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Seeing the forest through the dead trees at Stanley Park
Marsha Lederman
energy and resources
Irish company planning to produce jet fuel in Goldboro, N.S., at former LNG site
An energy firm based in Ireland says it is planning to produce sustainable aviation fuel at the site where a liquified natural gas project had been proposed on Nova Scotia's eastern shore. Nova Scotia's provincial flag flies in Ottawa, Friday July 3, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
politics
Canada launches legal challenge after U.S. hikes duties on softwood imports
Fresh cut lumber is pictured stacked at a mill along the Stave River in Maple Ridge, B.C. April 25, 2019. The federal government says Canada will challenge recent increases to softwood lumber duties by the United States.. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
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B.C. First Nation wants more say in forestry after Canfor mill closure announcement
Colleen Erickson, Board Chair of the First Nations Health Authority, listens news conference where data on toxic drug deaths of First Nations people was released, in Vancouver, on Friday, April 21, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
british columbia
Canfor shutting two northern B.C. sawmills with 500 employees, CEO blames U.S. tariffs
Softwood lumber is pictured along the Fraser River in Richmond, B.C., Tuesday, April 25, 2017. Canfor Corp. has announced it is shutting two northern B.C. sawmills in a move it says will impact about 500 workers. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
opinion
Blame Nova Scotia for billions Canada will pay in softwood lumber duties
William Pellerin
canada
P.E.I. forests emit more carbon than they absorb after damage from 2022 storm
Damage from post-tropical storm Fiona at the wharf in Stanley Bridge, P.E.I. on Sunday September 25, 2022. Two years after post-tropical storm Fiona made landfall on P.E.I., a report by the provincial government says the Island’s forests are emitting more carbon than they capture, and it will take at least 50 years to restore the trees that were lost. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Brian McInnis
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Ottawa, B.C. criticize increased U.S. duties on softwood lumber
(FILES) A lumber truck in Seneterre, Quebec, Canada, on September 8, 2021. Ottawa announced on August 22, 2023, it will challenge the latest US duties on Canadian softwood lumber that it called "unfair, unjust and illegal." At the same time, Canada offered to try to negotiate terms with the US to bring an end to the longstanding trade dispute that has often flared up over the past 40 years. (Photo by Andrej Ivanov / AFP) (Photo by ANDREJ IVANOV/AFP via Getty Images)
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Trade Minister Mary Ng criticizes higher U.S. softwood lumber duties as unfair, unwarranted
Export Promotion, International Trade and Economic Development Minister Mary Ng responds to questions from reporters before heading into a meeting of the Liberal Caucus in Ottawa, on Wednesday, June 12, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Patrick Doyle
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Audit of BC Timber Sales program finds ‘significant’ issues with road and bridge maintenance
Logs are seen in an aerial view stacked at the Interfor sawmill, in Grand Forks, B.C., on May 12, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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Western Forest Products narrows loss in second quarter to $5.7-million
Logs are seen in an aerial view stacked at a sawmill in Grand Forks, B.C., Saturday May 12, 2018. Western Forest Products Inc. says it will temporarily reduce its lumber production levels for the rest of the year. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
world
Brazil to allow miles of selective logging in effort to preserve the Amazon
FILE - Timber from a woodmill sits next to the jungle near Vila Nova Samuel, Brazil, Aug. 27, 2019. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano, File)
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Canfor Corp. CEO Don Kayne to step down at the end of 2024
The corporate logo for forest products producer Canfor Corp. is shown. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO
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Group says photos of reclusive tribe on Peru beach show logging concessions are ‘dangerously close’
Members of the Mashco Piro Indigenous community, a reclusive tribe and one of the world's most withdrawn, gather on the banks of the Las Piedras river where they have been sighted coming out of the rainforest more frequently in search of food and moving away from the growing presence of loggers, in Monte Salvado, in the Madre de Dios province, Peru, June 27, 2024. Survival International/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES
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Business Brief: Logged out
A helicopter awaits Mosaic's Chief Development Officer Domenico Iannidinardo as he works along the Cowichan Lake Main above Lake Cowichan, B.C., on Tuesday, March 26, 2024. Chad Hipolito/The Globe and Mail
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Is your driving being secretly scored?
Kathleen Lomax shows the Life360 app on her phone in Short Hills, N.J., June 3, 2024. A safety feature of the Life360 app tracked the family's driving habits, prompting Lomax to cancel her $100 annual subscription. (Andres Kudacki/The New York Times)
british columbia
B.C. celebrates 10 billion seedlings planted since 1930
A Grand Fir tree at Francis/King Regional Park in Saanich, B.C., is shown on Thursday, May 26, 2016. British Columbia officials are celebrating the planting of 10 billion seedlings since reforestation efforts began nearly a century ago. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito
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B.C. building code to allow mass timber in buildings up to 18 storeys, up from 12
A new building is being built at the University of British Columbia campus in Vancouver, B.C., Monday, June, 13, 2016. The province is making building-code changes allowing for the use of mass timber in buildings up to 18 storeys, an increase from the previous 12-storey limit. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
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U.S. lumber industry takes aim at Canada’s forestry research centre, alleging unfair subsidies
A lumber yard is seen near Vancouver, B.C., on July 6, 2022. Photo: Jennifer Gauthier