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B.C. lumber trade delegation to Asia encouraged by response
It sounds a bit contradictory to call the province’s recent forestry trade mission to Japan and China a success when… read more…
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Canada’s ‘value-added’ exports present a good-news story for 2016
Jim Stanford is an adviser to Unifor, Canada’s largest private-sector trade union, and Harold Innis Industry Professor of Economics at… read more…
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BRIGHTON: The high price of government support
Government subsidies for the Cape Breton paper mill have embroiled the province in another trade dispute. A previous dispute that… read more…
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Fight for BC’s Central Walbran Valley Reignited As Government Allows Old-Growth Logging
The early 1990s was a pivotal time for the forest industry and for forest activism in British Columbia. Massive demonstrations… read more…
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How a trade feud with Canada built hundreds of homes in places like New Orleans
One little-known legacy of the now-expiring softwood lumber agreement: it spawned a massive, Canadian-funded humanitarian effort in the United States… read more…
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Registration for 2016 Forests Ontario annual conference now open
We are excited to announce that registration for the 2016 Forests Ontario Annual Conference is open! The conference will take… read more…
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Jon Sweeney wins award for work on brown spruce longhorn beetle
If you had to sexually attract a brown spruce longhorn beetle, would you know what to do? Jon Sweeney knows.… read more…
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FSC launching mediation process to bring peace to Quebec’s boreal forest
The Forest Stewardship Council is launching a mediation process to try and bring peace to Quebec’s woodlands. The organization that… read more…
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Budworm Tracker program recorded ‘unheard of’ 90 per cent return rate on data
The Budworm Tracker program, which involved field reports from ‘citizen scientists,’ received an “unheard of” 90 per cent return rate… read more…
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New Director Appointed to Cameco’s Board
Cameco announced today that its board appointed Don Kayne as a director effective January 1, 2016 until the next annual… read more…
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Beech bark disease rolling through county
It starts as fluff on the side of a beech tree’s smooth grey bark. Pinpricks of white wax dot the… read more…
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Columbia Forest Products mill reopens in Rutherglen, ON
Columbia Forest Products is reopening its Rutherglen veneer mill, east of North Bay, after a five-year shutdown. Gary Gillespie, vice-president… read more…
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Resolute Responds to Misleading Statements
Resolute Forest Products Inc. (NYSE: RFP) (TSX: RFP) responds to misleading media statements by third parties regarding the U.S. Department… read more…
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Northern Pulp’s Pictou pulp mill meets air quality standards
Northern Pulp says air pollution from the stacks at its pulp mill in Pictou County are now fully below environmental thresholds established… read more…
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Saskatoon to permit taller wood frame structures
The city is expected to start permitting six-storey wood frame construction in early 2016. Saskatoon’s current building code limits structures… read more…
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Are forest climate mitigation strategies one-size-fits-all?
The IPCC’s Fifth Assessment lists sustainable harvesting as having the most significant climate mitigation benefit for the world’s forests. This… read more…
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Drought Could Kill Off Many of the World’s Trees
Drought could kill vast swaths of forests around the world if global warming isn’t contained, new research suggests. That’s in part because… read more…
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Wood a massive opportunity
Since international leaders reached a historic climate change agreement at the United Nations meeting in Paris earlier this month, the… read more…
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Opinion: Serious about addressing climate change? Build with wood
Since international leaders reached a historic climate change agreement at the United Nations meeting in Paris this month, the conversations… read more…
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Canada, Japan appear to have different understanding on raw log deal
The side deal that Canada and Japan cut to the Trans Pacific Partnership trade agreement on Canadian restrictions to raw… read more…
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Forestry managers have no power to stop damaging logging: watchdog
On a routine basis, district forest managers raise red flags over forestry practices that pose potential public safety hazards, threaten… read more…
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COUNTING CARIBOU- Santa can exhale.
Despite declarations by special interest environmental groups that there is a caribou crisis in Ontario, a review of Ministry of… read more…
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FOREST INDUSTRY WELCOMES PARIS AGREEMENT ON CLIMATE CHANGE
The Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC) is pleased with the landmark global climate deal reached in Paris including its… read more…
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Logging ban urged to protect Vancouver Island old growth forests
Communities along the West Coast of Vancouver Island say the provincial government needs to step in to save the ancient,… read more…
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Cross-border issues abound in Montana congressional delegation’s letters to Canada
Montana’s congressional delegation is still waiting for answers to letters they sent regarding cross-border issues with Canada, but that could… read more…