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Avoiding the back to school/work plastic blues on your next shopping mission
How is it the end of (northern hemisphere) summer already?! I don’t know about you, but I am so not ready to give up patio lunches, say goodbye to the…
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Amazon in Flames
For all of them, and for us here in Canada, these fires bring complete and utter heartbreak. We know that the Amazon helps absorb massive amounts of carbon dioxide. We know that if we lose the lungs of our planet, precious species will go extinct, Indigenous and rural communities will lose their land, and we…
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Three Reasons to Support an Ambitious Global Ocean Treaty
On August 19, the third of four United Nations negotiations for a Global Ocean Treaty will open in New York. Why are these negotiations crucial for the future? Because they…
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Doug Ford’s gas pump stickers: misleading, partisan and unconstitutional
The Ford government’s carbon tax stickers are now in the mail to gas stations across Ontario, even though the regulation requiring gas station operators to post the stickers (or face…
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Five reasons to look after our land
If we want to keep both our bodies and our planet healthy, we need to make big changes to the way we look after the land.
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From Hiroshima to now, can nuclear ever be peaceful?
On August 6 1945, the United States military dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. It was 8:15 in the morning, and the city was just about to start its day.…
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3 things to know about BC wildfires
Two years ago, British Columbia saw its worst-ever wildfire season … that is, until last year. In 2017 alone, about 65,000 people were evacuated and more than 200 homes were…
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Fighting Climate Despair With Street Art
In a climate emergency, anxiety can easily paralyze us. When it’s too much to bear, it can feel like we can’t act. And yet, despite the danger we’re in, we…
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Deep sea mining is not the future
If you were planning to send monster machines down to a deep ocean habitat that’s full of creatures found nowhere else on Earth, you’d need a pretty good story to…
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Counterpoint: Time to get ready for a rough ride
Pointing fingers makes for good politics, but it does nothing to prepare us for the dangers ahead. In a recent opinion piece attacking climate activists (Boycotts of Canadian energy will…