Bob Weber
Reporter with The Canadian Press
About Bob Weber
Indigenous group seeks big funding to keep tabs on traditional lands
An Indigenous organization wants more money for more eyes and ears to keep tabs on traditional First Nations land and Canada's new protected areas.
Tax strike heating up over unpaid Alberta oilpatch property levies
A former provincial Liberal leader and member of the Alberta legislature says he won't pay his provincial taxes until oilpatch players pay theirs.
Alberta energy companies owe $173 million in unpaid taxes to rural municipalities
The amount of unpaid property taxes that oil and gas companies owe Alberta rural municipalities has more than doubled over the last year, a trend some are calling a tax revolt.
B.C.'s Jumbo Glacier turned over to Ktunaxa First Nation
A spectacular swath of mountains, glaciers and forests once proposed for a ski resort is being turned over to the First Nations people who have lived there for centuries.
More shipping companies promise to avoid Arctic routes
Environmental groups are applauding international shippers and shipping companies that have voluntarily promised to stay away from controversial Arctic routes.
Wildfires changing boreal forest ecosystem
The increasing frequency of wildfires in Canada's boreal forest may be permanently changing one of the largest intact ecosystems left on Earth, research suggests.
Buildings - and building codes - need to adapt to climate change
When storm winds howl and rivers flood, buildings take the brunt.
Companies starting to use CO2 to make products
Somewhere in west Texas, amid one of the most productive oilfields in the continent, a Canadian company is building a plant that it hopes will eventually suck from the air a million tonnes of carbon being pumped out of the ground all around it.
Canada's minister for the North aims to work with others to get things done
As Canada's first stand-alone minister of northern affairs, Dan Vandal says he'll be working closely with other ministers to get things done for Canada's North.
Indigenous leaders meet with banks to discourage investment in Arctic energy
First Nations leaders from Yukon are meeting with bankers in Toronto this week to try to persuade them not to invest in energy development on the range of a vital caribou herd.