THE province has signed an accord with 16 First Nations along the east side of Lake Winnipeg that ensures bands won’t get railroaded by development projects on their traditional lands.
The deal, in the works since 2000, kicks off what’s expected to be a long process of creating long-term development...
A Manitoba environmental protection group is sounding an alarm over air horns that contain substances that can harm the ozone layer.
The Manitoba Ozone Protection Industry Association (MOPIA) said two brands of air horns—the noisemakers often used at football and hockey games—contain...
The province is giving the Wabanong Nakaygum Okimawin (WNO) Council of Chiefs $2.5 million over five years for land-use planning in their traditional area on the east side of Lake Winnipeg.
“Traditional land-use planning will assist First Nations and Aboriginal Peoples with mapping burial and other...
The natural Wealth of the Mackenzie Region is close to $500 billion, according to a report released today by the Canadian Boreal Initiative (CBI).
The report, The Real Wealth of the Mackenzie Region, authored by two ecological economists Sara Wilson and Mark Anielski, estimates the ecological goods...
Winnipeg, Manitoba - James Keelaghan, Dr. Derek Ford, and Harvey Locke will appear at the Winnipeg Art Gallery Friday, November 18th as part of a cross-country tour to encourage Canadians to help protect the Northwest Territories’ spectacular Nahanni wilderness. The current boundaries of the...
The Manitoba government’s continued refusal to include the woodland caribou on its endangered species list is contributing to the species’ declining numbers, according to wilderness experts.
Manitoba wildlife conservation experts say the province’s efforts to date - including a recently published...
After years of delays, the Manitoba government has released its Conservation and Recovery Strategy for Boreal Woodland Caribou. The Strategy is a weaker, watered-down version of its predecessor that fails to embrace what is truly needed to create a healthy future for threatened woodland caribou -...
The province is providing $500,000 to support land-use planning on the
East Side of Lake Winnipeg which will give local communities a greater
say over how resources in the region are utilized, Conservation Minister
Stan Struthers announced today.
“We want the people of the area to have input into...
- Manitoba citizens - over 18,000 letters of support sent to the Manitoba government
- Bill Blaikie - Manitoba NDP Conservation Minister
- Jon Gerrard - Liberal leader, Manitoba Legislature
- James Bezan - Conservative Member of Parliament, Selkirk-Interlake (location of Fisher Bay)
- James Beddome - Manitoba...
LAST March, Premier Gary Doer and David Anderson, then federal environment minister, signed an agreement to work toward the creation of Manitoba’s third national park in the northern Interlake by May 2005, and to complete public consultations by the end of 2004.
The year is now over, and the...
