It’s a sight few are lucky to see. Robert Gorcak, who works for the First Nations Health Authority, was in Kelmtu on Wednesday morning, visiting the Kitasoo Xai’xais First Nation, on the edge of the Great Bear Rainforest, when he saw a huge flock of seagulls hovering over the water. “Suddenly I saw a blowhole…
The City of Vancouver has significantly reduced its estimate of the number of trees that will need to be removed from Stanely Park. In November of 2023, the Vancouver Park Board estimated that up to 160,000 trees that had been killed by a hemlock looper month infestation would need to be cut down for safety…
Descrease article font size Increase article font size A B.C. conservation group is offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to a conviction in a suspected bear poaching incident. Fishing guide Yves Bisson told Global News he found two dead black bears floating in the Harrison River near Chilliwack, B.C., on the weekend. The bear…
Hurricane Milton strengthened to a Category 5 storm on Monday just an hour before lunch time local time, as Florida ramps up efforts for potentially its biggest evacuation in seven years – just days after the significant impact of the hurricane Helene. Hurricane Milton reached maximum sustained winds of 160 mph (250 kph) about 715 miles…
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted October 7, 2024 4:02 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Some residents of a Mohawk community west of Montreal who are accused by the Quebec government of illegal dumping say they’ve done nothing wrong. Quebec government lawyers are in Superior Court on Monday…
Northback Holdings’ Grassy Mountain coal mining project has been a controversial topic in Alberta for years. One side argues it would provide a much-needed economic boost in the area, while others fear it would do irreparable harm to the Oldman watershed. Rina Blacklaws, spokesperson for Northback Holdings, says the project would be different from previous…
Obie Williams said he could hear babies crying and branches battering the windows when he spoke with his daughter on the phone last week as Hurricane Helene tore through her rural Georgia town. Kobe Williams, 27, and her month-old twin boys were hunkering down at their trailer home in Thomson, Georgia, with her mother, Mary Jones, who…
One of Canada’s largest oil companies, Imperial Oil Ltd., has been ordered by Ontario to pay $1.125 million for a slop oil spill at its Sarnia, Ont. site in April 2021 that sickened nearby residents. The fine, levied by the Ministry of Environment, Conservation and Parks, is the most substantial penalty under the Environmental Protection…
Indigenous leaders in Fort Chipewyan, Alta., are raising concerns the federal government did not inform them about contamination at a Transport Canada dock. The government says they looked into it in 2017, but the leaders say they just became aware of it this year. “This dock is in the middle of our community. Our kids…
Several communities have been levelled, more than 160 people are dead and hundreds more missing after hurricane Helene swept through various parts of the U.S. southeast. And experts say there were several factors that made the “monster” storm so destructive, so fast. The destructive potential of the storm had climatologists and meteorologists bracing before it…
