The Council of Canadians and the Indigenous Environmental Network are screening the documentary ‘Qapirangajuq: Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change' this afternoon at the Foro Internacional de la Justicia Climatico-Dialogo de los Pueblos, which is also known as Espacio or Esmex.

The Council's climate campaigner Andrea Harden-Donahue and the IEN's Clayton Thomas-Muller are introducing the film by Zacharias Kunuk and Ian Mauro to an audience of about 30 people now. More will be joining us when a Climate Justice Now! meeting wraps up shortly.

Today famed British journalist and environmentalist George Monbiot wrote an open letter to the people of Canada pleading with us to clean up our act on the environment.  In his usual incisive prose he wrote:

"Canada's tactics have caused shock and revulsion everywhere. They are dragging your good name through the mud. Stephen Harper and Jim Prentice threaten to do as much damage to your international standing as George W. Bush and Dick Cheney did to that of the United States."

We are trying George but our government doesn't listen to the people of this country, only to the oil companies.

Today is Blog Action Day on Climate Change.  Bloggers around the world are writing to promote Global Action. I am not sure what thousands of blogs on climate change will accomplish but I hope lots of us in Canada are participating since our government is about the worse climate criminal around.  Shaming the Harper Tories to do better  or even do anything on climate change is not going to work but you can sign the petition and show that the people of Canada are not behind the government on this one.