Month: April 2019

OTTAWA — Two of Canada’s biggest cities have declared states of emergency and three provinces have asked for federal help to fight rising flood waters as Mother Nature’s wet wrath of spring marches across central Canada and the Atlantic. Montreal Mayor Valerie Plante said Friday after afternoon that her city had felt it had matters…

CALGARY — Members of the University of Calgary men’s basketball team are mourning the loss of teammate Andrew Milner after his body was found in Moyie Lake in southeastern British Columbia. Cranbrook RCMP say two men were canoeing on the lake Tuesday when it tipped. One of the canoeists made it to shore. Also On…

OTTAWA — Facebook’s ineffective safeguards allowed unauthorized access to the information of millions of the social-media giant’s users — including data later used for political purposes, the federal and B.C. privacy watchdogs said Thursday. A long-awaited joint report from the two privacy commissioners found major shortcomings in Facebook’s practices and called for stronger laws to…

TORONTO — Ontario is cancelling a tree planting program, with those involved warning the move will lead to the loss of jobs and environmental benefits that forests provide. The Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry told Forests Ontario the day after the Progressive Conservative government delivered its budget this month that the 50 Million Tree…

OTTAWA — The United States is crediting tighter rules in the new North American free-trade deal for its decision to move Canada off a list of countries that it says are the worst violators of intellectual-property rights. Not that Canada is completely in the clear, however: the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative is keeping…

VANCOUVER — Canadian police say they haven’t been busting many more stoned drivers six months after legalization, but they are reminding drivers to keep cannabis out of reach. The Canadian Press canvassed police forces across the country and most reported no significant change in the number of impaired driving charges laid, while some said it’s…

GATINEAU, Que. — Cities across Canada will experience more frequent flooding because of climate change and governments need to adapt to this new reality, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Wednesday. Trudeau made the comments during a visit to an evacuation centre in the city of Gatineau, one of the areas of Quebec hardest hit by…

OTTAWA—The president of the Philippines says if Canada doesn’t take back tonnes of trash within the next week he will “declare war” and ship the containers back himself. Filipino media outlets report that Rodrigo Duterte made threats Tuesday about dozens of shipping containers filled with Canadian household and electronic garbage that has been rotting in…

It didn’t take long for the death threats to start. Alexandria Villaseñor, a 13-year-old environmental activist, had just been featured in an Agence France-Pressearticle republished by Breitbart News about dozens of students staging a “die-in” at United Nations headquarters in New York. Villaseñor was protesting that day in mid-March for the same reason that she…

By Sofia Descalzi, Newfoundland and Labrador representative, Canadian Federation of Students Climate justice activists keep telling us that we must all come together to solve the current climate crisis, and they’re right. However, governments everywhere are failing to rise to the occasion and implement changes — outlined in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights…