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1. Field of nightmares: Ottawa continues to embrace the widespread use of Roundup on Canadian farms by letting corporate seduction trump scientific evidence

Author

Powell, Larry

Subjects
Canada -- Environmental policy, Monsanto Co. -- Environmental aspects -- Product development, Pesticides policy -- Evaluation, Herbicides -- Environmental aspects, Agricultural chemicals industry -- Economic aspects -- Product development, Genetic engineering -- Environmental aspects, Agricultural biotechnology -- Environmental aspects, Environmental issues, Social sciences, Monsanto Roundup (Herbicide) -- Environmental aspects
Abstract

IN ITS QUEST to dominate the planet's agricultural biotechnology sector, Monsanto's business model has produced significant collateral damage. Generations of farming families in South America, India and other robustly developing [...]

Published
2012

2. Schindler's Pissed: freshwater science pioneer David Schindler fires back about tar sands development, closing the Experimental Lakes Area, and why researchers should speak out

Author

Bocking, Stephen

Subjects
Canada -- Environmental policy, Oil sands -- Research -- Environmental aspects, Environmental protection -- Evaluation, Environmental issue, Environmental issues, Social sciences
Abstract

DAVID SCHINDLER is one of Canada's most influential environmental scientists, both at home and abroad. Between 1968 and 1989, he directed the Experimental Lakes Area research facility in Ontario, leading [...]

Published
2012

3. An act of deception: fiction upstages fact in the environmental assessment of Alberta's tar sands

Author

Gailus, Jeff

Subjects
Canada -- Environmental policy, Oil sands -- Environmental aspects -- Economic aspects, Cabinet officers -- Speeches, lectures and essays, Environmental impact analysis -- Evaluation, Environmental issues, Social sciences
Abstract

'People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns [...]

Published
2012

4. Building the environmental state: what the history of social welfare tells us about the future of environmental policy

Author

Meadowcroft, James

Subjects
Sustainable development -- Forecasts and trends, Sustainable development -- Analysis, Climatic changes -- Environmental aspects, Climatic changes -- Forecasts and trends, Environmental law -- Evaluation, Environmental policy -- Evaluation, Industrial ecology -- Forecasts and trends, Industrial ecology -- Analysis, Canada -- Environmental policy, Market trend/market analysis
Abstract

ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES are once again the stuff of headlines. According to the pollsters, Canadians now rank the environment at the top of their political concerns. In large part, this is […]

Published
2007

5. Local heroics: one size doesn't fit all when it comes to climate policy. The best chances for cutting emissions lie with communities

Author

Hill, Stephen

Subjects
United Nations Climate Change Conference, Greenhouse gases -- Control, Canada -- Environmental policy, Canada -- Environmental aspects
Abstract

WITH KYOTO'S DEADLINES looming, Canada faces the likelihood that we will not reach our targets of reducing emissions to six percent below 1990 levels between 2008 and 2012. And Canada […]

Published
2006

6. Living it up: the wide range of support for smart growth in Canada promises more livable towns and cities

Author

Curran, Deborah and Tomalty, Ray

Subjects
City planning -- Economic aspects, City planning -- Environmental aspects, City planning -- Political aspects, Canada -- Environmental policy, United States -- Environmental policy
Abstract

IN CANADA, we have always prided ourselves on the fact that our cities are more livable than their US counterparts. Canadian planners like to say that urban densities are higher […]

Published
2003

7. Stopped cold

Author

Smith, Heather A.

Subjects
Climatic changes -- Environmental aspects, Canada -- Environmental policy
Abstract

Action by Canada on climate change been blocked by opposition both inside and outside government Canadian climate change initiatives took a step backwards on April 24, 1998, when energy and […]

Published
1998

8. The day the NGOs walked out

Author

VanNijnatten, Debora L.

Subjects
Accelerated Reduction/Elimination of Toxics -- Conferences, meetings and seminars, Non-governmental organizations -- Evaluation, Environmental protection -- Public participation, Canada -- Environmental policy
Abstract

The ARET project shows how voluntary pollution prevention may fail unless government ensures effective public involvement Lacking public credibility, the ARET challenge languishes in policy purgatory. When the representatives of […]

Published
1998

9. The bear necessities: Canada needs to take serious steps to honor our commitments to endangered species and spaces

Author

DeMarco, Jerry V., Bell, Anne C., and Elgie, Stewart A.G.

