Lumberjack style has recently come back in vogue, with city slickers and suburbanites donning the flannel shirts of the profession as a way to look rugged. However, a series of photos reveal the grueling work that loggers put in during the 1800s and beginning of the 20th century, toiling through hard lives away from their…
The concrete jungle has a rival: forests. Two urban building projects, in New York City and Portland, Oregon, will be changing their city’s skylines with an environmentally sustainable, cost-competitive building material. The key ingredient? Wood. Called mass timber, the material is an umbrella term for large, solid chunks of panelized wood. When used in…
Ryan Zapisocki swings a leg over his skidoo, fires up the engine and rides into the forest. The snow is melting and a warm breeze is blowing through the pines, causing them to sway slowly against each other. Some needles on the trees are tinged red, others, deep auburn. He slows as he arrives at…
When the holiday season rolls around, it’s easy to forget that without B.C. resources such as wood products and minerals, many of the gifts you see would not be sitting under your Christmas tree. B.C. wood products play a large role in maintaining the joy of the holiday season. From gifts and the environment in…
During the recent climate talks in Paris, Premier Christy Clark struck a pose as one of the belles of the ball – showcasing B.C. as a climate-change leader that had proven greenhouse gases can be reduced by taxing them without ruining the economy. But B.C.’s industrial and extractive sectors are warning that raising the province’s…
Manitoba and Saskatchewan come out on top of a mediocre class in a new review of how Canada’s provinces and territories are protecting vulnerable woodland caribou. “They’ve been taking it seriously,” said Eric Hebert-Daly, national director of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society. “They’ve taken the bull by the horns and really driven things.” Woodland…
A key line in the recent throne speech declared: “The Government will strengthen its relationship with allies, especially with our closest friend and partner, the United States.” And with a formal state dinner in Washington slated for March 2016 — a rare event in Canada-U.S. relations — that pledge will surely be put to the…
The manager of the Boat Harbour cleanup project in Pictou County says it will take a couple of years before it’s known if the $52 million set aside will be enough to remediate decades of primarily pulp mill waste and other industrial residues. Nova Scotia’s Liberal government has pledged to shut down the government-owned Boat Harbour treatment facility in 2020. It’s a…
Woodfibre LNG hopes to cut the cost of its proposed $1.8-billion liquefied natural gas project near Squamish to offset a drop in prices for natural gas in China. That would allow the export facility to remain as a leading contender for the first proposed LNG project in B.C. to make a final investment decision, possibly…
After a year of contracting employment, Northeastern Ontario will slowly begin to find its economic footing in 2016, though progress will lag behind much of the rest of the province, according to a new report released today by the Ontario Chamber of Commerce and the Credit Unions of Ontario. Released with support from the Timmins…