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Several Canadian universities are maintaining COVID−19 precautions such as vaccine mandates and masking for in−person classes even as governments roll back pandemic restrictions.

Climate activists on Wednesday, February 23, 2022, blocked roads leading to Germany's three biggest airports, gluing themselves to the ground before police arrived.

A criminal anthropologist suggests looking to the West to find the heart of protests and blockades that gripped the nation for more than a month.

The Paris−based agency International Energy Agency said its analysis shows emissions are 70% higher than the official figure provided by governments worldwide.

A warming planet and changes to land use patterns mean more wildfires will scorch large parts of the globe in coming decades, causing spikes in unhealthy smoke pollution and other problems that governments are ill prepared to confront, according to a U.N. report being released on Wednesday, February 23, 2022.

A new organization aims to spur Canadian development of sustainable aviation fuel, a technology advocates say is the airline industry’s best shot at reducing its greenhouse gas emissions.

In late January, a temporary halt was placed on logging in an area of Crown land in the Annapolis Valley after three types of lichen classified as “species at risk” were spotted and reported to the Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources and Renewables.

Once nonexistent in northwest Alaska, beavers are both benefiting from and changing a warming tundra.

Alex Cedrone helps keep the Toronto Transit Corporation’s growing fleet of hybrid and fully electric buses on the road. A graduate of a technical college’s truck and bus program, Cedrone is a case study of the shift in schooling and the workforce towards sustainability.

Putin on Monday signed a decree recognizing the regions of Donetsk and Luhansk in Ukraine’s eastern industrial land as independent republics. He then ordered Russian troops to cross the border into those areas, saying they were being deployed as “peacekeepers.”

Initially, 32 environmental infractions were laid against the company, but that number was reduced during the plea process.

Tamara Lich was denied bail and at another bail hearing for Patrick King a woman who acknowledged she had only met him four weeks ago offered to be a surety, pledging half the value of her Alberta home to guarantee his bail.

Quebec will distribute more than $3 million over three years to 11 police forces across the province to help them support victims of domestic violence and enhance surveillance of offenders, Public Security Minister Geneviève Guilbault said on Monday, February 21, 2022.

Perks in the vaxxed only room include private washrooms, servers who are also fully vaccinated, and a ventilation system separate from the restaurant’s main room, which can seat another 200 people both vaccinated and non−vaccinated.

B.C. Finance Minister Selina Robinson says making sure communities have the resources they need to deal with the effects of climate change will be a focal point of her budget on Tuesday, February 22, 2022.