Subjects
Grizzly bear -- Environmental aspects, Biological diversity -- Environmental aspects, Environmental protection -- Methods, Endangered Species Act of 1973, Canada -- Environmental policy
Abstract

Heading North from Washington State, a young grizzly bear unknowingly crosses the 49th parallel into Canada in search of a new home. A member of a vastly diminished American population, […]

Published
1997

10. Demanding good wood: some current approaches to forest certification are dubious merit, and even the best have significant limitations

Author

Mirbach, Martin von

Subjects
Canadian Standards Association -- Environmental policy, Forest management -- Standards, Canada -- Environmental policy
Abstract

Environmental activists have found that nothing catches an industry's attention as successfully as a threat to sales. When unsustainable forestry practices in the world's tropical regions attracted attention in the […]

Published
1997

11. Hunting grounds: making co-operative wildlife management work

Author

Morgan, James P. and Henry, J. David

Subjects
Canada. Parks Canada -- Management, Wildlife management -- Canada, Native Americans -- Environmental policy, Game-laws -- Public participation, Canada -- Environmental policy
Abstract

VISITORS TRAVELLING in the back country of Wood Buffalo National Park during winter are just as likely to witness a snowmobile hauling a load of furs as they are to […]

Published
1996

12. Looking for Loopholes

Author

SCOTT, DAYNA N.

Subjects
Carbon -- Energy use, Greenhouse gases -- Environmental aspects, Climatic changes -- Achievements and awards, Protocol to the Framework Convention on Climate Change,1997, Canada -- Environmental policy
Abstract

Under the new climate change deal, Canada can use business-as-usual forestry to excuse continued greenhouse gas emissions EACH DAY during last November's climate summit in The Hague, environmental organizations in […]

Published
2001

13. THE HIGH PRICE OF HABITAT PROTECTION

Author

WOOD, STEPAN

Subjects
Environmental protection -- Laws, regulations and rules, Right of property -- Economic aspects, Canada. Species at Risk Act 2002, Canada -- Environmental policy
Abstract

Under the new Species At Risk Act, the federal government would compensate landowners whose property values are reduced by habitat protection orders. This is a very bad idea. Shortly after […]

Published
2001

14. Feds Cop Out on Enforcing Environmental Laws

Author

Baulch, Helen

Subjects
Canada. Environment Canada -- Laws, regulations and rules, Friends of the Earth Canada -- Political activity, Canada -- Environmental policy
Abstract

Environmental crimes are going undetected and unpunished in Canada, according to Friends of the Earth Canada (FOE). At current rates, biotech companies are inspected twice a century, PCB storage sites […]

Published
2001

15. Green Infrastructure Funds

Author

Peck, Steven

Subjects
Environmental protection -- Finance, Canada -- Environmental policy
Abstract

In its year 2000 budget, the federal government established two new funds dedicated to promoting "green infrastructure" in communities throughout Canada. This would include green approaches to treating water and […]

Published
2000

16. SHOULD HUNTING BE ALLOWED IN PARKS?

Author

TIGHEM, KEVIN VAN

Subjects
National parks and reserves -- Canada, Wildlife management -- Canada, Game-laws -- Environmental aspects, Canada -- Environmental policy
Abstract

Maybe -- Sometimes SOME THINK big wilderness parks should be opened to hunting. Others say hunting would pose a threat to ecological health and bio diversity. As a hunter and […]

Published
2000

17. FAIRWAY TRAP

Author

PAUL, FRANCIS

Subjects
Golf courses -- Environmental aspects, Canada -- Environmental policy, Envirogolf Inc. -- Environmental policy
Abstract

Cash-strapped conservation authorities are being targetted by golf course developers Can a golf course by any other name be environmentally sensitive? Envirogolf Inc. claims it can. The company -- headed […]

Published
2000

18. Mind the Gap

Author

TORRIE, RALPH D. and PARFETT, RICHARD

Subjects
Climatic changes -- Environmental aspects, Greenhouse gases -- Environmental aspects, Pollution -- Control, Canada -- Environmental policy
Abstract

The crucial gap in Canada is not the one between our actions and our Kyoto commitments, but between what we are doing and what we need to do CLIMATE CHANGE […]

Published
2000

19. FIRST NATIONS AND LAST SPECIES

Author

SIMPSON, LEANNE

Subjects
Canadian native peoples -- Canada, Canada -- Environmental policy
Abstract

