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A trove of monthly odour complaints to a Metro Vancouver hotline reveal over 200 grievances were filed with the municipal government between August 2022 and November 2023. The documents obtained by Canada's National Observer through an access to information request show about 50 people filed complaints, with one person filing 53 between December 2022 and June 2023.

U.S. federal rules that impact virtually every aspect of everyday life, from the food we eat and the cars we drive to the air we breathe, could be at risk after a wide-ranging U.S. Supreme Court ruling Friday.

The federal funding is a first for Canada. Unlike every other G7 country, Canadian students have long relied on a patchwork of programs advocates have criticized for leaving many children hungry.

Researchers in Italy examined fatty plaques removed from the blood vessels of patients with arterial disease and found that more than half had deposits contaminated with tiny particles of plastic.

Canada falls behind nearly 90 per cent of countries in the world when it comes to banning harmful pesticides, including the European Union and Brazil.

Tofu béchamel, plant-based sushi and wagyu "beef" made from peas, soy and fava beans. These and dozens of other plant-based dishes are poised to become increasingly common on the menus of public institutions as chefs try to reduce their kitchens' environmental and health impacts while whetting people's appetite for plant-based meals. 

School food advocates fear the federal government might renege on its election promise to establish a national school food program.

Children who lived closer to natural gas wells in heavily drilled Pennsylvania were more likely to develop a relatively rare form of cancer, and nearby residents of all ages had an increased chance of severe asthma reactions, researchers said.

When Bruce Lanphear decided to resign in June as co-chair of a scientific committee meant to advise Canada's pesticide regulations, his choice was fraught with the moral discomfort of a man caught between civic duty and personal sanity. 

The Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre says 76,129 square kilometres of forest and other land have burned since Jan. 1. That exceeds the previous record set in 1989 of 75,596 square kilometres, according to the National Forestry Database.

When divorce day comes and we can seal off the gas connection for good, I will shed no tears.

“Ontario’s provincial government has failed its general duty to provide a safe, stable, and healthy working environment for children and youth, their caregivers, the education system and all Ontario communities,” reads the statement from Ontario School Safety.

Fossil fuel advertising increases demand for the very products that are driving the climate crisis. 

Sixty per cent of the heat created by gas ranges ends up heating you and your kitchen, not the food; with an induction range, only 14 per cent of the heat is lost.

Oil companies are asking the federal government to allow them to release the tailings into the Athabasca River, which flows north into one of the largest freshwater deltas in the world.