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We’re halfway through a 12-year deadline to keep Earth habitable. Can we get there?

As we descend through the shaded monsoon rainforest, crossing dry stream channels on the final approach to Butterfly Gorge, brittle pandanus palm...

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Lesley Evans Ogden

Reflections on love, loss and motherhood

Everything fades away in time, memories especially. Through the years there have been moments with my children that I try to burn into my memory. I...

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Allyson Mcouat

Indigenous artist’s mural designs in Port Alberni church represent hope and healing

“It’s a shame you have one really big, ugly white wall when the rest of the church has so much loving. You might know someone who could change...

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Avil Beckford

Lost records, found roots: How a Métis genealogist helps people uncover their Indigenous ancestry

Understanding your family history can offer a sense of identity and belonging, but for people with Indigenous ancestry, that history can be...

03.05.2024 30

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Hannah Carty

Making a buzz with beneficial bugs

Meshal Mustafa is reshaping sustainable farming with help from insects. Growing up in Pakistan with parents who worked as entomologists at a local...

03.05.2024 20

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Jasmine Mahoro

What’s the secret to a more sustainable future?

I t’s hard to read the news and feel optimistic about the future of the planet, especially when each passing year brings with it a new set of...

26.04.2024 10

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Alison Tedford Seaweed

Using Indigenous wisdom to save the Martuwarra River

The Martuwarra River is not just a waterway. It is a sacred being, explains Anne Poelina, an Indigenous community leader who descends from a...

26.04.2024 20

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Lesley Evans Ogden

Toronto religious leaders organize a “pray in” to protest RBC’s funding of fossil fuels

On April 9, nine religious leaders from different churches in Toronto were charged with trespassing after organizing a “pray in” at RBC’s Yonge...

26.04.2024 8

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Olivia Vaughan

Is Canada ready to play its part in the global climate refugee crisis?

What feels like a far-off, dystopian future has already begun: climate refugees fleeing the effects of increasingly harsh and temperamental weather...

15.04.2024 10

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Alexandra Shimo

Vote establishing Indigenous church’s self-determination passes

The remit to support the Indigenous church to be self-determining has passed. The goal of the remit was to determine if The United Church of Canada...

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Leslie Sinclair

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