Last week, delegates from over 120 countries flocked to Ottawa for the BirdLife International World Congress. From June 19-22, they shared innovative ideas for tackling conservation challenges that threaten birds and ecosystems around the globe.
Last week, delegates from over 120 countries flocked to Ottawa for the BirdLife International World Congress. From June 19-22, they shared innovative ideas for tackling conservation challenges that threaten birds and ecosystems around the globe.
The lights change but nothing moves. The truck blocking the intersection is also blocking the crosswalk, so I thread my way around bumpers and continue up Yonge. It’s the afternoon rush in Toronto. At this time of day, the sound of the city isn’t the rush of air from passing […]
The warmer weather is coaxing humans and wildlife alike out of their dwellings and thus, human-wildlife interactions are on their annual upswing. These may include magical moments like listening to a frog chorus, admiring a bush bustling with songbirds, or glimpsing a fawn wobbling along; however, not all human-wildlife interactions […]
It could have been worse. When the Department of Fisheries and Oceans announced on May 3 that a Grass carp caught in the Grand River near Lake Erie was sterile, biologists and invasive species experts on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border could breathe a sigh of relief. But not […]
Knowing the Land is Resistance (KLR) has been running nature exploration workshops in southwestern Ontario for three years, demonstrating to participants how to (re)connect with the natural world around them, in any setting. I attended a very different KLR workshop in Waterloo in March, at which they presented five starting points […]
What on earth is a zine? A short-form magazine in both title and format, a zine (pronounced “zeen”) is a small, self-published booklet, generally distributed via mail order, online, in zine libraries, and through independent booksellers and infoshops. They are often created in a do-it-yourself style, with handwritten text, cutting-and-pasting […]
It might seem odd that a show so deeply rooted in the disappearing customs, history and visual culture of Newfoundland and Labrador should drop anchor on the West Coast. But as AGGV curator Michelle Jacques explains, “there is, perhaps, something in our island experience and maritime history that makes Blackwood’s […]
For a spot to sit down and read The Mad, Mad, Mad World of Climatism, I chose my bathroom. This isn’t because I was convinced Steve Goreham had produced a scatological text – I hadn’t read it yet, after all – but because the book had been laid out as […]
PHONOGRAPHS AND GRAMOPHONES brought with them remarkable changes. As fidelity increased, music recorded on discs changed from a single performance that was overheard and “captured,” becoming a document that could be edited, redrafted and refined many times before its release. But, in addition to changes in the production of most music, […]
Hello, I am a resident of Kelowna, BC. I am not a member of any environmental organization, i.e., Greenpeace, David Suzuki Foundation, Sierra Club, etc. I’m not even an official member of the Green Party, although I did vote for them in the last Federal election. I’m just an average […]