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A decade of fighting over a controversial mining project in Manitoba — and still no decision

After a decade of local opposition, political scandal and changing plans, the Sio Silica project’s fate is still up in the ...
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B.C.’s failure to fund flood response ‘troublesome’ as atmospheric river strikes again

Since the disaster four years ago, Semá:th First Nation, Leq’a-mel First Nation, Máthxwi First Nation, the cities of ...
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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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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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‘By the wayside’: rural Albertans are angry at companies not paying their bills

Dennis Byrne and his wife Barb built a good life. He flew passenger jets around the world, she practiced physiotherapy. He harvested their fields, too, cultivating the land for years and occasionally ...
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‘It’s not even close to equitable’: B.C. First Nations push to reshape forestry

A morning fog has cleared at the Kelsey Bay log sort near the town of Sayward, B.C., on Vancouver Island. Thick drifts of pulverized cedar bark pile against the loading dock, evidence of the millions ...
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The AI data centre boom is here. What will it mean for land, water and power in Canada?

It was announced last December that a data centre more than 32 times the size of the current largest data centre in the world has its sights on a drought-stricken region in Alberta. Chief Sheldon ...
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How do you build a house that could get grandma through the apocalypse?

This story is part of Habitat, a series from The Narwhal which looks at how communities are working to address the housing and climate change crises simultaneously Since wildfires tore through his ...
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Wildfire retardants help stop fires — but also impact ecosystems

In 2020, when a backcountry campfire in Alberta’s Rocky Mountains was not properly put out during a high-risk wildfire season, aircraft rushed to the scene to prevent a bigger blaze. Soon, a creek ran ...