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OTTAWA — A new report says the country will need roughly $2 trillion to put the economy on a path to net-zero emissions in 30 years, including government spending on things like skills training and backstops to prod the necessary investments.

"I think people are surprised when they learn how much technology is in agriculture now, and how much it has really improved."

Canada’s 2050 Net-Zero Climate Goal Means Big Spending and Risks, Say Industry, Analysts Banks’ lending to oil and gas sector under scrutiny due to climate change risks News Analysis As oil and gas investment faces growing scrutiny worldwide, Canada is seen as being particularly vulnerable in its transition to a lower carbon footprint. Nevertheless, its industry says it still has a vital role to play as investments appear likely to start shifting away from new fossil fuel projects in favour...

For more information about CBCs First Person stories, please see  . To be a Black person living in Saskatchewan is to be perceived as an ephemeral anachronism — at best understood in relation to the groups of refugees moving through or the odd highly-skilled immigrant professional who, for some reason, decided to stay. At worst, to be a Black person living in Saskatchewan is to be a punchline, a joke.  Any other history of Blackness in the Prairies doesnt compute, although there are two cen...

4:59 The Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation installed a specialty water filtration system in the Tuluksak school on March 2, 2021. YKHC said that the system could provide enough drinking water for the entire Tuluksak Native Community, but soon the system was only being used by the school.  The team got a water system with basic filtration up and running by mid-February. It was intended to provide water for things like cleaning and laundry. A couple weeks after that, the workers set up a revers...

(Dr. Jackie Dawson, Dr. Natalie Carter, Ms. Natasha Simonee, Ms. Shirley Tagalik)  The team led by Dr. Jackie Dawson and including Dr. Natalie Carter, Ms. Natasha Simonee, and Ms. Shirley Tagalik, receives a Governor Generals Innovation Award for their innovative integration of traditional Inuit knowledge and western science. Their work is leading to the creation of new routes for Arctic shipping that better protect culturally significant marine areas. The project supports national and interna...

  After a fire destroyed Tuluksak’s source of drinking water on Jan. 16, 2021, the Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation got to work. It sent a team to the community to build new water systems.  The team got a water system with basic filtration up and running by mid-February. It was intended to provide water for things like cleaning and laundry. A couple weeks after that, the workers set up a reverse osmosis system, with extra filtration, to provide cleaner water intended for drinking. But up ...

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Henry Darby, principal at North Charleston High School, is considered his communitys guardian angel. "A couple of years ago, I had two students, who were females, sleeping under the bridge. There was another situation where a former student of mine and her daughter were sleeping in their car, and another situation where a former student needed funds for her water and light bills," he told WCIV-TV. NEW LONDON, Conn. (AP) — Before he became the first Black player inducted into the Pro Football ...

Winnipeg Free Press "God is still doing reasonably well in the polls." That was the title of the most recent research by Reginald Bibby, a sociologist of religion at the University of Lethbridge. According to Bibby, who has been conducting surveys about religion in Canada since the 1970s, 32 per cent of Canadians say they definitely believe in God while around 27 per cent say they think God exists — about 60 per cent overall. He also found 15 per cent definitely don’t believe God e...