The federal government's proposals for a Species At Risk Act continue to ignore Native people and their ecological knowledge I was invited along with numerous other Aboriginal people to participate […]

Published
2000

20. DOING LESS WITH LESS

Author

FOSTER, JENNY

Subjects
Canada. Niagara Escarpment Commission -- Management, Biosphere -- Management, Canada -- Environmental policy
Abstract

The Ontario provincial government's environmental streamlining has weakened the Niagara Escarpment Commission's ability to protect one of Canada's natural treasures. To the surprise of some environmentalists, the Niagara Escarpment Commission […]

Published
2000

21. WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH

Author

Tomalty, Ray

Subjects
Alternatives (Periodical) -- Environmental aspects, Mass media and the environment -- Canada, Environmental movement -- Social aspects, Canada -- Environmental policy
Abstract

One morning this fall, I opened my copy of Le Devoir -- the smallest, least commercial, and best written of Montreal's four daily newspapers -- for my news update and […]

Published
1999

22. VOTERS STILL GREEN

Author

BAILEY, SUE

Subjects
Commission for Environmental Co-operation -- Reports, Canada -- Environmental policy
Abstract

But the environment is not on governments' agendas Pollsters call it the Green Wave -- those heady years from 1987 to 1992 when the environment rode the crest of citizen […]

Published
1999

23. Harper cuts EnerGuide

Author

Bird, Tom

Subjects
Greenhouse gases -- Control, Greenhouse gases -- Health aspects, Energy economics -- Finance, Energy efficiency, Canada -- Environmental policy, Canada -- Environmental aspects, Canada -- Political aspects, Company financing
Abstract

STUNNED NGOs, angry municipalities, bewildered academics and taken aback homeowners--all evidence of a disturbing development in the Conservative government's environmental policy. On May 12, 2006, Ottawa announced the termination of […]

Published
2006

24. Power play: the shifting dynamics in a minority government gave lobbyists a chance to put environment on the agenda

Author

Hartmann, Frantz

Subjects
Air quality management -- Management, Environmental law -- Political aspects, Canada -- Environmental policy, Company business management
Abstract

APRIL 13, 2005 was, all things considered, a good day for the environment in Canada. The federal government released its long-awaited Kyoto Implementation Plan, which was criticized within minutes by […]

Published
2005

25. Two initiatives to save the boreal forest

Subjects
Taigas -- Protection and preservation, Forests and forestry -- Environmental aspects, Forests and forestry -- Standards, Canada -- Environmental policy
Abstract

The 50-Percent Rule for Conservation [GRAPHIC OMITTED] IMAGINE PROTECTING large areas of the most distinctive ecosystems and most significant habitats of a region before it is ever logged or developed. […]

Published
2004

26. Betting on the future. (Political Science)

Author

Bocking, Stephen

Subjects
Economic forecasting -- Environmental aspects, Protocol to the Framework Convention on Climate Change,1997, Canada -- Economic policy, Canada -- Political activity, Canada -- Environmental policy, Alberta -- Environmental policy, Alberta -- Political activity
Abstract

IT HAPPENED so fast. One day the climate debate was all about the science: How convincing is the evidence of a warmer world? Very, said most scientists; not quite, countered […]

Published
2003

28. Feds fish for support: a ripple of cautious optimism greets new 'Oceans Act.'

Author

Rainham, Daniel and Wright, Tarah

Subjects
Marine resources conservation -- Laws, regulations and rules, Canada -- Environmental policy
Abstract

Canada's new Oceans Act, which came into effect on January 31, 1997, is being heralded by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) as the beginning of a new era […]

Published
1997

29. Denial: why the powerful and the desperate ignore the no exit signs

Author

Gibson, Robert

Subjects
Canada -- Environmental policy, Reindeer -- Protection and preservation, Game-laws -- Environmental aspects, Caribou -- Protection and preservation, Bison -- Protection and preservation, Hunting -- Environmental aspects, Environmental issues, Social sciences
Abstract

THROUGH the last half of the 1700s, traders at Hudson's Bay Company posts on James and Hudson Bay reported taking thousands of caribou for meat and skins every year. By [...]

