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Ottawa gives $212M funding boost for housing asylum seekers
By The Canadian Press on July 18th, 2023
MONCTON, N.B. – The federal government is announcing $212 million more in funding for interim housing for people claiming asylum in Canada, including about $97 million for Toronto. The city has been seeing asylum seekers and refugee claimants sleeping on the sidewalks, unable to get a space in Toronto’s overwhelmed shelter system. A church in ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!CP NewsAlert: Blockade dismantled at Winnipeg landfill
By The Canadian Press on July 18th, 2023
WINNIPEG – A blockade has been taken down at a Winnipeg landfill where demonstrators have been calling for the search of a different landfill north of the city for the remains of two Indigenous women. More coming... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Capelin conservation concerns and Inflation numbers get an update: In The News today
By The Canadian Press on July 18th, 2023
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed on what you need to know today. Experts call for pause in N.L. capelin fishery Marine scientists and conservationists are calling on officials to pause Newfoundland and Labrador’s commercial capelin fishery. The tiny shimmering fish are an important ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!She planted more than 4,500 trees in a day and found an audience of millions
By Nono Shen, The Canadian Press on July 18th, 2023
To plant more than 4,500 trees in one day, you don’t move like a gardener, you move like a machine. In a video viewed millions of times on social media, Leslie Dart walks across a desolate and burnt landscape in Saskatchewan. She plunges a small spade into the ground, levers open a hole, drops in ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!B.C. expected to surpass record 2018 wildfire season for most area burned
By The Canadian Press on July 18th, 2023
VANCOUVER – British Columbia is encroaching on its worst wildfire season on record as more than 370 fires burn in the province. BC Wildfire Service figures show wildfires have consumed more than 12,900 square kilometres of land so far this year, with many weeks left in the season, compared with 13,500 square kilometres burned in ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Scientists head to Nunavut island to help solve Mars methane mystery
By The Canadian Press on July 18th, 2023
AXEL HEIBERG ISLAND, NUNAVUT – A team of researchers has travelled to a remote Arctic island in the hopes of better understanding the possibility of life on Mars. Astrobiologist Haley Sapers, an adjunct professor at York University in the Lassonde School of Engineering, is leading the team at the McGill Arctic Research Station, or MARS, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Capelin feed Newfoundland’s puffins and whales, and some worry they’re in trouble
By Sarah Smellie, The Canadian Press on July 18th, 2023
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. – Marine scientists and conservationists are calling on officials to pause Newfoundland and Labrador’s commercial capelin fishery. The tiny shimmering fish are an important staple in the diets of the whales and puffins that dazzle tourists and residents each summer off the province’s coastlines. Leaving the struggling capelin stock alone to rebuild ... Read More »
1 responseBC Coroner issues safety alert over wildfire smoke after child’s death
By The Canadian Press on July 17th, 2023
VICTORIA – British Columbia’s coroner has issued a public safety bulletin about wildfire smoke as it confirmed a nine-year-old boy died from a medical condition aggravated by the smoke. The service says the sudden and unexpected death of Carter Vigh of 100 Mile House is a heartbreaking loss for his family and the community. The ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!CP NewsAlert: BC Coroner issues safety alert over wildfire smoke after child’s death
By The Canadian Press on July 17th, 2023
VICTORIA – British Columbia’s coroner has issued a public safety bulletin about wildfire smoke as it confirmed a nine-year-old boy died from a medical condition aggravated by the smoke. The service says the sudden and unexpected death of Carter Vigh of 100 Mile House is a heartbreaking loss for his family and the community. More ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Pesticide regulation ‘obsolete,’ protects industry: scientific adviser’s resignation
By Laura Osman, The Canadian Press on July 17th, 2023
OTTAWA – The co-chair of Canada’s scientific advisory committee has resigned his post over concerns about a lack of transparency and scientific oversight in pesticide management. Dr. Bruce Lanphear, a health sciences professor at Simon Fraser University, stepped down as the co-chair of the Health Canada scientific advisory committee on pest control products on June ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!First troops in B.C. for wildfire fight, as helicopters and Hercules plane readied
By Dirk Meissner, The Canadian Press on July 17th, 2023
The Canadian Armed Forces says the first troops to help in British Columbia’s wildfire fight have arrived in the province, with more soldiers, helicopters and a Hercules plane poised for deployment. The forces said in a statement that a reconnaissance team is on the ground in Prince George in central B.C. and is working with ... Read More »
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