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After promise to end subsidies, feds loan Coastal GasLink up to $200 million

Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chief Namoks is accusing the federal government of violating Indigenous rights as it provides hundreds of millions of dollars to a controversial fossil fuel project snaking through the nation's unceded territory.
John Woodside

Oil companies should pay for Toronto's billion-dollar flood

Last week's flooding in Toronto shows we need our governments to act decisively to address the climate crisis — and make Big Oil clean up the mess they made. 
Johanna Lewis

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Natasha Bulowski

Canada's energy infrastructure needs better protection against cybersecurity attacks, feds say

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The push to change lawn laws

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Abdul Matin Sarfraz

A new gas pipeline for Ontario's greenhouses?

Damian Carrington

Climate crisis is making days longer, study finds

Marc Fawcett-Atkinson

Youth use fire to stop fire

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Tegan Hansen

The B.C. government doesn’t want you to know

Margo Malowney

Fossil fuel fashion has no place at Paris 2024 Olympics

Chris Hatch

Zooming off to jail for climate activism

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John Woodside

NATO accuses Russia, China of spreading disinformation to undermine climate action

John Woodside

Public transit advocates pan Feds’ $30 billion commitment

Marc Fawcett-Atkinson

Youth use fire to stop fire

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Patricia Lane & Lesley Johnson

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Moira Donovan

Seeding change, one tree at a time

Cloe Logan

Does the decision to lift Newfoundland’s cod moratorium consider climate change?

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Marc Fawcett-Atkinson

Feds look to limit farmers' ancient practice of saving seed

Marc Fawcett-Atkinson

As wildfires worsen, wild salmon take a hit

Ford government's 'red tape' cuts target environment

Critics argue that “red tape cuts” are a pretext to weaken environmental protections and benefit developers and major industrial emitters. 
Abdul Matin Sarfraz

Poilievre pitches firebrand conservatism to First Nation leaders. Will they be convinced?

Matteo Cimellaro
Guy Johnston on his his vessel, the Michelle Rose

Fish harvesters help research rising acidity of oceans

Hope Lompe

First Nation challenges nuclear waste decision in federal court

Natasha Bulowski & Matteo Cimellaro

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Temperatures 1.5C hotter than pre-industrial era average for 12 months, data shows

Copernicus Climate Change Service says results a ‘large and continuing shift’ in the climate
Ajit Niranjan
Financing disaster

Insurance companies financed fossil fuels to the tune of $19.5 billion in 2023

John Woodside
Big Green Build

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Darius Snieckus
Powering Up

A First Nation's geothermal project shows how fossil fuels can power the next seven generations

Matteo Cimellaro
Race Against Climate Change

The American Climate Corps officially kicks off

Kate Yoder

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Mom wants quicker reform on disaster preparations, one year after flood took son

Umair Irfan & Aja Romano

Heat is deadly. Why does our culture push us to ignore it?

Bob Weber

ATCO seeks to delay regulatory hearing on excess profits for appeal process

The Canadian Press

'Challenging' wildfire conditions in B.C. as hot and dry weather persists

Volkmar Richter

Movies: summer thrills from extreme weather in Twisters with only a hint of climate change

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Experts warn of deluges to come without infrastructure upgrades

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Feds release flood of conservation funding

Brishti Basu

BC’s latest ‘old growth’ conservation announcement is mostly not about old growth

Hope Lompe

Fishing communities welcome B.C. intention to reform licensing and quotas

Ashley Joannou

A decade after Insite, drug policy landscape is still being shaped in B.C.

Jim Bronskill

Former safety minister wants 'protective zones' for MPs' offices as threats increase

Jasper Jolly

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