Elections

Federal Election

#Elxn42 Weekly Wrap-Up #2

Only 16 days left until Canada votes. As part of our 30-day election coverage, we’ve compiled the top environment and election related content that made headlines this week. The environment is making some headway this week in the election. It may not be to the degree that Canadians are hoping […]

Federal Election

#Elxn42 Weekly Wrap-Up

Today marks 23 days until the Canadian federal election. In part of our 30-day election coverage, we’ve compiled the top environment and election related content that made headlines this week. To sum up this week, people all across Canada are asking the same question. Why is the environment missing from election […]

Federal Election

The Election Climate

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 which they’ll tackle greenhouse gases: cap-and-trade, carbon taxes, vague promises of low-carbon economies. While New Democrats and Liberals attempt to […]

Vote with the environment in mind

The Case for Strategic Voting

My assumption is that anyone who clicks on this column takes voting the environment seriously. You likely plan to vote for the candidate of one of three parties (Green, Liberal or NDP). There are differences among the three in terms of environmental policy, but those differences are much smaller than […]

leap manifesto

A Leap in the Right Direction

Initiated at a two-day meeting last spring, the manifesto calls on Canada’s government to address issues facing our country today ranging from indigenous rights to increasing poverty to rampant inequality. However, the over-arching theme of the fifteen demands is of environmental stewardship as a means to combat our greatest threat, […]