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‘Risk-taking is an absolute expectation’: Nicole Rycroft talks forests and her US$3 million climate award
Canopy founder and executive director plans to use the Climate Breakthrough Award to scale up her work to shift packaging and clothing manufacturing away from forest fibre to tackle the climate crisis and protect biodiversity and human health 15 min read
Nicole Rycroft was in her East Vancouver living room a few days before Christmas, working on her laptop, when a life-changing email pinged in her inbox. The email, with the subject heading “Congratulations,” informed Rycroft that she had just won a US$3 million Climate Breakthrough Award.
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Two years after legalising cannabis, has Canada kept its promises?
26 Jan, 2021 12:03 AM
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Buds of dried cannabis flowers at a growing facility in Smiths Falls, Ontario. Photo / Dave Chan, The New York Times
Buds of dried cannabis flowers at a growing facility in Smiths Falls, Ontario. Photo / Dave Chan, The New York Times
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By: Ian Austen
Legal pot has made Canadian justice a little fairer, with heavily racialised arrests for possession mostly ending. But vows on amnesty, illicit sales and Indigenous inclusion are works in progress. When Robert was 18, he was arrested by Montreal s police for possession of a small amount of hashish, an event that would upend his young life.