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Entrepreneurs looking to start or enhance tourism businesses in eastern Manitoba will be eligible for grants of up to $15,000 under a new Eastside Tourism Investment Program. Culture, Heritage and Tourism Minister Flor Marcelino made the announcement Tuesday at the 2010 Travel Manitoba annual meeting,  according to a news release.

OTTAWA—Canada’s lakes and rivers are awash in harmful contaminants, but new documents warn the federal government’s murky understanding of the problem is putting the country at risk. Senior bureaucrats reached that conclusion in a pair of internal reports on contaminants and excess nutrients in freshwater. The officials warned Ottawa needs

Sophia Rabliauskas says future employment for First Nations people is at stake. (Photo by [email protected]) Five First Nations communities on the east side of Lake Winnipeg hope you open your wallet to help tell the world their ancestral home is worthy of a United Nations world heritage designation. The goal

CANADA’S environmental groups handed Premier Greg Selinger a first-ever award Monday night for his government’s work in protecting the east side of the province from hydro development. The inaugural Environmental Leadership Award was presented at a reception at the legislative building at the same time angry farmers filled a committee

An international conference dedicated to the preservation of worldwide caribou herds and habitat ended Thursday with local advocates urging Manitoba’s government to act. Representatives of at least two Manitoba groups offered ideas to the province to prevent the species’ decline. The woodland caribou is a threatened species in Canada. “Caribou

Manitobans have the rare opportunity to make a profoundly positive choice that will resonate across Canada and around the world by showing their support of the UNESCO World Heritage bid on the east side of Lake Winnipeg. Pimachiowin Aki Inc. and the Manitoba government are working to achieve UNESCO World

The pursuit of a provincial park has earned one Manitoba chief a Prairie Crocus prize. Chief David Crate of the Fisher River Cree Nation will receive Nature Manitoba’s Prairie Crocus Award in recognition of his leadership in the campaign to establish a new provincial park around Fisher Bay on Lake

OTTAWA, Oct. 19 /CNW/ – The largest-ever global study on The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) is being released today in Nagoya, Japan, at the Convention on Biodiversity’s 10th Conference of the Parties.  The study, Mainstreaming the Economics of Nature, was led by a top international banker (Pavan Sukhdev)

The most comprehensive report ever on the state of Canada’s biodiversity calls for action to ‘‘maintain functioning ecosystems” from B.C.‘s forests to the Prairies grasslands to the St. Lawrence River. The report, Canadian biodiversity: ecosystem status and trends 2010, was quietly posted on the web Friday by the federal, provincial

Last spring, conservation groups and timber companies signed an historic agreement to protect a large swath of Canada’s boreal forest. In an interview with Yale Environment 360, the Pew Environment Group’s Steven E. Kallick, a key player in the agreement, explains why the accord is integral to a larger plan

The chief of Fisher River Cree Nation says the province is stalling on a plan to establish a provincial park at Fisher Bay. In a release issued today FRCN and Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) say the province is attempting to back down on its commitment to designate a

Re: Province accused of dragging its feet on wilderness park (Oct. 2). The Manitoba government’s request to delay the designation of a provincial park in Fisher Bay is unacceptable on several grounds. Environmentally speaking, Fisher Bay is a healthy boreal wilderness; many rare and threatened species make it their home.