Quantifying Canada’s carbon sink
Canada’s role as a signatory to the Kyoto Protocol raises a lot of questions for Jing Chen. How will planting more trees help Canada meet its Kyoto target? How do we fulfill our Kyoto duty to measure and report on Canada’s carbon emissions? The geography professor and Canada Research Chair in Ecosystem-Atmospheric Interaction is finding [...]
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Low-income inner city suburbs growing
Social work professor and housing expert David Hulchanski and his research team at U of T’s Cities Centre (formerly the Centre for Urban & Community Studies) woke the world up to a different view of Toronto in 2007 when the centre released a report called The Three Cities within Toronto: Income polarization among Toronto’s neighbourhoods, [...]
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