by Brian | Sep 24, 2020 | Electric and Autonomous Vehicles
Speech from the Throne prioritizes pandemic response and signals forthcoming measures to advance the clean transportation economy THE COUNTRY’S ELECTRIC VEHICLE COMMUNITY is feeling buoyant in the wake of Wednesday’s Speech from the Throne by the federal...
by Brian | Sep 21, 2020 | Electric and Autonomous Vehicles
Ottawa is also providing $500 million for plant upgrades; retooling is scheduled for 2024, EV production to start in 2025 Editor’s Note: Our original story below was published hours before news of a deal on a three-year contract between Ford Canada and Unifor, the...
by Brian | Sep 10, 2020 | Canadian Geographic, Climate
How grasslands protection and conservation agriculture can work as front-line defences against climate change THE SWEEPING VISTAS of the Govenlock-Nashlyn-Battle Creek grasslands in southwest Saskatchewan have been long recognized as a haven for prairie plants and...
by Brian | Sep 10, 2020 | ON Nature, Wildlife
The playful behaviour of river otters has long enchanted animal lovers. But researchers continue to wonder about what drives these creatures’ curious antics ANIMAL STORIES HAVE A WAY of living on. An unexpected and substantial drop in the number of snapping turtles in...
by Brian | Sep 2, 2020 | Canadian Wildlife, People
For more than 20 years, Gerry Powers has been the go-to guy, finding and caring for injured owls in B.C.’s Fraser Valley GERRY POWERS SAYS the phone call came — as they often do — in the middle of the night. It was from a couple of RCMP officers working in the...
