Critics take to web as Stephen Harper visits New York to sell merits of Keystone XL
May 16 2013
NEW YORK — Prime Minister Stephen Harper is in New York today to persuade influential Americans that the Keystone XL pipeline will give them the North American energy independence they have...

Website urges Stephen Harper to get his facts straight on oilsands
May 16 2013
OTTAWA — Environmental groups say that Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government needs to get its facts straight about the oil industry. A coalition of groups from Canada, the United...

The Great Green Web
May 16 2013
Be A Careful Consumer Think before you buy. The Better World Shopper evaluates social justice and environmental performance and assigns a letter grade to companies that make everything from ice cream...

Few complete application to reverse Ontario, Quebec pipeline
May 03 2013
Fewer than 200 interested parties have completed a 10-page application form asking the National Energy Board to accept their written comments about the reversal of a pipeline that would carry diluted...

NEC argues quarry doesn't meet terms of escarpment plan
Apr 26 2013
TORONTO — A one-day hearing held Thursday could determine the fate of the proposed quarry expansion west of Duntroon. The Niagara Escarpment Commission voted last August to challenge the...

National Energy Board Commenting Rules Undemocratic
Apr 25 2013
Federal opposition MPs and environmental groups are crying foul over what they see as the government’s attempt to curtail public comment on Enbridge’s proposed 639-km Line 9 reversal...

Eight Ways To Green Your Beauty Routine
Apr 23 2013
Saving the planet isn’t just about political lobbying and climate change laws. You can do your part to celebrate Earth Day by changing your beauty routine in small but significant ways...

Odessa teen 'Canada's Next Green Journalist'

Apr 23 2013
KINGSTON - An Odessa student has won a national competition by injecting a little humour into an otherwise serious subject.   Nat Arney, a Grade 11 student at Ernestown Secondary...

Pipeline a risk to Rouge, environmental group warns
Apr 23 2013
A pipeline running through the Rouge River area, part of what will be Canada’s first national urban park, will put it at risk, says a Toronto community group. “An [oil] spill into the...

Georgina residents fight historic development rights on wetlands
Apr 22 2013
One in an occasional series on growing density in the GTA and its effect on life in the region.   In the placid lakeside town of Georgina, about an hour’s drive north of Toronto, a fierce...