Federal ministers drafting legislation do not have a duty to consult Indigenous groups, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled on Thursday, October 11, 2018.
With more depressing results that suggest climate change threatens half of Canada's songbirds with significant habitat loss, you might expect one of the new study's authors to be downcast.
Canada is to join more than a dozen countries Wednesday in signing a deal that would block commercial fishing in the High Arctic for 16 years and begin unravelling ecological mysteries at the top of the world.
Research suggests Canadian oil is among the world's most carbon-heavy, but Canada's industry also has rules that if adopted worldwide could make a big dent in global greenhouse gas emissions.
Inuit whose families were forcibly removed from their traditional lands in the 1950s and starved as a result have reached a compensation deal with the federal government.
The largest and most precise study yet done on acid emissions from Alberta's oilsands suggests they could eventually damage an area almost the size of Germany. "This work is a warning," said Paul Makar, an Environment Canada scientist and lead author
The statistics in her recently published paper say it all: hundreds of glaciers in Canada's High Arctic are shrinking and many are likely to disappear completely.
