By Tim Harper Toronto Star January 14 2013Sometimes a scientific study so exhaustive, so authoritative and so alarming arrives in the public discourse that it simply cannot be ignored.And sometimes the timing and content of such a study merely confirms what should be evident to any thinking person an...

New Tecumseth Free Press January 11, 2013Ontario's Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) is proposing changes to fish and wildlife-related activities that will make it easier for property owners to eradicate problems with wildlife by removing the crown agency from the approvals process....

Greenpeace says oil and gas companies got what they wanted from OttawaBy Max Paris CBC News Jan 9, 2013A letter obtained by Greenpeace through access to information laws and passed on to the CBC reveals the oil and gas industry was granted its request that the federal government change a series of en...

Does a prorogued government have the authority to act so drastrically?Peaceful Parks Coalition release January 7 2012On December 5, 2012 the Ontario govt. posted four separate proposals on the Environmental Bill of Rights Registry that divests the Ministry of Natural Resources from enforcing environm...

By Chris Hedges Truthdig.com Nov. 26 2012Humans must immediately implement a series of radical measures to halt carbon emissions or prepare for the collapse of entire ecosystems and the displacement, suffering and death of hundreds of millions of the globe’s inhabitants, according to a report commiss...

NHPPA video December 23 2012Shawn Buckley is a constitutional and criminal lawyer with expertise in the Food and Drugs Act and Regulations. He is president of Canada's Natural Health Products Protection Association (NHPPA), a non-profit organization devoted to protecting Canadians’ access to natural ...

Neoliberalism is not the root of the problem: it is the ideology used to justify a global grab of power, public assets and natural resources by an unrestrained eliteBy George Monbiot The GuArdian December 3 2012Humankind's greatest crisis coincides with the rise of an ideology that makes it impossibl...

Ignoring Planetary Peril, a Profound ‘Disconnect’ Between Science and DohaBy CHRISTOPHER F. SCHUETZE International Herald Tribune December 9 2012 In one of the most poignant moments of the Doha climate talks, the Philippine climate change commissioner, Naderev M. Sano, appealed to his fellow negotiat...

Conventional Order Passes Best Before DateBy Mike Nickerson Sustainability December 10 2012Circles have no corners; ends and beginnings flow smoothly from one to the other, yet, I can't help but think that the end of the Mayan Calendar can mark the beginning of a new purpose for humanity....

'Large old trees will diminish or disappear in many ecosystems,' ecologists warnCBC News Dec 7, 2012 The world's biggest and oldest trees are dying at an alarming rate, according to a report by three leading ecologists.Death rates among trees 100 to 300 years old, living organisms that also sustain b...