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As a founder of the youth-led, not-for-profit Community Climate Council, Miranda Baksh helps volunteers in the racialized and newcomer-dominated Peel region of southern Ontario learn how our changing climate impacts them and the places they know.
If changing the course of a major global industry seems out of reach, you might take heart from the students at Tvind high school in Jutland, Denmark, who built the world’s largest wind turbine in 1978.
There are steps Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland can take in next month’s budget to address immediate affordability concerns while also setting the economy on a path toward lower emissions.
The timing has more to do with a widespread media campaign aimed at resisting the inevitable transition to cleaner and more efficient transportation technology.
The former mayor of Calgary is now officially part of the race to replace Rachel Notley as Alberta NDP leader. In the process, he's challenging the very nature of the party — and its inclination towards choosing principles over power.
Analysis of the effects of reduced economic activity during the pandemic revealed that CO2 in the atmosphere was reduced as fossil fuel usage fell during the same period. It then quickly rebounded as economic activity resumed, putting a lie to claims human activity does not affect CO2 levels.
The movement to ban fossil fuel advertising is about saving lives. People in Canada are already dying from fossil fuel pollution, with more deaths to come.
With the extent of climate change to be determined, and the definition of record-breaking fire seasons yet unknown, Ontario still does nothing to inform or protect its forest firefighters from smoke on the front lines.
Canada would benefit from a thoughtful national conversation about whether the "tough on crime" approach preferred by Conservatives actually works to reduce crime. That's not what we're getting from Pierre Poilievre or his various proxies.
Switzerland kicked the hornet’s nest of geoengineering with an official proposal to find a way to shade the Earth at the UN Environment Assembly’s latest gathering in Nairobi.