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Anthony Pak at the 2024 BC Embodied Carbon Awards. Photo by Dan Kirchner from 360hometours.ca

Once ignored, award-winning green building champion nails it

No one listened to engineer Anthony Pak when he first tried to explain the importance of embodied carbon to his Canadian colleagues.

By Marisa Sittheeamorn | News, Climate Solutions Reporting | May 9th 2024

Pediatricians believe climate conversations should be part of any doctor’s visit

From low birth weight to wildfire smoke, kids can bear the brunt of climate change.

Race Against Climate Change

By Anya Kamenetz | News | May 9th 2024

Electric vehicle charger. Photo by Sean Kelly

Is electric avenue paved with green?

Nova Scotia’s electricity grid is far from 100 per cent renewable. Are EVs still a good environmental choice?

By Sean Kelly | News, Climate Solutions Reporting | May 9th 2024

DSI Drammen, a bulk carrier, seen crossing Burrard Inlet. Photo by Tjflex2/Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Deed)

Calls mount for detailed evacuation plan in case of Trans Mountain oil spill

Health and climate advocates are urging British Columbia to develop a credible evacuation plan in case of an oil spill in Vancouver’s Burrard Inlet as the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project opens for business, triggering dozens more tankers to cross the waters each month.

By John Woodside | News, Politics | May 9th 2024

CEO of the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. Catherine Tait waits to appear at the Heritage Committee in Ottawa, on Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024. File photo by The Canadian Press/Adrian Wyld

CBC head Catherine Tait grilled by Tory MPs over executive bonuses

An appearance by the CEO of the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. at a parliamentary committee turned personal on Tuesday, even before Catherine Tait faced a barrage of questions from Conservative MPs over executive bonuses.

By Mickey Djuric | News, Politics | May 8th 2024

Vancouver Island community mourns fish lost as B.C. drought again heightens risk

Project 84,000 is intended to depict the number of steelhead and trout that died in a massive fish kill in the drought-stricken Cowichan River on southern Vancouver Island last year.

By Nono Shen | News | May 8th 2024

A two-year-old female orca calf, named kwiisahi?is, or Brave Little Hunter, by the Ehattesaht First Nation, is spotted at the Little Espinosa Inlet near Zeballos, B.C., on Friday, April 19, 2024. File photo by The Canadian Press/Chad Hipolito

Orca orphan swimming near other killer whales, but hasn't yet found family

A pod of killer whales has been spotted far offshore from the remote Vancouver Island inlet where an orphaned orca has been spending time since escaping a lagoon last month, but a member of her rescue team is downplaying the prospect of an imminent family reunion.

By Dirk Meissner | News | May 8th 2024

The problem with ordering people back to the office

When office workers stopped working in offices in 2020, trading their cubicles for living room couches during COVID-19 lockdowns, many began questioning those hours they had spent commuting to work.

Race Against Climate Change

By Kate Yoder | News | May 8th 2024

Gordon Nore, a retired educator and e-bike enthusiast, on the streets of Toronto. Photo by Gordon Nore

Should the feds be doing more about e-bike fire safety?

As e-bike usage has risen in Canada, so has the number of fires caused by substandard lithium-ion batteries sometimes used to power them.

By Marisa Sittheeamorn | News | May 8th 2024

Bruce Falls and his wife Ann at Lake Erie in 2007. Bruce Falls was actively involved in conservation efforts, co-founding the Nature Conservancy of Canada in 1962 and later serving as its chair. Photo by Stephen Falls

Prominent conservationist was ‘true force of nature’

Bruce Falls is remembered by family, friends and the Canadian conservation community as a champion of nature and a leader in conservation and bird studies.

By Abdul Matin Sarfraz | News | May 8th 2024

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