by Emma Gilchrist Wed, 2013-11-20 Nov. 19th, 2013. A Tuesday. The day started out sunny, but hail fell out of the sky in the afternoon. It was a Victoria day like any other until I found out the Canadian government […]
Warsaw Wrap-up This year’s UN climate conference in Warsaw, Poland saw a civil society walk-out, a climate fast in solidarity with the victims of super typhoon Haiyan and Canada winning a ‘Lifetime Unachievement‘ Fossil award for climate change inaction. But […]
by David Suzuki, Nov. 26, 2013 Early November marked the 18th anniversary of the tragic murder of outspoken writer and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight colleagues by the Nigerian government. Saro-Wiwa and the others had waged a long campaign […]
by Richard Harris December 03, 2013 An expert panel at the National Academy of Sciences is calling for an early warning system to alert us to abrupt and potentially catastrophic events triggered by climate change. The committee says science can […]
By Alex Brown November 21, 2013 Some politicians in the U.S. are quick to distance themselves from the term “war on coal,” but leaders of Canada’s most-populous province went before the cameras Tuesday in a full-throated celebration of its new […]
By Joanna M. Foster on December 3, 2013 at 3:56 pm When tar sands crude spills into water, it doesn’t float on top in an oily sheen for all to see. It sinks to the bottom, mixes with sediment, and […]
Economist Marc Jaccard calls Canada a ‘rogue state’ for its pipeline support The Canadian Press A former Harper government appointee used a keynote speech at a Washington event on Monday to trample Canadian authorities’ message on oil pipelines while describing […]
After being subjected to the taste of coal in the air and statements about the inevitability of continued coal use for almost two weeks, at last we have exciting news from the Canadian province of Ontario. The provincial government has […]
Government Admits Failure on Steven Harper’s Climate Promise FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, October 24, 2013 Reaction by Climate Action Network Canada’s Executive Director, Christian Holz, to Environment Canada’s release of “Emissions Trends 2013” “‘Canada’s Emissions Trends 2013’, released earlier today, confirms […]
POUR DIFFUSION IMMÉDIATE Le nouveau rapport du GIEC confirme : pas de place au doute sur le changement climatique, il nous faut maintenant une action urgente OTTAWA – Le Groupe d’experts intergouvernemental sur l’évolution du climat (GIEC) a publié la […]
