Abdul Matin Sarfraz
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July 19th 2024
Experts and advocates say a combination of climate change, outdated infrastructure and policy gaps are to blame for the severe flooding that shut down roads, critical buildings and services.
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All but one of the forests included in this purchase announcement do not contain old-growth trees. Instead, seven of the eight purchased properties contain what’s called “recruitment” old-growth — that is, forests that have been logged.
Brishti Basu
News
| July 19th 2024
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Cultural burning is the use of controlled fire to generate new growth and prevent large, destructive wildfires. Long used by Indigenous people throughout what is now B.C. and other parts of Canada, the practice was criminalized in 1874. However, as Canada suffers record-breaking wildfires, a growing number of Indigenous people and advocates are calling for those restrictions to be removed.
Marc Fawcett-Atkinson
News
| July 19th 2024
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The province says it’s moving toward an owner-operator system for quota and licenses as part of the Coastal Marine Strategy unveiled last week.
Hope Lompe
News, Island Insider
| July 19th 2024
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Paris Olympics, Lululemon and the fossil fuel fashion fail: As the climate crisis threatens the future of sport and the health of athletes, retired professional athlete and Canadian Olympian Margo Malowney asks Team Canada sponsor Lululemon to address its reliance on fossil fuels and skyrocketing emissions.
Margo Malowney
Opinion
| July 19th 2024
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Nearly $90 million in federal funding for a slew of nature conservation projects intended to reverse Canada’s biodiversity loss and protect more land and waters was announced Thursday.
Natasha Bulowski
News, Politics, Ottawa Insider
| July 19th 2024
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In 2021, the Vancouver-based Drug User Liberation Front approached Health Canada with a proposal.
Ashley Joannou
News, Politics
| July 18th 2024
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Former public safety minister Marco Mendicino is calling for the creation of "protective zones" around political constituency offices to shield members of Parliament and their staff from a rising tide of threatening behaviour.
Jim Bronskill
News, Politics
| July 18th 2024
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Electric cars make some people afraid of the dark. While the batteries produce much less carbon, they require much more electricity to run. This has prompted ominous warnings that Great Britain and other wealthy countries set on banning new petrol and diesel cars risk plunging their populations into darkness.
Jasper Jolly
News
| July 18th 2024
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From the archives
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Rochelle Baker
News, Island Insider
| December 3rd 2021
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