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Young, female and green

Taking care of the environment isn’t only for activists … or men. Although research published by the Journal of Arboriculture says only 10 per cent of their industry is represented by women, some female youth in…


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A celebration of cooking, cleaning in Antarctica

One wanted to clean up the environment; the other just wanted a job. Together they became the first women to live at one of Russia’s Antarctic research stations, Bellingshausen, in 26 years.

Carol Devine and Wendy Trusler arrived in the remote continent in 1996 for Project Antarctica II, a civilian cleanup initiative. Both women kept journals of their daily activities, and Trusler, the chef, kept a record of her recipes. The Antarctic Book of Cooking and Cleaning combines their personal stories of the expedition and will be published worldwide this May.




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Annual Rouge Valley deer count aids in conservation

The Rouge Valley Conservation Centre is an environmentally-rich area and many events such as an annual deer count are held there to make sure it stays that way. On Saturday afternoon approximately 25 volunteers and event coordinator, Paul Harpley, conducted a deer count of the Rouge Valley area. This is just one of the events that helps with environmental protection.


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U of T shakes the trails

Without motivation and countless hours of hard work, the University of Toronto mountain bike team wouldn’t be able to train in the centre of Canada’s largest city. Toronto and mountain bikes are two images that…


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OPINION: Be heard on International Stop the Tar Sands Day

Tar sands developments are among the most destructive projects on Earth and not many know the damage they do, says Derek Leahy. “Very few people outside of Canada … and even within Canada … know about them,” he says. To change that, Leahy created International Stop the Tar Sands Day, which falls on June 18.