinese takeovers of Canadian firms.