Mary Robinson

Having a safe climate is becoming more of a human right globally with this week's European court decision that says countries must better protect people from climate change, something warming-hit residents of the Global South long knew, said former Ireland President Mary Robinson.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with the Swedish environmental activist and prominent European figures to form a working group to address ecological damage from the 16-month-old Russian invasion.

Within industry, elected to government, and at the heart of their communities, women are organizing locally and transnationally to protect the planet and the future. And a new push was launched this week at COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland.

The federal government has a new agreement with the provinces that gives upgrades to a program that protects farmers against large declines in income.

Bloc Quebecois Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet is raising concern about temporary foreign workers arriving in Canada to work on farms, saying he believes the quarantine rules for these workers are inadequate.

The federal and provincial governments are facing a "potential disaster" if more protections and social-distancing guidelines aren't extended to migrant agricultural workers, advocates say.

Campaigners urge governments to tie any bailouts to aviation and cruise industries to requirements for climate action

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The declaration by Maclean's magazine that Winnipeg is Canada's most racist city mortified those residents who have been working for years to become "good settlers."