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Seth Klein
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Opinion
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May 17th 2024
No other news publication in Canada gets the climate emergency like the Observer. No other Canadian daily media outlet is treating this crisis like the existential threat it is...
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Investigations, Business, Energy, Politics
| May 21st 2024
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Critics say the plan to redevelop Ontario Place's West Island will eradicate the ecosystem that has thrived there for five decades, removing about 840 trees, including over 600 mature ones. The project will also fill lagoons and waterways, destroying about 36,000 square meters of aquatic habitat to add roughly 12 acres to the island.
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News, Politics
| May 17th 2024
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Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault has issued an emergency interim order to the petrochemical industry in southern Ontario, home of Canada’s Chemical Valley, following consultations with the local First Nation about declining air quality.
Matteo Cimellaro
News, Politics, Urban Indigenous Communities in Ottawa
| May 17th 2024
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Everyone keeps saying this new pipeline was built to carry crude oil, but in actual fact, it carries something far more explosive and potentially hazardous: diluted bitumen from the landlocked Alberta oil sands.
Richard Littlemore
Opinion, Business, Politics
| May 21st 2024
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Transforming a concrete hotel from the 1960s provides climate-friendly housing in downtown Dartmouth.
Zack Metcalfe
News, Climate Solutions Reporting
| May 21st 2024
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The U.S. dairy lobby pays big money to make sure its products are top-of-mind for Americans, but some critics worry that the demand-focused strategy is leaving smaller farmers behind — and accelerating climate change.
H. Claire Brown
News, US News
| May 21st 2024
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre's pledges to axe carbon pricing come at a time of wildfires and other disasters and Poilievre would rather "watch the country burn" than continue the fight against climate change.
The Canadian Press
News, Politics
| May 17th 2024
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John Woodside
Investigations
| December 5th 2023
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