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Canadians are skipping meals to cut down on food costs
Laurie O'Connor says more people in Saskatoon are struggling to get food for themselves and their families as prices in grocery stores rise out of reach.
Exiting B.C. Premier Horgan says he learned to listen to everyone, including adversaries
John Horgan says some of the greatest lessons he learned while premier of British Columbia came from people considered political adversaries.
Squashed by cars, slaughtered in their nests, Canada’s big snakes are under siege
Thousand Islands National Park has become a Parks Canada battleground in its fight to protect one of Canada’s largest snakes.
Is your asthma inhaler ruining the planet?
“Many patients on these puffers do not even need them,” says Dr. Kimberly Wintemute, a family physician who leads the Toronto Academic Health Science Network.
Cut your meat intake down to two burgers a week to save the planet
Climate crisis report says "we are not winning in any sector" as experts call for urgent action on fossil fuels.
Deaths of two great whites off Maritimes within weeks 'highly unusual': researcher
Fred Whoriskey, executive director of the Ocean Tracking Network at Dalhousie University, called the beaching of two of the ocean's apex predators abnormal.
At UN climate summit, India to flex its negotiating muscles
As countries gathered in Scotland were crystallizing their pledges at last year's United Nations climate conference, India used its might to intervene. Along with China, India took issue with the draft deal's suggestion to “phase out” coal, preferring the wording, “phasedown."
New poppy campaign initiatives seek to modernize the tradition of remembrance
A shift towards environmentally friendly materials and new digital engagement strategies are among new initiatives the Royal Canadian Legion is hoping will breathe fresh life into the 2022 national poppy campaign.
Yukon First Nations are leading the way when it comes to school food
For the past several months, well over a thousand Indigenous children in Yukon schools have had access to something many Canadian students do not — an affordable daily lunch at school.
War is an environmental disaster — but Ukraine can build back greener
Russia’s invasion is reversing years of environmental progress. But the world can help Ukraine reconstruct its damaged landscape and energy systems.
Indigenous northerners take back the power
For centuries, survival in the North has depended on natural, sustainable energy provided by the land and water.
Battle of the Alps? Water woes loom amid climate change
Bountiful for centuries, the crystal-clear waters issuing from the Alps could become increasingly contested as climate change and glacier melt affect the lives of tens of millions in the coming years.
After summer of drought, B.C. braces for atmospheric river
An atmospheric river packing "narrow bands of heavy precipitation" is forecast for parts of British Columbia just a week after numerous high temperature records were set amid concerns of drought.
Prices of firewood prices rising in Europe as energy crisis continues
Tudor Popescu swings his ax down on a log, then feeds the split wood into a stove that heats his home in the capital of Moldova. As the nights turn chilly, the stack of firewood has been growing higher around him — his provisions for the coming winter.