Marc Fawcett-Atkinson
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News, Climate Solutions Reporting
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June 8th 2022
As global supply chains continue to struggle, food prices surge, and climate change threatens the world's farmland with droughts or floods, some farmers say that locally grown seeds are key to making Canada's food supplies more sustainable.
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Despite its name, the federal government’s two billion trees program is not being used exclusively to plant trees. Some of the money has gone toward shrubs and plants, according to data obtained by Canada’s National Observer through an access-to-information request.
Natasha Bulowski
News, Politics, Ottawa Insider
| June 8th 2022
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Canada’s interest in boosting liquefied natural gas exports to tackle energy insecurity in Europe is part of a global trend that risks locking in planet-warming pollution over the next decade, according to new analysis by the Climate Action Tracker.
Natasha Bulowski
News, Energy, Politics, Ottawa Insider
| June 8th 2022
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Climate and geopolitical insults to the global food system have a way of intersecting and feeding into each other in hellish ways.
Tom Philpott
News
| June 8th 2022
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The expanded Progressive Conservative majority that emerged from Ontario’s election last week implies young voters (who tend to vote more progressively) didn’t turn out in growing numbers. But why don’t we know for sure? Advocates say the absence of data makes them harder to reach.
Morgan Sharp
News, Politics, Culture, Next Gen Insider
| June 8th 2022
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The experience of national non-profit organization Generation Squeeze in the Ontario election underscores why anemic turnout should reinvigorate debate about a bill pushed through Ontario’s legislature in June 2021 limiting what’s called “third-party advertising.”
Paul Kershaw, Andrea Long
Opinion
| June 8th 2022
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Stéphane Perrault has suggested creating a new offence of making false statements to undermine an election — for example, claiming that the results have been manipulated.
Marie Woolf
News
| June 7th 2022
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Tinkering with the planet’s air to cool Earth’s ever−warming climate is inching closer to reality enough so that two different high−powered groups — one of scientists and one of former world leaders — are trying to come up with ethics and governing guidelines.
Seth Borenstein
News
| June 7th 2022
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A two-stage heat response system will be introduced in British Columbia to help people and communities stay safe as temperatures rise and the threat of a deadly heat-related emergency increases.
Dirk Meissner
News, Politics
| June 7th 2022
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From the archives
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Elizabeth McSheffrey
Analysis, Energy
| October 2nd 2016
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