Markham cyclist killed in accident

One woman is dead and a man has serious injuries after being struck by a car while cycling in the town of Whitchurch-Stouffville late Monday afternoon.

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Green coalition shocked by Clayoquot forest plan

VANCOUVER -- A coalition of powerful environmental groups working to protect Clayoquot Sound thought it had secured the area's future in 1999 when it signed a memorandum of understanding with a B.C.-native-controlled logging company.

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Environmentalists block highway near Kenora to protest logging

About 80 protesters, upset about logging in the boreal forest near Grassy Narrows, blocked a stretch of the Trans-Canada Highway near Kenora, Ont., on Thursday.

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Environmental watchdog slams Ontario for evading nuclear review

The Ontario Liberals are guilty of an unprecedented violation of the public's right to comment on their new nuclear plan, according to the province's environmental watchdog.

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Nuclear plan skips key green review

TORONTO — The Ontario government has exempted itself from a law requiring a full environmental assessment for its plan to spend up to $83-billion on nuclear plants and fixing the province's aging electricity system.

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Ontario to build reactors

The provincial government will announce tomorrow that Ontario is embracing more nuclear power plants, sources told the Toronto Star

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T.O.'s two-wheeled historian

During a typical Toronto rush hour, cyclists and cars can seem like natural adversaries. But go back to before the Model T, right back to the reign of Queen Victoria, and you'd still have found squabbles on the city's streets.

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Ottawa now wants Kyoto deal scrapped

Canada will not support attempts by other countries to set deeper emission-reduction targets for the Kyoto Protocol's second phase, according to private instructions to Canadian negotiators in Bonn, Germany.

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TTC fuels up on soy to help clear the air.

Suncor Energy Products Inc. and the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) have teamed up to help clear the air in Toronto. An agreement has been reached for Suncor to supply biodiesel to the TTC's fleet of 1,491 buses. This sales agreement extends to December 2007.

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Ottawa wants Kyoto softened

In its first official statement to the world on climate change, the Conservative government has signalled it is willing to keep Canada in the Kyoto Protocol after 2012, but only if it gets breaks on meeting the targets.

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The Global Warming Denial Lobby

In early April, the Financial Post published a letter addressed to Prime Minister Stephen Harper and signed by 60 "accredited experts in climate and related scientific disciplines," as they describe themselves. They want Harper to begin a debate on the Kyoto Protocol.

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CBC News: Cellphone distraction cited in B.C. cyclist's death

Police say it appears a 17-year-old driver who hit and killed a cyclist in Chilliwack, B.C., this week was distracted by her cellphone.

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Cyclists' deaths spark call for safety equipment on trucks

Toronto cyclists are calling for mandatory safety equipment on all large trucks, following the deaths of two separate cyclists hit by trucks last Thursday.

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One-Woman Protest Helps Halt Huge Indian Dam Project

From a hospital bed, a starving woman has brought the biggest infrastructure project in a booming India to its knees.

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Two cyclists killed in separate incidents with trucks

Fighting for your right of way with a large truck may be a Toronto cyclist's legal right, but it's not a smart idea, a Toronto Traffic Services spokesperson told CBC News Online on Friday.

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UK scientists attack oil firms' role in huge Arctic project

British scientists are at loggerheads with US colleagues over a controversial plan to work alongside oil companies to hunt for fossil fuel reserves in the Arctic.

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Under Defeat - dreamcast review

When the small, independent development house G.rev released Border Down to a starved fan base of Dreamcast owners just two and a half years ago, they surely never dreamed that it would be hailed years later by genre diehards as one of the greatest shooters of all time.

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Revelations of a curb-hopper

Now that spring is here I'll be riding my bike more. I want to explain my bike-riding habits: I am a curb-hopper, which means I occasionally ride my bike on the sidewalk or travel the wrong way on one-way streets -- I've even run red lights.

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'Impossible' for Canada to reach Kyoto targets: Ambrose

Canada has no chance of meeting its targets under the Kyoto accord and must set more realistic goals for cutting greenhouse gases, the federal environment minister says.

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Canadian Tar Sands: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly

By 2015, Canada's Fort McMurray region, population 61,000, is expected to emit more greenhouse gases than Denmark, a country of 5.4 million people.

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bizarre bicycle accident

A 46-year-old cyclist was out for a ride around 10am, when he somehow fell over the railing above the Credit River and plunged at least 150 feet to his death into the two-foot deep frigid water.

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David Suzuki : Nuclear power an expensive red herring

Wouldn't it be great if there were an easy answer to the problem of climate change? And wouldn't it be great if we could solve our electricity needs at the same time?

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Exxon Exxposed

The Wall Street Journal reports that ExxonMobil is the key funder of a front group called Public Interest Watch which has been pushing the IRS to audit Greenpeace. Greenpeace says an IRS auditor told it that the PIW letter triggered the audit.

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CBC Toronto - Raising crosswalk fines not enough say police

It might come as a surprise to some, but under a complicated Ontario law drivers have no obligation to stop at a crosswalk when they see the lights flashing and a pedestrian pointing to cross.

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globeandmail.com : There's no escaping our suburban mistake

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