Environment
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Canada is the only G7 country that is still emitting GHG emissions way above 1990 levels at 21% more. Compare that to the US which is on par with its 1990... more
By Paul Strome
May 23, 2021
While mankind’s relatives have been around for about six million years, the modern form of man has only been around for about 200,000 years. Thanks to the... more
By Paul Strome
May 9, 2021
Canada's continent-spanning forest used to remove massive amounts of CO2 from the air each year. It was a hugely valuable "carbon sink", slowing the pace of... more
May 7, 2021
Pesticides harmful to people and the environment will be exempt from a proposed overhaul to Canada’s primary environmental law that will impose more stringent... more
May 7, 2021
Hot off the press is a book on Gatineau Park that promises to rattle the NCC’s cage and the status quo—it may even wake up Canada’s sleeping parliamentarians... more
By J-P Murrayp
April 10, 2021
I’m here on January 17, 2021 on Unama’ki (Cape Breton Island), Nova Scotia and looking at my very accurate outdoor thermometer that says it is 11 degrees... more
By Paul Strome
January 17, 2021
When we lived in the arctic during the 1970s and 80s I was fortunate enough to spend a lot of time out on the land with the Inuit. Living beside Moonshine... more
By Paul Strome
December 27, 2020
Dear Minister Clark,
Please accept this letter as my resignation from the Greenbelt Council, effective immediately.
I have thoroughly enjoyed the opprotunity... more
By unpubadmin
December 8, 2020
The City of Ottawa has released its annual greenhouse gas emissions inventories in the lead-up to the December 15, 2020 meeting of the Standing Committee of... more
December 7, 2020
Seven members of the Ontario government's Greenbelt Council resigned over the weekend in protest of Premier Doug Ford's moves to limit the power of... more
December 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
Next week, the Planning Committee of City Council has a big decision to make that will shape how Ottawa grows between now and 2046 through its new official... more
By PlanetA
May 9, 2020
Dear Minister Yurek,
I am writing to express my concern about the Government of Ontario's decision to temporarily exempt all ministries from the... more
April 11, 2020
(Ottawa) – Today, Jim Watson presented the draft 2019 City of Ottawa budget. The most notable aspect of this budget is what it did not say. In Jim Watson’s... more
February 6, 2019
The NCC’s January 24th board meeting illustrated why Gatineau Park is an ongoing administrative nightmare. A number of questionable statements were made and... more
By J-P Murrayp
February 6, 2019