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What really happens to the organic waste you put in your compost bin
In many communities, residents are asked to separate food waste into bins for municipal composting. Here's a closer look at what actually gets composted and how, what happens to the rest, and where it all ends up.
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Taylor Logan
Technology & Science ||
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'Wrecked forever': Unique geological formation near Yellowknife almost gone
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Walter Strong
Canada -North ||
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Updated
Why did the female orgasm evolve? Experiment supports theory
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Emily Chung
Technology & Science ||
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'It's not a pipe dream': Oilsands company developing project to wipe out its emissions
Kyle Bakx
Business ||
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Over 1,650 killed this monsoon season in India
The heaviest monsoon rains to lash India in 25 years have killed more than 1,600 people since June, according to government data released Tuesday as authorities battled floods in two northern states and muddy waters swirled inside a major city.
World ||
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Liberal promise to end open-pen salmon farms in B.C. making waves on East Coast
Canada's aquaculture industry is condemning a Liberal Party campaign promise to phase out open-pen salmon farms in British Columbia as "reckless" and "irresponsible."
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Paul Withers
Canada -Nova Scotia ||
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Big telecom companies win court battle in ongoing war with CRTC over wholesale internet rates
The Federal Court of Appeal has issued a temporary stay of a CRTC decision that seeks to force Canada's biggest internet service providers to provide smaller rivals with access to their networks at new, lower wholesale rates.
Business |
'Beefier barley' researcher says her work does not promote positives of climate change
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Tanara McLean
Canada -Edmonton ||
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The climate change issue keeps dogging Andrew Scheer on the campaign trail
John Paul Tasker
Politics ||
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Engineered-in-Edmonton Twitter bot combats misogyny on the campaign trail
Canada -Edmonton |
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Analysis
What MIT Media Lab's funding scandal says about sexism in tech
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Ramona Pringle
Technology & Science ||
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SpaceX's Elon Musk plans to launch this Mars rocketship within months
Technology & Science ||
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Toronto business owner loses $14K to technical glitch at mobile payment company
John Lancaster
Canada -Toronto ||
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'I feel more equal': How technology is making direct communication possible for deaf community
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Aviva Jacob
Canada -Manitoba |
Why engineers in Alberta think they've found a way for the oilsands to produce clean fuel
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Tony Seskus
Business |
Green party proposes a 'robot tax' when companies replace workers with machines
Politics |
University of Alberta vice-president resigns over 'beefier barley' billboards
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Thandiwe Konguavi
Canada -Edmonton ||
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GO PUBLIC
Toronto-area man out $2,775 after e-transfer fraudsters impersonate him on email
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Erica Johnson
Business ||
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THE WEEKLY
'How dare you!': Young activists are harnessing the power of social media to capture the world's attention
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Ania Bessonov
Technology & Science |
Big Manitoba fish make a run for the border, biologists find
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Bartley Kives
Canada -Manitoba ||
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Climate lessons from the classroom spill into the streets
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Nicole Mortillaro
Technology & Science ||
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MARKETPLACE
We asked 3 companies to recycle Canadian plastic and secretly tracked it. Only 1 company recycled the material
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Katie Pedersen, Eric Szeto, David Common and Luke Denne
Technology & Science ||
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Invasive piranha pulled from B.C. lake twice this summer
Canada -British Columbia |
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How polkadot windows now protect birds at Pinery Provincial Park
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Jackie Sharkey
Canada -Kitchener-Waterloo ||
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Analysis
Worried about climate change? You've got a tough decision to make
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Aaron Wherry
Politics ||
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Opinion
Time to move from protest to proactive on climate change
Radio -Quirks & Quarks |
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Canadian Indigenous water activist Autumn Peltier addresses UN on clean water
World |
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Why activists want to make ecocide a crime against humanity
Radio -Day 6 |