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Andrew Reeves

Andrew Reeves is the Editor-in-Chief of Alternatives Journal. Overrun, his book about Asian carp in North America, will be published in Spring 2019 by ECW Press. His work has also appeared in the Globe & MailSpacing and Corporate Knights. Follow him on Twitter.

Author Articles

floo

The Toronto MPP and former Greenpeace head introduced Bill 21 Monday at Queen’s Park, legislation that would  pave the way for individuals, governments and businesses to sue fossil fuel companies...
Algal bloom on Lake Erie

A roving pack of journalists shake off the rain in a squat, one-story federal building in Oak Harbor, Ohio. Hosting us journalists is a troop from the US Department of Agriculture....
An Ominous Fog title image

The blooms returned in 2002. Many hoped the toxic sludge of algae that blanketed the western and central basins of Lake Erie was gone for good, yet the volume of...
Federal Election

Banking heavily on a belief that you and I are preoccupied with fighting climate change, the front-runners in the federal election have anchored their environmental platforms to the way in...
Plastic particle counts in the Great Lakes

CHEMISTRY PROFESSOR Sherri Mason made a splash in 2012 when she and a crew of 20 graduate students from the State University of New York at Fredonia set sail on...
Plastic pop bottle on a beach in Costa Rica

Pointing to PollutersUSA After a three-and-a-half-year study, researchers at the University of Georgia determined that between 4.8 and 12.7 million tonnes of plastic trash flowed into the world’s oceans in 2010...
talkingpoints

This page is available as a shareable, printable PDFIt’s election year in Canada! Get ready for media ads, plastic lawn signs, telephone polls and door knockers! But before those party...
Invasive silver carp in Chain Lake

This is an excerpt of the cover story from A\J's Water issue. Subscribe or order the issue now for this and more great stories on fresh- and salt-water initiatives that are making waves and...

Authors Blog

Traffic in Barrie, Ontario
So much of the thinking around climate change has evolved since 2007 that Ontario’s seven-year-old climate action plan is now “irrelevant” according to Environmental Commissioner Gord Miller. So much of...
Ontario Legislature building, Queen's Park
In announcing her new cabinet last week, Premier Kathleen Wynne has charged former Transportation Minister Glen Murray with taking over Ontario’s newly revamped environment ministry.Murray, the sitting MPP for Toronto...
Kitimat, BC
The federal government has approved the $5.5-billion Northern Gateway pipeline project from Enbridge, to carry 525,000 barrels of crude oil each day from Bruderheim in northern Alberta to the port town...
Queen's Park, Ontario parliament building at night.
The past decade has taught environmentalists a hard truth about voting patterns, one that many have been trying valiantly to change: the environment takes a backseat when issues surrounding jobs...
Black bear.
Just over halfway through the reintroduced six-week spring bear hunt, which runs from May 1 to June 15, the province of Ontario has issued close to 2,300 licenses for black...
Queen's Park, ontario parliament building at night.
So we keep waiting. Ontario’s environmental community had reason for optimism when Kathleen Wynne assumed leadership of the Ontario Liberal Party in January 2013, knowing the new premier was more progressive...
Fingerling Chinook salmon at Port Credit Harbour
There was a general sense of anticipation when the Ministry of Natural Resources truck backed in next to the Port Credit Harbour marina in Mississauga, Ontario. Everyone there at the water’s...
A researcher at the Experimental Lakes Area in Ontario.
When Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced on May 17, 2012 that funding for the Experimental Lakes Area would no longer be renewed by the federal government, scientists and environmentalists saw...
Home energy retrofit loans
It might be time to replace that aging water heater in the basement.The City of Toronto is here to help, announcing last week that it’s taking steps to make it...
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Opponents of Enbridge’s Line 9B pipeline in Southern Ontario are scrambling in the wake of its tentative approval earlier this month by the National Energy Board to highlight just how...