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Want to Understand Canada’s Wildfire Crisis? Read This Book
55 years ago

Want to Understand Canada’s Wildfire Crisis? Read This Book

Wired  

The day John Vaillant’s new book about Canadian wildfires, Fire Weather: A True Story From a Hotter World, came out in the US, Canadian wildfires became a temporary American obsession. Fire Weather zooms way out, folding in quick histories of white settlement in northern Alberta, bitumen production, and climate denialism to explain not only what happened when Fort McMurray burned …

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AR Rahman Feels Honored, Grateful After Canadian City Named Street After Him: 'Never Imagined This'
2 years, 4 months ago

AR Rahman Feels Honored, Grateful After Canadian City Named Street After Him: 'Never Imagined This'

News 18  

The City of Markham in Canada honoured music maestro AR Rahman by naming a street after him on Monday. Calling himself “a very small drop in the ocean," the Slumdog Millionaire music producer also stated that he feels like this achievement has given him an immense responsibility to do much more and be inspiring, “not to get tired and not …

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Canadian truckers protesting in Ottawa appear set to stay
2 years, 11 months ago

Canadian truckers protesting in Ottawa appear set to stay

Al Jazeera  

Demonstrators have paralysed the centre of the Canadian capital for more than a week, frustrating residents and businesses. The demonstration launched in January and billed as a “Freedom Convoy” began in western Canada and descended on Ottawa, arriving on the 28th, paralysing the city centre. The truckers have effectively shut down a swathe of Ottawa’s city centre, some 1.5km long, …

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Canadian city to celebrate Gauri Lankesh day on September 5
3 years, 4 months ago

Canadian city to celebrate Gauri Lankesh day on September 5

Hindustan Times  

Burnaby, a city in Canada, has declared September 5 as Gauri Lankesh Day, commemorating the slain activist’s life on her death anniversary. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court on September 8 is expected to hear the plea filed by Gauri’s sister Kavita Lankesh, challenging the dropping of charges under the Karnataka Control of Organized Crime Act 2000 against one of the accused …

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Canadian city to celebrate Gauri Lankesh Day on September 5
3 years, 4 months ago

Canadian city to celebrate Gauri Lankesh Day on September 5

Hindustan Times  

The Canadian city of Burnaby had declared September 5 as Gauri Lankesh Day. The decision to commemorate Gauri Lankesh Day was taken during Burnaby City Council on August 30. “Gauri Lankesh through her work encouraged her readers to adopt scientistic temperament and reject religious fanaticism, caste-based discrimination and bigotry,” read the proclamation on the city website. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court …

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