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Just this week, the Doug Ford government drew heat from Ontario’s auditor general for flouting key environmental laws, allowing logging in protected wilderness areas and giving itself the power to make environmental changes without notifying or consulting the public.
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And now, for today’s top stories:
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Emma McIntosh
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News, Politics
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November 18th 2020
Ontario’s auditor general released four reports on the state of the environment in the province Wednesday, finding that the Ford government is failing to follow the rules. While opposition parties slammed the Progressive Conservatives, Environment Minister Jeff Yurek said he was “proud” of his ministry’s work.
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More in today's news
Ontario is allowing resource extraction in protected areas, failing to collect enough data to even know if it’s meeting its environmental responsibilities and not abiding by the rules, the province’s auditor general found in a series of scathing reports.
Emma McIntosh
News, Politics
| November 18th 2020
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Environmental questions remain about using large amounts of fossil fuels to produce hydrogen gas, even if it does lead to lower transport emissions.
Carl Meyer
News, Energy, Politics, Ottawa Insider
| November 19th 2020
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“There’s this narrative in Prince Rupert that you can’t grow food here because we don’t have a lot of flat land, and whatever is flat is muskeg or bedrock, and it rains all the time,” said Alexie Stephens, program manager in the Skeena region for Ecotrust Canada. “That’s something we want to change.”
Marc Fawcett-Atkinson
News, Food Insider
| November 19th 2020
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When it comes to shellfish, concerns around the consumption of microplastics are a good news, bad news story.
Rochelle Baker
News, Island Insider
| November 19th 2020
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The federal government has launched a new initiative aimed at finding long-term solutions for the growing quantity of radioactive waste produced by Canada's nuclear reactors.
Colin Perkel
News, Politics
| November 18th 2020
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the military could play an integral part in rolling out COVID-19 vaccines across the country, though question marks remain around cost and distribution.
Christopher Reynolds
News, Politics
| November 18th 2020
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Every day, Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg joins the countless ranks of U.S. commuters still making their way to work in the national capital.
James McCarten
News, US News, Politics
| November 18th 2020
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From the archives
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Fatima Syed
News, Politics
| January 4th 2019
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