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Canadian Indigenous water activist Autumn Peltier addresses UN on clean water
Canadian Indigenous water activist Autumn Peltier addressed hundreds of international guests at UN headquarters in Manhattan on Saturday. The 15-year-old activist from Wiikwemkoong First Nation on Manitoulin Island in northern Ontario urged the global community to respect the sacredness and importance of clean...
How polkadot windows now protect birds at Pinery Provincial Park
Staff at Pinery Provincial Park, on the shores of Lake Huron, are applying thousands of tiny vinyl squares on the windows of the park's visitor centre in hopes that it will reduce bird strikes — which kill 25 million birds...
Climate lessons from the classroom spill into the streets
On Friday, tens of thousands of people — led by youth — marched across Canada in the Global Climate Strike. Many of the children in the streets do not know the details of the science, but they are convinced that they're heading into a different world than the one that exists...
Verafin's quiet, huge success: Canada's largest venture funding deal goes to an N.L. company
A leading financial crime management software company is headquartered in St. John's, and fueling growth in the province's growing tech...
'It's deceiving Canadians': Hidden trackers reveal plastic recycling dumped in Canadian landfill
After several instances of Canadian plastic waste turning up overseas in places like the Philippines and Malaysia, CBC's Marketplace wanted to track the lifecycle of Canadian...
Worried about climate change? You've got a tough decision to make
Climate change is shaping up to be a key issue in the current federal election campaign — maybe even the one that decides who wins all the marbles next month. But that doesn't make the choice facing concerned Canadians any...