How the UN’s secretary general became a forceful voice for climate action
António Guterres is at COP27 in Egypt for what is likely to be another blistering attack on complacency and foot-dragging by world leaders.
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Trudeau government takes first steps to cement its cornerstone climate policy
The fall economic statement included the first concrete steps to future-proof Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s key climate legacy: carbon pricing.
Will Supreme Court decision on conditional sentencing perpetuate Indigenous mass incarceration?
In a 5-4 split decision, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled last week that “tough-on-crime” legislation that restricts discretionary conditional sentences is constitutional.
Inside the food fight brewing at COP27
A new item is on the menu for the thousands of people gathering this month at COP27, the United Nations' annual climate conference: food.
Amnesty: Egypt has days to save jailed activist's life
Amnesty International's head warned that the proceedings of COP27 in Egypt could be stained by the death of one of the country's leading rights activists from a hunger and water strike in prison if Egyptian authorities do not release him within days.
Drought tests resilience of Spain’s olive groves and farmers
An extremely hot, dry summer that shrank reservoirs and sparked forest fires is now threatening the heartiest of Spain's staple crops: the olives that make the European country the world's leading producer and exporter of the tiny green fruits that are pressed into golden oil.
School’s back, as Ford backtracks on anti-strike law
“We won. They backed down,” Sharron Flynn-Bennett, a union organizer and special education worker in the Toronto Catholic District School Board, said outside Queen’s Park on Monday.
Climate losses ‘can no longer be swept under the rug,’ UN head says as world leaders gather at COP27
“We must acknowledge a harsh truth: there is no adapting to a growing number of catastrophic events causing enormous suffering around the world,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres says to delegates as COP27 begins in Egypt.
Nursing college English test ‘smells like white supremacy’
A Tataskewayak Cree Nation nurse, who is desperate to work in Manitoba, has been barred from practising after failing an English exam that advocates argue is prejudiced against First Nations people.
Whales ingest millions of microplastic particles a day
Blue whales consume up to one billion particles over a feeding season with as-yet-unknown impacts on their health.
Indian capital battles dangerous levels of air pollution
On Friday, Indian authorities shut factories and construction sites, restricted diesel-run vehicles and deployed water sprinklers and anti-smog guns to control the haze enveloping the skyline of the capital region.
Dig at B.C. shopping mall reveals Indigenous artifacts — and evolution of archeology
It's a point illustrated by the recent discovery of Indigenous artifacts at the site of a shopping mall renovation in Williams Lake in central British Columbia, a process that involved collaboration and oversight by the Williams Lake First Nation.
One year after signing onto net-zero banking alliances, RBC’s fossil fuel financing soars
A year after signing onto net-zero banking alliances designed to steer its investments to a climate-safe future, RBC continues pumping billions of dollars into fossil fuel expansion, new data reveals.
No gusher of cash for carbon capture in feds’ fall fiscal update
Oil and gas companies that pushed the federal government for more funding for carbon capture technology will be sorely disappointed by the fall economic statement.
What Canada’s fall fiscal update means for Indigenous nations
Will advancing reconciliation in Canada hit a dead end with the feds' critical minerals strategy? And how will changes to the Land Management Act impact First Nations and legislation? That and more in the fall economic statement.