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          <title>Religious Leaders Call on Christy Clark to End Coal Exports</title>
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          <title>Community on Forefront of Climate Change Adaptation Offers Lessons about Food Security</title>
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               Gitga'at First Nation               </category>
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               Hartley Bay               </category>
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               IPCC               </category>
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          <title>Fracking Data Woefully Lacking in Canada, Finds Federal Report</title>
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               Canada fracking               </category>
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               Council of Canadian Academies               </category>
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               Environment Canada               </category>
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          <title>Increased Mosquito Habitat One Among Many Climate Change Impacts Threatening Public Health</title>
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               public health               </category>
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               West Nile Virus               </category>
               

          
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          <title>Insurance Industry Calls for Cooperation on Climate Change</title>
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               Climate               </category>
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               climate change               </category>
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               Insurance Industry               </category>
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               Southern Alberta Flood               </category>
               

          
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          <title>Concerned Engineers Warn of Flaws in Enbridge Northern Gateway Tanker Plan</title>
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               Joint Review Panel               </category>
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               Northern Gateway               </category>
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               Northern Gateway Pipeline               </category>
               

          
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          <title>Library Association Requests &amp;#8216;Informed Dialogue&amp;#8217; with Feds on Library Closures</title>
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               Canadian Library Association               </category>
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               DFO Libraries               </category>
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               Library closures               </category>
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               Science               </category>
               

          
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          <title>Canada&amp;#8217;s New Environment Commissioner, Julie Gelfand, Tied to Mining Industry and NGOs</title>
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               environment commissioner               </category>
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               Federal government               </category>
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               Julie Gelfand               </category>
               

          
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          <title>Loss of Librarians Devastating to Science and Knowledge in Canada</title>
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               Canadian Library Association               </category>
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               Health Canada               </category>
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          <title>DFO Library Closures Anger Scientific Community</title>
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               Department of Fisheries and Oceans               </category>
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               DFO Libraries               </category>
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               Minister Gail Shea               </category>
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          <title>Port City Secures Six-Month Moratorium on OilSands Exports</title>
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          <pubDate>Sat, 21 Dec 2013 20:23:27 +0000</pubDate>
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               Gregor Robertson               </category>
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               oilsands               </category>
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               pipelines               </category>
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               Portland               </category>
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               Portland Montreal Pipe Line               </category>
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               tankers               </category>
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               tar sands               </category>
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