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Character actor especially loved by young audiences for film and TV including Jackanory, The Wombles and The Railway Children

Canadian laws are supposed to protect old-growth trees from being felled. But environmental advocates insist they aren’t working, and the evidence is clear.

In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we have a Q&A with an author on the connection between shopping and environmental degradation and why a photo of a cut-down tree on Vancouver Island went viral.

Register here Put it in your inbox every Thursday. ) this week: Celebrate Blackbird Week “The earth needs us to reduce consumption”: How can we enter the post-consumer society (Penguin Random House Canada) When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the global economy plummeted. But the world has also noticed other things: cleaner air, the re-emergence of wild animals, and a sharp drop in carbon emissions. Despite a short pause in retail activity in the past year, the global consumption of natural reso...

The province said Western Forest Products shipped the spruce to market. Not true, the company says.