Tag Archives: Environment

EDMONTON - The director of a children's movie about Bigfoot wants to thank the Alberta government's energy centre for starting a "ludicrous" fight over the film. Ben Stassen laughed several times as h...

VANCOUVER - The relationships between Indigenous nations and British Columbia's mining sector are set to change as the province works to match its laws with the United Nations Declaration on the Right...

A new tool that measures the environmental quality of any urban street in Canada - and maps it out in colour - illustrates vividly the many neighbourhoods in the country that have poor environment sco...

VICTORIA - British Columbia is the first province in Canada to set greenhouse gas emission reduction targets for major sectors of the provincial economy, including the oil and gas industry, says the e...

FERNIE, B.C. - A Canadian coal-mining company faces the largest fine imposed under the Fisheries Act after pleading guilty to contaminating waterways in southeastern British Columbia. Teck Coal, a sub...

HALIFAX - Another chapter in Sable Island's long history of providing rescue services for struggling seafarers may be about to begin. The Royal Canadian Air Force says it is assessing whether to set u...

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada issued a 6-3 decision upholding the federal carbon price legislation Thursday. Here are five things to know about the decision and the carbon price. 1. What was th...

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada ruled Thursday the federal carbon price is entirely constitutional. Here's a quick look at some of the reaction to the decision: "The Supreme Court recognized that...

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada ruled Thursday that the national price on pollution is entirely constitutional, upholding a pivotal piece of the Liberal climate-change plan. The case brings a leg...

OTTAWA - It's make-it-or-break-it time for the federal government's national price on pollution. The Supreme Court of Canada will decide Thursday whether Ottawa's "carbon tax" is constitutional or if ...