‘Whiplash’ and ‘scar tissue’: conservation authorities grapple with Ontario’s most dramatic overhaul yet
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11 min. readNearly 80 years after their creation, the Doug Ford government is reducing the unique environmental...
Ford government wants more power over Ontario’s drinking water
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Move to support ‘housing and infrastructure development’ comes 25 years after fatal tragedy in Walkerton...
‘The Great Lakes made me,’ says scholar, poet and musician Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
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The member of Alderville First Nation shares her thoughts on water and life — and what...
Beavers disappeared from syilx territories. Could imitating their habitats bring them back — and restore their wetlands?
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Historically seen as a ‘nuisance’ species to be trapped and removed, beavers may be key...
‘Our water should never be that dirty’: the water crisis in First Nations is about staffing too
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In many Ontario communities, water treatment plants are staffed by a single person. A training...
Wildfires are threatening B.C.’s drinking water
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Communities from Cranbrook to Kelowna know fire can contaminate reservoirs as well as burn homes....
B.C.’s long-promised watershed security strategy is done. It’s just not public
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The province has sat on the completed strategy for more than a year, despite calls...
Water pollution flows across borders, 100% tariff-free
From coal mining runoff in British Columbia to bacterial blooms in the Great Lakes, there...
Back to beaches: the push to make Canada’s cities swimmable again
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As Canadian summers heat up, more urban residents are tapping the potential of their local...
