Canada falling far behind on marine conservation say experts
Canada is doing a horrible job at protecting marine environments, according to some experts who point to the country’s low number and quality of protected marine areas. While Canada may soon significantly increase its numbers, it is the efforts within those areas that is of the most concern. “Canada is currently one of the developed countries […]
Canada preparing bid for Arctic claim and it may include the North Pole
Canada is on its way to claim Santa’s workshop in the North Pole, along with Russia and Denmark, when it files its Arctic submission, anticipated to be in 2018. “Preliminary scientific data shows that the outer limits of Canada’s continental shelf will include the North Pole,” wrote John Babcock, a spokesperson for Global Affairs Canada, […]
The North
A line in the budget comes to life in northern Quebec
Rewind the clock to the spring. The federal budget was tabled in the House of Commons on March 22. It was called “Growing the Middle Class.” It’s a title that clearly wasn’t directed to the Inuit who live in small coastal communities across the Arctic, where the gaps in living standards compared with the rest […]
Rethinking Canada: is there life beyond the oil patch?
OTTAWA—Twenty-six years after the Exxon Valdez hit a reef and dumped 11 million gallons of crude oil into the clear, cold waters of Prince William Sound, the people of Alaska are still trying to clean up the damage, which befouled more than 1,000 miles of coastline. The event arguably changed the course of the oil […]
Ontario takes step to build $1.35-billion transmission project to connect 17 First Nations communities
FORT ERIE, ONT.—Much has been written lately about the lack of reliable access to safe drinking water in Canada’s remote First Nations communities, but in many of these communities, there is something else that is equally vital to their health and economic prosperity, and that’s reliable access to power. For those of us in southern […]
Should the federal government approve the Kinder Morgan pipeline? What about the Energy East and Northern Gateway pipelines? Why or why not?
Kate Purchase Liberal strategist “Energy resources are essential to growing our economy and creating well-paying jobs for the middle class, and those working hard to join it. Also, one of the fundamental responsibilities of any Canadian government is to get our resources to market. In the 21st century, getting our resources to market means doing […]
Why a West Coast aquarium is working with the feds to study the Arctic
Not long after the Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Centre first opened its doors six decades ago, a team of adventurous employees and researchers travelled to the Arctic to explore the icy, windswept reaches of Canada’s North. In the years since, our Arctic research expeditions have become an annual practice, with scientists heading north each summer […]
Trade, jobs, economic growth, income equality: is the budget working?
OTTAWA—On Friday, Aug. 5, Statistics Canada released numbers for both jobs and international trade. Both numbers were discouraging and continued a trend of poor economic data. The top line job numbers were a loss of 31,200, but the most disturbing underlying number was that 71,400 full-time jobs were lost while the major gain came in […]
Inuk woman should be among commissioners to MMIW inquiry
Last October, this country elected a new government, a government that promised a future of hope, optimism, and equality for all Canadians. Our prime minister told us that “we defeated the idea that Canadians should be satisfied with less, that good enough is good enough and that better just isn’t possible…in Canada better is always […]
