Dec. 12, 2025 – The National Observer – Last month’s agreement between the governments of Canada and Alberta lays the foundation for a new and highly contested oil pipeline to the northwest coast, swiftly putting a decade of federal climate progress in jeopardy in an attempt to protect our economy. But this approach misses the point; good climate policy is good economic policy. This agreement threatens both.
+Dec. 9, 2025 – Associated Press – Running out of time. Ten years ago, almost 200 nations signed the Paris Agreement with the goal of limiting future warming to no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) since preindustrial times to avoid or lessen the most catastrophic effects of climate change. But on the current trajectory, the climate could warm by 2.4 degrees Celsius (4 degrees Fahrenheit) by 2100, Watson said.
+Dec. 3, 2025 – The New York Times – The tiny town of Churchill has two of Canada’s largest pieces of Arctic infrastructure, but years of neglect have left them in poor shape amid growing superpower rivalry in the region.
+Dec. 5, 2025 – Brandon Sun – Drought in Manitoba has been ongoing for over the past six years, 2024 marked the second low water year in a row and third Manitoba Hydro has experienced in a four-year period.
+Dec. 4, 2025 – Open Access – There is an abundance of research data and field observations which demonstrate that riparian areas do not always work as filters of potential contaminants in runoff from agricultural land, and should not be promoted as a ‘silver-bullet’ Best Management Practice for agricultural watersheds. This is certainly the case in cold climate regions such as the Northern Great Plains of North America.
+Dec. 4, 2025 – Western Producer – By linking renewable energy sources for transport, processing and refrigeration, the rest of the food system can maintain a positive energy balance of our food.
+Nov. 28, 2025 – The Winnipeg Free Press – The chair of Manitoba’s expert advisory council says the province’s work on various environmental projects, including creating a path to net-zero emissions and a review of its wildfire response, are well underway.
+Nov. 27, 2025 – Discover Westman – In early October, the Montreal-based company, Deep Sky Climate, announced their intentions to build a facility that draws carbon dioxide out of the air using Direct Air Capture (DAC) technology here in the southwest corner of the province.
+Nov. 202, 2025 – CBC News – A multi-billion-dollar combustion turbine project planned for the city of Brandon will give the province “power sovereignty,” said the Wheat City’s mayor, echoing comments made by Premier Wab Kinew during Tuesday’s throne speech.
+Nov. 14, 2025 – The Narwhal – Manitoba — home of much hydro power and notoriously cold winters — says it’s perfectly positioned for a data centre boom. Here’s what that means for the province.
+Nov. 19, 2025 – Winnipeg Free Press – To say I’m disappointed with the new federal budget would be the understatement of the year. Truth is, I’m frustrated and angry.
+Nov. 19, 2025 – Winnipeg Free Press – Premier promises ‘Trump-proofing’ of Manitoba economy in $3-B project.
+Nov. 14, 2025 – Winnipeg Free Press – Last month, our government introduced Manitoba’s Path to Net Zero, our strategy to protect the environment and reach net zero emissions by 2050. This strategy is guided by the traditions and teachings of manoomin, or wild rice.
+Nov. 17, 2025 – Daily Hive – Prime Minister Mark Carney’s 2025 budget for the Government of Canada is drawing criticism from the public transit sector after previously dedicated public transit funding was folded into a larger infrastructure pool, raising concerns over predictability and the ability to move forward with public transit expansion projects across the country.
+Oct. 2, 2025 – Harvest Manitoba is now one step closer to building a food rescue and distribution facility, thanks to some new funding. On Tuesday, the organization announced it is receiving $500,000 from Farm Credit Canada to help lay the groundwork for a food transformation and distribution centre that will take edible food leaking from the supply chain and make sure it gets into the hands of Manitobans.
+Oct. 1, 2025 – CBC News – Onion Lake Cree Nation wants to lead the way into a new era of solar power for Indigenous communities. The First Nation, which straddles the Alberta-Saskatchewan border about 50 kilometres north of Lloydminster, is installing rooftop solar panels on 123 homes in the community of about 7,000 people. The $1.28-million project is being paid for by federal grants and more than $500,000 from Raven Outcomes, which helps Indigenous communities find funding for projects.
+Oct. 1, 2025 – Waste Today Magazine -The Canadian government has launched the Food Waste Prevention and Diversion: Research and Capacity Building Fund. According to officials, Canada’s main sources of methane emissions are oil and gas (38 percent of total methane emissions), agriculture (30 percent) and municipal landfills (23 percent). “Municipal solid waste landfills are responsible for almost one‑quarter of Canada’s methane emissions, which are generated when biodegradable waste decomposes,” the government says. “Cutting methane emissions from all sources, including landfills, is one of the fastest and most cost-effective ways to combat climate change.”
+Sept. 18, 2025 – The Canadian Press – OTTAWA – Canada’s short-term targets for reducing its emissions are now out of reach after emission levels remained unchanged last year, and recent federal policies have set back Canada’s progress, Canada’s leading climate policy research organization says in a new report.
