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Environment / September/October 2022

How the UK Is Winning the Race against Climate Change

August 17, 2022August 18, 2022 - by Anne Shibata Casselman

While Canada has fumbled every climate promise, the UK has been hitting its emissions targets. What would it take to catch up?

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A comic of a small green hill with a Hollywood-style sign that says Garbage Hill
Arts & Culture / July/August 2022

The Surprising Appeal of Winnipeg’s Garbage Hill

June 21, 2022June 30, 2022 - by Jonathan Dyck

How I developed an appreciation for a green space with a past life as a municipal dump

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Comic panel of a couple sitting on a couch pleasantly watching the fireplace roar. In the second slide they sip wine, oblivious to the fire raging outside their window.
Environment / June 2022

Ask an Environmental Expert: What’s the Carbon Footprint of the Internet?

May 16, 2022June 9, 2022 - by Laura Marks

Our digital habits are worse for the environment than flying. That toll is expected to grow

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Jason Kenney speaks at a conference in November 2019.
Politics

What Jason Kenney’s War Room Is Costing Alberta

January 14, 2020March 6, 2020 - by Max Fawcett

The province’s failure to consider climate risk may lose it billions in global investment

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Arts & Culture

The Decade in Food

December 25, 2019February 21, 2020 - by The Walrus Staff

From Canada’s farming crisis to our love of Kraft Dinner, here are the ideas, people, and conversations that helped define Canada

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Business

Cruise Ships Often Represent the Worst of Capitalism

September 13, 2019September 16, 2019 - by Brian Payton

When cruise ships dock, a town’s population can more than double. Who decides when the cost of tourism is too high?

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A huge pile of garbage at a garbage dump.
Environment

We Are Garbage

August 26, 2019April 20, 2021 - by Ziya Tong

Humans generate million of tonnes of garbage every day. Where does it all go?

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Environment / September 2018

Why Recycling Doesn’t Work

August 14, 2018March 31, 2020 - by Matthew Halliday

You may use the blue bin, but it doesn’t mean you’re helping the environment

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Illustration Juxtaposing an Image of a Thread of Cloth in the Laundry Room Against the Same Thread Polluting the Ocean
April 2018 / Environment

How Our Clothing Poisons the Environment

March 20, 2018March 27, 2020 - by Tina Knezevic

Microfibres are the scourge of our waterways. One man in Nova Scotia says he has a solution

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Environment

Should Oil Companies Be on the Hook for Climate Change Costs?

January 26, 2018November 11, 2019 - by Christopher Pollon

From wild fires to rising sea levels, ecological disasters are expected to cost Canada $5 billion per year by 2020—and some communities want big oil to pay its share

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