Casey Camp-Horinek of the Ponca Nation in Oklahoma presents a traditional cradleboard to the people of Paris during a march Dec. 12. The cradleboard represents future generations. -Indigenous Environmental Network photo By Sujata Dey Council of Canadians December 11, 2015 You’ve heard of off-Broadway...
Voices from Paris AWARE News Network Helen Szoke Oxfam International This deal offers a frayed life-line to the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people. Only the vague promise of a new future climate funding target has been made, while the deal does not force countries to cut emissions fast enoug...
Tamara Brown of CRAND By PEN Canada | December 4, 2015 Last month’s Free Expression Matters profiled Ontario’s new Public Participation Act, well known for protections against Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs). In the next few days, we were contacted by two groups who are not p...
Garbage shortage prompts Metro Vancouver to scrap plans for new incinerator BY KELLY SINOSKI Vancouver Province Metro Vancouver has halted plans to build another incinerator to burn the region’s waste. Port Coquitlam Mayor Greg Moore, Metro’s board chairman, said while Metro remains committed to was...
Song sparrow at Tiny Marsh -Barbara Crawford photo General info from Bird Studies Canada: Started in 1900, the Christmas Bird Count is North America’s longest-running Citizen Science project. Counts happen in over 2000 localities throughout the Western Hemisphere. The information collected by t...
AWARE News Network UPDATED The following resolution was moved by Deputy Mayor Barry Burton, seconded by Councillor Shawn Davidson and carried unanimously by Clearview Township Council on December 7 2015: Be it resolved that Council direct the CAO and Municipal Solicitors being Barriston LLP to appeal...
From the Blue Dot Team Today, Toronto, Ontario became the 100th community to pass a Blue Dot municipal environmental rights declaration — a significant step towards ensuring that all levels of government recognize your right to breathe fresh air, drink clean water, eat safe food and have a say in the...
Cutting at Beeton Woods in March 2015 By Kate Harries AWARE News Network Monday, they started taking down more of the Beeton Woods. Stephanie MacLellan, one of the Beeton residents who spearheaded an effort to save the woodland just northwest of her village, watched in horror. “They’re not even cutti...
‘Ontario welcomes report on Greenbelt and smart growth’ Ontario government news release Ontario has received recommendations on how to build more complete communities in the Greater Golden Horseshoe area – Canada’s fastest-growing urban region, the province’s economic en...
Curbing urban sprawl by promoting greater density, improving public transit, and preserving farmland are critical to protecting the Greater Golden Horseshoe, says former Toronto mayor David Crombie By Robert Benzie Toronto Star Dec 7 2015 Curbing urban sprawl by promoting greater density, improving p...
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