Some say it’s a political date that’s been a long time coming. After months of trying to co-ordinate their schedules, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are finally getting together. Merkel arrives in Canada today for her first official visit to the country. She’ll hold private [...]

A small town in rural Alberta took big strides last month when it launched a public response to its growing debt by calling out for participation in a “co-operative farming” venture. Viking, Alberta could be Anytown, Anywhere— a basic geographical area of people faced with the failing economy on any [...]

These swell summer months align themselves with a number of variables that inspire higher levels of liquid consumption: social events like patios and BBQs, physiological events such as dehydration and sweating, that deplete us of our natural juices. Our bodies require the maintenance of a liquid balance that allows our [...]

In the ongoing public battle of environment versus government, the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society recently released an official report warning that new federal budget cuts threaten the health and safety of Canada’s wildlife areas. According to CBC $30 million was cut from Parks Canada in the 2012-2013 budget, forcing [...]

Imagine Canada’s strongest economy in another fifty years, the year 2062. Pump jacks no longer pumping, old derricks abandoned in scrap yards, a crater the size of a small city in place of what we know as Fort McMurry. Oil towns like Drayton Valley and Lloydminster ghost towns – boarded [...]

With global resource consumption, carbon gas emissions, and energy need still on the rise, the world is looking towards the Rio+20 summit for guidance on where to go from here. This U.N. Conference is meant to connect a full spectrum of groups together; from global leaders to NGOs, private corporations [...]

In what can only be called a big win for the environment, Toronto has put an outright ban on plastic bags in its cities. But wait – that’s not the whole story. A few weeks ago, Toronto’s mayor had been talking about repealing the 5 cent bag tax the city [...]

At 8:30 pm on Saturday, March 31st (when Earth Hour officially began), I was in Whole Foods in Toronto. Whole Foods, the natural, organic, and overall environmentally-conscious grocery store, is of all places where you expect to find people who know what Earth Hour is. But when the building dimmed [...]

Prime Minster Stephen Harper, along with Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver, is seeking faster environmental reviews to move projects along at a quicker rate. Under the proposed changes to the review process, the Canadian Federal Government desires to have a single review board for each individual project with a clearly [...]

There has been much controversy surrounding the Northern Gateway Project, a lot of what has to do with the overall environmental impact it will have. Additionally, there has also been a strongly emerging debate as to whether the project is in Canada’s National interest in so far as jobs and [...]