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Is the U.S. finally going to move on the climate crisis?
Blog | Thursday, 14 Feb 2013When a situation is as desperate as the climate crisis and yet, year after year, no leadership emerges, it is hard to believe that the situation may be changing. Like Charlie Brown running up to Lucy...
Political Cooperation
Blog | Monday, 11 Feb 2013Greens favour a cooperative strategy in the next federal election. We need to move away from First Past the Post (FPTP), to a voting system that will ensure every vote counts and that the popular...
Governments keep saying they're going to fix health-care system
Blog | Monday, 04 Feb 2013Governments keep telling Canadians how they are going to "fix" the health-care system. Yet many problems are actually getting worse, including longer wait-lists for diagnosis and surgery, over-...
Dr. Warren Bell on the Northern Gateway Pipeline
Blog | Saturday, 02 Feb 2013The Joint Review Panel on Enbridge's proposed risky pipeline and tanker scheme has had countless hours of forceful, brilliant and important testimony setting out the reasons why the project must be...
How to re-make a country
Blog | Thursday, 31 Jan 2013“You won’t recognize Canada when I’m through with it,” Stephen Harper in 2006, -Noah Richler, National Post, May 5, 2012 How do you re-make a country? How do you transform values and a culture...
Why a two degree Celsius increase in the global average temperature is a big deal
Blog | Monday, 21 Jan 2013The International Energy Agency is warning that shooting past two degrees Celsius average global temperature will have “dire consequences.” And the World Bank is talking about 3.5 degrees of warming...
What will 2013 hold for Canada?
Blog | Thursday, 17 Jan 2013I admit that I have failed in my number one goal for 2012—either convincing Stephen Harper to change his mind about Kyoto or to force him out of office in time to stop the withdrawal from Kyoto. On...
The Attawapiskat audit: Distracting us from a legacy of failure
Blog | Tuesday, 08 Jan 2013The tensions surrounding First Nations and the federal government are, perhaps, at an all-time high. I had hoped the Prime Minister’s decision to meet with First Nations leadership this Friday was a...
Hunger Strikes
Blog | Friday, 28 Dec 2012I was reading Naomi Klein’s piece the other day about her wakening to take care of her little boy and then thinking about Chief Spence, hungry in the night. I thought to myself, “she’s not feeling...
Idle No More Rally in Ottawa
Blog | Thursday, 20 Dec 2012Dear supporter,Join us for the Idle No More rally this Friday in Ottawa. Idle No More is a First Nations grassroots movement created in reaction to Harper's C-45 Omnibus Bill and its attack on...