Canadas

The effort to save one of Canada's most endangered freshwater fish now involves electronic tracking of specimens bred in captivity and released into the Nova Scotia watershed that holds the world's only remaining wild population.Last week, a final batch of 30 tagged Atlantic whitefish were released in the Petite Rivière system behind the town of Bridgewater on the province's South Shore."We have released fish into different parts of the system, the lake portion, riverine portion and as well into the estuary into salt…

If you walk into a drugstore and head down the shampoo or makeup aisles, you're bound to find products that include ingredients that have been tested on animals.When Canada's ban on cosmetic testing on animals comes into force in December, those products will stay on store shelves.The amended law isn't retroactive. It focuses on banning new animal testing in Canada, and the sale of products that rely on new animal testing data."While we're in this interim stage, where we're moving from a time when it wasn't banned … to a…

Quebecor said it will pull its ads from Facebook and Instagram, following Meta Platforms' decision to stop access to news on the platforms in Canada over a law requiring payments to local news publishers.The "Online News Act", or House of Commons bill C-18, introduced in April last year laid out rules to force companies such as Meta and Alphabet-owned Google to negotiate commercial deals and pay news publishers for their content.Google and Meta previously said they would block access to news articles in Canada if the…

The first hydrogen-powered train in North America is taking riders on a two-and-a-half hour trip through central Quebec this summer.It's a demonstration that launched earlier this month to show how electricity stored as hydrogen can replace diesel fuel on railways where installing electrified rails or overhead wires would be challenging.Advocates for the use of hydrogen in heavy transportation say it could raise awareness and boost confidence in the emerging technology in North America.The tourist train made by French…

The Ontario government is giving up parts of the Greenbelt for development, citing the province's housing crisis.But last month, a group of farmers produced a joint statement that effectively halted one proposal from Bill 97 that would have allowed new kinds of residential and urban development on prime farmland. "Ontario boasts some of Canada's richest and most fertile farmland and these policy changes put the sustainability of that land and the food system it provides at great risk," the statement read.Peggy Brekveld,…

CLIMATEWIRE | Wildfires are still raging in eastern Canada, even as much of their smoke has dissipated from the northeastern United States. And as long as those fires continue burning, there's a risk the smoke “may simply be directed towards other areas of the U.S.," according to the National Weather Service. The episode is a wake-up call for the East Coast, which has far less experience with wildfire smoke than the highly flammable West. Shrouded in haze, places like New York and Washington, D.C., experienced their…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain By putting a price on the cost of carbon, the Government of Canada aims to curtail greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, but it comes with an increased risk for financial lenders and borrowers with high carbon emissions. In a first-of-its-kind study, University of Waterloo researchers analyzed the…

Wildfires have been raging throughout Nova Scotia since last week, lowering air quality for cities in the Northeast. As a result, skies across New England, New York, and New Jersey have been hazy this week as smoke from the wildfires made its way down south.Biggest Forest Fire in New Mexico HistoryResidents across Massachusetts have reported smelling wildfire, the Boston Herald reported on Tuesday. This led to the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection issuingan “Air Quality Alert” yesterday for nine…

Canada's first public facility for egg research, education and training opened its doors in Manitoba on Wednesday.The Manitoba Egg Farmer Learning and Research Centre was created thanks to a partnership between Manitoba Egg Farmers, the University of Manitoba as well as the federal and provincial governments.The new facility, located about 28 kilometres south of Winnipeg at the University of Manitoba's Glenlea Research Station, will promote and strengthen the research being done on modern egg production techniques and…

Canada has passed its controversial streaming bill that requires Netflix, Spotify and other companies to pay to support Canadian series, music and other content, the CBC has reported. After clearing a final hurdle in the Senate on Thursday, Bill C-11 imposes the same content laws on streamers as it does on traditional broadcasters. The government has promised that the bill only applies to companies and not individual content creators on YouTube or other platforms. The new rules give the Canadian Radio-television and…