Canada's Environmental Voice
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 […]
Up Drop (Aurora Robson, 2010) is a 9-foot-tall suspended sculpturemade from plastic debris (PET) intercepted from the waste stream.
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.
Dave Quinn is a wildlife biologist based in Kimberley, British Columbia. His field work with grizzly, fisher, lynx, badger, mountain caribou, and swift fox has made him a passionate advocate for the wilderness these animals require. His adventure and conservation-focussed writing and photography appears regularly in Canadian Wildlife, Explore, BC Magazine, […]
“[The road] looked like it’d been hit by a bomb,” said Jim Webster, Commissioner of Parker County, Texas.
NIGHT\SHIFT is downtown Kitchener’s annual overnight festival of art, culture and nocturnal adventure, initiated by A\J in 2013. In addition to publishing a national magazine, A\J is a registered charity engaged in environmental education and community-building activities. Envisioning a better future is a central goal at A\J, and exploration of […]
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 […]
This past May, Vermont became the first state/province in North America to pass legislation mandating labels on GMO foods independently from other states.
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 […]
