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Caught between climate warnings and economic realities, Canada and the world face tough fossil fuel choices

The UN’s latest warning about the world’s climate goals slipping away is looming over a pending decision on whether a large offshore oil project will go ahead off Newfoundland, promising a much-needed boost for the province’s economy but potentially moving the world further away from avoiding climate disaster.Equinor’s proposed Bay du Nord oil project off…

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Doctor who caught COVID-19 variant vows to ‘vigorously defend’ against charge she obstructed contact tracing

An Ontario physician and her husband — the first people in Canada known to have caught the coronavirus variant originally detected in the U.K. — are vowing to fight public health charges alleging they provided false information to health officials about their contacts. The Public Health Ontario laboratory in Toronto, where the province’s first tests for…

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