The City of Montreal will spend $3.5 million to acquire a 78,500-square metre expanse of land in the West Island and add it to the protected l’Anse-à-l’Orme nature park. The property at 575 Elm Avenue in Beaconsfield is part of the Angell Woods forest. The acquisition of the land – about the size of ten CFL football fields – would…
Canada’s premiers huddled by teleconference call Thursday and agreed that everyone not facing an election campaign will attend December’s climate change summit in Paris with prime minister-designate Justin Trudeau, The Canadian Press has learned. Monday’s surprising Liberal majority has cleared the path for an invigorated Canadian presence at the United Nations climate conference, known as…
Woodfibre LNG has cleared another hurdle. On Oct. 14, the Squamish Nation (SN) voted to approve an Environmental Assessment Agreement (EAA) for the project. “This decision is one step in a multi stage process, and just to be very clear, it’s not an endorsement of the project,” said Chief Ian Campbell of the SN. In…
Restarting a sawmill and rebuilding moose populations in British Columbia’s Interior are now the focus of reconciliation talks between the provincial government and Tsilhqot’in Nation. The talks began last year after the Tsilhqot’in won title in court to 1,750 square kilometres of its territorial lands in the remote Nemiah Valley. Aboriginal Relations Minister John Rustad…
Viewed from the outside, the six-storey luxury condominium complex slated to go up at 1884 Queen Street East will look more or less like any other well-tailored small development in a contemporary style. Its modestly grey fibre-cement cladding will likely help the building blend into the conservative Beaches neighbourhood round about. Heartwood, as this project…
First there were the Black Liquor Boondoggles, now there’s the Supercalendered Scam. The U.S. government’s attempts to prop up the country’s ailing paper industry once again are going to ridiculous lengths, this time with U.S. consumers, printers, and publishers footing the bill. Last week, the U.S. Department of Commerce imposed duties on imports of supercalendered (SC)…
Something strange has happened to Canada. We have forgotten that the modern country we take for granted was scratched and clawed out of often-inhospitable terrain by men and women who risked everything for a better life. People and capital were assembled as a result of exploration and trade among citizens of many nations — including…
The Truck Loggers Association (TLA) congratulates Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Party on their victory in last night’s federal election. As a strong and unifying voice for BC’s coastal forest communities, the TLA wants to ensure the prime minister-designate understands that forestry is the economic backbone of many rural Canadian communities. “We know there is…
Some major Canadian business groups say they are ready to work with the new Liberal government of Justin Trudeau to find common ground to benefit the country’s economy. “We will press the new government to avoid a return to structural deficits,” Perrin Beatty, president and chief executive officer of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce said…
Restarting a sawmill and rebuilding moose populations in British Columbia’s Interior are now the focus of reconciliation talks between the provincial government and Tsilhqot’in Nation. The talks began last year after the Tsilhqot’in won title in court to 1,750 square kilometres of its territorial lands in the remote Nemiah Valley. Aboriginal Relations Minister John Rustad…