Archive for Ecology & sustainability

The six fundamental principles of the Green Party of Canada, in Serbian:     Read more »

Tuesday, 2008 April 22, 1:00 pm
METRO HALL SQUARE (King and John)
Send a WAKE-UP CALL on the CLIMATE CRISIS, Bring a bell to ring!
DEMAND: Kyoto at a minimum 30% greenhouse gas reductions by 2020, comprehensive, just, green energy and economic strategy.
Followed by a STREET FESTIVAL on JOHN STREET
plus free eco films at NFB all day! (Front and John) 3-6 pm

Tax Shifting for a Greener Future
A St. Lawrence Centre Forum
Wednesday, 2008 April 9, 7:30 pm
St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts
27 Front Street East
free

The St. Lawrence Centre Forum this week will focus on the dominant plank of the Green Party approach — the tax shift that makes polluters pay for the costs of their activities, especially on carbon.  A couple of years ago, this idea was considered bizarre.  Now it’s being considered more and more mainstream, with Quebec and British Columbia already implementing provincial versions.     Read more »

Canada, long considered an important moderating international player, is rapidly becoming an international pariah under PM Harper’s government.  On climate change, we’ve announced that we will be making no effort to meet our Kyoto obligations and we’ve more recently hampered progress during the Bali negotiations.  On indigenous rights we were one of only four nations to oppose the UN’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (DRIP), negotiated with Canada leading the way under the previous Chretien/Martin governments.  Now, it turns out Canada led the way to defeating a UN resolution to enshrine a universal right to clean water.     Read more »