Brandie Weikle is a Senior Writer at CBC. She explores themes related to work, family, and health, drawing from her extensive experience as a former Editor-in-Chief of Canadian Family and a parenting columnist for the Toronto Star. Brandie is featured in CBC.
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By: Brandie Weikle
It’ll take about 200 trips with a standard-sized dump truck to put an end to a stinky problem that has plagued the town of St. Mary’s, N.L., for the past 25 years.
By: Brandie Weikle
It sounds like weird science and some have dismissed it as "snake oil." But an emerging technology for crop fertilizer is gaining interest amid an acute shortage of fertilizer caused by wars in the Middle East.
By: Laura Lynch, Brandie Weikle
So far this calendar year, 10 grey whale carcasses have been discovered off the shores of B.C., and 30 in Washington state. Whale researchers say they see a connection to a changing climate, and want grey whales to be designated as an endangered species.
So far this calendar year, 10 grey whale carcasses have been discovered off the shores of B.C., and 30 in Washington state. Whale researchers say they see a connection to a changing climate, and want grey whales to be designated as an endangered species.
By: Doomsday Glacier, Dave Borlace, Brandie Weikle, Laura Lynch, Zeke Hausfather, David Callaway, Quinn Glabicki, Jeff Masters, Grace Van Deelen, John Timmer, Bob Berwyn, Ella Gilbert, Dharna Noor, William Todts, David Gelles, Liam Gilliver, Zachary Shahan
A listing of 28 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, July 12, 2026 thru Sat, July 18, 2026.
Creative entrepreneurs are finding their way into people's hearts — and mailboxes — by offering snail-mail subscriptions. Creators, subscribers and academic experts alike say they're tapping into a desire to seek healthier relationships with technology and more personal, tangible — and tactile — ways of communicating.
By: Brandie Weikle
Creative entrepreneurs are finding their way into people's hearts — and mailboxes — by offering snail-mail subscriptions. Creators, subscribers and academic experts alike say they're tapping into a desire to seek healthier relationships with technology and more personal, tangible — and tactile — ways of communicating.
Across the country, tennis and pickleball players compete for time on too few courts. Here's what planners and sports policy experts say it would take to address the root of the problem — not enough recreational facilities for any sport.
By: Brandie Weikle
A group of tenants in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside is demonstrating how communities can come together to keep each other safe during extreme heat events.
By: Brandie Weikle
When Gloria Steinem and her colleagues founded Ms. magazine in 1972, they had big dreams and almost no resources, says co-founder Letty Cottin Pogrebin.
