Andre Mayer

A thousand times thinner than a strand of hair, ultrafine particles are emitted by vehicles and industrial activity — and according to a recent study led by researchers at McGill University, contribute to more than 1,000 premature deaths a year in Montreal and Toronto.

While AI's inevitability has been a recurring refrain in much of the business media, there has been a small chorus of skeptics demanding proof of its ability to do what corporations need most: make money.

Paul Kershaw, a public policy professor at the University of British Columbia and founder of the affordability advocacy group Generation Squeeze, says the emphasis on increasing housing supply obscures our collective addiction to ever-rising home prices.

Extreme weather events such as droughts or wildfires are not only causing localized damage but are affecting crop yields, supply chains and the durability of housing, all of which is making life more expensive.

Companies that build multimillion-dollar fortified homes and bomb shelters say that while work has been steady for a while, they have seen a significant uptick in recent years. And when the ultra-rich invest in a bunker, they inevitably do it in style.

Inspired by the passion and reach of young activists like Greta Thunberg, Canadian groups like Seniors for Climate Action Now!, Climate Legacy and Grand(m)others Act to Save the Planet (GASP) are becoming increasingly visible and vocal.

A small neighbourhood in Toronto has built a program to help residents reduce their household emissions. Their hope now is to adapt their grassroots approach so that other communities can achieve similar success.

We all know the benefits of travel — but a substantial increase in flying seems unsustainable at a time when aviation’s share of emissions is set to rise and most of the world has pledged to keep global warming at 1.5 C.

If we want to slow the pace of global warming, one crucial step is moving from a transportation system run on fossil fuels to one powered by electricity. It’s possible that doing so might neutralize other toxic aspects of the petroleum industry, such as volatile prices and armed conflict.

Economists have attributed inflation to a variety of factors, including supply chain disruptions and labour shortages, but there is a growing sense, particularly in the U.S., that some companies are taking advantage of inflation anxiety to raise prices.

Economists have attributed inflation to a variety of factors, including supply chain disruptions and labour shortages, but there is a growing sense, particularly in the U.S., that some companies are taking advantage of inflation anxiety to raise prices.

The destruction we’re witnessing this summer, fuelled by decades of environmental stress, is coming at a time when politicians and marketers alike are encouraging us to spend — whether it’s at the mall, at the car dealership or on so-called revenge travel.

Scientists have documented more than 12,000 species worldwide that are moving to more hospitable regions, including everything from fish to bees to caribou to grasses to berries to trees.

David Bowie, the legendary musician and global cultural icon who died Sunday at the age of 69, inspired and empowered many young people who felt they didn’t fit the heterosexual mould or the conventional binaries of male and female.

Annual rankings of the most livable cities in the world have a halo effect on the highest achievers, but city planning and branding experts say these surveys can be misleading.

After years of teasing consumers, Google finally revealed this week what a driverless car would look like. While the concept has delighted tech watchers, some analysts say it will still take significant tweaking before this vehicle is street legal.

The discovery of an image of Rehtaeh Parsons, the Nova Scotia teen who died in April, in an online dating ad on Facebook has outraged her parents and put the social media site on the defensive. Experts say it’s yet more proof that it is almost impossible to control where images uploaded to the internet ultimately end up.

Mental health experts say we need to find new ways to refer to and discuss suicide, particularly now that a large medical study has confirmed that teens are more susceptible to the idea if they know a schoolmate who died that way.

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