by aeon on Tuesday Mar 19 2019
By Anna Grear, for Aeon
How can the law account for the value of complex, nonhuman entities such as rivers, lakes, forests and ecosystems? At a time of runaway climate change, when the Earth’s biosphere is on the brink of collapse and species extinctions are accelerating, this has become a vital question.
Some theorists argue that there’s a...
by Letters to the editor on Monday Mar 18 2019
To The Editor:
Dear Senators,
The First Nations Leadership Council (FNLC) is calling on each Senator of Canada to support the passage of Bill C-262, An Act to ensure that the laws of Canada are in harmony with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, without delay.
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of...
by The Narwhal on Thursday Mar 14 2019
Wildfire, drought and a pine beetle epidemic are piling on top of a long history of logging, pushing the province’s forests to a dangerous tipping point that experts say will make bad flooding worse
By Ben Parfitt for The Narwhal
Every spring...
by Sara Golling on Wednesday Mar 13 2019
Will the new Builders Code help women and other minorities survive in the trades? Time will tell.
Race and gender still provoke ostracism, bullying, harassment, hazing … call it what you will, it is all too common, and it creates a toxic workplace, especially for those at whom it’s directed. In some cases, it’s potentially deadly, as in the recent case of a...
by Charles Jeanes on Tuesday Mar 12 2019
Part Three
In the two previous editions of the Arc, I have been writing about the recent history of Western global dominance, about reactions to that past, and what it reveals about human consciousness expressed in culture.
Two main authors are my resource for conversation about culture and consciousness in evolution: Robert Bellah and...
by aeon on Monday Mar 11 2019
By John Quiggin, professor of Economics at Queensland University in Brisbane, for Aeon
Climate change, caused by human activity, is arguably the biggest single problem facing the world today, and it is deeply entangled with the question of how to lift billions of people out of poverty without destroying the global environment in...
by The Narwhal on Wednesday Mar 06 2019
Caught off guard by a plan to log more than 600 hectares of treasured local forest, residents near Cottonwood Lake discovered that privately owned lands can be clearcut without public notice, consultation with neighbours or the requirement to replant logged areas
By Judith Lavoie, for The Narwhal
Against a dramatic backdrop of steeply...
by Dick Cannings MP on Friday Mar 01 2019
Last Wednesday we heard riveting testimony from former Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould on her account of events in the SNC-Lavalin story. This is a long and sordid tale of corruption both abroad and here in Canada.
As the SNC-Lavalin scandal rolls out, I’m reminded of Tommy Douglas’ political fable “Mouseland”. In it, Mr. Douglas tells the tale of a land of mice who keep electing...
by David Suzuki on Tuesday Feb 26 2019
Energy is inextricably linked to a range of community issues, from health to housing. That was one message that emerged from a four-day gathering in Calgary of more than 200 young Indigenous leaders from every province and territory, organized by Disa Crow Chief of the Siksika Nation and Cory Beaver of the Stoney Nakoda Nation.
Participants came to the...
by The Narwhal on Thursday Feb 21 2019
Young people ‘will live their entire lives under the mounting environmental, economic, and health stresses’ caused by growing greenhouse gas emissions, coalition argues
By Larry Pynn, for The Narwhal
When the governments of Canada and Saskatchewan publicly squared off in court in Regina this month over the...
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