By Staff The Canadian Press Posted November 8, 2024 4:40 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Large sections of provincial parks in southern British Columbia remain closed after recent heavy rain and wind storms that caused flooding and damaged trails, campsites and roads. The Ministry of Environment says in…
The B.C. Conservation Officer Service confirmed it has been in contact with a B.C. First Nation after two grizzly bears were killed in their territory. The Lil’wat Nation, near Mount Currie, north of Whistler, shared that on Nov. 4, twin grizzly bears that had been spotted in the community before had been killed due to…
Bow Valley residents were excited hearing ‘The Boss’ was in town this week ahead of his upcoming concert in Calgary. But instead of the famous rock star, it was actually an adult male grizzly bear of the same name, who decided to come by for a snack. Making his way from Harvie Heights, down into…
Descrease article font size Increase article font size British Columbia’s newest hydroelectric dam has hit another key milestone. BC Hydro said Thursday that it had completed filling the Site C dam’s reservoir, a process that took 11 weeks to complete to raise water levels by about 43 metres. Despite the reservoir now being full, the…
Parks Canada has hit pause on the second phase of a controversial program to eradicate invasive deer from a small Gulf Island near Victoria. The national parks agency announced the move Wednesday, after video emerged that showed panicked and exhausted deer entangled in netting installed for the project. 2:00 Sidney Island residents aghast as 6…
By Sarah Smellie The Canadian Press Posted November 5, 2024 12:58 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size A Memorial University scientist says the mysterious white blobs washing up on Newfoundland beaches are actually gobs of plastic — and they need to be cleaned up. Earth science professor Hilary Corlett…
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith did not mince words over Ottawa’s new greenhouse gas emissions cap announced Monday. “I’m pissed — I’m absolutely angry,” Smith said at a news conference. “We’ve been working with these guys for two years because we have a plan that would reduce emissions responsibly by 2050 and they continue to act…
A severely entangled California sea lion is slowly recovering following a complex, multi-agency operation to free the animal. The Vancouver Aquarium Marine Mammal Rescue Society (VAMMR) says the adult male sea lion was so entangled that it could not eat, and it was one of the most severe the team had encountered. The sea lion…
The RCMP is asking motorists to stay away from a train derailment just east of Beiseker, Alta. It happened north of Highway 9, between Highway 806 and Range Road 255 around 10:30 a.m. on Friday. In a news release, the RCMP said that 19 cars are off the tracks, but investigators are still at the…
A Winnipeg city councillor says a number of local parks are being beset by buck-toothed rodents, and a solution needs to be found. Coun. Janice Lukes (Waverley West) said she’s seen destruction caused by beavers first-hand, and that the city’s naturalist services branch is working on solutions to humanely dissuade the tree-chomping animals from causing…
