Many of us will view with a jaundiced eye the Faustian deal made by Toronto with the Ford government that signs over Ontario Place for development in exchange for transit and highway funding the Province should have been providing anyway. The planned spa for the...
Occasionally, school boards do more than manage teachers, students, curricula and buildings. Occasionally, they can be both bold and visionary. Such is the case with the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board (HWDSB) when it decided to endorse two days of...
I’m sad, frustrated and angry. I’m Sad that our world is becoming increasingly unlivable with floods, fires and extreme heat and these extremes will increase for the foreseeable future, a future that my children and grandchildren will have to live in. To quote...
The road to de-carbonizing our economies is going to be long and full of conflicting agendas, including those in the transportation sector. Since 1990 vehicle pollution has gone up 33%, mostly from light trucks, which outsell smaller vehicles three to one. 60% of...
At a time when an acute sense of urgency should have all countries and peoples working together to halt our screaming descent into climate Armageddon, our overall progress can only be described as, well, glacial. Ironic, really, when you consider the rate at which...
In addition to the many responsibilities we assume, we all have a bad news quota. If it’s personal (e.g., a death of a family member or friend), we take the time to grieve. If it’s not personal and we feel there’s too much else going on, we simply ignore it. I employ...
I thought my generation at least took some successful steps against air pollution. But that claim is looking increasingly smokey. Yes, air pollution from industries has gradually been reduced, and yes, far fewer people smoke tobacco. But that progress is clearly being...
Last November, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres made the following observations about our global climate emergency: We are in the fight of our lives, and we are losing. We are on the highway to climate hell with our foot still on the accelerator. We have a...