
In this issue of our environmental newsletter, we look at the environmental impacts of two alternatives to burial and cremation of human bodies; check out a new kind of floating solar panel; and look into an idea to boost recycling rates and help vulnerable people at the same time.
October 30, 2025 - 14:00 | | CBC News - Canada
Annie Kidder is standing in her Toronto kitchen remembering those long-ago afternoons when she and a group of parents, most of them young mothers like her, were “embarrassing” themselves.She’s hearkening back to the mid-1990s. Ms. Kidder was an actor turned theatre director raising two young girls, one five and the other 10 years old. That’s when things took an unexpected turn and she became a dogged champion of public education.
October 30, 2025 - 14:00 | Dave McGinn | The Globe and Mail
Calgary students took part in a provincewide school walkout Thursday in response to the outcome of the Alberta teachers' strike. Protest organizers say they're standing up for teachers, while the education minister and a Calgary school board say students shouldn't leave class.
October 30, 2025 - 13:54 | | CBC News - Canada
Ontario's transportation minister says speed cameras across the province are set to be removed in two weeks, after Premier Doug Ford's government passed legislation Thursday to ban them.
October 30, 2025 - 13:48 | | CBC News - Canada
Ontario's transportation minister says speed cameras across the province are set to be removed in two weeks, after Premier Doug Ford's government passed legislation Thursday to ban them.
October 30, 2025 - 13:48 | | CBC News - Ottawa
India is adding an additional duty of 30 per cent for all imports of yellow peas effective Nov. 1, including from Canada, in an effort to maintain local price stability.
October 30, 2025 - 13:43 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Canada

