Canada's Environmental Voice
2013 marked an important anniversary for the International Crane Foundation. Over the past 40 years, its dedicated efforts to protect cranes and the habitats they share with other wildlife have been rewarded with remarkable results and have made ICF one of the world’s foremost conservation organizations.
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 […]
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.
In Heroes, we profiled communities across Canada that were the first to make a splash by making an environmental campaign mainstream. To highlight action being taken against the tar sands, we mentioned the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation and the Tar Sands Healing Walk because of the important work that is being […]
Two Suzukis in one podcast! David Suzuki shares stories about his environmental heroes, the best way to teach children a love of nature and how Rachel Carson opened his eyes to the real world outside the science lab (2:51). Read an excerpt from the interview in Heroes of Heroes. “Before […]
Toronto has a seemingly neverending cycle of film festivals, but only Planet in Focus trains its crosshairs exclusively on environmental concerns. The 14th annual version (from November 21 to 24) featured a slate of strong, complex and curious documentaries, and another handful of very well deserved PiF award winners.
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Graphic by nik harron Ontario made a small splash in the financial world at the end of October when Premier Kathleen Wynne and two top cabinet ministers announced the province was set to become the first Canadian jurisdiction to issue “green bonds,” a debt tool for governments to raise money […]
