Tonight we’re hosting a singalong Sound of Music event, so in honour of that, and the birthday that it is celebrating, here’s Julie Andrews and the rest of the cast singing Do Re Mi. If you’re in my corner of northwestern Ontario, dro…

Latest Andrew Coyne column details the inaction from all parties on the climate change file. However, the piece begins with a now common assumption, one that really has no basis in fact, apart from platitudes. In other words I simply don’t accept the…

Latest Andrew Coyne column details the inaction from all parties on the climate change file. However, the piece begins with a now common assumption, one that really has no basis in fact, apart from platitudes. In other words I simply don’t accept…

Toronto’s former mayor on how world-class cities can save the world.

In the 18 months since David Miller passed the chain of office to Rob Ford, Toronto’s 63rd mayor has been busy—something that, love him or hate him, probably doesn’t come as much of a shock. Through two terms, from 2003 to 2010, Miller was either praised as a city builder, who shaped Toronto into a [...]

This is the second of a two-part feature examining the impact of climate change on the Arctic. Part I examined the uses of the colonial imagination of the Arctic. 
Many of the winter months of 2012 were among the warmest on record. The warmin…

May 5, 2012 was Climate Impacts Day, a global initiative to “connect the dots” between the extreme weather events that are becoming a regular occurrence in many parts of the world, and climate change. Sponsored by 350.org, the global organization found…

What does “extending habitability” mean? It explains “sustainability”. I prefer to sometimes call it “survivability”, because without the delicate balance our ecosystem and societies are teetering on, there’s no possible way seven billion people will survive even a short term major disruption. Our environment has one shot to work in letting billions of humans develop [...]

Shawn McCarthy delves into the environmental regulation amendments.
Ministers will have new discretion to…

In the last couple years the Obama administration has pumped billions into cutting-edge clean energy tech. But these all share a common problem: plugging into an electric grid that is mostly unchanged since the 1930s. Energy experts say meeting our carbon-footprint reduction goals will remain a pipe dream until we can revamp electricity distribution. The solution? The “smart grid,” a nickname for a sweeping series of updates on everything from power stations to the meter in your home, which promises to save power and money by being sensitive to your energy use.

Stephen Gordon considers the question of Dutch Disease.
The appreciating Canadian dollar has little…

Have you heard the stunning news? The Conservatives have done little on the climate change file, they won’t meet their own modest targets, nor have they even bothered to do any cost analysis. The audit from the Commissioner of the Environment and Susta…

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Ever wonder why a blooming green energy industry has faced such harsh opposition? Now, as the old adage goes, "the cat's out of the bag."
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shutterstock_90778001.jpg Ever wonder why a blooming green energy industry has faced such harsh opposition? Now, as the old adage goes, "the cat's out of the bag." The Guardian today revealed the network of fossil-funded groups…

And by “laundering” the Conservatives mean “cleaned of unfortunate spots and ironed of wrinkles”

The environment commissioner tabled his spring report this morning.
Although the federal government has…

The far-right “think” tank the Heartland Institute recently launched a bizarre billboard campaign that linked global warming with serial killers. The first billboard went up with a picture of Ted “The Unabomber” Kaczynski with …

“We could pretend global warming isn’t happening, or that humans aren’t a factor if it is.  That would be crazy in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, but even if it weren’t, there would still be no reason to continue down the r…

Allan; David Suzuki misleads readers when he writes: “the revelation that Ottawa’s Carleton University hired Tom Harris, a PR man for a number of “astroturf” groups with a mechanical engineering background, to teach a course on climate change.” It is old news, not a “revelation”, that I taught a climate course at Carleton for the [...]

12 protestors  were arrested during a day-long protest in White Rock, B.C. that blocked coal trains from reaching port. Among the protestors was leading environmental economist and Simon Fraser University Professor Mark Jaccard, who issued this statem…

Coastal British Columbia may not be a great place to live if you have problems coping with rain.   We have what I like to call the “Rain Festival” that runs from around mid-October until somewhere between June and July.   Lard, Jays…