The Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development provides further evidence the federal government is failing to protect the environment and not meeting its climate change commitments.
British Columbians in 2035 will be facing a variety of climate-related challenges to a decent quality of life. BC should not get caught flat-footed, but instead the province needs to be proactive.
| It's official. The Harper government works to make the climate crisis worse. The U.S. government is officially giving itself the right to arrest and indefinitely detain its citizens.
The Harper government's decision to pull Canada out of the Kyoto Protocol will further hamper the creation of good, value-added jobs in green energy and energy conservation industries.
Scientists and environmental groups have warned the delay to 2020 puts the planet, and people at great risk of irreversible damage from rising temperatures.
The Harper government is clearly obsessed with expanding tar sands production at any cost and it will bully any country that tries to stand in its way.
We likely can't change the Harper government's position in the next two days but we can send a powerful visual that Canadians care and want their country to be committed to the Kyoto Protocol.
As the second week of the Cancun climate change conference gets underway, the Harper government must stop hiding behind others to justify its dismal record on the climate change file.
It is a holiday weekend here in Canada, a time for celebrating things that are important to us. Across the country, in every province and territory, Canadians are proving this weekend that solving the climate crisis is something that is very important to us.