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Forget About Landslide Election Results: These Landslides Kill Children

Mariah Griffin-Angus | Posted 09.02.2012 | Canada Travel
Mariah Griffin-Angus

It is a terrible irony that in order to eke out a living, Ugandan villagers must farm Mount Elgon to the point where it threatens their survival. The loss of their land, and the destruction of the environment have put them at the mercy of forces beyond their control. As climate change places increasing pressures on the Third World such tragedies will become the norm.

Turmel Urges Feds To Keep Manitoba Above water

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 12.15.2011 | Canada

WINNIPEG - Interim NDP Leader Nycole Turmel urged the federal government to develop a national disaster-prevention program Saturday, following a half-...

Is Oil Ever Ethical?

David Suzuki | Posted 12.06.2011 | Canada
David Suzuki

Ezra Levant acknowledges that exploiting and using fossil fuels has environmental impacts. Does that mean there is a hierarchy of ethical practices or that one ethical practice cancels out other unethical activities?

Slave Lake Upbeat Despite Flooding Danger

The Canadian Press | Posted 09.08.2011 | Canada

THE CANADIAN PRESS -- SLAVE LAKE, Alta. - They've already endured a raging wildfire and are now faced with a flood, but residents of Slave Lake, Alta....

Slave Lake Can't Catch A Break

The Canadian Press | Posted 09.07.2011 | Canada

THE CANADIAN PRESS -- SLAVE LAKE, Alta. - Slave Lake, the northern Alberta town devastated by a forest fire, is being deluged with water. Heavy rai...

Manitoba Prepares For The Worst

CBC | Posted 09.01.2011 | Canada

CBC -- Canadian Forces personnel will join flood-fighting efforts in Souris, Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger announced Saturday. "The Town of Souris...

How to Become an Environmentalist

David Suzuki | Posted 08.21.2011 | Canada
David Suzuki

Reports about floods and droughts and sea ice and climate change get sandwiched between clips about scandals and celebrities, and so we view them as isolated events. An environmental perspective would consider the possibility that many of the events are connected to an underlying cause.

More Floods For Manitoba?

CBC | Posted 08.11.2011 | Canada

CBC -- Officials in Manitoba are scrambling to shore up flood defences, before a major rain storm descends on waterlogged areas of the province Sunday...

Layton To Visit Flooded Richelieu Valley

CBC | Posted 07.30.2011 | Canada Politics

(CBC) -- Residents of Quebec's flood-stricken Richelieu Valley, hit by yet another rise in water levels over the weekend, will get a visit from NDP Le...