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Lawless Loans | CBC News: Marketplace
"A crop of legitimate-looking loan companies are appearing online and in newspapers, advertising a fast financial fix for those with bad credit or no collateral." Case study
B.C. moves to regulate payday lenders
"Payday lenders' interest rates and fees will be capped in B.C. to protect people who require short-term financial supports, the provincial government announced Monday." March 2009
Rising CO2 levels acidifying oceans, threatening sea life
"Carbon-dioxide emissions are threatening marine life and human food supplies by making the oceans more acidic, an international group of scientists says:'Ocean acidification is accelerating and severe damages are imminent.'"
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Arctic sea ice drops to 2nd lowest level on record
(2008) "Arctic Ocean sea ice has melted to the second lowest minimum since satellite observations began, according to U.S. arctic researchers."
Breaking the Ice: Canada and the Northwest Passage
(original page with broadcast summaries is at --> http://archives.cbc.ca/economy_business/transport/topics/2349/)
"It's been called 'the Arctic Grail.' For centuries, European explorers were obsessed with the quest for a route around North America to the Orient. Norway's Roald Amundsen finally conquered the Northwest Passage in 1906. But long Arctic winters meant the route couldn't be exploited commercially. Global warming could change all that by melting the ice and making the passage a key shipping route. But as this happens, the controversial question of sovereignty becomes increasingly important. Does the Northwest Passage belong to Canada or the world?" (It's been called "the Arctic Grail." For centuries, European explorers were obsessed with the quest for a route around North America to the Orient. Norway's Roald Amundsen finally conquered the Northwest Passage in 1906. But long Arctic winters meant the route couldn't be exploited commercially. Global warming could change all that by melting the ice and making the passage a key shipping route. But as this happens, the controversial question of sovereignty becomes increasingly important. Does the Northwest Passage belong to Canada or the world?
Turning Up the Heat: Four Decades of Climate Change | CBC Archives
Use this link --> http://archives.cbc.ca/environment/climate_change/topics/2636/
Hollywood stars speak out about it, politicians argue about it and books on the subject are bestsellers: global warming is a hot topic today. But just a few decades ago, some scientists were predicting another ice age. CBC Digital Archives looks at four decades of CBC's climate change coverage, beginning with murmurs of a northern warming trend in the 1960s and ending with the Kyoto Conference of the late 90s.
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CBC News in Review: "2007 may well be remembered as the year that the average Canadian finally began to realize the dramatic changes that, thanks to global warming, are taking place in the Arctic. In this News in Review story we review some of those physical changes and the resulting challenges to Canada’s sovereignty. We also look at the government’s response to these challenges and the work of those Canadians whose task it is to represent us in one of the most inhospitable parts of the world."
Waterheart: the Deline Project (5 Part CBC Radio Documentary) | Arctos Canadensis
Northern students make podcasts: "the Waterheart is a story about broken trust, a language nearly lost and the possibility of a looming apocalypse. It's also a story about love, humanity, water and the endurance of life".
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