Fisheries Minister Murray promotes new parliamentary affairs director
Plus, former NDP director of communications Mélanie Richer is now a senior consultant for strategic communications with Earnscliffe Strategies.
Should we let the H2O flow?
In the event a future American government comes with the request to ‘share the water, please, we’re neighbours,’ Canada needs a coherent and well-thought-out strategy. Being taken by surprise is not acceptable.
Now is the time to act for Canada to help protect the world’s oceans
The fifth International Marine Protected Areas Conference in Vancouver is the chance to chart a course towards a world where we are not just neighbours, but also caretakers of our ocean ecosystems.
The effect of climate crisis on Canadian coastal communities is an all-hands-on deck situation, but the Liberals aren’t acting
If the Liberals keep delaying on disaster mitigation and prevention, our coastal environment will become more hostile.
Ocean-based carbon removal offers path to deliver COP15 promises
Restorative ocean-based carbon removal offers immense opportunity to tackle twin biodiversity-climate crises and should be a Canadian comparative advantage.
‘There’s no more time’: green light needed for swift movement on blue economy, says Sen. Galvez
While some experts say the government is doing a good job harnessing the economic potential of the so-called blue economy, there’s also room to grow in an important file that impacts diverse and marginalized communities. The “blue economy” is an “economy driven by sustainable, ocean resources, and accounts,” according to the federal government, and refers the […]
New Fisheries Minister Murray has list of ‘urgent’ priorities to grapple with
New Fisheries and Oceans Minister Joyce Murray has a difficult file ahead of her with competing priorities, many of which fall under the umbrella of climate change and the environment, experts say, but observers say she appears up to the job. Crystallizing into focus one of the major issues facing fisheries in Canada, Oceana’s Nov. […]
Canadian fisheries: access and benefits at risk of slipping away?
International demand for seafood is hitting heights while global yield from wild capture fisheries has plateaued. Seafood-importing countries and firms that supply them are looking for ways to secure long-term access to catch. This may attract investment, merger opportunities, and other types of private finance into Canadian fisheries. An urgent question remains under-discussed: what are […]
Provinces to blame for Canada’s broken international conservation promise
This week, ministers from the federal, provincial, and territorial governments responsible for protecting nature will meet to address the nation’s urgent need for a new conservation plan. Canada has promised to protect one-quarter of its land and ocean within four years, and at least 30 per cent by the end of the decade. To get […]
‘They have a tipping point’: Alexandra Morton on her unrelenting fight to save B.C.’s wild salmon
Alexandra Morton isn’t your average scientist. She says she’s been tailed, surveilled, and taken to court for trespassing, all in an effort to dissuade her from waging a fight against the aquaculture industry. In Not on My Watch, the field biologist chronicles her accidental fight to reverse the decline of the B.C. wild salmon and […]
