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Toronto Star Miko Coffey Toronto Star Miko Coffey

On the front lines to save an old-growth forest in B.C.

Polar Bear pulls up his scarf to hide his face and paces to keep warm. The 30-year-old protester has just hiked down to Fairy Creek headquarters from a stint watching over the trees in the old-growth forest. It has been raining and snowing for days and the drifts are knee-deep on the mountain near the protestors’ headquarters, a rough assembly of tents, tarps and vehicles abutting a barrier to local logging roads.

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CIUT FM Katharine Lake Berz CIUT FM Katharine Lake Berz

Talking Taboo

Talking Taboo was created by the Dalla Lana Fellows in Global Journalism at the University of Toronto. Katharine Lake Berz is a co-anchor and contributor of Afghan Taboos. Women who live without a man or work outside the home in Afghanistan are breaking Taliban laws some of which are punishable by death.

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Toronto Star Katharine Lake Berz Toronto Star Katharine Lake Berz

Canadians help Surfside Florida condo collapse survivors rebuild their lives

Raysa Rodriguez remembers being tossed out of bed by the force of her condo building heaving. Running out of her ninth-floor apartment in the dark, she saw that both elevators were missing. She knocked frantically on the door of her neighbour Oren Cytrynbaum. With no answer, she sprinted to the stairwell, opened the door and saw “the whole building was gone,” she says. “I heard women screaming in the pile.”

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Toronto Star Katharine Lake Berz Toronto Star Katharine Lake Berz

Swimming upstream: For B.C.’s Cowichan Tribes, life by the river fraught by climate change and a fight for return of their chinook salmon tradition

North Saanich, B.C.—Larry George is working flat out helping his Cowichan Tribes community on Vancouver Island cope with devastating flood damage. The Cowichan River, heartbeat of the First Nations community, breeched its banks after heavy rain this month, forcing many families from their homes.

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