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The first carbon tax in Manitoba’s history is too limited to do much good for the environment, critics say. The $10-a-tonne tax, announced in the budget on Wednesday by Finance Minister Greg Selinger, won’t kick in until July 2011, and is limited to emissions from coal-fired industry, which environmentalists say is already in decline. “There’s not

Environmentalists and Canada’s pulp and paper companies—including three operating in Manitoba—have decided it’s better to co-operate than fight. On Tuesday, an historic agreement was announced that will halt new logging on 29 million hectares of forest for three years while plans are developed to protect endangered caribou and other species.

A group of Brandonites with mountain bikes is working hard this summer to put the “ride” back in Riding Mountain by creating a trail that actually illustrates why the park deserves its name.

In the frosty pre-dawn darkness, Bridget Stutchbury is slipping stealthily through the Pennsylvania woodlands, occasionally flashing a light to illuminate a landmark. She is trailing a philanderer, hoping to catch the hussy in the act. For two hours she tracks her target by sound and radio — and she fails.

This commentary by Eric Hebert-Daly, CPAWS’ National Executive Director, appeared in The Hill Times on April 26, 2010. It’s 2010, the International Year of Biodiversity. The seven-year old federal Species At Risk Act is under review by the House of Commons Standing Committee on the Environment. It’s timely to ask

Young people will have the opportunity to get to know their wild neighbours in Beaudry Provincial Park through the provincially supported Robert Bateman Get to Know program, Conservation Minister Bill Blaikie said today on Earth Day. “The program will help introduce young people to the wonders of Manitoba’s natural areas

Once again the embarrassing numbers are out showing how awful Manitoba’s record is in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Embarrassing may not describe things aptly enough; abysmal and horrendous is much better. As if a risky taxpayer-funded deal for a new football stadium and running five more years of deficit budgets

CHITEK LAKE — Oh, give me a home… In 1991, the Manitoba government did just that. Except it wasn’t a home where the buffalo roam, like in the old song. It was a home where the buffalo could roam. That year, Manitoba Conservation released 13 wood bison into the unorganized

The Manitoba Breeding Bird Atlas will be a comprehensive gathering of information that will help preserve our unique avian populations, said Manitoba Conservation Minister Bill Blaikie and Member of Parliament for Winnipeg South, Rod Bruinooge. “The Breeding Bird Atlas will be one of the largest citizen scientist volunteer efforts ever

A Canadian study of global caribou populations has produced what scientists are calling a “dramatic revelation” that numbers of the iconic species — pictured on the Canadian quarter — have plunged 60 per cent in the past 30 years. The study, co-authored by University of Alberta biologists Liv Vors and

Re: East side tourism (March 24). I was pleased to read the province will be investing $2.5 million on a new aboriginal cultural centre near Hollow Water—the gateway to the heart of the boreal forest on the east side of Lake Winnipeg. The announcement also includes a separate fund for

Re: Billion dollar bungles (March 22). Jim Carr is either misinformed or he is deliberately misrepresenting the facts. From what I understand, Manitoba’s two largest energy customers, Minnesota and Wisconsin, are very much concerned with not only the financial cost of their power, but also the social and environmental methods