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Are our brains wired to favour growth over environmentally rational decisions?
Researchers who looked at over 110,000 students found that learning an instrument in elementary school, and continuing music study into high school, significantly improves school achievement.
If the climate is in peril, why has the federal government approved a pipeline that will ship close to 600,000 barrels of oil per day from Alberta to British Columbia?
Laws and policies that marginalize Indigenous people and communities make these same people vulnerable to disaster.
West Coast fisheries policy leaves the door open to speculative investors who see opportunity and can snap up fishing licences and quotas.
The bulk of Canada’s agricultural production is in the Prairie provinces.
There are ways to reduce the risk of protests like France’s yellow vests movement.
Noisy waters may be making it harder for southern resident killer whales to communicate with each other and find their food.
Canada’s top-down approach to designing its climate policy has failed. It needs to find ways to engage with individuals.
The We'suwet'en First Nation is fighting the Coastal GasLink pipeline project, which would stretch nearly 700 kilometres across northern B.C. through their unceded land.
Burning natural gas produces less greenhouse gases than coal or oil. But the methane emissions associated with natural gas production and liquefaction threaten to erode its environmental benefits.
Much of the country depends on water stored and filtered in forests. Fire-scarred watersheds highlight our need for a national wildfire strategy.
Contrary to what some have suggested, the uncertainty over the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion will be drawn out.
Naloxone programmes have sprung up in the UK and elsewhere, but drug death rates keep climbing.
When it comes to small-scale fisheries, there is no one route to sustainability. Finding success stories can help map those paths.
The Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion is fast becoming one of the most divisive issues in Canadian politics in years. Here’s how a compromise can be reached.
Canada wants to move towards a green economy and meet its Paris Agreement targets, but it has also just taken ownership of a pipeline. How can the federal government deal with this paradox?
Wildlife hunts are supposed to be grounded in sound science, but new research casts doubt on this assumption.
Alberta Premier Rachel Notley is fighting British Columbia’s efforts to stop the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. Here’s what she’s got wrong.
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Assistant Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences; Senior Scientist, Pacific Institute on Pathogens, Pandemics and Society, Simon Fraser University
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Postdoctoral fellow, School of Public Policy & Administration, Carleton University
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Associate Professor, Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia
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PhD Candidate, Department of Geography, Planning, and Environment, Concordia University
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Program Director & Associate Professor of Industrial-Organizational and Applied Psychology, Adler University
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Fellow, Queen's Institute for Energy and Environmental Policy, School of Policy Studies, Queen's University, Ontario
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Contributor to the special issue on Ethnobiology Through Song/CEO Ninogaad Knowledge Keepers Foundation/Board of Directors APTN
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Professor in Archaeology, Simon Fraser University
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Chair in Insurance and Professor, Finance, Wilfrid Laurier University
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Pacific Institute on Pathogens, Pandemics and Society, Simon Fraser University
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Assistant Professor of Indigenous Health, Simon Fraser University
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Professor, History and Director, Past Wrongs, Future Choices, University of Victoria
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Director, Queen's Institute for Energy and Environmental Policy, Queen's University, Ontario
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Adjunct professor, School of Communications, Simon Fraser University
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Canada Research Chair in Arctic Ecology, McGill University
