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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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For Nova Scotia, offshore wind could be an economic boon — with unknown environmental impacts

Just outside the town of Port Hawkesbury, N.S., the shoreline of the Strait of Canso is dotted with industry. “For Nova Scotia, this is one of the last outposts of industrial activity,” Amanda ...
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Ksi Lisims LNG is on Carney’s nation-building list. Here’s what you need to know

Less than two months after receiving approvals from the provincial and federal government, Prime Minister Mark Carney has referred the Ksi Lisims liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility to the ...
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The day pipeline security followed me — and what I learned later about Canada’s spy agency

The truck slowly pulled alongside as I idled at the side of a remote dirt road in northern B.C. No cell service, the nearest town half an hour away. I’d pulled off to let industrial traffic heading ...
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B.C.’s century-long feast on big, old trees has sent forests into freefall

B.C.’s NDP government has recently lent a steadying hand to its beleaguered forestry sector, pausing stumpage fees, expediting permits and investing in mills to prevent its looming fall — but some say ...
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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 ...