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Keith Doucette

Reporter for The Canadian Press
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Federal grant will help middle and low income homeowners switch to electric heat

Canadians will soon be able to apply to a $250-million grant program aimed at helping them stop heating their homes with oil and switch to electric heat pumps, the federal government announced on Monday, November 21, 2022.
News, Politics | November 22nd 2022

Nova Scotia to replace federal cap-and-trade system with homegrown emissions-reduction plan

The proposed changes to the Environment Act would create a pricing system based on greenhouse gas output, Environment Minister Tim Halman told reporters, adding that the new plan would also include targets and performance standards to be set out in regulations.
News | October 18th 2022

Trudeau announces $300-million relief fund for storm-battered Atlantic Canada

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday, October 4, 2022, announced a $300-million fund to help the East Coast recover from the ravages of post-tropical storm Fiona.
News, Politics | October 5th 2022

Atlantic Canada hunkers down for Fiona — ‘I think this is going to be a bad one’

People across Atlantic Canada were stocking up on last-minute essentials and storm-proofing their properties Friday ahead of the arrival of Fiona, which forecasters say will hit the region as a “very powerful” post-tropical storm.
News | September 23rd 2022

Guilbeault rejects Atlantic Canada's request for climate plan extension

The federal environment minister on Thursday, September 1, 2022, rejected a request from the premiers of Atlantic Canada for an extension to the deadline to submit their plans to tackle carbon emissions.
News, Politics | September 2nd 2022

Environmentalists sound alarm about a bid to raise tailings dam at Nova Scotia gold mine

Environmentalists are expressing dismay over a pending provincial government decision that could allow a Nova Scotia gold mine to raise the height of the wall of its existing tailings waste pond.
News, Politics | August 5th 2022

Canada's fishery management is floundering

A new report by Oceana Canada says Canadian fisheries management has "fallen short" over the last five years, with nearly one in five fish stocks still "critically depleted."
News | November 16th 2021

Nova Scotia bill aims to end coal-fired power by 2030

The change in the proposed Environmental Goals and Climate Change Reduction Act introduced Wednesday moves up the phasing out of coal by about 10 years.
News | October 27th 2021
Stephen McNeil,

Retiring N.S. premier reflects on tragic year

When Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil privately decided earlier this year he would retire after 17 years in politics, he had no idea of the challenges he was about to face.
Coronavirus in Canada
News, Politics | December 31st 2020
Dalhousie University campus, Halifax,

Canada-China COVID-19 vaccine trials dropped amid political tensions

A COVID-19 vaccine-development partnership between Canada and a Chinese firm has been abandoned, ending clinical trials that were to be conducted by a Dalhousie University research lab.
Coronavirus in Canada
News, Politics | August 28th 2020
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