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Emma McIntosh
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News, Politics
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August 31st 2020
The government passed Bill 197 last month without holding public consultations, which are required under Ontario’s Environmental Bill of Rights. Environmental advocates filed a first challenge last month, and a group of First Nations are planning a third.
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'Trump has now entirely and completely distanced himself from the rule of law,' national affairs columnist Sandy Garossino warns. And amidst a it's not just the White House at stake.
David P. Ball
News
| August 29th 2020
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Merran Smith, Sarah Petrevan
Opinion
| August 31st 2020
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In June, the Ford government proposed making it easier for quarries to be built in endangered species habitat. After feedback from the public, the province has shelved the idea.
Emma McIntosh
News, Politics
| August 28th 2020
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Anastasia Fyke doesn’t have time for millennials. Sort of. The fourth-generation farmer (and a millennial herself) wants to help farmers transform agriculture from Canada’s sixth-largest greenhouse gas producer into a carbon sink. It’s an attainable goal — with enough investment. “I hear a lot of flak, especially from my own generation, blaming farmers for all these climate things,” she said.
Marc Fawcett-Atkinson
News, Food Insider
| August 29th 2020
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The Federation of Metro Tenants' Associations cheers as Ford government moves to freeze rent increases in 2021, but still fears surge in evictions of those unable to pay now.
Morgan Sharp
News, Politics, Next Gen Insider
| August 28th 2020
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Megafloods could take America’s most precious farmland—and Disneyland—with it.
Tom Philpott
News, US News, Politics
| August 31st 2020
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From the archives
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Manda Aufochs Gillespie
News, Culture
| October 4th 2018
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