Design
Looking back to look forward: Resources exploring Black Prairie experiences
This story is part of the Black on the Prairies project, a collection of articles, personal essays, images and more, exploring the past,...
Key decision coming soon in fight over ‘crown jewel’ of southern Ontario trout streams
Conservation groups and residents fighting a planned sewage plant that they say threatens the “crown jewel” of southern Ontario trout streams are about...
When it comes to sucking up carbon, not all trees are equal
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What Brad Pitt Did Before All The Fame
Before he was one of the most famous actors in the world, Brad Pitt had a shockingly “normal” life. According to Insider, Pitt...
‘Vancouver Model’ of drug decriminalization is deeply flawed, national coalition says
A national coalition of groups that support drug decriminalization say the plan put forward by Vancouver Mayor Kennedy Stewart known as the “Vancouver Model”...
Child care won’t be a ‘magic bullet’ that sparks post-pandemic recovery: Freeland
Ottawa’s plan to lower early learning and child-care costs was a centrepiece of last week’s federal budget, but Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland warns...
Blue roofs could help reduce the flooding effects of big storms
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Canada is touting hydrogen as crucial to its climate action plan, but how green is it?
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Teachers warn that some students have ‘checked out’ of school, and it will be hard to get them back
Toronto-area high school teacher Kirby Mitchell has long focused his attention on students who’ve been labelled as having behavioural issues, who are often...
‘It excites people’: First Nations artists give beadwork a modern twist
The longstanding tradition of beadwork is taking on a new twist among young First Nations artists who’ve developed a long string of social media...
Manitoba First Nations race to deliver 100,000 shots in 100 days
First Nations leaders in Manitoba are racing against an early spring melt and the onset of new COVID-19 variants to vaccinate all adults in all...
Compressed air, flywheels and more: Energy storage solutions being tested in Canada
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COVID-era school design takes lessons from Indigenous educators
A Saskatoon-based architect is already applying lessons learnt from the pandemic to the schools he is designing, and said the First Nations clients...
Gravity power? How to store wind, solar energy without batteries
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Ontario changing child-welfare system to stop teens from aging out of care unprepared
Unlike many teenagers, Abdoulaye Diakhaby was petrified to turn 18. He had spent the previous four years in the child-welfare system living first in...
This fleet of Canada Post trucks went psychedelic thanks to a London, Ont., artist’s ‘funny idea’
In recent months, London, Ont., has been home to one of Canada Post’s colourful new delivery trucks, emblazoned on either side with the...
