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From: Environment and Climate Change Canada Canadian Environment Week celebrates the actions we are taking to protect and preserve our environment. This year it falls from May 30 to June 5. “We Canadians are a nature-loving people. “Canadian Environment Week celebrates the actions we are taking to protect and preserve our environment. This year it falls from May 30 to June 5. “This is a good time to recognize that, while the world now faces a dual crisis of biodiversity loss and climate change, there is an equally great opportunity for Canadians to see the benefits of an accelerating tr...

Ottawa's top doctor and a federal cabinet minister are offering to dye their hair in support of a fundraising campaign for mental health services at CHEO.

(Photo: submitted by City of Moncton) As the vaccine rollout continues, Codiac Transpo is looking to gradually increase its service back to pre-pandemic levels. Phase one of the Codiac Transpo Service Recovery Plan was presented to Moncton City Councillors at Wednesday’s Committee of the Whole meeting. It forecasts a year-end cost of $56,000 with a start date of June 6, 2021. Among the highlights included in the first phase of the service return plan are 65 additional hours of service every week, a recall of three operators and service on three statutory holidays. Residents can also ride fo...

Sharon Dorsey, one of the organizers of #BlackinEnviron Week focuses on activism, spotlighting Black professionals in the environmental fields and ways in which local action can produce results. Dorsey is a Baltimore native and Virginia Tech graduate student. (Courtesy Sharon Dorsey) You don’t have to ditch your car and go live in a tent to help solve the problems caused by pollution and climate change. Sharon Dorsey, a Baltimore native and Virginia Tech grad student, is one of the organizers of “Black in Environment Week.” Along with spotlighting scientists, engineers and policymakers ...

When world’s largest plastic dhow sailed on Lake Victoria April 7, 2021 Flipflopi, a sailing dhow Flipflopi, a sailing dhow made from 100 per cent recycled plastic, is on a world expedition while circumnavigating Africa’s largest freshwater ecosystem, Lake Victoria. Just as ERNEST JJINGO observed when it docked at Ggaba two weeks ago, there is need for greater sensitization about disposal of waste. Taking its vital message upstream and calling for an end to unnecessary single-use of plastic threatening the region, the boat’s visit coincided...