By John Upton If you pay just a little attention to what scientists say, it shouldn’t be too hard to understand how freezing conditions across North America can be linked to climate change. As polar temperatures rise faster than equatorial […]
By Romina Maurino TORONTO – Home owners should prepare to pay more for property insurance as the severe weather trend that has battered the country during the past year is expected to continue. “There are more and more storms happening, […]
By Bryan Walsh It’s polar bear weather today for much of the Midwest. Temperatures are in the -20sº F (-28º C) and -30sº F (-35º C) in eastern Montana, North Dakota, northeast South Dakota, Minnesota and northern Iowa. With the […]
By Ed King David Cameron has told MPs he “very much suspects” the torrential rain and heavy flooding experienced by the UK recently is linked to climate change. The comments are likely to anger many climate sceptics within the Conservative […]
By Ed King A draft text for a global climate change treaty set to be agreed in 2015 will be presented to governments as early as November this year, according to the UN official in charge of negotiations. Christiana Figueres, […]
By Lauren Strapagiel A pair of protesters managed to break through Stephen Harper’s security detail at an event in Vancouver Monday, getting to within inches of the prime minister. Harper was about to take questions at the Vancouver Board of […]
In what is being considered a first by a member of the federal Conservatives, Kitchener-Waterloo MP Peter Braid stated publicly on CBC News Network’s Power and Politics that recent extreme weather and climate change are connected. “We are seeing the […]
By Carl Duivenvoorden Climate change is no laughing matter, but a book on climate change I read recently included this joke: A man is walking down a road in India. Suddenly he spots a crowd of panicked people rushing toward […]
Toronto, ON – In June 2013, severe flooding displaced over 100,000 Albertans in what has been called the worst flooding in the province’s history. With damages estimated at over $5 billion dollars and the activation of 32 local states of […]
By Bob Weber, The Canadian Press EDMONTON – Simmering disputes over the oilsands between Alberta aboriginals and the provincial and federal governments will break into the open in 2014 as virtually every one of the many recent changes in oversight […]
