Canada

Nadia Prupis, staff writer
While Canada continues to trudge slowly out of its economic recession, top-paid corporate executives are raking in the benefits as the country's average workers struggle, a new study published Thursday by the Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives has found. The study, Glory Days: CEO Pay in Canada Soaring to Pre-Recession Highs (pdf), analyzed...
Andrea Germanos, staff writer
In a move cheered by environmental groups, Chevron has put its plans to drill...
Deirdre Fulton, staff writer
In its second annual review of government efforts to conserve Canada's boreal...

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A reminder that, despite the havoc we willfully, witlessly wreak on it, much of Planet Earth endures in all its splendor. For 14 years, photographer Beth Moon has been traveling the world to find "the earth’s largest and oldest living monuments" - baobabs! - many in remote enough places they remain untouched by our idiocy. May they continue to do so. And may the new year bring peace.

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