Canada's Environmental Voice
At the 2013 Canadian Wind Energy Association’s (CanWEA) conference a new group launched to encourage greater inclusivity in the energy field, Women in Renewable Energy (WiRE). Founded and co-chaired by Rebecca Black and Joanna Szarek Osawe, this non-profit organization is dedicated to “furthering education and awareness surrounding renewable energy development and […]
Kim Ondaatje’s current exhibition at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa, ON surveys a career spanning over fifty years, and in doing so, serves to entrench the artist within the canon of the Canadian landscape tradition.
Canoeing matters because it can illustrate the mobilization of power and politics through nature, nation, and leisure. The stories told about the canoe, stories related to its iconic status for the nation, need to be understood as moments in the ever-contested field of cultural politics. Thinking critically about the canoe […]
The official NIGHT\SHIFT 2013 video has finally arrived! Watch it right here – then put your creativity cap on, because a NIGHT\SHIFT 2014 call for proposals is coming soon! That’s right: after all your enthusiastic feedback – and, frankly, demands for an annual event – A\J is very excited to […]
Imagine going to your favourite bar year after year and ordering beer on tap. Then, one day, the tap runs dry. All that’s left are the drops that have fallen on the bar floor after decades of beer-thirsty customers. The only way to get more beer is to squeeze droplets […]
Many of us would cringe at the idea of eating food from the dumpster. Yet dumpster-diving is happening, sometimes for survival, sometimes for ethical reasons. But no matter what the case, it is always environmental, because the fact that it’s possible, the fact that edible food is being thrown out […]
Whiskey’s for drinking and water’s for fighting, or so the old saying goes. There’s no way of conveying the importance of water to agriculture more concisely. Water management is highly divisive and fraught with winners and losers. Given the contentiousness of managing this critical resource, the Hon. Gerry Ritz, federal […]
VALENTINE’S DAY means that thousands of Canadians will be heading to the florist to purchase the classic symbol of undying love – a bouquet of roses. Flowers are also a popular gift for birthdays, Mother’s Day and get-well-soon wishes. So popular, in fact, that global cut-flower sales approached $14-billion last […]
COLONEL CHRIS HADFIELD spent 21 years with the Canadian Space Agency. During his three trips to space and 144 days commanding the International Space Station in 2012-13, he enjoyed a rare perspective on planet Earth. Six months after his return home and retirement from the agency, just what does one […]
The Cape Farewell Foundation has an ambitious mission: to bring artists and scientists together to explore the impact and future of climate change. Just as ambitious is the wide-ranging exhibition curated by David Buckland and Claire L. Sykes and headquartered at the Royal Ontario Museum’s Centre for Contemporary Culture until […]