+Sep. 4, 2025 – Associated Press – Around 1,460 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide can be safely stored underground, but this limit could be reached by 2200.
+Sep. 3, 2025 – The National Observer – Fossil fuel pollution is overheating Canadian forests, spawning an out-of-control wildfire crisis. Wildfire is now incinerating four times more forest carbon than during the 1990s. In addition to the surging immediate threats of choking smoke, wanton destruction and disrupted lives, rising wildfire is also pumping billions of tonnes of forest carbon into our atmosphere, intensifying long-term climate breakdown.
Sep. 2, 2025 – The fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty initiative aims to sidestep slow-moving UN climate talks by gathering together nations, cities and companies that want to rapidly phase out oil, coal and gas. At the coming Cop30 summit in Belém, it hopes to gather support so it can launch negotiations for a new treaty next year. The group’s founder, Tzeporah Berman, explains why the Amazon rainforest and the global south are an ideal springboard for the movement.
+Aug. 29, 2025 – The National Observer – When Prime Minister Mark Carney and his energy minister, Tim Hodgson, flew to Berlin at the end of August, their ostensible purpose was to announce a “new partnership with Germany on critical minerals and energy.” On paper, the trip was a trade mission with modest immediate results (three deals between Canadian mining companies and German industries). More significantly, it provided an opportunity to tell Canadians about the first two major projects likely to be chosen under Bill C-5, the Building Canada Act.
+Aug. 29, 2025 – The National Observer – Over a million hectares of Manitoba have burned this summer. As thousands flee for their lives, air quality warnings are now part of our daily weather forecasts, and we’re told not to go outside if we’re elderly or vulnerable. Meanwhile, the provincial government is still missing in action on working towards a fossil-fuel-free future.
+Aug. 29, 2025 – The Canadian Press – As climate change becomes more evident in Canadians’ daily lives, teachers across the country say the education system must better equip younger generations to deal with its fallout.
+Aug. 11, 2025 – The Fleet – This week, Winnipeg Transit is introducing its first 60-foot zero-emission electric bus (ZEB) into passenger service.
+Aug. 8, 2025 – The Walrus – In a territory where food arrives by truck, a handful of farmers are proving there’s another way.
+Jul. 23, 2025 – Canadian Dimension – As climate collapse accelerates, its unequal impacts reveal the class divisions at its core.
+Jul. 21, 2025 – The Associated Press – THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The United Nations’ top court in a landmark advisory opinion Wednesday said countries could be in violation of international law if they fail to take measures to protect the planet from climate change, and nations harmed by its effects could be entitled to reparations.
+July 22, 2025 – The Guardian – António Guterres says ‘sun is rising on a clean energy age’ as 90% of renewable power projects cheaper than fossil fuels.
+Jul. 10, 2025 – CBC News – Garden Hill, Snow Lake most recent communities under mandatory evacuation.
+Jul. 9, 2025 – CTV News – Early findings indicate particulates from the ash contribute to phosphate levels, which increase algal blooms.
+Jul. 8, 2025 – Associated Press – It is not possible that cloud seeding generated the floods, according to experts, as the process can only produce limited precipitation using clouds that already exist. Forecasts predicted rain for that weekend prior to July 2 in an area that was already prone to flooding.
+June 19, 2025 – The Canadian Press – Almost one in four Canadians were directly affected by extreme weather events over the past year, a new poll suggests.
+Jun 18, 2025 – The Associated Press- Humans are on track to release so much greenhouse gas in less than three years that a key threshold for limiting global warming will be nearly unavoidable, according to a study to be released Thursday.
+Winnipeg’s municipal government created more greenhouse gases last year, despite a key target to achieve net zero emissions by 2050. In 2024, City of Winnipeg operations created 319,811 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions, up 3.9 per cent — or 12,034 tonnes — from the previous year.
+May 29, 2025 – The Narwhal – This spring’s wildfires are some of the most devastating our province has endured, sparking fears the scorching season is merely a prelude of what’s to come.
+May 29, 2025 – The Canadian Press – Solar panels have never been cheaper, and the lower upfront cost means homeowners can recoup their investment more quickly, with savings on electricity bills.
+May 29, 2025 – The Independent – Fires force complete evacuation of Flin Flon city near Saskatchewan border after winds shift and pushed flames dangerously close to community.
+May 27, 2025 – The Conversation – Is climate action a lost cause? The United States is withdrawing from the Paris Agreement for the second time, while heat records over land and sea have toppled and extreme weather events have multiplied.
+May 25, 2025 – Schools, communities and municipalities are looking for ways to make their buildings more adaptable.
+May 26, 2025 – CBC – Warning in place for southeast Manitoba, special air quality statement in the north.
+May 10, 2025 – The Narwhal – 10 billion litres of sewage are dumped into Winnipeg’s lakes and rivers each year. Some avoid touching river water altogether — but others say the untreated sewage is not as bad as it sounds.
