Climate Change

• Vancouver mulls asking for donations to help replace leaky, shuttered Kits Pool

  The city revealed earlier this month that the popular outdoor facility would not open this summer, due to “a number of core issues” including a major leak problem.

  Politics

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• Ontario is now Canada’s tornado hot spot — and the season is getting longer

  Data released last month from the Northern Tornadoes Project shows that between 1991 and 2020, Ontario had the most tornadoes per year, surpassing Saskatchewan.

  Weather

  Jun 12
  
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• Montreal mayor, city officials unveil urban vision with focus on transit, housing

  The plan focuses on an expansion of the public transit system, more housing, more greenspace and environmentally-friendly buildings.

  Canada

  Jun 11
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• Climate disaster survivors urge emissions cap that energy CEOs call unnecessary

  Executives of some of Canada's largest oil and gas companies told a parliamentary committee they support carbon pricing as a tool to reduce their industry's environmental impact.

  Environment

  Jun 6
• UN head warns of ‘climate hell’ as May sets temperature record

  The UN's secretary general warned of "climate hell" on Wednesday as two new reports show that the planet may warm above the 1.5 C threshold once hoped to be kept at or under.

  Canada

  Jun 5
• Gas-powered lawn equipment debate boils over at council in London, Ont.

  Tempers flared after Ward 10 Coun. Paul Van Meerbergen said councillors in London, Ont. shouldn't turn into a "Politburo of groupthink and indoctrination.”

  Canada

  Jun 4
• PBO says he has been told not to disclose government’s carbon price analysis

  During a Finance Committee meeting Monday, the budget watchdog said the government has its own economic analysis, which he has seen, but has not been released.

  Canada

  Jun 4
• Could re-flooding the Sumas Prairie help buttress Abbotsford against climate change?

  The B.C. government drained Sumas Lake in the 1920s to make room for farmland, displacing the Sumas First Nation and its members.

  Environment

  Jun 3
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• Holland calls criticism of road trip remarks ‘disingenuous’

  Health Minister Mark Holland says viral comments he made saying the cost of a road trip is "the future of the planet' have been taken out of context.

  Canada

  Jun 3
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• Scientists on quest for drought-resistant wheat, agriculture’s ‘Holy Grail’

  Scientists are trying to produce varieties of plants able to withstand temperature fluctuations, floods and frosts, to help feed a growing world population.

  Features

  Jun 2