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Quebec to beat California in setting up first carbon market in North America
Henry Gass
20th July, 2011
Quebec is set to bring in North America’s first cap-and-trade system from January 2012. But debate still rages about its usefulness more...
Madagascar fears repeat of Canada's tar sands devastation
Tom Levitt
1st June, 2011
UK banks helping to finance oil giant Total's exploitation of tar sands on the world's fourth largest island despite lack of adequate environmental controls or regulation more...
Climate, Culture, Change: Inuit and Western Dialogues with a Warming North
Ali Thomas
17th February, 2011
In his fascinating account of the dialogue on climate change between Western and Inuit voices, Timothy B. Leduc argues that it’s time to start paying attention to the ecological wisdom of native peoples because it might just hold the key to halting global warmingmore...
Arctic
Ruth Styles
3rd February, 2011
Part travelogue, part lament for a threatened way of life, Ruth Styles says that Bruce Parry’s latest book, Arctic, shows us exactly what we stand to lose if global warming isn’t stopped - todaymore...
Plans to reopen world’s largest asbestos mine will create ‘new generation’ of victims
Vi Nguyen
23rd December, 2010
Quebec government considering $58 million loan to support the mine despite moral outrage over export of dangerous asbestos to India, Indonesia and the Phillipinesmore...
Congo massacre case prompts call for crackdown on Canadian mining giants
Tom Levitt
11th November, 2010
Canadian authorities urged to bring in ethical guidelines for extractive industries as Anvil Mining faces court case for alleged role in the killing of 70 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo more...
Will historic deal to protect Canada's mighty boreal forest work?
Christopher Pala
26th October, 2010
The unprecedented Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement will, if all goes to plan, preserve vast swathes of the country's pristine wilderness. But as environmentalists and the logging industry begin to roll the initiative out, there are claims that not everything is as it should be, reports Christopher Pala more...
Canada tar sands industry ignoring toxic river pollution
Ecologist
1st September, 2010
Study contradicts Alberta government and industry claims that pollutants are from natural sources and not from the expanding production of oil from tar sands more...
Activists hail 'historic' Canadian forest agreement
Ecologist
19th May, 2010
Logging companies agree to deal safeguarding an area of endangered boreal forest twice the size of Germany more...
Throw Canada out of Commonwealth for climate record
Ecologist
27th November, 2009
Rising emissions and support for tar oil sands leads prominent figures to call for suspension more...
Tuktoyaktuk: a community on the frontline of climate change
Emma Bocking
1st October, 2009
Canadian coastal communities are faced with rising sea levels as the government continues to support destructive tar sands mining more...
Activists force tar sand mine to close in Canada
Ecologist
16th September, 2009
Greenpeace activists block Shell's tar sands oil extraction operation in protest at its environmental cost more...
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'Pollution-as-usual' for Shell, new report reveals
Ecologist
29th June, 2009
A new report reveals Shell's expanding investment in the most polluting fuels, attempts to scupper plans to act on climate change and the complicity of top executives in continued gas flaring in Nigeria more...
Greenwash taints most 'eco-friendly' claims
Ecologist
23rd June, 2009
Ninety-eight per cent of the products in our stores claiming to be environmentally friendly are guilty of greenwash, a US committee hears more...
Old-growth forests must be protected, say scientists
News
7th June, 2007
Forty-two biologists and botanists have sent a signed petition to the governments of British Columbia and Canada calling for full protection of the country's old-growth forest. more...
Chemically Bonded
Zoe Cormier
1st December, 2006
For the Canadian Aanishnaabek tribe, who live on a reserve surrounded by chemical plants, there seems no escape. Do they leave, and abandon their past, or stay, and perhaps lose their future? Zoe Cormier investigatesmore...
National disease service
Yves Engler
1st October, 2004
Antibacteria-resistant superbugs are turning hospitals into killers more...
Percy Schmeiser: the man that took on Monsanto
Edward Goldsmith.
1st May, 2004
For 40 years Percy Schmeiser grew oilseed rape on his farm in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. Usually, he would sow each year’s crop with seeds saved from the previous harvest. In 1998 Monsanto took Schmeiser to court. more...Members
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