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Nova Scotia

United Way report paints grim poverty picture for HRM, highest urban centre rate in Canada

United Way Halifax paints a grim and detailed picture of poverty in Nova Scotia’s largest municipality in its 36-page poverty…

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Lifestyle

Farming inside a mall: Guelph, Ont. duo pairs agriculture with urban surroundings

A Guelph, Ont. duo has brought agriculture to the city’s downtown core by starting a farm inside the Old Quebec…

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Canada

Ford government to reverse controversial urban boundary expansions

The Ontario government says it will reverse controversial expansions it made to the urban boundaries of some municipalities as part…

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Canada

Developers who own ex-Greenbelt land also benefited from province’s order to expand Hamilton urban boundary

Two Hamilton developers who successfully influenced the Ford government to remove their land from the Greenbelt simultaneously benefited from a…

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Nova Scotia

Lure of urban fishing draws anglers to Halifax waterfront

When Simon Niduaza finishes a stressful week at work as a patient attendant in the emergency room at the QEII, he knows…

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Politics

Federal NDP targets blue seats in Alberta, bets on urban appetite for change

The federal New Democrats are eyeing Alberta’s urban-rural divide as a way to flip blue seats in the next general…

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Tech

The urban mosquito is thriving further north than ever and scientists are concerned

In a laboratory in Edmonton, employees use long silver tweezers to pierce piles of mosquitoes. They sort not only to…

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Canada

Harvest graveyard? Urban farmers are getting creative as more city dwellers shop locally

A sprawling greenhouse on the roof of a former Sears department store in Montreal, filled with cucumber and bean plants,…

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