Canada, free entry to all its national parks for the whole of 2017
Per festeggiare il 150esimo anniversario del Paese il ministro dell’Ambiente ha annunciato che i 47 parchi del Canada saranno gratuiti per tutto l’anno.
How Canada has responded to Trump’s travel ban on Muslims
Justin Trudeau responds to Donald Trump’s executive order to ban travel from seven majority Muslim countries and to put a halt on Syrian refugees coming to the U.S. In addition, the Canadian Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussan, who is a Somalian refugee also responds to the travel ban.
US and Canada make historic move to ban Arctic drilling, indefinitely
The United States and Canada have announced a permanent ban on oil and gas drilling in parts of the Arctic and the Atlantic.
Has Justin Trudeau slipped in approving the Kinder Morgan oil pipeline
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has approved the building of a major oil pipeline known as the Kinder Morgan pipeline, which will run from the Alberta Tar Sands to the port of Burnaby on the province of British Columbia’s (BC) Pacific coast, whilst rejecting the construction of its twin, the Northern Gateway pipeline. The Kinder
Buddhist monks release 600 pounds of lobster back into the ocean
In Canada un gruppo di monaci buddisti ha acquistato numerose aragoste destinate ad essere mangiate nei ristoranti e le ha liberate.
What Justin Trudeau is doing for Aboriginal Canadians
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a new budget in March that pledges over 8 billion Canadian dollars for policies aimed at improving the lives of Aboriginal Canadians. This marks a significant increase in government funding focused on the country’s indigenous peoples, with the intent of reversing centuries of discrimination. Aboriginal Canadians Currently, the aboriginal community in
Canada, the shadow of climate change on the fires that are devastating Fort McMurray
A week after the fires started raging in Canada a city was evacuated, hectares of forest were destroyed and crude oil production was shut down.
The Alberta tar sands. Canada’s oil costs more than it makes
The Alberta tar sands hold much of Canada’s oil wealth: the region contains an estimated 1.7 trillion barrels of bitumen oil. The size of this reserve makes it the third largest oil deposit in the world after Venezuela and Saudi Arabia. Yet despite this, the cost of extraction now outweighs the profit made per barrel.
Canada’s largest coal plant will become a solar farm
Closed in 2013, the coal plant will become a solar park that will generate 44 MW of photovoltaic, clean and reliable energy.
The man who makes music out of ice in the coldest recording studio of the world
To underline the effects of climate change, Terje Isungset recorded his album Meditations in the arctic regions using ice instruments.