Bill Atwood

A new bill that could make major changes to the province’s Endangered Species Act is drawing strong opposition from both the Perth County Sustainability Hub officials and a biologist with the Upper Thames River Conservation Authority, who say the result will be significantly less available habitat for species at risk.

Meeting his second grandchild in the fall of 2018 made Bill James-Abra want to take action As he gazed at the infant while an older grandchild stood on his knee, he began wondering about the world they would grow up in. “I found myself thinking, ‘what kind of world are these kids going to inherit, and what do I want to do about that?’ And that led to me then thinking that there was a gap in Stratford to start an environmental group,” James-Abra said.

More than two weeks after neighbours approached Perth East council with their concerns about the Benmet Metal & Steel Recycling facility, it remains unclear just who is actually responsible for regulating the noise coming from the site.

With the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions that the town and municipal district produce by five per cent, David Desabrais has jumped right into his new role as municipal energy project lead for both municipalities.

Former premier Jim Prentice called it a fail-safe project to prevent future flooding in Calgary. But six years and nearly half a billion dollars later, the Springbank Offstream reservoir project SR-1 hasn't been built. Not long after massive flooding in 2013, the Southern Alberta Flood Recovery Task Force suggested a number of mitigation projects for Calgary and the surrounding area, including dams at McLean Creek and Springbank. The Alberta government considers the Springbank SR-1 reservoir to

The United Nations’ Sports for Climate Action Framework calls on sports organizations to play a bigger role in the fight against climate change, which experts say could help send a message to fans about the importance of that issue. However, professional sports organizations in Calgary have shown a mixed response to that framework and have yet to sign this call to action. The framework asks sports organizations to adhere to five different principles. These principles are: undertaking systemati