HALIFAX—The city’s deputy mayor is hoping to divert dog waste from municipal landfills, potentially to create power from poop. At council’s environment and sustainability standing committee meeting on ...

When lifeguards arrive for work at the Halifax Regional Municipality's 19 supervised beaches, there's a common sight they encounter. "There can be quite a lot of bird waste on the beach," said ...

Today's question comes from Jim Van Horn in Kaslo, British Columbia. He asks: Are the digestive systems in humans and animals that inefficient, or is it our diet that produces so much of the waste ...

First Person is a daily personal piece submitted by readers. Have a story to tell? See our guidelines at tgam.ca/essayguide. I grew up in a tiny place east of the Banff Park gates in Alberta. It was ...