Why Quebec's forestry reform is facing backlash from Indigenous groups, conservationists
June 6, 2025
Minister of Natural Resources and Forests Maïté Blanchette Vézina tabled Bill 97 in the spring with the hopes of boosting the regional forestry economy and making the industry more competitive. But different actors say she's missed the mark.
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After receiving hundreds of tips, analyzing hours of video footage and seizing electronic devices, the Nova Scotia RCMP insist there’s still no evidence that two young children who disappeared from the rural hamlet of Lansdowne nearly six weeks ago were kidnapped. The Mounties in a statement Wednesday described their investigation into the mysterious case as tenacious and intensive. They said they were getting help from the RCMP-run National Centre for Missing Persons and Unidentified Remains, as well as provincial and municipal police agencies from Nova Scotia and other parts of Canada...
June 11, 2025 - 22:12 | Lindsay Jones, Greg Mercer | The Globe and Mail
Workers at Queen’s Park removed wooden boards on Wednesday morning that have surrounded a statue of Sir John A. Macdonald since 2020, when Black Lives Matter protesters covered it with pink paint. The decision by the Board of Internal Economy, the Ontario legislative committee that voted to uncover the statue, has stoked tensions with First Nations and debate over the legacy of the first Canadian prime minister. Macdonald played a key role in creating Canada’s residential school system.
June 11, 2025 - 21:50 | Sophia Coppolino | The Globe and Mail
Nearly half of the people forced from their homes by wildfires in Saskatchewan will be allowed to return later this week with conditions slightly improving in the province, but thousands remain displaced across large parts of Canada.Premier Scott Moe said around 7,000 people in the north-central Saskatchewan region around Lac La Ronge will see evacuation orders lifted Thursday. Still, he cautioned, his government is maintaining a provincewide state of emergency until further notice.
June 11, 2025 - 21:28 | Temur Durrani | The Globe and Mail
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