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The Ministry of Natural Resources Canada has identified four key priorities for 2024, including creating sustainable jobs and industries, reducing energy bills through home retrofits, preparing for natural disasters, and increasing the availability of electric vehicle chargers. Tree Canada is a non-profit organization focused on planting trees across the country to combat climate change and protect biodiversity. The Forest Stewardship Council works to protect forests by tracking certified fiber and empowering consumers to choose responsibly sourced wood and paper products. Forests Ontario emphasizes the importance of using high-quality, source-identified tree seeds to grow healthy and resilient forests. The text also discusses the benefits of plant-based diets for personal health, the environment, and animal welfare, as well as the potential of plant-based foods to reduce the climate impact of agriculture. It highlights the importance of genetic preservation in conservation efforts and promotes the idea of donating and shopping at thrift stores to reduce clothing waste and support local communities. [Extracted from the article]

ARTCAPTURE PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVALVancouver April 1 to 30now celebrating its 11th year, Vancouver’s Capture fest will display 36 exhibitions across dozens of galleries in Metro Vancouver. Among the highlights: digital collages by Slovak-Canadian artist Nicole Beno, images that visualize music by deaf artist Silas Ng and, at the festival’s launch at the Pendulum Gallery, On Time, a group exhibition that challenges the notion of photography capturing a single moment. (The image above, by Anthony Lepore, shows paper strips dripping like sand in an hourglass.)PHOTO (COLOR) [Extracted from the article]

The article presents the discussion on creating maple syrup. Topics include connecting to tubes for flowing sap to the boiling room when spring arrives and the team lighting the evaporator for boiling the sap for maple syrup; and wood of maple trees having many other uses such as making floors, furniture, pool cues, pellets for heating, shipping pallets, paper, mouldings in homes and even skateboards, guitars, and pianos.

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses papers within the issue, including tricks that skilled truck drivers can pull off, a photograph of Autumn Peltier wearing a chief's bonnet made by the Elders of the Anishinabek Nation, and the opposition of environmental group Lloyd Manchester to the Aqua condominium project.