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Cleaning Up Canada’s Polluted Public Square
The most urgent environmental threat to Canadians isn’t climate change, the declining health of our oceans, or the extinction of species. It’s the pollution filling our nation’s public square.The...
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Blame Canada Part 2: Canada's Plan to Get Rich by Trashing the Climate
Blame Canada is a four part series revealing how Canada has become a wealthy, fossil-fuelled energy superpower and an international climate pariah. For Part 1, click here.Like every other country in...
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Interview: ELC Legal Director Calvin Sandborn "Tickled Pink" Over...
Calvin Sandborn, the Environmental Law Centre’s (ELC) legal director, is “tickled pink” over the Information Commissioner’s decision to investigate allegations that Canada’s federal scientists are...
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Charities and Self-Censorship: Is Canada Going the Way of the UK's Crumbling...
Prior to the release of the Canada Revenue Agency’s 2003 guidelines on charities and political activities, individuals from Canada’s voluntary sector expressed the belief that Canada’s policy should...
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Alberta’s (Non)-Carbon Tax and Our Threatened Climate
This is a guest post by Mark Jaccard, one of Canada's most distinguised sustainable energy economists, and was originally published on his blog, Sustainability Suspicions.Why is Alberta’s policy a...
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Unreported Emissions from Natural Gas Blow Up British Columbia's Climate...
This is the first part of a two-part series on methane emissions in British Columbia. Read Part 2, BC LNG Exports Blow Climate Targets Way, Way Out of the Water.Methane emissions from British...
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BC LNG Exports Blow Climate Targets Way, Way Out of the Water
This post is the second of a two part series. Read the first installment, Unreported Emissions From Natural Gas Blow Up BC's Climate Action Plan.Methane leaks from British Columbia's natural gas...
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Just How Much, Exactly, Are You Paying to Subsidize Fossil Fuels?
This is a guest post by Derek Wong, sustainability consultant and founder of the blog Carbon49.com.Did you know our government spends money subsidizing fossil fuel energy to keep prices artificially...
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The Beaver Lake Cree Judgment: The Most Important Tar Sands Case You’ve Never...
Sure they’re bad for the environment, for human health, and for wildlife, but we rarely stop to wonder if the Alberta tar sands are in fact unconstitutional.But the constitutional standing of the tar...
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How The Trans-Pacific Partnership Will Kill Internet Freedom In Canada
“A wish list of the 1%, a worldwide corporate power grab of enormous proportions,”“undemocratic and patently unfair,” “the biggest global threat to the Internet.” These are just a few of the...
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High and Dry: What Canadians Don't Know About Water Could Usher in Global Crisis
The UN’s International Day of Biological Diversity for water and biodiversity was a popular Facebook topic in North America. However, cultural observation of it entailed little more than keeping water...
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The Incalculable Cost of Climate Change
I've always had a deep affinity for nature, having been blessed to spend my childhood summers on the idyllic and mysteriously underpopulated pristine beaches of Nova Scotia’s Northumberland shore....
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The CFIA's PR War On Salmon: Internationally Renowned Canadian OIE Research...
Early detection of a lethal virus in salmon won’t win you any gratitude in Canada, but it could get you internationally discredited. That’s what happened Dr. Frederick Kibenge and associates at his...
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The Chill Effect: Wild Salmon Advocate Learns $75,000 Lesson in Court So You...
Recently the BC Court of Appeal fined an anti-fish farm activist named Don Staniford $75,000 plus court fees for defamation. Staniford’s work to advertise the dangers fish farms pose to wild salmon...
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Surveillance in Canada 101
This article originally appeared on OpenCanada.org.The information leaked by Edward Snowden about the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA)’s data collection programs is driving a nation-wide debate in...
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In the Land of Wind and Solar: Germany's Energy Transition
This is the first installment of a three-part series. Read Part 2, Is the German Energy Transition Everything It's Cracked Up to Be? and Part 3, Building a Popular Front Against Climate Change.Last...
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Tecumseh's Ghost
This is a guest post by Allan R. Gregg, one of Canada's most recognized and respected senior research professionals and social commentators. Gregg is Chair of the Walrus Foundation and is a member of...
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Is the German Energy Transition Everything it’s Cracked Up to Be?
This is Part 2 of David Ravensbergen's series on the Germany Energy Transition. Read Part 1, In the Land of Wind and Solar and Part 3, Building a Popular Front Against Climate Change.In the bleak realm...
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Influence in America: A Report on TransCanada Corporation's Keystone XL...
According to a new white paper by DeSmog Canada, TransCanada Corporation, the company behind the Keystone XL pipeline proposal, has spent more than $4 million lobbying U.S. federal lawmakers and...
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