climate change
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TORONTO – Green Party of Canada Leader Annamie Paul said today that Canada should immediately begin bilateral negotiations with President-elect Biden on the... more
November 10, 2020
On Wednesday, November 4, 2020, Mayor Jim Watson presented the City of Ottawa’s draft 2021 budget. As the mayor noted, 2020 has been a year unlike any other in... more
November 7, 2020
As of Sunday, around 4 million acres have been scorched by wildfires in California, Washington and Oregon.
These fires are a reminder that for all our... more
September 16, 2020
Last week the Ford government released their “preferred route” for a new 400-series highway.
The proposed Highway 413 will carve up the Greenbelt. It runs... more
August 14, 2020
Last week, I made two alarming discoveries:
The federal government has suspended water quality monitoring since the beginning of the pandemic.
The federal... more
By unpubadmin
August 14, 2020
COVID-19 is very much shaping our present, our future and eventually, will describe our past.
This invisible virus will continue to cause grief and fear in... more
June 15, 2020
On May 26, the mayor and a majority on Ottawa City Council voted to dramatically worsen urban sprawl. This was the most important environmental vote this term... more
By Robb Barnes
June 1, 2020
When I pronounced during a news conference in Ottawa on Wednesday that “Oil is dead,” I expected neither surprise nor outrage. I thought I was just pointing... more
May 12, 2020
While the pandemic marches on, it's another workday at Burnaby Terminal, the oil storage "tank farm" that is being doubled in density as part of the Trans... more
May 11, 2020
Between the COVID-19 pandemic and the urban boundary dispute, one has to wonder if the City of Ottawa was simply making a show of their climate change... more
By Max Casifeli
May 8, 2020
The urban boundary decision is the most consequential environmental decision that council will make this term - and that many councillors will make in their ... more
May 3, 2020
Too often health, environmental, economic, and social equity goals are pitched against each other, as though we can never have one without the other. However,... more
By unpubadmin
April 22, 2020
A disputed environmental claim publicized by the fossil fuel firms backing a $40-billion liquefied natural gas project in B.C. can be traced back to a lifelong... more
March 5, 2020
Dear Mayor and Council,
During this term of Council you have declared both a Climate Emergency and a Housing and Homelessness Emergency. We applaud these... more
March 4, 2020
We represent a diverse group of academics working at universities and colleges across Canada who can no longer stand by in the face of human-driven climate... more
By unpubadmin
February 3, 2020