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Manitoba Wildlands has released the annual Manitoba Protected Areas Grade and technical assessment. Its actions, or lack thereof, have earned the provincial government a failing grade for 2008. In the year since December 2007, Manitoba experienced a net loss of protected lands. This marks the second year in a row

What happens when you find yourself stuck between a strand board and a hard place?The future leader of the NDP is certainly going to find out. For it is going to be left up to whomever replaces outgoing Premier Gary Doer to settle a simmering battle that could very well

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 Nahanni National Park Reserve – also

OTTAWA – The Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) is launching a public campaign today inviting citizens in Canada and other countries to let decision makers know that in the next U.N. Convention on Climate Change, it’s time to “make forests count.”  The campaign is timed to coincide with the

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 and services provided

By Jack Christie Polar boulders. Caribushes. Muskrocks. Victoria-based wildlife guide Andrew MacPherson has seen them all during summer sojourns in the Arctic. Drift through Wapusk National Park near the west shore of Hudson Bay aboard a slow-moving train and you will too, as wildlife melds with the landscape. A quartz

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 traditional sites, as well

Fisher River Cree Nation, a community working with CPAWS to establish a Fisher Bay provincial park around the south basin of Lake Winnipeg, won a tourism award today for the Leigh Cochrane Memorial Visitors Centre. The Visitors Centre is proposed to serve as the hub for the candidate park. At

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 tetrafluoroethane, a gas used for its cooling properties.

The North Eastman portion of the Trans Canada Trail is getting some much-needed funding from the Building Canada Fund. A boost of $2.9 million announced last weekend will go toward making the Border to Beaches trail project a reality. The project is a trail completion initiative of the Manitoba Recreational

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

Occurring in the United Nations International Year of Fresh Water, Boreal Rendezvous is being organized with First Nations colleagues and involves high profile Canadians in all events, such as Rick Mercer, Justin Trudeau, Cathy Jones, Tomson Highway, Sarah Harmer, Silken Laumann, Tom Cochrane, Jimmy Rankin, and many more. This will