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Time outdoors is good for kids. Educators are giving it to them

As children spend less time outdoors, compelling new research — and reimagined schoolyards — point the way back.
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Urban trees aren’t just nice, scientists say — they’re mandatory

Researchers are calling for cities to double down on one of the simplest — yet most powerful — solutions to many problems.
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How Canadian scientists are stepping up in the race to save climate data

Threats to science funding in the US are sending shockwaves through international collaborations. For one Canadian researcher ...
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Canada’s resource push meets a housing crunch in northwest BC

Terrace and Prince Rupert are central to Canada’s resource and trade ambitions, but local leaders say the workers arriving to ...
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Brian Payton

Brian Payton is the award-winning author of Shadow of the Bear, The Ice Passage, and the national bestselling novel The Wind ...
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Saint-Simon-de-Rimouski peatland that shelters rare species is now protected

Along the shores of the St. Lawrence river, “wetlands as intact as this one are very rare,” says Mikaël Jaffré, executive ...
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Carney meets with allied nations in Turkey on margins of NATO summit

Prime Minister Mark Carney met with Turkish President Recep Erdogan and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy Tuesday on ...
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Carney arrives in Turkey for high-level NATO talks with German and South Korean leaders

General Mark Rutte says the alliance will work with Swedish manufacturer Saab on up to 10 early warning surveillance planes ...
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Champagne defends fiscal record as defence, infrastructure spending increases

Finance Minster François-Philippe Champagne asserted Monday that the Liberals are keeping federal finances under control even ...
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Real work 'begins now,' says TKMS CEO after being named the preferred sub bidder

Prime Minister Mark Carney on Monday named German defence manufacturer TKMS as the preferred bidder to supply the Royal ...
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Canada’s biggest wind farm approval gives boost to green hydrogen plant

Power from EverWind’s giant 1.26-gigawatt Ocean Lake project in Nova Scotia will be used by the developer’s planned hydrogen ...
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NATO looks to Saab to build as many as 10 surveillance planes using Canadian jets

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte says the alliance will work with Swedish manufacturer Saab on up to 10 early warning ...