A preliminary report on a weekend tornado in central Alberta says its winds were so violent they picked up a 10-tonne farm combine and tossed it half the length of a football field. The report by the Northern Tornadoes Project rated the twister as a four on the Enhanced Fujita scale of wind-damage intensity, just […]
A hot, humid air mass is parked over Saskatchewan, and it isn’t moving. With temperatures expected to be above 30 all week, and humidex values expected to be 36, Environment and Climate Change Canada has issued a heat warning for parts of Saskatchewan. It includes Regina, Fort Qu’Appelle and the surrounding area, encompassing most of […]
As the kids don their new duds, grab their backpacks and head back to school, summer weather doesn’t appear to be over. Regina is one of many areas in Southern Saskatchewan under a heat warning today. Temperatures will be around 32 degrees for a high, and will only get down to 16 degrees for the […]
Environment Canada has issued some warnings for parts of Saskatchewan. Gull Lake, Leader, Swift Current, can expect some strong winds tonight. The wind warning is talking about strong wind gusts up to 90 kilometres an hour tomorrow morning. That warning also covers Val Marie, The Cypress Hills, Maple Creek and Shaunovan. The other red blobs […]
Premier Scott Moe is standing by his comments where he said that he ”doesn’t care that the province has the highest carbon emissions per capita.’ Moe clarified that he does care about the province being an environmental leader. However, he does not believe measuring the province’s carbon emissions per capita is fair. “Per capita emissions […]
The National Farmers Union has released a comprehensive view of greenhouse gas emissions from Canadian agriculture. NFU director of Climate Crisis Policy and Action, Darrin Qualman, says a detailed view of emissions is needed to form a foundation for on-farm actions to reduce emissions and for government actions to provide incentives for those actions. […]
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau heads into 2020 promising to chart a path to Canada’s most ambitious greenhouse-gas emissions target yet: getting to a point within 30 years where Canada is adding no emissions that will stay in the atmosphere. But one of the first things his government has to decide in the new year […]
The National Farmers Union has released a new report on tackling the farm crisis and the climate crisis. President Katie Ward says the report points to agriculture to provide an opportunity to become part of the solution in dealing with the climate crisis facing the globe. The report says incentives should be put in […]
EDMONTON — An Edmonton man says he defaced a mural of teenage Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg because he wanted to take a stand peacefully. James Bagnall says he wrote “stop the lies” and “this is oil country” on the portrait of the 16-year-old girl against a bright-blue background. He says he wasn’t taking shots at […]
