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Le Canada franchit une première étape vers une réglementation indispensable pour lutter contre la pollution plastique TORONTO, 12 mai 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Les groupes de défense de l’environnement saluent la décision du gouvernement canadien d’ajouter les « articles manufacturés en plastique » à l’Annexe 1 de...
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Canada takes first step toward much-needed regulatory action to address plastic pollution TORONTO, May 12, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Environmental groups applaud Canada's decision today to list “plastic manufactured items” on Schedule 1 under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act...
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Parks Canada celebrates World Migratory Bird Day by shooting hundreds of cormorants on Middle Island, Lake Erie
May 07, 2021 08:00 ET | Animal Alliance of Canada
TORONTO, May 07, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Animal Alliance of Canada stresses that World Migratory Bird Day is important because it raises awareness about need to protect migratory birds and their...
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Animal Alliance of Canada shocked that Parks Canada continues to ignore Covid restrictions to kill cormorants on Middle Island
May 05, 2021 14:40 ET | Animal Alliance of Canada
TORONTO, May 05, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Even though the Cedar Island Marina in Kingsville is closed due to Covid restrictions, Parks Canada staff, from Point Pelee National Park, continue to...
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86 % des Canadiens sont en faveur d’une interdiction nationale sur les plastiques à usage unique d’ici 2021
June 22, 2020 08:00 ET | Oceana Canada
OTTAWA, 22 juin 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Une étude d’Abacus Data commandée par Oceana Canada et réalisée entre le 2 et le 6 juin 2020 démontre que la vaste majorité des Canadiens (86 %) souhaite que...
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Eighty-Six Per Cent of Canadians Support a National Ban on Single-Use Plastics by 2021
June 22, 2020 08:00 ET | Oceana Canada
OTTAWA, June 22, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- An Oceana Canada-commissioned Abacus Data study conducted from June 2-6, 2020, shows that the vast majority – 86 per cent – of Canadians want the government...
End the plastic disaster
On World Oceans Day, Canadians call to End the Plastic Disaster
June 08, 2020 08:30 ET | Oceana Canada
OTTAWA, June 08, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Our world is facing a plastic disaster. An estimated 22 million kilograms of plastic leaks into the ocean every day, roughly equivalent to dumping a garbage...
Stop overfishing
Government caves to industry pressure to overfish northern cod
June 25, 2019 14:03 ET | Oceana Canada
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, June 25, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) released its annual quota for critically depleted northern cod, allowing a catch level of up to...
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Government goes against its own policy, fails to support the recovery of another cod stock
March 12, 2019 13:03 ET | Oceana Canada
TORONTO, March 12, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Yesterday, Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) announced that they will close the directed Atlantic cod fishery on the Scotian Shelf/Bay of Fundy but will...