+Apr. 28, 2025 – The Narwhal – Canada’s 2025 federal election campaign started on the heels of a prime minister stepping down and a tariff war brewing across the border. The dramatic twists upended what was an assumed Conservative win to instead keep the Liberals in power for their fourth consecutive term.
+Apr. 23, 22025 – Associated Press – WASHINGTON (AP) — The world’s biggest corporations have caused $28 trillion in climate damage, a new study estimates as part of an effort to make it easier for people and governments to hold companies financially accountable, like the tobacco giants have been.
+April 15, 2025 – Science Alert – Extreme heat is the most dangerous risk posed by climate change in Australia, and it’s not just taking a physical toll on the population. There may also be a mental cost going unaddressed.
+Apr. 14, 2025 – The Energy Mix – Nearly 170 municipal leaders from across Canada are calling on federal parties to address the dual threats of climate change and a Trump-era trade war with bold, nation-building investments, warning that “status quo” policies and revived pipeline proposals won’t meet the moment.
+Apr. 12, 2025 – BBC News – People could see the thunderstorm, but they couldn’t see what was going on inside it. Trillions of pollen particles, sucked up into the clouds as the storm formed, were now being splintered by rain, lightning and humidity into ever-smaller fragments – then cast back down to Earth for people to breathe them in.
Mar. 5, 2025 – Environment Journal – Remember when 2°C of global warming was the doomsday scenario? Well, we’re now staring down the barrel of something much worse. From the fish on your plate to the weather outside your window, everything’s about to change.
A new study by an international team of researchers, including Jackie Dawson, professor of Geography, Environment and Geomatics at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Arts, underscores the grave risks posed by insufficient national commitments to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
“Our findings reveal that the risk of reaching 2.7°C of warming is substantial and that there is not a single sector in society that will remain untouched,” explains Dawson, who is also a Canada Research Chair in the Human and Policy Dimensions of Climate Change. “From marine ecosystems to local infrastructure, the cascading impacts will affect every individual.”
+Feb, 25, 2025 – Climate Change Connection – The Manitoba High School Video Challenge Calls for Youth to Speak Up! From what to eat, what to drive, young people can have a big influence on what their parents, families and friends do; how they live; and what they buy; and they can be a driving source of positive change, especially when it comes to climate change.
+Feb. 19, 2025 – CBC – Winnipeg Transit unveiled its first hydrogen fuel cell bus on Wednesday. But while the city expects to receive dozens more zero-emission buses over the next few years, supply chain issues, budget pressures and looming tariff threats have thrown the city’s plans to phase out its diesel fleet into doubt. Erin Cooke, manager of Transit’s transition to zero-emission bus program, says the city will test two types of buses — hydrogen fuel cell and battery electric — in 40-foot and 60-foot sizes.
+Jan. 28, 2024 – New Scientist – The surge in ocean temperatures to record-breaking levels in 2023 and 2024 is a sign that the pace of climate change has accelerated, say researchers.
Global ocean temperatures hit record highs for 450 days straight in 2023 and early 2024. Although some of the extra heat can be explained by an El Niño weather pattern emerging in the Pacific Ocean, about 44 per cent of the record warmth is down to the world’s oceans absorbing heat from the sun at an accelerating rate, according to Chris Merchant at the University of Reading, UK.
+Jan. 15, 2025 – The Canadian Press – This year’s average global temperature is expected to rival 2024’s record-breaking heat, Canadian officials said Wednesday, underlining humanity’s narrowing window to hit an international target intended to help avert some of climate change’s most serious effects.
+Jan. 14, 2024 – Concordia University – The Link – Canada wastes $58 billion worth of food each year that could be used to feed those in need, a number that rose by 6.5 per cent since 2019, according to data released by Second Harvest in October 2024. The report found that a large portion of this waste is avoidable and occurs during production, often due to farmers discarding edible “ugly vegetables” that fail to meet Canada’s strict cosmetic retail standards.
+Jan. 10, 2025 – The National Observer – So now we know how the second Trump era begins: with Los Angeles on fire. Apocalyptic, tragic and almost impossibly emblematic. The world at large is spiralling past the guardrail of 1.5 degrees while politics retreats from tackling the problem. Ten thousand homes and buildings burned, neighbours dead and neighbourhoods reduced to ash while the incoming president deflects, derides and promises more drilling for fossil fuels.
+Jan. 7, 2025 – Associated Press – Frigid air that normally stays trapped in the Arctic has escaped, plunging deep into the United States for an extended visit that is expected to provoke teeth-chattering but not be record-shattering. It’s a cold air outbreak that some experts say is happening more frequently, and paradoxically, because of a warming world.
+Jan. 3, 2025 – National Observer – When southwestern British Columbia was hit with the historic 2021 atmospheric river, the Port of Vancouver’s operations ground to a halt, stalling billions of dollars in trade for a week. And that’s only the beginning of the upheaval extreme weather and climate change will wreak on our infrastructure and economy. Canada is not ready to deal with the damage climate change will inflict on transportation hubs that safeguard our supply chains, warns a Senate committee report.
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