It's been 20 years since Canada's East Coast cod fishery collapsed, and we still have no recovery target or timeline for rebuilding populations. That's just one finding in a damning report from a panel of eminent Royal Society of Canada marine scientists.

Sustaining Canada's Marine Biodiversity notes that Canada has "failed to meet most of our national and international commitments to protect marine biodiversity" and "lags behind other modernized nations in almost every aspect of fisheries management."

It's fun to get tweets from my grown-up "beluga grad" fans who are surprised to find that the singer they knew in childhood now cares about the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement. They shouldn't be. I've been tracking societal trends and Earth changes for decades. My values have been in my songs, and in the respect I've shown my young audiences. I've not done one commercial endorsement and never marketed to kids. Their innocence does not merit exploitation. They need our love.

A new "community-driven, for-profit" business concept, named This Space, is opening on the southern edge of Vancouver's Chinatown and Downtown Eastside neighbourhoods below the government-owned, subsidized apartments of Solheim Place. Rather than simply open up a new boutique shop, the property, owned by 38-year old Michael Leung, is appealing to "the community" in order to "build a sustainable business they can call their own."

Members of the Wakefield community marched this weekend in a street parade calling on the government of Quebec to apply the principles of sustainability it adopted in the Quebec Sustainability Act of 2005.

As mentioned in previous blogs, The Council of Canadians has been working with SOS Wakefield to ensure that a provincial environmental assessment is conducted on the highway expansion and its impacts on the aquifer and spring before any construction proceeds. Council of Canadians chairperson Maude Barlow, staff and chapter activists were recently in Wakefield at a packed fundraiser for SOS Wakefield at the Black Sheep Inn. More on that at http://www.canadians.org/campaignblog/?p=6502.