Disasters the result of ‘our actions or inaction,’ Ottawa emergency management conference hears
The Canadian Emergency Preparedness and Climate Adaptation discussed options for future disaster resiliency in Canada as federal MPs probed the response to the Jasper wildfire in committee.
How the Canadian taxpayer ended up on the hook for $34-billion to build a pipeline for the oil industry
There’s no reason taxpayers should be subsidizing the oil transportation costs for the profitable fossil fuel industry. With a cost recovery levy and better scrutiny of future taxpayer investments in the energy sector, taxpayers can get the protection we deserve.
Let’s make Canada wilder
The Wilder Institute will be pitching the case for making Canada wilder with the largest co-ordinated approach to managed species recovery in this country’s history. Now is the time to act.
Minister Guilbeault should address plastic pollution with a robust, legally binding plastics treaty now: Senator Galvez
During Climate Week in New York, the environment and climate change minister should push for concrete results to control and reduce plastic production, writes ISG Senator Rosa Galvez.
Research partnerships are key to Canada’s net-zero economic future
When you bring together the right people, you push the boundaries of innovation.
Proving animal consciousness
The New York Declaration on Animal Consciousness uses tentative language, but makes bold statements challenging orthodox views on the consciousness of creatures.
Trudeau mingles with progressive policy leaders in Montreal
Plus, Joly co-hosts women foreign ministers’ summit.
Is Canada’s ladder against the right wall to fight climate change?
In our haste to control climate change, have we inadvertently focussed on the housing when we should be addressing wildfires?
Give peace a chance
As Canada begins to craft the priorities for G7 presidency in 2025, we ask the government to build upon the progress made at the 2024 G7 Youth Summit, and to put peace on next year’s agenda.
We all have to keep plastics out of our lakes and rivers
Researchers in Toronto found an average of 123 microplastics in one serving of freshwater fish, vastly more than the nine microplastics ingested in a serving of grocery store Alaska pollock found in a study by the same authors published earlier this year.
