Tag: Canada
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B.C. drought: ‘If you’re using water you don’t need right now, it’s cutting into your food security’
Photo: Amid a B.C.-wide drought, two corn plants in an Abbotsford field struggle to survive. Farmers face crop loss, feed shortages and tough decisions this summer. With much of B.C. in the grip of drought, farmers are on the front lines. As creeks and wells run dry, some B.C. farmers are trucking water to feed…
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Canada oil sands leak heightens First Nations’ calls to clean up tailings
Photo: Demonstrators rally against Imperial Oil’s ongoing tailings pond leak, in Ottawa By Nia Williams (Reuters) – In early February, Chief Allan Adam of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation in northern Alberta started fielding calls from community members after the provincial regulator revealed toxic wastewater had been leaking for months from a tailings pond at…
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Indigenous conservation could help Canada meet land and water protection targets
Photo: The Seal River Watershed in northwest Manitoba is roughly the size of Nova Scotia, and is untouched wilderness. The Sayisi Dene community is leading an initiative to protect the watershed from industrial development. (Seal River Watershed Alliance) In the far northwest of Manitoba, the Seal River flows 260 kilometres through the thick boreal forest…
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$8B settlement between First Nations, feds in clean water class action
Photo: Two class actions over lack of clean water in First Nations were filed in 2019 and then combined in 2020. Photo: APTN The Federal Court and the Court of Queen’s Bench of Manitoba have jointly approved an $8-billion settlement in a national class-action lawsuit between Canada and First Nations and their members who’ve had…
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First Clip: Ellen Page’s New Documentary About Environmental Racism
In There’s Something In the Water, a new documentary premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival this weekend, co-directors and producers Ellen Page and Ian Daniel introduce viewers to several women who are taking a stand against environmental racism in Page’s home province of Nova Scotia, Canada. In a first clip from the movie, above,…
