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BEYOND LOCAL: Climate change means we may have to learn to live with invasiveĀ species

BEYOND LOCAL: Climate change means we may have to learn to live with invasiveĀ species

Contemporary conservation practice is complex and biased against introduced species with a focus on maintaining ecosystems as they were. This policy and practice, while well-meaning, is leading us to underestimate the positive roles that introduced species can play in maintaining ecosystem resiliency
BEYOND LOCAL: 'She is dying': Lawsuit asks Lake Winnipeg to be legally defined as a person

BEYOND LOCAL: 'She is dying': Lawsuit asks Lake Winnipeg to be legally defined as a person

The argument is being used to help force the provincial government to conduct an environmental assessment of how Manitoba Hydro regulates lake levels for power generation
BEYOND LOCAL: Olympic medallist Alysha Newman aims for new heights after career-best season

BEYOND LOCAL: Olympic medallist Alysha Newman aims for new heights after career-best season

Before this year, Newman had never medalled on the world or Olympic stage, but she reset her national record to 4.85 metres in Paris to become the first Canadian woman to medal in pole vault at the Games
BEYOND LOCAL: As some Ontario plants hit the brakes, are Canada's EV ambitions under threat?

BEYOND LOCAL: As some Ontario plants hit the brakes, are Canada's EV ambitions under threat?

The plant was expected to produce batteries for a million electric vehicles a year. Once up and running, it was supposed to create hundreds of permanent jobs in a small southeastern Ontario municipality
BEYOND LOCAL: Sixth-ranked Canadian women to face World Cup champion Spain in October friendly

BEYOND LOCAL: Sixth-ranked Canadian women to face World Cup champion Spain in October friendly

The game will be the first for the Canadian women since the Paris Olympics, where they lost to Germany in a quarterfinal penalty shootout
BEYOND LOCAL: Food items that got more expensive in August, and which ones saw prices go down

BEYOND LOCAL: Food items that got more expensive in August, and which ones saw prices go down

Overall annual inflation was two per cent in August, the slowest pace since February 2021
Trucker hauling 36,000 kilograms of toxic chemical charged with impaired

Trucker hauling 36,000 kilograms of toxic chemical charged with impaired

Aerial police images capture commercial motor vehicles driving 'dangerously close'
Grieving grandma says drowning victim didn't know how to swim

Grieving grandma says drowning victim didn't know how to swim

'I wish I was with my grandson and my son right now,' Isaac Coombs Howran's maternal grandmother says. 'I wouldn't have to feel all this pain and misery'
BEYOND LOCAL: Four-day rescue operation freed a humpback whale off northern B.C.: DFO

BEYOND LOCAL: Four-day rescue operation freed a humpback whale off northern B.C.: DFO

Paul Cottrell, a marine mammal co-ordinator with the department, said the rescue off British Columbia's coast between Prince Rupert and Haida Gwaii was one of the longest he had experienced
BEYOND LOCAL: Parents look to save costs as youth sports programs get more expensive

BEYOND LOCAL: Parents look to save costs as youth sports programs get more expensive

When Monisha Sharma looked into swim lessons for her daughter, she decided to take an unconventional route to save costs.