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Nakate spoke of her disappointment in the outcome of the U.N. climate talks in Scotland and what she and other young activists plan for the year to come.

India faces a difficult choice that will have consequences for the world.

As Canada marked its first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on Thursday, two of Canada’s newly elected Indigenous MPs reflected on what the federal government — and all Canadians — can do to further reconciliation.

The first public inquiry from British Columbia's Office of the Human Rights Commissioner will examine white supremacy and the "disturbing surge of hate" during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Pope Francis on Monday, July 26, 2021, decried as criminal the existence of hunger in a world which can produce enough food for all, building on a warning from U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres that climate change and conflict are a consequence and driver of poverty and income inequality.

In every country across the world, women are disproportionately affected by disasters — and not just by a little, write Victoria Ker, Erica Steele, Stephen Patenaude and Brayden Pelham.

Nine years ago, during a family trip to India, Ishan Vijay and his brother Vishal’s eyes were opened to the immense poverty on the streets of India. That's why they started Every Child Now.

When Coun. Murry Krause got wind Prince George’s sole downtown supermarket was moving, he grew concerned about food security for the neighbourhood’s low-income residents.

For many people around the world right now, it’s not just the threat of contracting COVID-19 that most concerns them — it’s whether their families, especially their young children, can survive another day without food.

She specializes in illegal fisheries, equity and food security. In B.C., her research focuses on coastal, remote and Indigenous communities' access to fish.

People who suffered financially due to the pandemic were almost twice as likely to report moderate or severe anxiety in a new survey than those who kept their jobs. According to more recent data, a fifth of Canadian households reported still struggling to make ends meet.

Each year, fields of Canadian produce are plowed under due to cancelled orders. But that may be about to change.

They include citizen scientists, trauma healed and a rare genetic condition.

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, children in Canada have been hit by increased poverty and food insecurity, poorer mental health and more racism, a new report says.

Food insecurity can only be solved by raising incomes and food banks are an ad hoc solution that senior levels of government rely on to avoid repairing a frayed social safety net, says expert Graham Riches.