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- May 25, 2012| ByEmma Lui|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.
- May 24, 2012| BySteve Cornwell|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.
- May 23, 2012| ByDavid Suzuki|Join the 30x30 Challenge beginning June 1 and incorporate small natural diversions into your daily routine for a month.
- May 23, 2012| ByRaffi Cavoukian|"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.
- May 23, 2012| ByBrian Topp|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.
- May 23, 2012| ByEmma Lui|Last night, the Council of Canadians kicked off the second week of its 8-city tour.
- May 22, 2012| ByEmma Lui|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.
- May 19, 2012| ByMaude Barlow|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.
- May 18, 2012| ByLinda Leon|How the Harper government's changes to the Fisheries Act will harm water quality and ecosystems in Canada and the Yukon.
- May 17, 2012| BySeth Klein|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.
- May 16, 2012| ByChristopher Majka|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.
- May 16, 2012| ByKarl Nerenberg|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.
- May 14, 2012| ByJosh Harrower|The Yinka Dene Alliance and their supporters rallied at Enbridge's annual shareholders meeting, on Wednesday, May 9 in downtown Toronto.
- May 14, 2012| ByBrent Patterson|Council of Canadians chairperson Maude Barlow will begin an eight-city tour in defence of the Great Lakes this Tuesday in Toronto.
- May 14, 2012| BySeth Klein|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.
- May 13, 2012| ByDan Kellar | AW@L Radio|Dominion's April in review, G20 report, creeping police state in North America, save the bees, protest barrick and watch the Coconut Revolution.
- May 13, 2012| ByDan Kellar | AW@L Radio|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!
- May 12, 2012| ByEmma Lui|On Tuesday May 15, the Council of Canadians will formally launch the Great Lakes Need Great Friends speaking tour in Toronto.
- May 11, 2012| ByChristopher Majka|While Climate Impacts Day connected the dots of extreme weather to climate change, the Canadian government appears increasingly disconnected and mired in tar.
- May 11, 2012| ByMichael Stewart|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.
- May 11, 2012| ByKrystalline Kraus|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.
- May 11, 2012| ByMatt Soltys|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.
- May 10, 2012| ByElizabeth May|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.
- May 10, 2012| ByTim Groves | Martin Lukacs|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.
- May 10, 2012| ByJohn Bonnar|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.