Published
2012

30. Standing on guard for thee: environmental advocacy and public policy work has reaped many benefits for Canadians. Here are just a few examples

Subjects
Canada -- Environmental policy, Environmental protection -- Laws, regulations and rules, Government regulation, Environmental issue, Environmental issues, Social sciences
Abstract

The End of Acid Rain The Canadian Coalition on Acid Rain began as a 12-member charitable group in 1981 and grew to become Canada's largest environmental organization with 58 organizational [...]

Published
2012

31. Mitigation less bad is no longer good enough

Author

Gibson, Robert

Subjects
Canada -- Environmental policy, Environmental justice -- Management, Environmental protection -- Political aspects -- Laws, regulations and rules -- Management, Government regulation, Environmental issue, Company business management, Environmental issues, Social sciences
Abstract

PROBABLY in every large institution, minor minions circulate illuminating and possibly accurate stories about the doings of their superiors. Back in the mid-1970s, die best story in Environment Canada concerned [...]

Published
2012

32. Taxing combustion and rehabilitating forests

Author

Rees, William E. and Heyd, Thomas

Subjects
Canada -- Environmental policy, Taxation -- Environmental aspects, Sustainable development -- Economic aspects, Energy policy -- Environmental aspects, Environmental issues, Social sciences
Abstract

Canada's current tax and subsidy laws favor inefficient development of mineral, energy, and forestry resources. The transition to a more ecologically sustainable economic system could be hastened if the tax system were reformed to favor the development of renewable energy sources., In the preceding article 'More Jobs, Less Damage' I argued that conventional economic development models are ecologically and socially naive and that ecological economics provides a stronger foundation for local [...]

Published
1995

33. Canada announces it actually cares about biodiversity

Author

Dempsey, Jessica

Subjects
Canada -- Environmental policy, Biological diversity, Environmental issues, Social sciences, Convention on Biological Diversity
Abstract

Ottawa, Canada--October, 2010--Today, Canada's Environment Minister Jim Prentice announced the Government of Canada's proposed policy on biodiversity. It will govern Canada's negotiating principles for the 10th Conference of Parties (COP [...]

Published
2010

34. Rick Mercer comedy hour

Author

Ross, Nicola

Subjects
Canada -- Environmental policy, Biological diversity, Environmental issues, Social sciences
Abstract

ANIMALS have long adorned our currency. The nickel features a beaver, the quarter has a caribou and a five-dollar bill depicts a kingfisher. We continue to call our one-dollar coin [...]

Published
2010

35. Local stewardship: training ground for an environmental vanguard

Author

Lerner, Sally

Subjects
Canada -- Environmental policy, Environmental associations -- Political activity, Environmental movement -- Canada, Environmental issues, Social sciences
Abstract

Voluntary grassroots environmental groups in Canada often provide direct ameliorative services to ecosystems, even as they advocate for increased government attention to ecological problems. These efforts have the effect of showing leadership on environmental issues., 'The voluntary sector is a sector of hope in an age of diminishing expectations ...'(1) In Canada, perception that governments and corporations are unable to protect the environment effectively has [...]

Published
1994

36. Bucking the free market economy; using land trusts for conservation and community-building

Author

Hilts, Stewart, Mitchell, Peter, and Wood, Matt

Subjects
Canada -- Environmental policy, Land trusts -- Environmental aspects, Conservation of natural resources -- Finance, Environmental issues, Social sciences
Abstract

The international land trust conservation movement, through which private organizations finance the protection of natural areas, has been slow to catch on in Canada. Still, the effort is growing, as the examples of such groups as the BC Islands Trust and the Nature Conservancy of Canada attest., Using Land Trusts for Conservation and Community-Building The use we now make of land often exemplifies the 'tragedy of the commons.' Whether we are dealing with natural areas, agricultural land [...]

Published
1993

37. Pulling in the same direction

Author

Fenton, Robert W.

Subjects
Canada -- Environmental policy, Waste minimization -- Analysis, Corporations, Canadian -- Waste management, Environmental issues, Social sciences
Abstract

Waste stewardship is a novel concept that explicitly recognizes that refuse levels tend to rise when those who create waste are not responsible for its disposal. In Canada, an effort is underway to make waste stewardship a duty of Canadian firms., In the last three to four decades, consumer convenience--emphasizing throw-away packagin and a disposable, non-repairable product -- has become as much a tool of marketing as quality and price. Among [...]

