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Montrealers shrug off the cold to dance and party at Igloofest

Montreal (AFP) - Snow may have been falling on Montreal's Old Port, with temperatures in the bone-chilling category, but that didn't stop the exuberant dancers during the city's first Igloofest after a Covid pause.

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Canada to repatriate 23 citizens from Syria

Montreal (AFP) - Canada will repatriate twenty-three citizens who have been detained in northeast Syria in camps for family members of Islamic State group fighters, officials and a lawyer said Friday.

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Canada to repatriate 19 women, children from Syria

Montreal (AFP) - Canada will repatriate six women and 13 infants who have been detained in northeast Syria in camps for family members of Islamic State Group fighters, Ottawa announced Friday.

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Lightspeed cuts 10% of staff as focus turns from deals to profit

The Montreal-based firm, which provides point-of-sale software and systems for retailers and restaurants, has done several acquisitions since its 2019 initial public offering

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Rangers strike early, cruise to road win over Blue Jackets

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Apparently, the Rangers learned their lesson Sunday after their stunning loss to the lowly Montreal Canadiens.

Newsday

Valieva not sanctioned by Russian anti-doping agency, says 'concerned' WADA

Montreal (AFP) - Russian figure skating prodigy Kamila Valieva has not been sanctioned by the Russian anti-doping agency, which found she bore "no fault or negligence" for a positive drugs test before the Beijing Olympics, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) said on Friday.

AFP

Canadian mining giant says nearing deal on huge Panama pit

Montreal (AFP) - The Canadian mining giant First Quantum Minerals said Tuesday it is close to an agreement with Panama to avert the closure of Central America's largest copper mine.

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Blues can't hold on in third, lose to Canadiens, 5-4

MONTREAL — The Blues arrived at Bell Centre on Saturday night with six players on injured reserve, and a seventh — defenseman Nick Leddy — out with an upper-body injury.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Surging Rangers beat struggling Canadiens for third straight win

MONTREAL – Their victory Tuesday over a red-hot Carolina Hurricanes squad that is one of the elite teams in the Eastern Conference said a lot about the Rangers.

Newsday

Rights of nature

The idea that nature — forests , rivers, mountains — could have rights, in the same way that human rights, or corporate rights exist has been building momentum.

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Welcome to Kalabanté, an African circus in Montreal

When dance, acrobatics and percussion meet, the result is Kalabanté - a circus company created in 2007 by Guinean artist Yamoussa Bangoura. RFI met him at the Nuits d'Afrique festival in Montreal.

Radio France Internationale

Bold COP15 deal can halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030

The agreements from the COP15 biodiversity summit are voluntary and non-binding, but the setting of goals and how to monitor progress will create more accountability, writes Rod Oram

Newsroom.co.nz

Analysis-U.N. nature deal can help wildlife as long as countries deliver

A new conservation deal adopted this week at the U.N. summit in Montreal puts the world on a strong track to halt the rapid decline in nature - but only if wealthy nations deliver enough funding and all countries prioritize conservation.

Reuters

Photos: Nick Diaz through the years

Check out these photos highlighting Nick Diaz's career through the years.

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Biodiversity treaty: UN deal fails to address the root causes of nature’s destruction

A major biodiversity conference, recently concluded in Montreal, Canada, was billed as the event that will decide the “fate of the entire living world”. All well then that the meeting closed with what has been hailed as a “historic” breakthrough: a deal to protect 30% of all land and water…

The Guardian - UK

‘Embrace history’: UN environment chief calls for immediate action on Cop15 deal

Inger Andersen said we must not ‘pause for a second’ as we ‘change the relationship between people and nature’

The Conversation

Five options for restoring global biodiversity after the UN agreement

To slow and reverse the fastest loss of Earth’s living things since the dinosaurs, almost 200 countries have signed an agreement in Montreal, Canada, promising to live in harmony with nature by 2050. The Kunming-Montreal agreement is not legally binding but it will require signatories to report their progress towards…

The Guardian - UK

Cop15 in Montreal: did the summit deliver for the natural world?

The talking is over, and a text has been agreed on the next decade of targets to save the natural world. Here are the highs and lows of the Convention of Biological Diversity’s (CBD) agreement

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The Guardian - UK

What’s this unfamiliar feeling I have after the Cop15 meeting? It might just be hope

The Montreal biodiversity conference set some ambitious targets, says Craig Bennett, chief executive of the Wildlife Trusts

The Guardian - AU

Cop15: what does the biodiversity pact mean for Australia’s land, sea and threatened species?

The pact has been likened to the Paris agreement for climate and commits countries to targets to protect and restore biodiversity

AFP

How Chinese diplomacy helped seal historic nature deal

Montreal (AFP) - Expectations heading into a UN biodiversity conference in Montreal were about as low as they could be.

AFP

Global 'peace pact' signed to protect nature

Montreal (AFP) - Countries reached a historic deal on Monday to reverse decades of environmental destruction threatening the world's species and ecosystems, in what the UN chief hailed as "a peace pact with nature."

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Answering the call of nature

Global negotiators have reached a historic deal at COP15 in Montreal that will protect 30% of the earth’s land and water, and in another historic event Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong will meet her Chinese counterpart Wang Yi in Beijing on Wednesday.

Radio France Internationale

'Last chance' deal to save world's biodiversity agreed at Cop15

An historic deal to safeguard a third of the planet by 2030 and halt the destruction of Earth’s ecosystems has been agreed at UN biodiversity talks in Montreal.

The Guardian - UK

Cop15: key points of the nature deal at a glance

Main points of the historic agreement signed in Montreal to halt the destruction of Earth’s ecosystems

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