Plastic waste is piling up in landfills and polluting waterways, but the movement to cut down on plastic is being knocked off course by COVID-19, as retailers turn increasingly to single-use solutions to contain the virus.
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Activist Connects Loss of Culture to Climate Change
The world is still catching up to Inuit activist Sheila Watt-Cloutier. A year before being appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2006,…
View More Activist Connects Loss of Culture to Climate ChangeBig-Ticket Budget Items Welcome After Past Inaction
The much-anticipated first federal budget from the new Liberal government was unveiled on March 22. To describe the general reactions, they would be “Wow,” “Oh,”…
View More Big-Ticket Budget Items Welcome After Past InactionCanada’s Environmental Movement Needs More Diversity
In 2010, the David Suzuki Foundation, a Vancouver-based national environmental non-governmental organization (ENGO), made a move no other Canadian ENGO had done – it added…
View More Canada’s Environmental Movement Needs More DiversityClimate Change a Global Threat Shows Survey
Filipinos and Indians are the most worried about climate change with less than a fifth of China’s population showing any great level of concern, says…
View More Climate Change a Global Threat Shows Survey“Global Migration Policy Not Evidence-based”
Renowned migration scholar, Graeme Hugo, Australian Research Council (ARC) Professorial Fellow and professor of geography and director of the Australian Population and Migration Research Centre…
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