With her hair pulled back into a tight ponytail, her arms and legs covered with 20 tattoos, and her compact frame fitted out in athleisure, Crystal Smith, the elected chief of the Haisla people, looked more like the hometown basketball star she once was than the fossil fuel exporter she’s about to become.
Kelowna residents should be concerned with FortisBC’s plan to truck liquified methane gas from Metro Vancouver to Kelowna and storing it in tanks next to residences.
This December 6th, the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) re-initiated Zain Haq’s deportation order. Now, Zain is required to leave for Pakistan by January 21, 2025.
Severe weather in 2023 caused more than $3.6B in insured damage across Canada
Summer of 2024 is now Canada's most destructive season on record for insured losses due to severe weather events, the latest estimates from the Insurance Bureau of Canada show.
Damages for a group of storms and wildfires across the country combined to more than $7 billion in insured losses, topping the $6.2 billion cost of the Fort McMurray, Alta., wildfire in 2016.
Website Editor: The Mayor's motion discussed below was passed by the Vancouver Council.
Dec. 11, 2024
Vancouver mayor Ken Sim wants to transfer some of the city's financial reserves into Bitcoin cryptocurrency — and says it will be good for the climate, too. His claim has some experts scratching their heads.
Researchers have found that the global goal of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels is now almost certainly out of reach.
In November 2023 at COP28, governments agreed to “transition away” from fossil fuels in the energy sector and reconfirmed this decision at the UN General Assembly in September 2024.
