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Vancouver aimed to be the greenest city in the world by 2020. What happened?
Miles of new bike lanes and light rail lines just weren't enough.
SFU students threaten hunger strike to force fossil fuel divestment
Students at SFU are threatening the school with a hunger strike until it commits to a full divestment of fossil fuels by 2025.
Why the ‘Swiss Army knife’ of climate solutions is so controversial
Clean hydrogen could replace fossil fuels for almost everything. But should it?
Critics take Ford to task for leaving education, climate out of Ontario throne speech
Doug Ford’s speech on Monday to mark the start of a new legislative session in Ontario touched on economic growth but did not mention education, child care or climate change.
Canada invokes pipeline treaty with U.S. in dispute over Line 5
Foreign Affairs Minister Marc Garneau said in a statement Monday that the transit pipeline treaty “guarantees the uninterrupted transit of light crude oil and natural gas liquids between the two countries.”
Canada pushed to convince countries who reject mixed-dose travellers
Several countries, including the United States, only recognize people with two identical doses of an approved vaccine as being fully vaccinated. As well, Oxford-AstraZeneca is not on the list of approved vaccines in many places.
Shauna Doll believes buying up the forests will help us preserve a habitable planet
Patricia Lane interviews Shauna Doll, co-ordinator for the Raincoast Conservation Foundation’s Gulf Islands Forest Project.
Canadian media needs to put a face to climate crisis, Sean Holman says
The deep impacts of the climate crisis means Canadian media needs to do a better job at illustrating the connections on seemingly disparate issues, and come up with better solutions to mitigate global warming, says journalist Sean Holman.
Study finds children will face more climate disasters than their grandparents
Climate crisis brings stark intergenerational injustice, but rapid emission cuts can limit the damage.
Rural communities are hit hard by climate change. More resources can help them bounce back
Because rural communities have fewer resources, disasters often hit harder and linger longer.
These Indigenous fishers hold DFO accountable for B.C.’s shocking salmon decline
Salmon stocks on the Fraser have tumbled in the past decade, leading Fisheries and Oceans Canada to limit Indigenous food fisheries on the river, even as some recreational fishing is allowed.
‘We can’t truly have reconciliation until we have that truth’
As Canada marked its first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on Thursday, two of Canada’s newly elected Indigenous MPs reflected on what the federal government — and all Canadians — can do to further reconciliation.
Can Canada scale up international climate financing?
Scaling up international climate financing is critical to the success of COP26 and Canada is playing a key role.
In Ottawa, first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation honours survivors, those who never came home
On Sept. 30, Parliament Hill was painted orange as more than 1,000 people gathered for the first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.