Canada


UBC Faculty Urge Board of Governors to Divest!

  The lead up to Global Divestment Day is seeing unprecedented progress in the development of Divestment Campaigns across Canadian campuses. On Tuesday, faculty at the University of British Columbia (UBC) voted in favour of divesting completely from fossil fuels within five years! This is not an insignificant gesture. According […]

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Clean energy creates 15 jobs for every $1 million invested compared with 2 jobs for oil and gas

Stephen Harper says economy trumps climate action

The Prime Minister’s comments on the importance of economic growth over climate change action, reported in a recent article in the Toronto Star,  create a false choice. They are evidence that he has ignored the advice from some of Canada’s brightest minds, who for the last 25 years worked on the convergence […]


We are the 77%

According to this professionally conducted telephone poll: 77% of Canadians support increased taxes on carbon based fuels, with revenues used to fund research and development for energy efficiency and renewable energy programs; and 84% agree that “Rich countries like Canada have a moral obligation to show international leadership by reducing their […]