Published
1993

38. Differences of opinion: round tables, policy networks, and the failure of Canadian environmental strategy

Author

Bruton, Jim, Howlett, Michael, Clow, Michael, and Grant, Jon

Subjects
Canada -- Environmental policy, Environmental policy -- Public participation, Sustainable development -- Laws, regulations and rules, Environmental issues, Social sciences
Abstract

The Canadian government created the Round Tables on Environment and the Economy to help formulate policies to implement its sustainable development goals. Unfortunately, the round tables have been unable to fulfill their mandate, because too often talk has been substituted for action.

Published
1992

39. Designing an environmentally responsible constitution

Author

Muldoon, Paul and Rutherford, Barbara

Subjects
Canada -- Environmental policy, Environmental law -- Planning, Constitutions -- Canada, Environmental issues, Social sciences
Abstract

All three recent federal proposals for new constitutional laws failed to address legal safeguards for the environment. Environmental preservation must be incorporated into the constitution as a basic value of the Canadian people. Specific environmental rights and responsibilities must be legislated.

Published
1992

40. Cormorant cull conflict

Subjects
Cormorants -- Environmental aspects, Cormorants -- Control, Environmentalists -- Demonstrations and protests, Canada -- Environmental policy
Abstract

After escaping extinction in the 1970s, the now thriving double-crested cormorant faces government-sanctioned culls, once again raising questions about human intervention in wildlife populations. Claiming the bird's acidic faeces are […]

Published
2007

41. Feds take credit for citizen action

Author

Cooper, Kathleen

Subjects
Environmental policy -- Evaluation, Chemicals -- Environmental aspects, Chemicals -- Laws, regulations and rules, Canada -- Environmental policy, Government regulation
Abstract

COMMUNICATIONS aficionados take note: the Harper government's strategy of self-congratulation about federal action on toxic chemicals is brilliant. On the new Chemical Substances website the government cleverly repurposes content and […]

Published
2007

42. Footsteps along the road: Indian land claims and access to natural resources

Author

Wagner, Murray W.

Subjects
Canada -- Environmental policy, Indigenous peoples -- Laws, regulations and rules, Native people's land claims -- Canada, Land reform -- Canada, Environmental issues, Social sciences
Abstract

The aboriginal peoples of Canada feel the legal and judiciary approaches to land reform have failed. The history of their court battles and other environmental legislation is discussed.

Published
1991

43. Co-management: the evolution in theory and practice of the joint administration of living resources

Author

Berkes, Fikret, George, Peter, and Preston, Richard J.

Subjects
Canada -- Environmental policy, Environmental policy -- Planning, Canadian native peoples -- Canada, Indigenous peoples -- Environmental policy, Environmental issues, Social sciences
Abstract

Aboriginal land claims are restructuring the distribution of authority to deal with environmental issues in Canada and the Northern Territory. Local and state-level co-management systems are discussed.

Published
1991

44. Land use in the ecologically sensible city

Author

Fowler, E.P.

Subjects
Canada -- Environmental policy, Environmental law -- Interpretation and construction, City planning -- Environmental aspects, Land use -- Environmental aspects, Environmental issues, Social sciences
Published
1991

45. Species still at risk

Subjects
Commission for Environmental Cooperation -- Powers and duties, Endangered species -- Protection and preservation, Environmental associations -- Political activity, International agencies -- Powers and duties, Canada -- Environmental policy
Abstract

Government inaction has once again prompted organizations to turn to the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC). A coalition of over 10 Canadian and American environmental groups has filed a formal […]

Published
2006

46. Moving backwards

Subjects
Environmental policy -- International aspects, Environmental policy -- Political aspects, Climatic changes -- Forecasts and trends, Climatic changes -- Political aspects, Protocol to the Framework Convention on Climate Change,1997, Canada -- Environmental policy, Market trend/market analysis
Abstract

For almost 10 years, the Liberal government dithered on climate change, making it virtually impossible for Canada to meet its Kyoto targets. Some argue the Conservative government had to abandon […]

Published
2006

48. Drugs on tap

Subjects
Water -- Environmental aspects, Water -- Contamination, Water -- Health aspects, Canada -- Environmental aspects, Canada -- Environmental policy
Abstract

A report released by the Canadian Institute for Environmental Law and Policy (CIELAP) presents emerging concerns about pharmaceuticals, personal care products and endocrine disrupters in water. According to CIELAP, testing […]

Published
2006

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