Canada's Environmental Voice
Screen time and sustainability don’t have to be mutually exclusive. A recent US Public Interest Research Group study found that hand-held technology advancements are leading smartphone users to choose multi-modal transportation over privately owned vehicles, especially among 16- to 34-year-olds. Beyond making car sharing, bike sharing, cab hailing and public […]
While the media has focused its lens upon the Harper government’s undermining of scientific research, scant consideration has been given to the impact of the “war on science” on Canada’s judiciary. Tasked with reviewing and adjudicating upon the constitutionality and validity of Canada’s resource regulatory process, the judiciary may be […]
So much of the thinking around climate change has evolved since 2007 that Ontario’s seven-year-old climate action plan is now “irrelevant” according to Environmental Commissioner Gord Miller.
The subtitle of The Wisdom to Survive – Climate Change, Capitalism and Community – sets out the lofty ambitions of the filmmakers. They want to tackle those four big C-words and a dozen subtopics in a movie a little less than an hour long.
With the 2014 FIFA World Cup happening right now in Brazil, the world has paused to enjoy its most popular sport. In Toronto it has been especially entertaining to watch neighbourhoods like the Danforth and Little Italy cheering on their respective teams. TVs have been set up in public areas […]
In announcing her new cabinet last week, Premier Kathleen Wynne has charged former Transportation Minister Glen Murray with taking over Ontario’s newly revamped environment ministry. Murray, the sitting MPP for Toronto Centre and former mayor of Winnipeg, assumed command of the environment ministry from veteran MPP Jim Bradley who is […]
A “cool” and affordable high performance electric vehicle has been as elusive as sighting a snow leopard in the Himalayas. We have seen so many hybrids and hybrid versions of the same old auto models in the marketplace of late that we have all but lost interest entirely in the […]
In The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, the feel-good travel epic released last Christmas, Ben Stiller plays a compulsive daydreamer who travels around the world in search of a missing photograph. Mitty’s hunt for the photograph allows him to escape his boring life working in a darkened photo lab at […]
Pregnant people spend a lot of time answering questions. What will you name the baby? Are you going to breastfeed? What kind of diapers are you using? Have you finished the baby’s room? Did you do prenatal classes? Some parents-to-be feel like they spend half their time answering personal questions […]
What do you get when you put one innovative BC artist, a passionate curator, fifty musicians, and fifty porters, sound techs and camera operators on a melting glacier slated for controversial development as a four-season ski resort?
