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#digitalstrike: how the climate action movement is responding to COVID-19

April 3 was meant to be a big day for the global climate action movement. Then COVID-19 hit. Here's how youth activists across Canada responded.

Coronavirus in Canada

By Alastair Sharp | Features, GEN Toronto | April 3rd 2020

Islanders' tense travels home amid COVID-19 crisis

Snowbirds from Quadra Island had wintered in Mexico, and were unaware of pandemic when they started their journey north.

Coronavirus in Canada

By Rochelle Baker | Features, Quadra and Cortes Island, B.C. | March 30th 2020

Quadra caremongering saves lives during COVID-19 crisis

A Quadra Island senior says caremongering and neighbours' kind acts are saving his life.

Coronavirus in Canada

By Rochelle Baker | Features, Quadra and Cortes Island, B.C. | March 24th 2020

Who is new Ontario Liberal Leader Steven Del Duca?

Steven Del Duca’s deep political connections — the 46-year old father of two daughters first volunteered for the Ontario Liberal Party when he was 15 — helped him move from clear front-runner to newly crowned leader.

By Alastair Sharp | Features, Politics | March 7th 2020

Ziya Tong and The Reality Bubble

Science journalist and award-winning author Ziya Tong takes her book, The Reality Bubble, to England

Race Against Climate Change

By Anne Watson | Features, Culture | March 2nd 2020

Zen And The Art Of Climate Success

IPCC contributor Mark Jaccard’s new book gives an authoritative solution to make carbon pollution Lilliputian

Race Against Climate Change

By Matthew Klippenstein | Features, Politics | February 28th 2020

When climate change drove all the men away

Hundreds of thousands of young Indigenous campesinos in Mexico are putting down their farming tools to seek work abroad as harvests continue to drop dramatically. Brutality and loneliness in a village of women in the heat of climate change

Race Against Climate Change

By Charlie Fidelman | Features | February 24th 2020

The story of a pipeline and the communities in its path

This pipeline project and showdown with the Wet’suwet’en is complicated — more than can be understood just by reading an article slamming one side or hailing another. Its dotted with rumours and misconceptions of the people affected. And it involves digging deeper. A lot deeper.

By Brandi Morin | Features | February 13th 2020