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‘Direct violation’: Alberta ignored its own rules by transferring wells to delinquent oil company, data suggests

New evidence suggests the Alberta Energy Regulator ignored a ministerial order — and critics say that’s just the tip of the ...
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Cut through a wetland: how Ontario’s losing a critical ecosystem

A developer built a trail through a wetland near Orillia, catching neighbours and the township by surprise. Across Ontario, ...
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Annie Burns-Pieper

Annie Burns-Pieper is an investigative and health reporter whose work spans nearly 15 years with national teams at The Globe and Mail, CBC, CTV and Global. Her international reporting has appeared in ...
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Are environmental risks making Canada’s doctor shortage more acute?

The doctor shortage is a national problem. Worries about health-care risks in industrial and disaster-prone areas may be a ...
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A new way to fight climate change: cataloguing the DNA of the Arctic Ocean

Scientists are collecting DNA from the Arctic Ocean to create a better map of climate change and environmental health ...
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Who’s responsible for train-wildlife deaths? B.C. and Ottawa give different answers

B.C.’s minister of Water, Land and Resource Stewardship hopes to start working with the federal government toward a strategy to prevent train-wildlife collisions in the new year. “It’s really ...
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Canada says anti-greenwashing law prevents industry from ‘speaking up’

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government says it’s paring back parts of Canada’s anti-greenwashing law after hearing from fossil fuel companies and other groups that their “good-faith efforts” to ...
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Fast track to where? Carney’s major projects list stirs up emotions, and not much else

We’ve all pondered the sound of a tree falling in the forest. Many have also sought the answer to life, the universe and everything. But have enough of us considered the philosophical quandary of ...
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Slow and steady: the exciting world of slug racing

They came from thousands of millimetres away to compete in what must be one of the slowest events on earth, Bowen Island’s annual slug races. That’s right: those slimy, soft, land-crawling ...
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Forests minister defends B.C. logging. Experts say clearcuts are still a problem

In early September 2025, as wildfires cast a pall of smoke across parts of B.C., Forests Minister Ravi Parmar was asked about a study from the University of British Columbia which found clear-cut ...
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U.S. funding cuts threaten wildlife on both sides of the Canadian border

On the border between the United States and Mexico, a black bear paces back and forth when confronted with the looming steel beams that form the border wall between the two countries. A pack of ...
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Ontario wants to bury carbon dioxide deep underground. Here’s what that means

Ontario’s associate minister of energy-intensive industries, Sam Oosterhoff, is impressed by Suncor Energy. The oil and gas company is producing about 100,000 barrels of oil products per day at its ...