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Yesterday afternoon National Chairperson Maude Barlow, Regional Organizer Mark Calzavara, London Chapter activists Gary Brown and Don McLeod and I visited Sarnia for our fifth stop of the Great Lakes.

Public hearings in London, Ontario for Enbridge's proposed reversal of the Line 9 pipeline had barely begun when a demonstration shut down the proceedings.

Join the 30x30 Challenge beginning June 1 and incorporate small natural diversions into your daily routine for a month.

"Environmentalism has failed" is a statement that deserves attention. It comes from famed environmentalist David Suzuki marking 50 years since Rachel Carson's book, Silent Spring.

The contrast between how responsible, well-governed countries have managed the fiscal consequences of resource development, and how we have managed this in Canada, does our country little credit.

Last night, the Council of Canadians kicked off the second week of its 8-city tour.

I gave a workshop on the threat fracking posed to our water sources, the lack of compulsory disclosure on the chemicals used, and the links between earthquakes and fracking.

The Harper government appears intent on systematically dismantling the few protections that have been put in place at the federal level to protect our freshwater heritage.

How the Harper government's changes to the Fisheries Act will harm water quality and ecosystems in Canada and the Yukon.

There has recently been a renewed interest in the question of whether the ecological crisis means we need to see a decline in economic growth. But my view is that this debate is largely distracting.

Are dire warnings of climate change warranted? Declining arctic sea ice and increasing methane emissions indicate they are. While civilization nears a precipice, political leaders speed the pace.

The government is silencing an advisory body created by Conservatives and headed by a respected Conservative who once worked for Flaherty - a clear message to anyone who gets out of line.

The Yinka Dene Alliance and their supporters rallied at Enbridge's annual shareholders meeting, on Wednesday, May 9 in downtown Toronto.

Council of Canadians chairperson Maude Barlow will begin an eight-city tour in defence of the Great Lakes this Tuesday in Toronto.

This week, federal Environment Commissioner Scott Vaughan released a disheartening report, slamming the Harper government for having no plan to meet its own 2020 greenhouse gas emission target.

Dominion's April in review, G20 report, creeping police state in North America, save the bees, protest barrick and watch the Coconut Revolution.

Reports from the April 28 Two Row Wampum Walk, a call-out for an Oshkimaadizig peace camp in Coldwater, and the Yinka-Dena alliance resists tar sands developments -- and so does Scott Neidermeyer!

On Tuesday May 15, the Council of Canadians will formally launch the Great Lakes Need Great Friends speaking tour in Toronto.

While Climate Impacts Day connected the dots of extreme weather to climate change, the Canadian government appears increasingly disconnected and mired in tar.

In something as simple as an ear of corn, we see not only the depravity of a world obsessed with the ideology of choice, but what kind of world we could live in if we only willed it.

While the melting Arctic may benefit corporations interested in profiting off resource extraction, the harm to Mother Earth and the Indigenous peoples cannot be undone.

Tangled Roots: Dialogues exploring ecological justice, healing, and decolonization, is a new book featuring the most powerful interviews from five years of Healing the Earth Radio.

As a long-time environmental lawyer, I am devastated at the cynical and undemocratic ways the Harper Conservatives are destroying Canada's crucial environmental laws.

The RCMP has been spying on a group of British Columbia First Nations whose vocal opposition to Enbridge's Northern Gateway pipeline took them to the company's annual meeting in Toronto yesterday.

Several hundred protesters marched from Metro Hall to Le Meridien King Edward Hotel on King Street where Enbridge was holding its Annual Shareholders Meeting on Wednesday afternoon.