Canada's Environmental Voice
On October 4, in more than 30 countries, and as many as 160 cities, more than 20,000 people took to the streets to make a strong and diverse call to save the Arctic, celebrating the top of our world and the public demand for its protection. #IceRide took place from […]
Lots of people have cycled across Canada. Joseph Boutilier is unicycling across Canada – at least most of the way, bringing his concerns about the government’s lack of action on climate change from Victoria, BC to Ottawa. We caught up with him last month to ask a few questions about his journey, his […]
Several years ago a prominent environmentalist spoke at my university. Soon, he told us, he would stop flying. We were impressed. A few years later I saw him hurrying out of the Air Canada frequent flyer lounge at Toronto airport. Even with the best of intentions it’s hard to separate […]
In cities across Canada, people and organizations are finding ways to address complex challenges and creatively shape the future of their communities. They are greening neighbourhoods while producing local food, creating social enterprises to reduce poverty, mentoring immigrants and helping them integrate into their new communities, and using community arts […]
Ottawa knows that a common ingredient in antibacterial soaps is posing acute and chronic problems for human health and freshwater ecosystems but has done nothing to ban triclosan, according to environmental and consumer advocates.
One of the first images in Canadian photojournalist Jo-Anne McArthur’s We Animals shows a jade-headed buffalo beetle perched on a piece of wood in a glass terrarium. At first glance, it may seem like an odd choice to begin a book about human-animal relationships with an insect. After all, many […]
When Robert Girvan began to research the dramatic events around the Oldman River Dam controversy and the resulting 1992 Supreme Court of Canada decision, Friends of the Oldman River Society v. Canada (Minister of Transport), he could not have foreseen how much his book would resonate, nearly two decades later, […]
In the latest issue, I profile the Beehive Design Collective, a group of volunteer activist-artists based in Maine, and their latest project, the epic three-by-six-foot double-sided poster, Mesoamérica Resiste. The poster depicts both the projects in a major Mesoamerican development plan and the many resistance movements springing up against it.
This past Friday, Canadian Youth Climate Coalition National Director and activist Cam Fenton appeared at the ‘Just Education?’ conference hosted by the Waterloo Public Interest Research Group (WPIRG) at the University of Waterloo to discuss the history, roots and tactics of fossil fuel divestment campaigns.
