Canada's Environmental Voice
Following a Buffy Sainte-Marie concert at the Phoenix in Toronto in October 2011, four Water Walkers needed a battery boost. While I offered my assistance, one of the women, Liz Osawamick, perused one of my Treaty Commemoration Photobooks. She then invited me to document a water walk on Mother’s Day […]
The A\J Recap is a weekly video series we’ll be bringing you throughout the summer. We’ll be rounding up the most important environmental news and taking an in-depth look at one environmental problem in our feature every week. The Recap is part of our Student Summer Takeover series which aims to […]
How can I consider myself a “real environmentalist” if I’m not keeping up with the issues and solutions being discussed in the world around me? For me, Twitter and Instagram are often the first place where I find out about current and trending topics in the news. Recently, while browsing […]
Marcia Ruby interviewed Tom Wilson in May 2019, about his art, his music and his journey to discovering his identity.
Words matter. So do definitions. Would you say we’re facing a climate change or climate crisis?
Students and youth across the world recognize that the climate crisis threatens our existence. University students in particular are in a unique and complicated position. We’re in a phase of life that is transient but extremely formative; we’re being exposed to new perspectives, ideas, and theories; we’re developing the skills […]
Updated on 01/08/2019
In his 2014 memoir, Rumours of Glory, music icon Bruce Cockburn writes of trips he took on freighters across the ocean to Europe as a young man, his desire to leave his hometown of Ottawa after high school for the Berklee School of Music in Boston, and drives
As politicians dither, the clocks on climate change are ticking. The Canadian government has continued to promise action on climate change—from the Kyoto Protocol to the Paris Agreement—but its commitment to change remains to be seen. Many Canadians have become fed up with government inaction on climate, including a young […]
Johl Whiteduck Ringuette is the proprietor of NishDish Marketeria and Catering, an Indigenous restaurant in downtown Toronto centred on reclaiming and sharing traditional Anishinaabe food and knowledge.
