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Ontario Greens unveil climate-infused housing plan

In an exclusive interview, party leader Mike Schreiner said the Ontario Greens would crack down on urban sprawl and take aggressive steps to address the housing crisis. It comes as the province’s unofficial campaign season gets rolling ahead of next year’s election.

Emma McIntosh

Feeling guilty about the plastic waste your takeout meals create? Try this

A new app shows which restaurants and cafes will let you bring your own reusable containers and cups so you can have your meal and skip the takeout garbage, too.

Marc Fawcett-Atkinson

Single-use plastic accounts for roughly 40 per cent of the 448 million megatonnes of plastic produced globally each year. A new app aims to help Canadians avoid the harmful material. Photo by Karolina Grabowska / Pexels

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Activists seeking to protect Canada’s old-growth forest say they are aligned with First Nations. Is that really true?

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Funding and red tape take the wind out of St. John's climate plans

Patricia Lane

Dad’s DIY skills inspired this woman to be a climate engineer

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Abood, 18, left, and his sister Zeina Abdulhadi, 15, attend a memorial at the location where a family of five was hit by a driver, in London, Ont., Monday, June 7, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Brett Gundlock

Max Fawcett

Canada has an Islamophobia problem — and conservatives are at the root of it

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Make the Catholic Church pay for its role in residential schools

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'I just felt so alone': For Fairy Creek protesters, RCMP presence without media and legal observers was 'scary'

RCMP are wrong to silence media coverage of the Fairy Creek blockades trying to protect B.C.'s old-growth trees from logging, writes freelance writer and climate justice organizer Maia Wikler.

Maia Wikler

The concentration of petrochemical plants near Sarnia, Ont., commonly known as "Chemical Valley." Pollution and environmental degradation often disproportionately harm racialized and disadvantaged communities. Photo by eileenmak / Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

Canada must recognize our right to a healthy environment

David Boyd, Lisa Gue & Elaine MacDonald

People pay their respects at a memorial for the 215 children whose remains were found on the site of the former Kamloops residential school, in Vancouver's Robson Square on May 30, 2021. Photo by GoToVan / Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

For Indigenous children in Canada, the legacy of residential schools never ended

Karyn Pugliese aka Pabàmàdiz

Canadian soldiers during WWII on the right, youth climate strike participants in Toronto on the left. Photos by Royal Air Force official photographer, Woodbine G (left), Lewis Parsons / Unsplash (right)

The case for a Youth Climate Corps in Canada

Seth Klein

People gather next to the Lachine Canal on a warm spring day during the COVID-19 pandemic, in Montreal, Saturday, May 15, 2021. Photo by: The Canadian Press/Graham Hughes

Maan Alhmidi

Most Canadians aren't ready for all COVID restrictions to be lifted

Australian Environment Minister Sussan Ley, left, speaks to the media during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, on Tuesday, June 22, 2021. Photo by Associated Press/Lukas Coch/AAP via AP

Rod McGuirk

Australia challenges UN health downgrade for Great Barrier Reef

Firefighters' jackets hang on the fence of the burned-out remnants of Sacred Heart Church on the Penticton Indian Reserve, near Penticton, B.C., in a Monday, June 21, 2021, handout photo. Handout photo by The Penticton Herald/James Miller

Amy Smart

Two Catholic churches torched on First Nations land in southern B.C.

People look over the damage after a tornado touched down in Mascouche, Que., north of Montreal, on Monday, June 21, 2021. Dozens of homes were damaged and one death has been confirmed. Photo by The Canadian Press/Ryan Remiorz

Sidhartha Banerjee

Quebec tornado causes one death and extensive damage

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As Canada's cities race against climate change, the urgency of finding solutions intensifies

Canada's commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions is important, but without harnessing and empowering local communities to pitch in, it doesn't stand a chance.

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