Thursday, May 23, 2013 If it Looks Like We Have a Chance, We Should Take itA recent article published in Nature Geoscience journalsuggests the earth will warm more slowly in the coming decades than previously projected. Many scientists and environmental organizations […]
Thursday, April 11, 2013 Fact-Checking Ms. Redford This week Alberta Premier Alison Redford returned to Washington to continue lobbying for the controversial Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. While in Washington, she gave a speech at the Brookings Institute, which featured […]
Thursday, March 14, 2013 Getting the Facts Straight: Canada’s Environmental Record & Climate Credibility Gap In the last weeks, the controversy around the Keystone XL pipeline proposal entered into a new phase after the release of the US State Department’s […]
Thursday, February 14, 2013 Keystone XL Provokes Largest Climate Protest in US history Last week, Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister, John Baird, met with America’s newly appointed Secretary of State to discuss the Keystone XL pipeline, trade, energy security and the […]
Friday, February 01, 2013 EU Stands Strong Against Canadian Tar Sands Lobbying The European Commission’s plan to label dirty fuel could throw a curve ball in Canada’s mission to diversify tar sands exports. Though Canada has exported very little oil […]
Thursday, January 17, 2013 Happy New Year from CAN-Rac!From record setting global temperatures and Arctic ice sheet melt, to superstorm Sandy and typhoon Boha, it was a year the world will remember for the undeniable impacts of climate change. But 2012 […]
December 14, 2012 Developed Countries Disappoint in DohaAfter hours of dramatic overtime, this year’s UN climate talks wrapped up with little to brag about. With controversy erupting towards to end, the most notable take-away was a powerful message from the […]
Wednesday, December 06, 2012 Canada’s Climate Legacy: Global Pariah & Master of Illusion Since our dramatic finish at last year’s UN Climate Conference in Durban, we’ve seen several reports desperately warning of the severe consequences and missed opportunities of Canada’s […]
Tuesday, October 30, 2012 As we wrote this newsletter, Sandy continued to barrel down on much of the Eastern seaboard. After a record breaking year with the hottest global temperature and lowest arctic ice levels, Sandy reminds us that […]
Thursday, October 11, 2012 Nobel laureates touring Gateway route Jody Williams, an American peace activist who won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1997 for her efforts to ban landmines, is leading a delegation of women on a trip from […]
