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Three things you should read if you’re a Canadian.
Collossal Fossil
Canada garners a Fossil of the Day Award at Copenhagen for being a climate dick.
“Canada garnered today’s award for its unwavering commitment to stand firm in its inaction throughout these negotiations [...] Since announcing its emissions target in 2007 of reducing GHG emissions by 20% below [...]

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Tzeporah Berman is one seriously smart woman — but not just because she’s saying what I’ve been saying (here and there and everywhere) since taking One Blue Marble live one year ago. She gets it. It’s not just about climate change. It’s about prosperity and the heart and soul of our nation.

Let’s just look [...]

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George Monbiot in The Guardian
When you think of Canada, which qualities come to mind? The world’s peacekeeper, the friendly nation, a liberal counterweight to the harsher pieties of its southern neighbour, decent, civilised, fair, well-governed? Think again. This country’s government is now behaving with all the sophistication of a chimpanzee’s tea party. So amazingly destructive [...]

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Stephen Harper, and Jim Prentice, we’re waiting. Where are you?

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I sent this letter today to several key members of the Liberal Party.
To the Honourable Michael Ignatieff, David McGuinty, Bob Rae, and Michael Savage (who is my MP):
I am not an NDP supporter, but I am urging the Liberal government to put partisan politics aside and vote in favour of Bill-311.
I’m discouraged by Canada’s slow, [...]

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More than 100 of world’s leaders met this week in New York at the United Nations Climate Conference.
And where is Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper? He didn’t attend, preferring to meet New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg at a coffee shop. He just sauntered in to the UN in time for dinner.
For the sake of the [...]

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It sounds like it may have been inspired by Oxfam’s Hunger Banquet, and it will be interesting to see how it works. Mandarins at the United Nations will be subjecting world leaders to a little diplomatic shock therapy at today’s UN climate negotiations in an effort to inject a greater sense of urgency into the [...]

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From an editorial published in The Toronto Star.
When Prime Minister Stephen Harper meets with President Barack Obama in Washington this week to discuss clean energy and climate, I hope the Canadian public and media keep him honest. Close attention should be paid to any special treatment Harper attempts to gain for Canada’s tar sands, your [...]

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Author John Updike once described Canada as a cool, chaste country, but that’s not how Greenpeace sees it. Earlier this week, the environmental warriors issued a harsh report that described Canada an international carbon bully.
Sooner or later, that description is going to stick. Over the last two and a half years, several different environmental groups [...]

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Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper claims that he’s all for saving the environment, but his government has been actively working against a comprehensive international climate change agreement since he’s been in office (see stories here, here, here, and here).
Harper and his environment ministers, this time in the guise of Jim Prentice, have consistently argued that [...]

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