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Ontario’s new premier, Doug Ford, laid out hisi vision for the province in a wide-ranging speech from the throne Thursday. And keeping to his campaign promise, Ford said his government will scrap Ontario’s cap-and-trade carbon program designed to reward businesses that reduce their greenhouse gas emission. Now what? Today in The Conversation Canada, Werner Antweiler and Sumeet Gulati of the University of British Columbia lay out an interesting scenario about how the federal government can keep its emission reduction goals intact as many provinces turn against the program.
It’s hard to imagine a country like Canada could ever have a water shortage, but Lucy Rodina and Kieran Findlater of UBC say there are important lessons on water management to be learned from the “Day Zero” near disaster that took place in South Africa earlier this year.
And finally…we have a fascinating arts piece by Marie Mauzé, produced in conjunction with our friends at The Conversation France, that looks at the work of contemporary artist Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, inventor of a new graphic genre called “Haida manga.”
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Ontario Premier Doug Ford, seen here walking on the front lawn of the Ontario Legislature in June, is vowing to deliver on his campaign promise to scrap the “disastrous” cap-and-trade system and fight a federal carbon tax.
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Werner Antweiler, University of British Columbia; Sumeet Gulati, University of British Columbia
Ontario and Saskatchewan are vociferously fighting the federal government's carbon tax efforts. But rather than back down, Ottawa should embrace a simple, fair and transparent “carbon dividend.”
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Cape Town narrowly avoided “Day Zero,” but that doesn’t mean the city is resilient to future water shortages.
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Lucy Rodina, University of British Columbia; Kieran M. Findlater, University of British Columbia
Cape Town faced down "Day Zero" earlier this year, but that doesn't mean its water system is resilient. Other cities should also take note.
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A scene from the best-selling ‘Red: A Haida Manga,’ a revenge story.
Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas
Marie Mauzé, École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)
The "Haida manga" by Indigenous artist Yahgulanaas opens a graphic dialogue between the different cultures of the Pacific Northwest and East Asia.
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Science + Technology
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Doug Cowen, Pennsylvania State University; Azadeh Keivani, Columbia University; Derek Fox, Pennsylvania State University
A detector buried under more than a mile of ice in Antarctica has detected a high-energy subatomic neutrino and traced it to its origin, a blazar – a gargantuan black hole more than a billion times more massive than the sun.
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Business + Economy
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Ruth McPhail, Griffith University
Workforce participation rates for older women have increased greatly, but most workplaces have yet to realise the benefits of helping them to manage the impacts of menopause.
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Politics
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Aidan McGarry, Loughborough University
The changing aesthetics of protest allow many more voices to be heard.
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