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Patricia Lane, Kasey Chen
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Opinion, Climate Solutions Reporting
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April 24th 2023
This 17-year-old Grade 12 student is a recipient of a 2022 Youth Climate Activism Award for her work raising awareness about the importance of recycling at her high school, reclaiming habitat from invasive species and encouraging native plant gardening.
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More in today's news
Chevron voluntarily gave up 19 exploration permits in B.C.'s Scott Islands marine National Wildlife Area and two fragile glass sponge reefs after conservation groups launched a court challenge.
Rochelle Baker
News, Island Insider
| April 24th 2023
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The World Meteorological Organization said last year really was as bad as it seemed when people were muddling through it. And about as bad as it gets — until more warming kicks in.
Seth Borenstein
News
| April 21st 2023
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Atlantic Coast climate reporter Cloe Logan has been chosen for the coveted Metcalf Institute’s Annual Science Immersion Fellowship for Journalists. The fellowship is highly competitive, with Metcalf receiving applications from more than 200 prospective attendees representing 65 different countries this year.
Sadie Stephens
News
| April 21st 2023
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The small southwestern Ontario city that gained fame more than a century ago as Canada's railway capital is being remade as "the national anchor" of Canada's electric-vehicle supply chain, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday at the official launch of a new Volkswagen battery plant.
Mia Rabson, Liam Casey, Jessica Smith
News
| April 21st 2023
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Limited trust in the federal agency has also led to many Indigenous Peoples having “a reluctance to interact, or being stressed when dealing with CRA and putting it off as a result,” the CRA report found.
Matteo Cimellaro
News, Urban Indigenous Communities in Ottawa
| April 24th 2023
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The Mohawk Mothers say they have uncovered evidence of graves following interviews with survivors of mind-control experiments that took place in the 1950s and 1960s at a psychiatric institute affiliated with the hospital.
Canadian Press
News
| April 21st 2023
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Loading up on law enforcement is not enough to prevent violent crime from making headlines. Creating safer communities requires political will, long-term commitment and improved collaboration among stakeholders and levels of government.
Spencer van Vloten
Opinion
| April 24th 2023
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It has been two years, but University of British Columbia architecture student Katie Theall can vividly recall the"surreal moment" when their team learned it had received a site on the Vancouver campus to build a "carbon-minimal" student space.
Nono Shen
News
| April 21st 2023
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As climate change causes more marine heat waves, finding space for both is getting even more difficult.
Jesse Kathan
News
| April 24th 2023
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From the archives
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Rochelle Baker
News, Island Insider
| June 21st 2022
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