Climate change

SUZUKI – Ecological crises deserve better coverage from the media

January 22, 2020 // 2 Comments

I WAS 14 WHEN North Korea invaded South Korea in 1950. As an adolescent, I was more preoccupied with puberty-related personal issues than politics. But when Canada sent [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Greta Thunberg gets it wrong on panicking over climate

January 17, 2020 // 1 Comment

I SYMPATHIZE WITH Swedish teen Greta Thunberg for her outrage at the mess that my generation has left the world in. We just wanted to create a culture with every convenience [Continue]

SUZUKI – Conservation and climate action go together

January 16, 2020 // 0 Comments

WE LIVE ON a changing planet. Unnaturally rapid global warming is altering everything, including lands and waters. Evidence shows we’ve already emitted enough greenhouse [Continue]

SUZUKI – A 2020 vision for climate action

January 8, 2020 // 2 Comments

LET’S HOPE 2020 marks the start of a year and decade when we finally take climate disruption as seriously as the evidence shows we must. We understand the problem and [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Only the young can save the planet, and it might be too late

December 17, 2019 // 14 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THE GENERATION GAP is surely no more obvious than on the issue of climate change. The only ones getting serious about it are young people, [Continue]

McQUARRIE – What if we’ve got this whole carbon-pricing thing wrong?

December 15, 2019 // 3 Comments

WHAT IF, HORROR OF HORRORS, we’ve got this whole carbon-pricing thing wrong? And what if many of those who don’t believe in climate change are actually more concerned [Continue]

BEPPLE – There’s time for meetings, but there’s also a time for protests

October 30, 2019 // 1 Comment

AS CITIES GO, Kamloops is not a hub of protests. Certainly there are protests. On Oct. 15, correctional officers protested violence they face in their workplace outside of [Continue]

SUZUKI – The election is over; now let’s get to work!

October 24, 2019 // 1 Comment

THE ELECTION MAY BE OVER but there’s no time to be complacent. Canadians voters — and many people too young to vote — demanded that politicians take climate disruption [Continue]

SUZUKI – On October 21, vote for solutions to climate change

October 10, 2019 // 1 Comment

POLITICIANS ARE FINALLY talking about climate change. How could they not? In Canada, more than 800,000 young people and their supporters took to the streets on September 27, [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Argument for giving 16-year-olds the vote gets convincing

September 28, 2019 // 2 Comments

THE DAY MIGHT NOT BE far off when 16-year-old Canadian kids will be trekking to the voting booth — or voting online — to have their say in elections. What was considered [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Climate change lessons from the Little Ice Age

August 24, 2019 // 0 Comments

CLIMATE CHANGE WILL CHALLENGE our ability to survive and our world view. Business as usual will not be an option. Our survival skills are already being tested in Europe. In [Continue]

POLITICS – Why environmental charities are afraid to talk about climate change

August 22, 2019 // 2 Comments

By DIANNE SAXE York University, Canada THERE IS A SERIOUS EROSION of democracy underway in Canada. Elections Canada is preventing environmental charities from telling the [Continue]

BEPPLE – Experiencing the reality of climate change first-hand

August 21, 2019 // 1 Comment

THE MERRIAM-WEBSTER dictionary defines issue as “concern, problem.. As in climate change is an issue. As in it is a concern that there will be more droughts and [Continue]

SUZUKI – Deniers deflated as climate reality hits home

August 7, 2019 // 1 Comment

CLIMATE SCIENCE DENIERS are becoming desperate as their numbers diminish in the face of incontrovertible evidence that human-caused global warming is putting our future at [Continue]