Transport Canada is trying a new voluntary speed limit in the Cabot Strait as a part of its plan to protect the endangered North Atlantic right whale. First announced in February, the voluntary speed limit would see vessels over 13 metres long slow down to 10 knots in a portion of the Cabot Strait between…

Certified compostable plastic cups, cutlery, coffee pods, clamshell containers and other packaging may be touted as greener options at the grocery store, but they’re banned from most residential organics programs in Canada, a recent Marketplace episode showed.  The good news is that while you typically can’t put them in your green bin for curbside pickup,…

Canada’s big phone companies warned MPs on a parliamentary committee Tuesday their networks aren’t yet ready to implement new anti-spoofing technology to guard against fake calls — and many existing landline phones and cellphones will need to be upgraded in order for the technology to be effective. Representatives from Bell, Rogers and Telus appeared Tuesday before…

Many communities in the Northwest Territories are worried about the impacts climate change is having on their cemeteries. The issue was brought up by multiple community representatives at the NWT Association of Communities’s recent annual general meeting in Inuvik. “Due to climate change and the melting of the permafrost, our cemetery in Dettah is currently…

On the one-year anniversary of an Ethiopian Airlines crash that killed 157 people — including 18 Canadians — MPs are looking to dig deeper into the federal government’s decision to approve the Boeing 737 Max as safe to fly. The House of Commons transport committee is meeting Tuesday — part of a series of public hearings looking into why…

The RCMP says it will now use Clearview AI only “in very limited and specific circumstances” as concerns grow about the police force’s use of the controversial facial recognition technology. “Our review of the continued use of this technology, and particularly Clearview AI, is ongoing,” said RCMP spokesperson Catherine Fortin in an email to CBC…