Canada's environment commissioner says the country is nowhere near to meeting its goal of planting two-billion trees by 2030.
The Liberals first made the massive tree-planting promise during the 2019 federal election campaign and followed through with a 10-year 3.2-billion-dollar budget for it in 2020.
However, an audit of the first two years of planting says it appears the government isn't on track to get even four per cent of the promised trees in the ground by the end of 2030.
Lisa Lapointe says urgent action is needed to decriminalize small amounts of drugs for personal use and to provide more people with a safer supply of substances that would replace the profit-driven illicit market.
Shops, restaurants and businesses were heavily damaged below the 89-room Winters Hotel on the building's upper floors, which is overseen by Atira Property Management and provided housing for 71 residents.
Abbotsford Mayor Henry Braun, whose community was ravaged by flooding, says he was among 28 mayors who met with federal and provincial ministers today to ask about the delivery of $5 billion from Ottawa.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says this has been an unprecedented year globally for avian flu, or bird flu as it's also known. Outbreaks of the highly pathogenetic strain H5N1 have been detected in Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario and Alberta since late 2021.
Clarence House and the Governor General announced the three-day royal tour Monday morning. The royal couple will travel to Newfoundland and Labrador, the Northwest Territories and the Ottawa region, they said. A detailed itinerary is expected at a later date.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he wants to make it easier for more Canadians to drive electric vehicles and he isn't ruling out nuclear power as a cleaner source of energy. Trudeau said electric vehicles fight pollution, but often are too expensive for many Canadians.