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September 21, 2021 in Knox // KNOX – Ten takeaways from the 2021 federal election
September 21, 2021 in Johnson // JOHNSON – Another Liberal minority in Ottawa; how long will it last?
September 21, 2021 in Editorials // EDITORIAL: It’s not exactly sunny ways but Canadians have spoken
September 20, 2021 in News // POLICE – Billboard on Yellowhead promoting COVID safety vandalized
September 20, 2021 in Editorials // EDITORIAL – It’s time to move federal election day to the weekend

Suzuki

SUZUKI – Federal election requires serious shift on climate, justice, health

August 24, 2021 // 1 Comment

PROTECTING THE AIR, water, soil, ecosystems and biodiversity that make human life possible shouldn’t be political. It’s become politicized, though. Worse, the debate is [Continue]

SUZUKI – For climate’s sake, we must do more to save the peat

June 16, 2021 // 0 Comments

BURNING COAL, oil and gas is causing the world to heat at an unnaturally rapid rate. Destroying forests, wetlands, grasslands and marine ecosystems, which act as “carbon [Continue]

SUZUKI – Sun rises on renewable energy and storage

June 2, 2021 // 0 Comments

ONE LONG-HELD EXCUSE for not getting off oil, gas and coal faster is that energy sources like solar and wind only work when the sun’s shining or the wind’s blowing. Now, [Continue]

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]