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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...

July 13, 2021

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Blue roofs could help reduce the flooding effects of big storms

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July 13, 2021

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More than 1,500 tree planters prepare to head west to reforest B.C. Interior

More than 1,500 tree planters from Quebec and Ontario are expected to travel across the country to the B.C. Interior in the next...

July 13, 2021

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Toronto, Peel to close businesses with 5 or more COVID-19 cases linked to the workplace

Toronto and Peel Region are issuing orders to force businesses with five or more cases of COVID-19 in the past two weeks to...

July 13, 2021

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Conservatives’ climate plan would replace Liberal carbon tax with lower levy of their own

After years of criticizing the Liberal carbon tax, the Conservative party is proposing a climate plan that also puts a price on carbon...

July 13, 2021

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Lessons from Quebec City’s gym outbreak, one of Canada’s largest COVID-19 superspreading events

We still don’t know exactly how it started — a runner on a treadmill, or perhaps someone lifting weights — but an outbreak...

July 13, 2021

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Canada is touting hydrogen as crucial to its climate action plan, but how green is it?

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July 13, 2021

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Federal carbon-offset proposal will likely give illusion of progress, even as it increases emissions

This column is an opinion by Nicholas Rivers, Mark Jaccard and Kathryn Harrison. Rivers is the Canada Research Chair in Climate and Energy Policy at...

July 13, 2021

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Supreme Court to rule today on whether the federal carbon tax is constitutional

The Supreme Court of Canada will release its decision today on whether the federal Liberal government’s carbon pricing regime is constitutional — a ruling that...

July 13, 2021

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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...

July 13, 2021

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Government missed out on an offer of N95 masks at the start of the pandemic: documents

Documents tabled with the House of Commons health committee show the federal government missed an opportunity to purchase critical pandemic-related supplies at the outset of the...

July 13, 2021

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Retirement home manager suspended amid accusations his wife got vaccine instead of front-line worker

An Ottawa retirement home manager has been suspended after accusations that he allowed his wife to receive a dose of a COVID-19 vaccine intended...

July 13, 2021

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Justin Trudeau contends with the uncertainty of Canada’s vaccine supply

In his last two appearances before reporters, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau asserted that the unpredictable messiness of vaccinating the globe against a novel...

July 13, 2021