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Emma McIntosh
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News, Politics
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August 28th 2020
A coalition of environmental groups have already filed a suit against the province over Bill 197, which the province's auditor general said was not compliant with environmental law. But the second planned challenge is likely to take a different angle, as it also centres on treaty rights.
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More in today's news
The double blow of collapsing oil prices and the COVID-19 crisis has pushed Alberta into a historic deficit of $24.2 billion — more than triple what the United Conservative government projected in its February budget.
Bob Weber
News, Politics
| August 28th 2020
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A town council in northern Saskatchewan rejected a bid to approve the chosen location for a shelter in the downtown core by a 4-1 vote Wednesday night.
Michael Bramadat-Willcock
News, La Ronge, Saskatchewan
| August 27th 2020
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In North America, bumblebees — a vital native pollinator — are estimated to have seen their relative abundance crash by 97 per cent, with the sharpest decline occurring in the past 30 years.
Marc Fawcett-Atkinson
News, Food Insider
| August 28th 2020
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Our food supply comes from an environmentally unsustainable system that is going to unravel
Tom Philpott
News, Politics
| August 28th 2020
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As tens of thousands of Montreal-area children returned to class on Thursday, August 27, 2020, for the first time since the emergence of COVID-19, government officials spent the day trying to reassure parents and teachers following reports of a few infections connected to schools.
Morgan Lowrie
News, Politics
| August 28th 2020
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A COVID-19 vaccine-development partnership between Canada and a Chinese firm has been abandoned, ending clinical trials that were to be conducted by a Dalhousie University research lab.
Keith Doucette
News, Politics
| August 28th 2020
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Canadians believe the COVID-19 crisis has brought their country together, while Americans blame the pandemic for worsening their cultural and political divide, a new international public opinion survey suggests.
James McCarten
News, US News, Politics
| August 28th 2020
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Quadra Island resident Judy Hagen is getting kudos from the B.C. government for 30-plus years of dedicated work aimed at keeping her community safe.
Rochelle Baker
News, Island Insider
| August 28th 2020
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Michael Shellenberger's new book focuses more on the alleged dangers posed by those fighting climate change than climate change itself.
Max Fawcett
Opinion
| August 28th 2020
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From the archives
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Carl Meyer
News, Politics
| February 10th 2020
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