Canada's Environmental Voice
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 […]
One year after The Economist declared an “unwelcomed coal renaissance,” Bloomberg News reported in early January that Europe’s lust for lower energy prices was reviving lignite mining for coal-fired generation in a big way.
Two summers ago, I was on a mission of sorts. I was learning how to authentically cook vegetables I had never heard of from around the world. But instead of travelling to East Asia for gai lan or the Caribbean for callaloo, I neighbourhood-hopped around Toronto to Chinatown and Little […]
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 […]
This is a slightly modified version of a recipe from Deschutes Brewery in Portland.
Richelle Martin isn’t your typical activist. The third-year student in Philosophy and Interdisciplinary Leadership at the University of New Brunswick has always been interested in environmental issues but had no experience organizing or leading any kind of public campaign. This all changed a few months ago, rather unexpectedly.
Andrew Wong with Elvin Flaco from Panama. We’re having an issue with the podcast player on both our site and Rabble. Please right-click on “download file” above to download the file to your computer or mobile device. To go with the “Heroes” theme of our latest issue of A\J, we went to […]
During the Ontario ice storm of 1998, millions of people were left without power for weeks in the middle of January. Since then, questions have been raised about how so many could go without electricity in a province which often has so much it has to pay neighbours to take […]
This book is an engaging account of journalist Arno Kopecky’s sailing trip from Vancouver Island to Kitimat and explores what the Northern Gateway project would mean for the animals and people who inhabit British Columbia’s Great Bear Rainforest. Northern Gateway is of course the proposed Enbridge pipeline that would carry […]
THEMUSEUM’s feature exhibition, Surface Tension, is the Canadian premiere of a travelling international exhibition that brings together artists, engineers, designers and scientists. Running from September 20th, 2013 to January 5th, 2014, the exhibition explores the many qualities of water, challenges to this pervasive resource and potential solutions.
