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Blue roofs could help reduce the flooding effects of big storms
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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...
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...
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...
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...
Canada is touting hydrogen as crucial to its climate action plan, but how green is it?
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
How growing global electric car sales could be a boon for Alberta
It may sound paradoxical, but electric cars could soon be an economic driver for oil-rich Alberta. Global sales of electric vehicles grew by...
Natural gas vs. methane: How the name influences our view of this fossil fuel
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Canada’s COVID-19 case numbers show early positive signs
Cases of COVID-19 are declining in many parts of Canada, but experts say those early positive signs are dependent on widespread restrictions. Quebec,...
How carbon capture technology can add to the emissions problem
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