It’s not unfair to say that, when the Trudeau government talks about balancing resource development and the environment you can expect a giant thumb on the scale. When the two interests clash, the environment comes away with the shit end of the stick. Even by Ottawa standards, Tuesday’s meeting of
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The Disaffected Lib: Great. Now Notley Imagines She’s Speaking for All Canadians. You Too?
Rachel Notley is taking to the interwebs in her war with British Columbia. If it’s war B.C. wants, it’s war she’ll get. Now the Alberta premier, speaking for Alberta and all Canadians (including you, I guess) is going to expose the recalcitrant coastal curmudgeons, damned hippies and geriatric draft dodgers,
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: And Speaking of Disappearances…
It seems like the silence over the disappearing Environment Canada committee discussed in my previous post may have had its precedent set back in 2012, when another strange silence was orchestrated over another disappearance. Margaret Munro, in The Ottawa Citizen, reports new evidence of the Harper regime suppressing information Canadians
Continue readingreeves report: New evidence of Triclosan toxicity
Hand soaps containing triclosan and triclocarban. (Andrew Reeves/Reeves Report) OTTAWA KNOWS that a common ingredient in antibacterial soaps is posing acute and chronic problems for human health and freshwater ecosystems but has done nothing to ban triclosan, according to environmental and consumer advocates. But now there’s even more evidence against the
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Forecast: Very Cloudy Indeed
Mike de Sousa is a former Post Media reporter now operating his own website continuing his investigative work into energy and the environment. He is well-worth paying attention to. His latest piece, Government’s weather forecasters shouldn’t discuss climate change, says Environment Canada, while perhaps not breaking any new ground, is
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Ex-US president Jimmy Carter urges Obama to reject Keystone XL Pipeline
“History will reflect on this moment and it will be clear to our children and grandchildren if you made the right choice,” laureates remind President Obama as the world awaits his decision on the Keystone XL pipeline by: Obert Madondo | April 17, 2014 To show leadership on climate change and leave
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: More Totalitarianism From The Harper
Just as Harper has been tearing down the apparatus of scientific research that would ordinarily be used by governing parties to make informed policy decisions, the next prong of his attack on reasoned governance in Canada has begun. It really began in 2012, when the government rolled out a
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: The Alberta tar sands’ criminal assault on water, Athabasca River
by: Obert Madondo A new study by Environment Canada confirms what First Nations and environmentalists have been telling us all along: the Alberta tar sands are increasingly becoming a threat to our water sources. The Toronto Star reports: “New federal research has confirmed that water from vast oilsands tailings ponds is leaching
Continue readingLeftist Jab: Environment Canada To Adopt The "What Does Leona Aglukkaq’s Brother Think?" Based Approach To Climate Change
Polar Bear Cubs or Radical Environmental Activists? Environment Minister Leona Aglukkaq does not know how Environment Canada scientist work. This is the only conclusion you can reach when you read her following statement on polar bear research: A lot of time, scientists latch on to the wildlife in the North, to
Continue readingSave the songbirds—curb your cats
I have always been a dog man myself. Cats … well, they can be cute and cuddly, but whereas dogs seem to belong with us, I have always found cats to be alien if not a little unnerving. Those cold, deadpan eyes seem to send the message that if I
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive | News & Analysis: Stephen Harper personally asked for the Chinese pandas, memo reveals
By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive: The two giant Chinese pandas, Da Mao, a four-year-old male, and Er Shun, a five-year-old female, jetted into Toronto today to much fanfare. Prime Minister Stephen Harper was on hand to give them the VIP welcome. Did you know that the Conservatives were prepared to keep Canadians
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: The New Head Of Environment Canada On What Causes Global Warming
“Wow. Umm. They didn’t tell me I’d have to answer questions like that when I took this job. I think that it’s – I don’t know the total answer to that –,” Wow indeed.
Continue readingTrashy's World: Pollution monitoring cuts at Environment Canada
These cuts are truly irresponsible and should be of concern to all Canadians. This group provides an unbiased measurement, research and analysis function that allows for an accurate assessment of the levels of potentially harmful emissions from industrial activities. So I guess it will be up to polluters to monitors
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Cry Wolf: An Unethical Oil Story
Picture 4.png Over the last several months, Alberta has killed more than 500 wolves using aerial sharpshooters and poisoned bait in order to conceal the impact of rapid industrial development on Canada’s iconic woodland caribou. Independent scientists say that declining caribou health stems chiefly from habitat destruction caused by the encroachment
Continue readingNobody Sings it Like The Raging Grannies
Check out this video posted back in January of the Raging Grannies, doing what they do best; singing for social and environmental justice. With the release of the Conservative Government’s 2012 Budget today we now know where the environment stands. It doesn’t. Regulations will be further cut in the name
Continue readingMatthew McAskill Chisholm: RCEN Cuts: Not Just About Jobs
Canada World Youth intern, Justin Chisholm (writing for the Sierra Youth Coalition), analyzes the recent cuts to the Canadian Environmental Network. Minister of Environment Hon. Peter Kent and the federal government have severed a thirty-four year relationship with the Canadian … Continue reading →
Continue readingEnvironment Canada scientist instructed not to talk about huge new hole in Arctic ozone layer
Reassuring to know that just as Peter Kent decides to cut back on the ozone monitoring network in the Arctic, this happens. Too bad Canadians are not being permitted to educate themselves over this bit of startling news. Another scientist muzzled….
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: "It Can’t All Be True": Canadian Government Launches New Fracking Studies
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According to Environmental Minister Peter Kent, the Canadian government is entering into the shale gas debate by launching two simultaneous studies of fr…
Continue readingWho cares about that silly old ozone layer anyway?
Evidently not Canada.”People are gob smacked by this decision,” Thomas Duck, an atmospheric researcher at Dalhousie University, said in an interview with Postmedia News. He and his international colleagues say they’ve been told the network and a r…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Canada Right On Target, To Miss 2020 Emissions Targets
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According to Environment Canada’s peer-reviewed July report on Canada’s Emissions Trends [pdf], government action to date is not putting the country on track…
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