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April 22, 2021 in Feedback // LETTER – The degradation, or dissolution, of public health care: the enemy within
April 21, 2021 in Editorials // EDITORIAL – Court of public opinion convicted Derek Chauvin long ago
April 21, 2021 in News // POLICE – Man stabbed during assault at Columbia Street West motel
April 21, 2021 in Bepple // BEPPLE – City’s new climate action plan is imperfect but it’s a good start
April 19, 2021 in Police // POLICE – Arrest made after man robs Aberdeen business using a firearm

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SUZUKI – Food systems are a big part of resolving the climate crisis

March 25, 2021 // 1 Comment

WE ALL HAVE TO EAT. But the ways in which we grow, harvest, process, transport, prepare and consume food are profoundly affecting everything on the planet, from climate to [Continue]

SUZUKI – Connecting to nature is good for us and the Earth; save a butterfly

March 22, 2021 // 1 Comment

THE LATE URBAN VISIONARY Jane Jacobs wrote, “Perhaps it will be the city that reawakens our understanding and appreciation of nature, in all its teeming, unpredictable [Continue]

SUZUKI – Net zero offers affordable path to climate stability

January 22, 2021 // 1 Comment

ANOTHER YEAR, ANOTHER RECORD. Even with a global seven per cent drop in fossil fuel burning during the pandemic, 2020 tied 2016 for the hottest year recorded, making the past [Continue]

SUZUKI – Rediscovering our place in nature

January 6, 2021 // 0 Comments

The following is adapted from The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature (Greystone Books), a book I wrote with Amanda McConnell in 1997 and updated in 2007. It [Continue]

SUZUKI – As a bad year ends, we have the power to create a brighter future

December 17, 2020 // 1 Comment

THIS IS OUR LAST column for 2020. What a year it’s been! As if things weren’t bad enough on the environmental front — record-breaking global temperature increases, the [Continue]

SUZUKI – It’s time for Canada to address environmental racism

December 9, 2020 // 0 Comments

IN CANADA, we’re quick to favourably compare ourselves to our southern neighbours. COVID-19 caseloads may be at an all-time high here, but the U.S. situation is even more [Continue]

SUZUKI – Rediscovering the fundamentals of life

December 2, 2020 // 1 Comment

THROUGHOUT CANADA and around the world, the second wave of COVID-19 is hitting hard. Over the next few months, governments will remain focused on addressing the largest [Continue]

SUZUKI – U.S. election shows need to bend the arc toward justice

November 11, 2020 // 0 Comments

AFTER FINISHING HIGH SCHOOL in Ontario in the 1950s, I was awarded a scholarship from Amherst College in Massachusetts. After completing my undergraduate degree, I received [Continue]

SUZUKI – What do we lose when the caribou herds disappear?

November 3, 2020 // 1 Comment

ONE CARIBOU HERD in Jasper National Park is gone. The two remaining are on the brink. Regrettably, the story is not particularly new; almost every caribou herd in Canada has [Continue]

SUZUKI – Decolonization requires action and new ways of seeing

October 29, 2020 // 0 Comments

THROUGHOUT THE COVID-19 pandemic, most of us have been living in a landscape defined by unknowns. This lack of certainty about how the world around us can change at any [Continue]

SUZUKI – Four-day workweek can spur necessary transformation

August 4, 2020 // 2 Comments

WHEN WE STARTED the David Suzuki Foundation in 1990, we implemented a four-day, 34-hour workweek. Staff consistently say it’s made their lives better, giving them time to [Continue]

SUZUKI – Coal power should be relegated to the ash heap of history

July 22, 2020 // 0 Comments

DURING AND AFTER his 2016 campaign, the current U.S. president promised to make coal great again. He also claimed climate change was a hoax, so it’s no surprise that he’d [Continue]

SUZUKI – Reflections from an elder in isolation

July 3, 2020 // 1 Comment

I’M FORTUNATE. This slowdown is giving me time with my grandchildren who are with me, and to think about what has mattered most in my life, what has given me the greatest [Continue]

SUZUKI – Multiple crises signal the need to change course

June 24, 2020 // 0 Comments

THE VIRUS SPREADING COVID-19 worldwide jumped from non-human animals to people — as have most new diseases, from AIDS to SARS to Ebola. We may not know the precise origin [Continue]