Written by: Liad Wolch Edited by: Louis Chenot On 9 September 2025, in the community of Warburg - an Albertan town of approximately 800 people that lies 90 kilometers southwest of Edmonton - a town hall was convened to discuss the provincial government’s Mature Asset Strategy (MAS). The MAS aims to alleviate the losses of the community, and others like it, from the oil and gas industry’s unpaid taxes, leases, and environmental liabilities. In total, these losses amount to $3

Written by: Louise Deltheil Edited by: Iris Bisson For decades, people around the world have been committed to fighting climate change. In 1987, the Montreal Protocol, which aimed to reduce the hole in the ozone layer caused by greenhouse gas emissions, was passed and later ratified by 197 countries. It succeeded in its mission and is now used to regulate hydrofluorocarbons in an effort to slow down global warming (Government of Canada, 2017). Adopted in 1997, the Kyoto Proto

Written by: Kéa Anderson Edited by: Sunny Bell The 30th annual Conference of the Parties (COP) was held in Belém, Brazil, in November 2025. Much of the focus was on international engagement with each country’s respective climate action plans and the 1.5°C global warming targets established in the Paris Agreement ten years prior. Leaders of this climate summit framed the event as "the COP of implementation and adaptation," referring to the ambitions to develop structures for a

Written by: Adam Assimakopoulos Edited by: Sunny Bell This past fall, Toronto’s city council has found itself at odds with a dedicated assemblage of local protestors in a neighbourhood informally known as “The Beaches.” The protests emerged as a response to a property development proposal calling for the construction of an 11-storey mixed-use building beside a local park. Community members, many of whom are members of the newly founded “Friends of the Glen Stewart Ravine” org