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A remote evacuation scramble as the Northwest Territories burns

(UPDATE: Late Wednesday night, the government of the Northwest Territories announced a phased evacuation order for Yellowknife as the fires closed in.) There are hundreds

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August 17, 2023

Are our governments siding with big grocers?

Right now, thousands of grocery store workers are striking because, they say, they can’t afford to buy food at the chain they work for. Food

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August 15, 2023

How ‘the Montreal shuffle’ is skewing the city’s rental market

By now everyone is aware of the strains that short-term rentals like Air BnB can place on a city’s housing market. But recently Montreal has

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August 14, 2023

Is far right extremism gaining ground in Canada?

A new report looks at the circumstances that led to the convoy’s arrival in Ottawa (and other places across Canada) in early 2022, and finds

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August 9, 2023

New guidelines, old hesitancy and the future of covid vaccines

It’s almost time for what will likely become your annual covid shot—assuming you’re one of the people who will actually get it. Canada’s vaccine advisory

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August 8, 2023

RERELEASE: How can we find common ground on climate change?

We realized recently that we’ve done an awful lot of climate coverage this summer, and that it’s been overwhelmingly depressing. So, as we take a

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August 7, 2023

What Meta’s and Google’s news blocking means for indie media, and for you

On Tuesday Meta, owner of Facebook and Instagram, made good on a threat to block all news from Canadians on its platforms. Google is promising

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August 3, 2023

From extreme to extreme: The future of climate in Nova Scotia

First it was fires. Then floods. Now the province, already devastated by two extreme events, will wait to see what kind of impact unusually warm

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August 2, 2023

Do drug busts lead to more overdose deaths?

Drug busts have long been a go-to tactic for law enforcement in the so-called ‘war on drugs’, but with the ubiquity of powerful narcotics like

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July 20, 2023

Why were asylum seekers sleeping on the streets of Toronto?

Asylum seekers come to Canada for safety and a better life, but instead a group of them ended up sleeping on the streets of the

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July 19, 2023
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