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Canadian manufacturers contribute to sustainability document

Source: Daily News | 2013-05-07
To provide a common language and framework for the paper products industry to take steps toward sustainability, GreenBlue has released Guidelines for Sustainable Paper Products.

Hire a new graduate; get up to $20,000 in wage subsidies

Source: Daily News | 2013-04-30
The BioTalent Canada Career Focus Program helps knock down that cost barrier of hiring a new team member by subsidizing the salaries of new grads. Employers can bring on an eager, educated young worker for a special project – and at the...

Environmental group not satisfied with progress on Boreal forest

Source: Daily News | 2013-04-23
A second environmental group has quit the Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement (CBFA), an agreement endorsed by forest industry and environmental groups to protect Canada’s Boreal forest. Saying “not one hectare of Canada’s Boreal...

Canadian publisher sets paper procurement standards

Source: Daily News | 2013-04-02
Torstar Corporation, publisher of the Toronto Star newspaper and Harlequin books, has launched corporate environmental purchasing principles to encourage suppliers to eliminate the use of fiber from ancient and endangered forests, and empower...

Canada's forest certification standards reaffirmed

Source: Daily News | 2013-03-26
Canada’s national standard for sustainably managed forests, and its companion standard for woodlots, was recently reaffirmed by the Canadian Standards Association (CSA).  There are over 40 million hectares independently certified to...

Greenpeace admits it was wrong about Resolute Forest Products

Source: Daily News | 2013-03-20
Greenpeace is making peace with Resolute Forest Products, and withdrawing allegations the activist group made last December with regard to Resolute Forest Products and the Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement.

Greenpeace back to raising alarm over Boreal forest

Source: Daily News | 2013-01-21
Greenpeace has returned to its adversarial tactics with regard to the Canadian forest products industry. The environmental organization expressed its disappointment with the cooperative, industry-environmentalist working arrangement of the...

Canada ranks poorly in environmental report

Source: Daily News | 2013-01-18
Canada throws away more garbage per capita than any other country in the developed world. That, combined with heavy use of energy and water, gives the country a C grade and a ranking of 15th out of 17 countries in The Conference Board of...

Cascades Tissue Group receives Green Seal GS-1 re-certification

Source: Daily News | 2013-01-08
Cascades Tissue Group has achieved Green Seal Standard, GS-1, re-certification of sanitary paper products for its entire line of Cascades® and North River® away-from-home towel and tissue products.

Newfoundland loses environmental clean-up case against Abitibi

Source: Daily News | 2012-12-11
The Supreme Court has decided a case between the government of Newfoundland and Labrador and Abitibi-Consolidated (now operating as Resolute Forest Products), in favor of the pulp and paper company. The case concerned environmental clean-up...

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