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This is a guest post by filmmaker Daniel J. Pierce.
The Wilderness Committee and other forest activists were in court in Victoria on Monday to limit Teal Jones’ latest attempt to obtain a new injunction against logging protesters in the Walbran Valle…

This is a guest post by Daniel J. Pierce.
The early 1990s was a pivotal time for the forest industry and for forest activism in British Columbia. Massive demonstrations and acts of civil disobedience resulted in hundreds of arrests in Clayoquot Sound …

By Charles Mandel. This article originally appeared on the National Observer.
Ecojustice, on behalf of a group of prominent Canadians, filed a complaint Thursday with the federal Competition Bureau, asking it to investigate false and misleading repre…

This is a guest post by Dale Marshall, national energy program manager with Environmental Defence.
There’s a lot of hope for the U.N. climate change summit starting this week. And Canada can play an important role in helping to ensure the Paris summ…

Mark Jaccard is professor of sustainable energy at Simon Fraser University.
The other day I heard an environmental advocate argue that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau needed to make an ambitious commitment at the UN Paris climate summit (COP 21) to aton…

This is a guest post by Tania Lown-Hecht from the Outdoor Alliance. In the last decade, social media has transformed how people relate to each other and the rest of the world. For people who experienced their adolescence before the Internet, this digital world can sometimes seem like a simulacrum of

This article originally appeared on Alternatives Journal. “What is it about activists that they can’t even be optimistic for one day after a whole decade?”  The disgust and disappointment on my 16 year olds face is somewhat heartbreaking as he pours cereal the morning after the Canadian election and surfs the

This is a guest post by Ben Parfitt, resource policy analyst with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. It orginially appeared on policynote.ca. Well, I won’t back down No, I won’t back down You can stand me up at the gates of hell But I won’t back down — Jeff Lynne, Tom Petty In

This is a guest post by David Suzuki. When my grandparents arrived from Japan in the early 1900s, Canada was far less tolerant than it is today. Women and minorities couldn’t vote, nor could Indigenous people who had lived here from time immemorial. In 1942, the government took away my Canadian-born

This is a guest post by Andy Skuce. Volkswagen has admitted to cheating on emissions tests of some of its diesel vehicles. The full story has not yet been made public, but Volkswagen seems not to be an isolated case. There are indications of widespread gaming of emissions testing in

Over the past year we have seen a growing body of public opinion critiquing varied aspects of what is now termed ‘Harperism,’ for many a vexing and disturbing approach to Canadian governance. My own criticism of the syndrome is increasingly annoying to my wife. ‘Your anger about Harperism seems to

    This is a guest post by Michael Rennie, assistant professor at Lakehead University and former research scientists with Fisheries and Oceans Canada. This piece originally appeared on the Canadian Journalists for Free Expression website. Tags:  Science muzzling Facts Harper Government

    This is a guest post by Michael Rennie, assistant professor at Lakehead University and former research scientists with Fisheries and Oceans Canada. This piece originally appeared on the Canadian Journalists for Free Expression website.     Decision makers need information to help them make decisions. And those decisions can be best evaluated

This is a guest post by David Suzuki. The federal leaders’ debate on the economy focused on important issues — jobs, deficits, infrastructure spending, pipelines, climate change — but no one talked about a different vision for Canada’s economy. What if we challenged our leaders to answer the dilemma posed by

This is a guest post by David Suzuki. The federal leaders’ debate on the economy focused on important issues — jobs, deficits, infrastructure spending, pipelines, climate change — but no one talked about a different vision for Canada’s economy. What if we challenged our leaders to answer the dilemma posed by

This article is authored by Binnu Jeyakumar and originally appeared on the Pembina Institute’s blog. “The days of denial are over,” said Environment Minister Shannon Phillips, kicking off the 2015 Alberta Climate Summit held last week in Edmonton. She was sending a message that Alberta’s attitude and commitments around climate

This article is authored by Binnu Jeyakumar and originally appeared on the Pembina Institute’s blog. “The days of denial are over,” said Environment Minister Shannon Phillips, kicking off the 2015 Alberta Climate Summit held last week in Edmonton. She was sending a message that Alberta’s attitude and commitments around climate

This is a guest column by Russell Myers Ross, Chief of Yunesit’in Government, and lead organizer in the development of the Dasiqox Tribal Park, supported by the Friends of Nemaiah Valley. Amarc Resources (TSX-V: AHR) will commence drilling this week at a site inside the Dasiqox Tribal Park in central British

This is a guest column by Russell Myers Ross, Chief of Yunesit’in Government, and lead organizer in the development of the Dasiqox Tribal Park, supported by the Friends of Nemaiah Valley. Amarc Resources (TSX-V: AHR) will commence drilling this week at a site inside the Dasiqox Tribal Park — despite not

This is a guest post by David Suzuki. No matter what anyone says during this long federal election campaign, climate change is the biggest threat to Canadians’ health, security and economy. The scientific evidence is incontrovertible, the research wide-ranging and overwhelming. Wastefully burning fossil fuels at such a rapid rate is jeopardizing