Sustainability
Environmental Laws
Biodiversity
Climate change
Canadian Environmental News
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The Office of Sustainability at the University of Manitoba recently celebrated this milestone anniversary.
What is 10 years?
100
The intent of this Act is to develop and maintain an environmental protection and management system in Manitoba.
What is The Environment Act?
100
One of Lake Winnipeg's invasive species that bears resemblance to a striped horse.
What is a zebra mussel?
100
Manitoba has comparatively low greenhouse gas emissions due to this utility system providing electricity and gas throughout the province.
What is the hydroelectric grid system/Manitoba Hydro?
100
An Ontario taxidermist received a $60K fine for violating federal wild animal and plant protection rules due to use of this animal's pelt
What is a polar bear pelt?
200
Arguably Canada's most famous environmentalist. Geneticist and broadcaster.
Who is David Suzuki?
200
SARA is one of the Canadian government's main conservation tools to protect species at risk, maintain healthy ecosystems and preserve Canada's natural heritage. SARA stands for.
What is the Species at Risk Act?
200
Canada invested $200 million as the first country to contribute to this new fund, GBFF, to help halt and reverse biodiversity loss and put nature on a path to recovery.
What is the Global Biodiversity Framework Fund?
200
Floods affect this percentage of Manitoba First Nations.
What is 90%?
200
Doug Ford recently reversed the decision to allow housing developments on this area of land in the Greater Toronto Area
What is The Greenbelt?
300
These are the 5 Rs of recycling.
What are refuse, reduce, reuse, repurpose, recycle (repair, recover)?
300
Constitutional authority for federal environmental legislation
What is Criminal Law & POGG powers (peace, order, and good government)?
300
Canada's federal cabinet recently rejected an emergency order under Canada's Species at Risk Act to protect this bird that lives in the Southwestern mainland of British Columbia.
What is the spotted owl?
300
In 2024 large scale planting of trees in Manitoba will begin, with matching contributions of $8.85 million dollars from the provincial and federal governments because of this program.
What is the 2 Billion Trees (2BT) program?
300
The High Risk range on the Government of Canada's Air Quality Health Index
What is 7-10?
400
Canada has taken strides to commercially produce this amount of sustainable jet fuel.
What is none?
400
The real name of the "No More Pipelines Act".
What is the Impact Assessment Act (Bill-69)?
400
Manitoba protects this percentage of its lands and waters, which is around 72,731 km2.
What is 11%?
400
How many million hectares of land did the forest fires destroy in Canada this past summer?
What is 16 million hectares? 
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By this year Canada Post has a goal to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions.
What is the year 2050?
500
The Supreme Court recently ruled in a reference case that this environmental impact's legislation was largely unconstitutional.
What is Ottawa's Impact Assessment Act or Bill C-69?
500
One of the 25 species listed under The Endangered Species and Ecosystems Act in Manitoba.
What is the...
- Baird's Sparrow (Ammodramus bairdii)
- Burrowing Owl (Athene cunicularia)
- Chestnut-collared Longspur (Calcarius ornatus)
- Dusky Dune Moth (Copablepharon longipenne)
- Eskimo Curlew (Numenius borealis)
- Ferruginous Hawk (Buteo regalis)
- Gold-edged Gem (Schinia avemensis)
- Ivory Gull (Pagophila eburnea)
- Least Bittern (Ixobrychus exilis)
- Little Brown Bat (Myotis lucifugus)
- Loggerhead Shrike (Lanius ludovicianus)
- Mapleleaf Mussel (Quadrula quadrula)
- Northern Long-eared Bat (Myotis septentrionalis)
- Pale Yellow Dune Moth (Copablepharon grandis)
- Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus)
- Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus)
- Poweshiek Skipperling (Oarisma poweshiek)
- Prairie Skink (Eumeces septentrionalis)
- Red Knot rufa subspecies (Calidris canutus rufa)
- Ross's Gull (Rhodostethia rosea)
- Trumpeter Swan (Cygnus buccinator)
- Whooping Crane (Grus americana)
- Uncas Skipper (Hesperia uncas)
- Verna's Flower Moth (Schinia verna)
- White Flower Moth (Schinia bimatris)
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The Canadian Space agency primarily uses this satellite series to observe Earth as part of the country's climate change strategy.
What are the Radarsat satellites?
500
Wab Kinew with the NDP have promised to hook up 5,000 homes to this least polluting system to regulate indoor heat, free of charge.
What are geothermal heating loops?