An ecology and urban planning professor is challenging Toronto’s long grass and weed bylaw, even though the city gave her an exemption this summer to save her natural garden full of tall shrubs and trees, as well as butterflies and chipmunks.
Day: October 11, 2020
The Vancouver Whitecaps snapped a four-game losing skid Saturday, taking a much-needed 2-1 win over Real Salt Lake.
French microbiologist Emmanuelle Charpentier and American biochemist Jennifer A. Doudna have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing a way of editing genes likened to “molecular scissors” that offer the promise of one day curing inherited diseases.
The end is coming for plastic grocery bags, straws and cutlery after the federal government announced today which single-use plastics will be covered by a national ban coming into effect next year.
Members of the media are invited to an infrastructure funding announcement for four green projects in New Brunswick communities, with René Arsenault, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Economic Development and Official Languages (Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency and Official Languages) and Member of Parliament for Madawaska−Restigouche, on behalf of the Honourable Catherine McKenna, Minister of Infrastructure and Communities, and on behalf of the Honourable Seamus O’Regan, Minister of Natural Resources, and the Honourable Jonathan Wilkinson, Minister of Environment and Climate Change.