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With seagrass scarce, starving manatees are being fed lettuce

The unprecedented feeding program is a state and federal response to last year's record number of 1,101 documented manatee deaths.

By Curt Anderson | News, US News | January 21st 2022

Jane Fonda brings star power to Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance

Keeping fossil fuels in the ground is no longer a taboo discussion, thanks to an international alliance to halt oil and gas production, leading climate experts told actor and longtime environmentalist Jane Fonda on Friday.

By John Woodside | News, Energy, Politics | January 21st 2022

Conservative Party leader Erin O'Toole at a campaign rally in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan on Aug. 20, 2021. Photo by: Flickr/ Deb Ransom

Tossed from the Conservative party, senator continues to take shots at O'Toole

The Conservative senator ousted for spearheading an effort to review Erin O'Toole's leadership says a forthcoming report of the party's election loss must confront its most serious flaws — including its leader's.

By Stephanie Taylor | News | January 21st 2022

In this Tuesday, June 12, 2018, photo, trucks cross the Ambassador Bridge from Windsor, Ont. into Detroit. Turmoil and confusion last week over quarantine rules for unvaccinated truckers. Photo by: The Canadian Press/AP/Paul Sancya

How messaging on Canada's rules for unvaccinated cross-border truckers was bungled

Turmoil and confusion over whether truckers would remain exempt from the vaccine mandate last week stemmed from bureaucrats misinterpreting policy in more than one federal agency — including the one that co-ordinates Canada's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

By Marie Woolf | News | January 21st 2022

Ontario Premier Doug Ford holds a press conference at Queen's Park regarding the easing of restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto on Jan. 20, 2022. Photo by: The Canadian Press/Nathan Denette

Ontario announces plans to ease restrictions and other COVID news from Canada

By Daniela Germano | News | January 21st 2022

RCMP officers are shown near the town of Emerson, Man., on Wednesday Jan. 19, 2022. Photo by: The Canadian Press/HO/RCMP

Four die in frigid Manitoba field near border in human smuggling tragedy

The United States Attorney's Office for the District of Minnesota said Steve Shand, 47, has been charged with human smuggling after seven Indian nationals were found in the U.S. and the discovery of the bodies.

By Kelly Geraldine Malone | News | January 21st 2022

In this photo provided by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, juvenile Chinook salmon swim in a raceway at Iron Fish Gate Hatchery, Siskiyou County, Calif. Photo by: The Canadian Press/AP/CDFW Travis VanZant

Low summer river levels linked to lower chinook salmon productivity

The study published Friday in the journal Ecological Solutions and Evidence used data from 1992 to 2013 to examine changes in the productivity of early summer chinook in the Nicola River, a tributary of the Thompson River in B.C.'s southern Interior.

By Brenna Owen | News | January 21st 2022

In 2027 a new facility in Regina, Sask. will be crushing canola to use for renewable diesel, a fossil fuel alternative often touted as a transition fuel. Photo supplied by AGT Foods

Canada’s largest renewable diesel plant will turn canola oil into fuel

In five years, Canada’s largest renewable diesel plant will be converting canola oil to renewable fuel, but some experts say this alternative is not the climate solution it is made out to be.

By Natasha Bulowski | News, Energy, Ottawa Insider | January 21st 2022

Climate change could spark international fish fights

Almost 50 per cent of the world's shared fish stocks will shift their habitat ranges and migration routes due to climate change, posing a challenge for international co-operation, a new study says.

By Rochelle Baker | News, Island Insider | January 21st 2022

Up where she belongs

Exhibition puts Buffy Sainte-Marie’s digital art in the context of her life as singer-songwriter, activist, philanthropist and educator.

By Winnipeg Free Press | News, Culture | January 21st 2022

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