All in on AI, restricting renewables and … cougars: another wild week in Alberta politics
The provincial government was firing out announcements again last week, from restricting wind energy to...
Off-leash dogs now allowed in Alberta parks — but only on cougar hunts
To expand cougar hunting in Alberta, the government didn’t just change hunting rules. It also...
Alberta quietly opens cougar hunting in provincial park
Hunters will now be able to kill the large cats in Cypress Hills. Critics say...
Manitoba is getting a new ‘belt of greenspace’
Federal funds will kickstart work on an ecological corridor along the Little Saskatchewan River, aimed...
Conservation and … Wall Street? Behind a really big deal
A $375M Indigenous-led conservation effort in the Northwest Territories is a triumph of collaboration —...
$375M Indigenous-led conservation deal just signed in the Northwest Territories
The agreement uses a Wall Street-inspired approach to conservation finance, with 380,000 square kilometres of...
Canada’s environment minister didn’t make it to the UN nature summit. He blames the opposition
Steven Guilbeault says opposition parties effectively blocked his participation by refusing to send delegates themselves...
Canada’s global nature pledges stymied by politicking at home: Guilbeault
As Canada joins other countries at COP16 to hash out ambitious plans to save nature,...
Why are Canada’s parks so primed to burn?
Pests, past forest management practices and colonization are all factors in wildfires like Jasper’s —...
