On March 11, British Columbia’s Environment Minister, Mary Polak, introduced legislation to update and replace the province’s century-old Water Act. The new Water Sustainability Act…
The Yukon government has issued its statement of defence regarding the Peel River watershed land-use plan. The statement comes after a lawsuit was issued on…
Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty introduced the 2014 federal budget in Parliament on Tuesday. He later described the budget as “boring” while appearing before the…
Across the country, small towns are facing the problem of sewage lagoons nearing capacity or reaching the end of their lives. On First Nation reserves…
The POLIS Project is playing a lead role in organizing Watersheds 2014: Towards Watershed Governance in British Columbia & Beyond, a forum running January 27-29,…
Traditional users of the land have a wealth of information about that land. In the past, traditional knowledge (TK) studies have supported land and compensation…
The University of Manitoba has received a Government of Canada investment through the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) to support the…
The governments of Canada and British Columbia have renewed an agreement ensuring the collection, processing, publication and distribution of water quantity data in the province.…
Ontario is using penalties collected from environmental violations to fund 10 projects to restore and protect the environment. Projects being funded include waterway habitat improvements,…
The POLIS Water Sustainability Project’s first Creating a Blue Dialogue webinar of the year will take place September 26. The series is supported by the…
Members of the Toquaht Nation in Macoah celebrated the opening of a new water treatment facility July 20. The project came to fruition through $2.1…
A new report published by the Real Estate Foundation of British Columbia and the POLIS Project on Ecological Governance at the University of Victoria says…
Manitoba’s CentrePort industrial development will draw its water from the Assiniboine River, said Manitoba, City of Winnipeg, and CentrePort officials on Monday. Originally, the City…
PICA Corporation and the Ontario Clean Water Agency (OCWA) have announced a teaming agreement with both parties collaborating exclusively on specific projects and clients. Both…
How is Yukon’s newly proposed water strategy different from other provincial and territorial water strategies? It’s not, really, says Heather Jirousek, a program advisor at…
When I visited Chief Eli Mandamin near Kenora, Ontario last May, he was preparing an affidavit in response to the City of Winnipeg’s move to…
Bill S-8, the proposed Safe Drinking Water for First Nations Act, is now in line for its second reading in the House of Commons. The…
For several years, the City of Winnipeg, the Rural Municipality of Rosser, and the Province of Manitoba have been struggling over the question of how…
While yesterday’s budget announcement included new cuts to the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (the department will lose $89 million in 2013-14), the federal government…
With pickaxes and pans in hand, tens of thousands of people flooded the Yukon in 1896 in search of gold in its snowy creeks. Three…
The federal government has announced the plans for a $330.8-million investment over two years for First Nation water and wastewater systems on reserve. The funds…
The Ontario government has released the final version of its Great Lakes Strategy, which establishes priorities to achieve goals to protect the Great Lakes, building…
The Ontario government issued a press release yesterday, announcing the launch of a new initiative designed to help communities protect their part of the Great…
RBC has announced its 2012 RBC Blue Water Project Leadership Grant recipients. Thirty organizations from five countries, selected from 219 applicants from around the world,…