Category: Science & Technology

Five francophone communities in New Brunswick are taking part in a pilot project that will make electric cars available to residents. The provincial association of francophone municipalities started the program to reduce its members’ carbon footprint. Dieppe, Beresford, Saint-Quentin, Shippagan Read more …

Administrative staff at Canada’s National Microbiology Laboratory are helping to facilitate ground-breaking, life-saving research — but they’re doing it in a “toxic work environment” with a “significant lack of trust” between employees and their managers, according to a recent workplace Read more …

Hello, people! This is our weekly newsletter on all things environmental, where we highlight trends and solutions that are moving us to a more sustainable world. (Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Thursday.) This week: Sustainable Halloween treats: Better for Read more …

Canada Post says it is resetting passwords for all online customer accounts after some accounts were reportedly accessed by a person other than the customer to which it belonged. “There has not been a cyberattack or hack of the Canada Post Read more …

Cree tallymen in the James Bay region of Quebec are working with biologists to help protect two endangered bat species — the little brown bat and the northern long-eared bat. The tallymen, or Cree land stewards, are collaborating with the Read more …

Scientists have discovered a mash-up of two feared disasters — hurricanes and earthquakes — and they’re calling them “stormquakes.” The shaking of the sea floor during hurricanes and nor’easters can rumble like a magnitude 3.5 earthquake and can last for Read more …

The P.E.I. Potato Board, potato growers and watershed groups across the Island are teaming up on some new research about cover crops this fall.  It’s part of a growing interest in cover crops, which are planted to hold the soil in place, in Read more …

The Canadian Gas Association says building renewable electricity capacity to replace just half of Canada’s current fossil fuel-generated energy could increase national costs by as much as $1.4 trillion over the next 30 years. In a report, it contends that Read more …

Calgary Economic Development plans to roll out a $4-million ad campaign to attract tech workers to the city.  “We have a shortage of tech talent here. There’s a real misperception of what’s going on here but then there’s 2,000 to Read more …

Oil and gas exploration regularly use powerful air guns shown to be harmful to marine life off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador without environmental monitoring, according to documents obtained by CBC News. Federal regulations require the presence of wildlife observers Read more …